Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-12-12
PROCEEDINGS.
HOUSE, DECEMBER 3.

On the mfavorab!c report of the
Judiciary committee, the following
bills were rcjcctcd
Bill repeating the law against
carrying concealed weapons.
Bill increasing the poll tax to -.
Bill to regulate costs in civil cases
where the costs arc less than 800.
Bill to carry into effect Article X,
Section 3, Of the Constitution, in re-
gard to public schools, by providing
that no public school teacher shall
receive for his services per month
more than onc-sixth of the amount
to which his school is entitled for
the year.
Bill! to reduce The privilege tax Oil
commercial fertilizers from 25 cents
to 10 cents a ton.
Bill to permit persons in Oconcc
county liable to road duty to pay
communication tax in lieu Of work
ing the public roads was passed and
ordered to be sent to the Senate.
Bill providing mode of asccr-
tanning the names of registered vo-
tcrs convicted of disqualfying crimes
and requiring their names to be
erased by the Supervisor of Regis
tration from the registration books
passed to third reading without
division.
The following were among the
new bills introduced:
by Mr.. Bowen-To provide a
more efficient mode of working the
public roads of this State.
A bill was introduced by Mr. Zim-
norman to-day to amend the pen
sion act, providing that "thc widow
of any soldier or sailor from the
State of South Carolina, or any of
the Confederate States, now residing
in this State, who lost his life while
in the service of the State or Con-
tcdcratc States, or who has died
since the war from injuries received
or disease contracted while in said
service, shall be entitled" etc.
BY Mr.. Turner-To regulate the
per diem and mileage of witnesses
bound over to testify at the Court of
General Sessions in the State; also
to authorize certain detectives to
carry pistols concealed about their
persons while actually engaged in
duty.
In the Senate, bill to incorpo
rate the town Of Fair Play in Oco-
nee county, was passed and ordered
to the House.
HOUSE, DECEMBER 4.
The following arc the most note
worthy Of the new bills:
BY Mr.. Eugcan b. Gary, to pro-
vide for the inspection of scales,
weights and measures.
TO provide punishment for max
ing use of false scales, weights and
measures.
BY Mr.. King, to amend the law
relating to sales under execution.
BY Mr.. w. ID. Evans, to regulate
the annual settlements Of county
commissioners and county trcasurcrs
for county and school taxes.
BY Mr.. Connor, to amend the law
relating to weights and measures.
BY Mr.. Watson, to amend the law
as to the penalty for carrying con
ccaled weapons. (Prcscribcs six
months in the Pcnitcntiary as an in
variable punishmcnt.)
BY Mr.. Chandler, to amend the
law relating to the age Of consent.
Changes it from 10 to 1G ycars.)
Mr.. Thompson offered concur
rent resolution, which was adopted,
requesting our Senators and Repre-
scntativcs in Congress to use all
proper efforts "tO secure such liberal
and spccial appropriation as shall
encourage and aid il, the production
and manufacture, not only Of iutc,
but pine straw and all other fhrous
articles that can be used rs cover
ing for cotton bales and for making
bags and other purposes"
The special order for the day was
the bill to amend the usury law. 1t
did not seek to change tho present
maximum rate of Z per cent upon
contracts not made in writing, but
proposes to reduce the rate pcrmis.
sihlo upon written contracts from
W per cent, as at present, to 8 per