Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-26
THE LAWS OF THE STATE.
IMPORTANT ACTS PASSED AT THE
RECENT SESSION.


An Act to limit the hours of labor
fer each day of twenty-four hours
and each week in all cotton and
woollen establishments in the State
of South Carolina.
Section 1. 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 eleven hours shall constitute q
days work, or sixty-six hours a
weeks work, in all cotton and wool
len manufacturing establishments in
the State of South Carolina for all
operatives and employees, except
engineers, fremen, watchmen, me-
chanics, teamsters, yard employees
and clerical force: Provided, tina.
nothing herein contained shall be
construed to prevent any of the
EN- ployees in the aforesaid manufac-
.aling establishments from engaging
to work, or working, such time in
addition, not to exceed seventy hours
per annum, as may be necessary to
make up for lost time caused by acci-
dent or other unavoidable circum-
stances; or to prevent all suca
EMPLOYEES working such .uditional
time as may be necessary to clean up
and make necessary repairs OF or
changes in the machinery.
Sectic 4 g That the words "manu-
facturir2 Establishments where
occurring in this Act, shall be con-
strued to mean any buildings in which
labor is employed to fabricate or pro-
duce goods, including yarns, cloth,
hosiery and other merchandise.
Section 3. All contracts made fer
a longer days work than eleven hours,
or weeks work longer than sixty-six
hours, in said manufacturing estah-
lishments shall be, and the same are
hereby declared to be, absolutely
null and void and contrary to law,
and any person making and enforc-
ing such contracts with an employee
in said establishments shall be deemed
to be guilty OF misdemeanor, and
on conviction in court OF compe-
tent jurisdiction shall be fined in each
case a sum of money not less than
fifty nor more than one hundred do'-
lars, together with the costs OF the
proceedings.
Section i. This Act shall 90 into
effect on the 1st day of April, y. D.
1893.
Section 5. All Acts and parts of
Acts inconsistent with this Act are
hereby repealed.
Approved December "a, a. ID. 1892.
An Act to require and regulate
licenses and license fees in this
State from foreign insurance, bank
ing and other like foreign corpora
tions, except national banks, and
except benevolent institutions
organized under the grand lodge
system.
Section 1. 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 on and after the passage OF this
Act foreign insurance companies OF
all classes, such as fire, life, marine,
surety, security, guarantee, hail storm,
live stock, accident, plate glass, and
other like insurance companies, foreign
land loan associations, foreign build
ing and loan associations, foreign
banking associations, and all other
like classes of like business pct incor.
porated under the laws of South
Carolina, except national banks, and
except benevolent institutions organ
lied under the grand lodge system,
shall each, before traasacting any
business in this State, pay license
fee OF one hundred dollars to the
Comptroller General at tn date and
time now required by law for lnsur-
ance companies to pay their license
fee: Provided, that the provisions of
this Act shall in no way apply to the
societies, lodges and associations
named in Section 5 of an Act enti-
tied can Act to require foreign coop
erative assessment companies to COM
ply with the insurance laws OF the
State and to clearly define who shall
be considered agents of insurance
companies" approved 24th Decem-
be-, A. D. 1888.
Section ,. That it shall be unlaw-
full hereafter for any one OF such for
eign companies as are required by
Section l of this Act to obtain license
and pay license fees to transact any
business in this State until they shall
have and keep some duly appointed
resident agent in this State, on whom
legal process may be served, SO as to
! bind the company he represents, and
service of process upon his agent at
his main Office shall be sufficient to
give jurisdiction to the court issuing
same in any county in this State.
And every resident agent shall return
to-the County Auditor of each comfy
his gross receipts from said corrties
for taxation as other property II
returned for taxation.
Section 8. That all fees for licenses,
as provided for in Section l Of this
Act shall be paid into the State trea-
sury as collected by the Comptroller
General.
Section 4. That all the penalties
and forfeitures heretofore imposed
upon insurance companies under the
existing laws of this State, for failure
to comply with the law, shall apply
to and be imposed upon any COM
pany which may hereafter fail to
comply with the requirements of this
Act.
/ Section 5. That all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent With this Act be,
and are hereby, repealed.
Approved December "a, A.D. 1892.