The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-02-01

! trieyille: Patton, to authorize the
| sinking fund commission to lend money
! to the several counties; Mitchell. re-
lating to the requirement Of land by
! the United States government; Dean,
to provide for pensions and a State
| pension commissioner.
Sixteenth Day.-The House OF Rep
! resentatives passed rather uncvent-
; ful session. There was another dispen-
sary bill introduced by Mr.. Rogcrs-a
substitute for that of Mr.. Winklcr. Mr.
Hydrick's life insurance bill passed
and Mr.. McDows bill to reduce the rate
of interest was killed. The fertilizer
tax bill passed second reading and was
sent to the Senate, as was Mr.. Ashley's
bill relating tc the granting Of bail by
magistrates. The first second reading
bill to be discussed was Mr. jenkins
to provide salaries instead of fees for
county officers. MIR. Jenkins claimed
that the bill was introduced in con-
Torrance with the constitution. He
contenGed that the salary system IN
his county had saved considerable
money, over $4,000 per year. Prince
agreed with Jenkins in regard TO the
mandates CT the constitution requiring
officers to be salaried but the bill
needed perfection in some Of it's details
and he moved the bill be referred 60
q special committee consisting OF one
member from each county. This motion
was carried Mr.. Hydrick'S bill relat
ing to life insurance policies passed
second reading after fight. Mr.. Rcg-
ers' substitute bill relating to funds
with which to provide school books at
cost 20 the public schools, was passed.
the bill provides that the amount so
set aside by the county board Of edu-
cation shall be and remain permanent
fund in the hands OF the county super
intendent of education, and shall be by
him used in purchasing and keeping on
hand school text books for sale to pu-
pills attending the free public schools
Of his county, for cash. at actual cost
CT exchange prices. and shall be used
for no ether purpose and in no other
manner, and places where said school
text books are kept for such sale shall
be deemed repositories, under the con-
troll OF the State. as provided in the
seventh article, or provision, in the
contract made in 1893 with the pub
fishers Of school text books. The House
passed Mr.. Blease's bill requiring dis
interested party who can read and
write to witness bills of sale and CHAT
tel mortgages. Senator Dennis bill to
require county supervisors to fix dafec-
tive bridges within 90 days after writ
ten notice was killed cn motion OF MI.
Hydrick.
The following new bills were intro.
duced: Committee on public buildings
To provide for the sale Of the govern
or's mansion and the erection OF an
other: Rogers, to amend sections 81
and Sc Of the school law; Dukes, to
regulate the freight charges Of COM
mon carriers; Jenkins, to amend the
notary public act: Theus. to prohibit
formation of trusts; Magill, to require
catalogues OF State institutions, ETC.,
to be printed by State printer; Senate
bill 70 allow Abbeville to vote bonds to
the Black Diamond Railroad. There
was an unfavorable report on Mr.. Est
ridges bill proposing an election to
eliminate the anti-lynching clause from
the constitution. The judiciary COM
mittee reported a substitute for the bill
to reimburse the Carolina National
Bank for two Of the penitentiary notes.
Mr.. Caughman's bill to authorize Sa-
luda county to buy the railroad mater
ial on the line between Batesburg and
Perry was reported unfavcrably. Ma
iority and minority reports on the Sem
ate broad tire bill. Favorable on Mr..
Deans dog tax bill.
Seventeenth Day.-There was quite
a lot of discussion on the bill to pre-
vent the shipping Of shad from the
State. The bill was killed.
The following new bills were intro
duced:
Stevenson, to provide for the admis-
sion OF inebriates to the State hospital
for the insane; Patton, to authorize
use of skilled convict labor for the use
of South Carolina college: also to fix
the time for holding court in the fifth
circuit Cant, to prohibit the sale OF
brooms made by convict labor unless
they are marked convict make:" E.
B. Ragsdale, providing an amendment
to the constitution providing divorce
for dultery; also. tc provide for special
school district No. IA. at Winnsboro;
also, to require railroad corporations
to build connecting links for inter-
change Of freight when two or more
pass through corporate limits of any
town or city: Patton. to provide for a
State board of homeopathic examiners:
w. J. Johnson. to regulate the hear
ing of cases by the circuit judges OF
this State; N. G. Evans to require the
keeping Of a record and report Of GRIM