The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-02-23

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Espresentatives-TheU Usua, Number.
The following are the acts and joint
resolutions of general interest passed
by the Legislature st its late session
which closed last "Wednesday morn
ing:
AN ACT TO
Provide for the taxStion Of telegraph
telephone, palace car, sleeping car.
drawing room car, dining car, express
and fast freight, joint stock assocla,
tions. companies, copartrershlps and
corporations tranSac'iog business N
the State OF South Carolina, and 10
repeal acts in conflict.
Prohibit unreasonable discrimination
By telephone COMPANIES doing bUsi-
ness in this State IN the rates at which
they furnish telephones and telephone
service to their patrons in different
localities,
Amend an act entitled IAN act to
amend Section 81 of act entitled An
act to provide system OF county gov
eminent for the several counties Of
this State, so far as it relates to the
working and maintaining the roads
and highways in this State, ," approv
ed % March, 1897.
Regulate the practice in the courts
of this State in actions ex celicto for
damages
Amend Sections ( and q OF an act
entitled 'tAn set TO provide system
Of county government of the several
counties Of this State, so far IS it re
lates to the working and maintaining
the roads and highways in this State"
approved March %, 1896, and also
amended and approved February 25,
1897.
Create the county of Lee from por-
tions of Kershaw, Darlington and
Sumter counties, with boundaries as
hereinafter described, and to provide
for the erection of court house and
jail, for the holding OF courts and for
the electio.. of county officers.
Authorize and empower the county
boards Of commissioners of the several
counties of this State to establish and
maintain free ferries.
Declare the law as to fees of Clerks
of Courts and Registers Of Mesne Cor
veyance for certifying to the record
ing certain written instruments.
Regulate express and telegraph com
panies and to extend the powers Of the
railroad commission ers, so as to give
them power and authority to regulate
charges by express companies for
transportation, to regulate the charges
Of telegraph companies for the trans
mission of messages by telegraph, or
charges by persons engaged in the
several businesses herein named, to
apply the powers given to said COM
nnissioners, by law, over railroad COM
panies to all companies or persons
owning, controlling, or operating q
line or lines of express and telegram,
and make the penalties prescribed
against railroads for violating CON-
nnissioner's rules apply to the comps
nies and persons herein named, whose
line or lines is or are wholly or in
part in this State.
Amend Section 1894 of the General
Statutes Of 1892, appearing as Section
4S2 Of the Revised Statutes of 1898,
Volume 2, so SIS to prohibit the des-
troying of the nests OF certain birds.
Charter the Central Carolina Rail
way and to suthorizs towns and cities
interested in and along the lines OF
said railway to subscribe to the capital
stock thereof in bonds.
Apen6 an act entitled ''An act to
require all persons or corporations
building or using barbsd wirs fence
within fifty feet Of public highway.
when same runs parallel with and
within fifty feet Of a railroad track,
to place plank on or near the top OF
said fence" approved December 21st,
1894, SO as to make the terms thereof
more explicit.
Amend Section of an act entitled
'sAn act to apportion the road fund
derived from the special county levy.
approved 18th February, a. D. 1897,
as to length Of bridges to be repaired
or built.
Amend Section 1892 of the General
Statutes OF South Carolina, being Sec
ton 425 Of the Revised Statutes OF
1898, Vol. 2.
Amend Section 69S of the Revised
Statutes, relating to certain claims
against counties.
Construe mortgages of real estate
within this State.
Amend an act entitled ''An act to
declare the law in relation to liens on
real estate" approved December "a,
1879.
Create the Office of State Librarian
TO fix the salary and prescribe the du
ties thereof; to constitute a Board OF
Trustees for the State Library, and to
designate the powers and duties there
Of; to appropriate money for the use
of the State Library, and to make Ger.
tain ofenses herein specified misde-
menor.
Amend Section 1899 $685. of Vol.
OF the Revised Statutes, 1898. as to
labels on commercial fertilizers.
Amend an act approved 18th Febru-
ary, 1897, entitled IAN act to provide
the pupils attending the free public
schools with school text books at act.
ual cost.
Amend Section 177e OF the General
Statutes, being Section 1858 Of the Re-
vised Statutes of 1898, as to tbs effect
of registration Of legal instruments.
Amend Section 279 of the General
States of 1882. appearing as Section
1856 of the Revised Statutes OF South
Carolina of 1898, Vol. I, relating to
the powers and duties of the Compt-
roller General in the non-payment OF
taxes, in special cases.
Amend Section 352 Of the Code OF
Civil Procedure of 1882, appearing as
Section $50, Vol. 2, Of the Revised
Statutes of 1898, relating to stay OF
execution and sale on appeal to the
Supreme Court in certain cases.
Require the Magistrates to hold pre-
Eminarv investigations in criminal
cases beyond their jurisdiction unless
waived in writing.