The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-03-19
A list of the Ratified Acts by
the Legislature.
NO NOTABLE NEW LAWS.
Most of Them OF a Special Character.
The Income Tax and Other Import
ant Acts.
(Continued from last week. J

sion TO lend funds to the several coun-
ties.
To prohibit trusts and combines.
Toextend the charter Of the Reids-
vile High School.
To amend an act relating to index
ing Judgments.
TO provide for the payment of claim
of w, Il. Arthur.
To divide the city Of Columbia into
five wards.
TO repeal an act relating to the pay
ment of salaries to certain Lexington
county officers.
TO amend an act relating to sheriffs
bonds.
TO amend the county government
law as far as it re ates to working
roads.
To amend an act relating to the title
OF the Wntcree canal.
To fix the time for holding court In
the Second circuit.
70 authorize an election for the pur-
pose of issuing bonds by the school dis
trict of LaurcnS.
To include Orangeburg in an act to
regulate process in criminal cases III
trial Justice courts.
To repeal an act appointing con-
stable at Lands. in Bnrnwell county.
10 prONlue lOT tlle uiSpuiSc w
certain moneys collected rs county
taxes in Beaufort county.
TO provide for the retirement OF
Pleasant Hill township bonds in Ian
caster county.
To establish Greenwood county.
70 provide for the collection of past
due railroad taxes and the distribution
of the same.
TO require the comptrOller-general to
issue his warrant for fhe cost of adver-
tsing the appointments of the county
boards OF registration and the State
treasurer to pay the same.
TO amend an Act to regulate the
schedule of passenger trains i'll certain
cases.
10 fix the times for the meetings of
the county board of commissioners for
the counties of Collcton, Anderson and
Edgetield.
To amend an act to establish local
boards of health in the cities ana lncor-
porated towns of the State and to de-
tine the powers thereof.
To require the railroad tax on the
Wilmington. Chndbornc and Conway
railroad. now called the WilminGtonS
Columbia and Augusta, III Horny coun-
ty, to be applied to the partial dis
charge of the annual interest on sink
ing fund for the bonds of certain town
ships issued in aid OF said railroad.
An act providing punishment for l;:-
borerS who violate either written or YER
bal contracts after having received sup
plies.
An Act in relation to the revised stat
utes Of 1898. and the distribution there
of.
70 require certain officers to keep an
itcmiZed account of their income 10y
virtue of their Office. and to require
them to make nnnualreport OF the same
to the county supervisor
To provide for the payment of certain
balances due newspapers for publishing
election notices in the form given them
by the election commissioners when the
publisher was ignorant of the form pre-
scribed by the Secretary of State.
TO amend an act to define in what
manner towns and cities in South Caro-
lima may increase or diminish their COR
porate limits as to the petition and as
TO voting, and so ~ to extend the linn
its of BennettSville, in Marlboro county.
TO require any insurance company or
association to be possessed of SlOO,00
surplus, or in lieu thereof to have 800,
coo on deposit with some State for the
benefit of policy holders, or in lieu
thereof to deposit with the State Treas
urer so, 900, said securities to be sub
ject to any Judgment as Il lien on such
securities, and providing n penalty for
the violation of the provisions of this
act.
To amend article |, chapter l.. of the
ing Companies.
An act relating to the powers of GER
tain municipal corporations
TO further provide for the return and
assessment of property for taxation.
TO limit the hours of labor of certain
employees of horse railway companies
and electric railway companies, and
other street railway companies.
To amend an act to authorize cleo
tions in cities and towns for the pur-
pose of issuing bonds.
TO provide for indeying certain re-
cords i'll Greenville county.
TO provide for attachment for pilot.
age.
To regulate the catching of sturgeon.
TO provide penalty for disobedience
to the regulations of the interstate rail
road commission.
TO establish new township in
Edgetield county.
To amend the county government
law so far as it relates to the working
Of highways.
To provide punishment for laborers
after they have received supplies.
To amend an Act to accept be1uests
of Thomas Clemson and establish Glenn
son College.
To amend an Act to provide for the
appointment of magistrates.
Joint resolution to authorize the di-
rectors of the penitentiary to furnish Is
convicts to Winthrop College and 20
convicts to the regents of the asylum.
TO amend the Act to provide for the
formation of certain corporations.
Making it misdemeanor for any
State or county officer to receive any
rebates on school books or supplies or