The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-14
THE MANNING TINES.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER II, 1881,
An Act 10 Regulate the rrat'lc in Seed
Cotton.

Cotton.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives, OF the STATE
of South Carolina, now met and sitting IN
General Assembly, and by the authority OF
the same, that the traffic in seed cotton oy
purchase, barter or exchange IN the coun-
ties of Abbeville, Aiken, Sumter !ofS'
Eageheld, Berkeley, kershaw, k!chiand'
Orangeburg Charleston, Chester and Union'
within the periods hereinafter named WIN
out license, is hereby prohibited.
Section g. That the Clerk OF the Court OF
Common Pleas for the counties ID this State
respectively named IN the first section OF
this act be, and are hereby, authorized ana
empowered to issue licenses to trathc IN
seed cotton by purchase. barter or exchange.
within the period beginning the 10Th OF
August and ending the 10th OF December
of each wear, to such person or persons as
shall file with said clerks, respectively a
written application therefor, the granung
of which shall be recommended by at least
ten land owners resident within the to"n-
ship wherein said applicant intends 70 90
bnsSsSy> Such license shall specify tne
exact piacg>Rhereat the said business shaii
be carried on, and the period within whlch
such traffic is permitted, and shall commune
in force for the space Of cne year from tne
date of issue; and Tor such incense, L
granted, fee OF $500 shall be PAID by the
applicant to the County Treasurer, Tor the
use of the said counties respectively, except
in the counties of Berkeley and Charleston,
where license shall be $50.
Section 5. That any person who shall
hereafter traffic in seed cotton oy purcnase'
barter or exchange, without hrst haVlng oo-
tanned license as above PROVIDED, snail De
guilty of q m!sdemeanor and on convlcuon,
snail be punished for esch otense by hne
Of not less than 500 or by imprisonment OF
not less than one year, OF by both hne ana
imprisonment, within the discretion OF the
Court
Section 4. That any person to whom
license to traffic in seed cotton may be
granted shall keep at said place OF business
book in which shall be entered the oate
of every purchase, from whom purchased
and the quantity purchased. which oook
shall always be open to inspection OF per
sons applying therefor; and any person 70
whom q license may be granted as herean
provided falling to comply with the re-
oairements of this section shall, on conVic-
ton, be liable to the penalties speclheo IN
Section 8.
Section 5. That nothing herein contained
shall be construed to repeal or IN any WISE
modify the provisions Of Section 25lS OF the
General Statutes. ~
- Approved December 1s, A. D. 1887.
Az ACT no sxrESD TO TIE COUNTY OF cLARES-
DON ALL TIE PROVISIONS OF TIE ABOVE
ACT.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives Of the State
of Sonth Carolina, now met and sitting ID
General Assembly, and by the authority OF
of the same, that ell the provisions OF an
Act entitled IAN Act to regulate the tramc
in seed cotton in the counties of Abbev!ile'
Aiken. Sumter, York. Edge6ld, Berkeley,
Kershaw, Richland. Orangebnrg, Charles
ton, Chester and Union" approved Decem,
Der 1s, 1857, be. and are hereby extended
to and made operative in the county OF
Clarendon, in which county the license fee
shall be $500 per annum-
Approved December "a, A. D. 1880.