Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-03-13
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1890.
Legislative News.

South Carolina, passed at the regular
Session of 1889.
The first Act is to "acccpt the
devise and bcqucst of Thomas G.
Clemson and to establish an Agri-
cultural College" at Fort Hill. The
institution is to be known as "Thc
Clemson Agricultural College of
South Carolina" The Act is well
guarded and requires a two-thirds
vote of the trustees in the cxpcndi-
ture of money and the change of
Investments.
An Act, to change the Constitu-
ton to extend the term of Office Of
the Judge Of Probate from too to
.foau' years, rccitcs that an amend
ment to effect this purpose was voted
by tho people, and this Act confirms
the Act of the people. The Judge
of Probate will be elected this year
for .tow years, ~1instcad of hco, rs
heretofore.
An Act to further empower County
Commissioners to open and establish
public highways provides: That
in addition to the manner now pro-
vidcd by law for opening and ,stab-
fishing public highways, County
Commissioners arc hereby cmpow-
cred to order out all hands liable TO
road duty residing within three miles
of the line of the proposed highway,
and require them to open and cstab-
lish such, in the same manner that
they arc required to work upon and
repair the common highways.
The sum Of Sl0,0Sl 90 was appro-
priated for the expenses Of the Sen
ate for the Session. For the same
purpose, the House required, $751;
56S.OO.
A joint Resolution was passed to
amend Article w Of the Constitu-
ton of South Carolina, relating to
the judicial department, by repeal
ing Section 10, which provides Il
Board of County Commissioners.
This amendment will be voted on mt
the election this year. We hope the
amendment will prevail. This will
enable the Legislature to give us one
or more boards TO perform the duty
Of the present Board OF County
Commissioners. We would like to
SC back to the law as il was years
ago, when the duties of the present
Board was divided up among several
Boards and the whole discharged
without any cost to the people. We
think this is right inasmuch us every
body within the legal age is required
to work the roads without pay or
the "hopc of reward" We also
want the Office Of School { nmis-
sioner reduced to a legal, instead of
a constitutional Office, and the duties
thereby discharged, rs they can be
and have been, without cost to the
taxpayers.
An Act authorizes the officers Of
all incorporated towns Of three
hundred inhabitants or more to sub
stitutc hard labor on the streets Of
the town for fine and Imprisonment,
in cases of misdcmcanor which come
under their jurisdiction, but in no
case shall such sentence to hard
labor exceed term of thirty days.
An Act to make appropriations
for the fiscal year commencing No
vcmbcr |, 1880, is an interesting docu-
mcnt, as it shows where the money
Of the people goes. We copy from
it as follows: For the Governors
department, :$l0,G50; Secretary OF
States office, &4,l00; Comptroller
Generals office, $1,000; State Treas
urcr's office, $1,000; State Supcrin-
tcndcnt Of Education, $l,350; Adiu-
tant and Inspector Generals office,
$4,000; for the Militia Of South
Carolina, $4,000; Attorney Gene
raFs office, So 5,3l0; State Librarian,
S95O.OO; State House Keeper
100000, and all the convict labor he
may need; Watchman OF the State
House, $4,000; .Janitor Of the State
House, $4,000; Engineer Of State
House, Sl,025.00; salary Of Chief
Justice OF the Supreme Court,
$4,000; two Associate Justices,
$1,000; salary OF eight Circuit
Judges, $4,000; salary of eight So
licitors, $4,000; salary of eight
Stenographcrs, $4,000; expenses OF
Supreme Court, $G,050; Head, De
partmcnt Of the State, $1,000; for
salary of County Auditors, $24, 800;
South Carolina University, S37, 800;
Citadel Academy, $4,000; Win
throp Training School, at Columbia,
"a 100. Clemson ColIn,, so non,