Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-02-21
The Acts of the Legislature.

ofthe 130 Acts, passed by oul
Legislatiyeat the recent session
beside a number of joint resolu
tions, we publish below only
list of those Acts of a genera.
nature-the other Acts being
altogether local in their character
Viz:
Act to provide a mode for tLf
amendment of charters of corpora
tiolls heretofore or hereafter
granted.
Act to prevent the spread Of
forest fires.
Act to regulate the expenses Of
examining lunatics and conveying
them to the State hospital for the
insane.
Act to further amend section 4
of an act entitled Gan act to reduce
the required height of a lawful
fence and to punish persons failing
to maintain lawful fences wher
any stock cross the same"
| Act TO amend section 431,
volume 2, revised statutes of 1893
SOFAS to prohibit sale and shipping
Of partridges for five years.
Act granting to the United States
the title of the State to, and the
jurisdiction of the State over
certain lands on Sullivan's Island
in Charleston county, for military
purposes.
Act to regulate the practice in
suits brought on causes of action
which are saved from the bar Of
statute of limitation by part pay
ment or written acknowledgement
Act for the registration of births
marriages and deaths, and tc
provide for reporting infectious
and contagious diseases.
Act to amend title XII, chapter
XXXVI., article 3, statutes of 1898
by inserting another section, to be
known as section 1928, and fxif e
the weight of a bushel of bolted
corn meal.
Act relating to the duties of the
county auditor.
Act to require the keeping of q
record and report of criminal
statistics.
Joint resolution to provide for a
pecialregistration of voters in the
town of Edgefeld.
Act to amend al act entitled
"An act to amend an act approved
the 18th day of February, A. D.
1897, entitled An act to provide
the pupils attending the free
public schools with school text
books at actual COST" approved
21st day of February, A. D. 1898.
Act to provide for the compile
tion of the Winthrop Normal and
industrial college of South Caro-
lima, and to appropriate money
for the same.
Act making it unlawful for any
municipal Office to take a contract
for work for the municipal corpora
tion of which he is an officer, and
to provide penalty for violation
Of this act.
Act to authorize and require
certain causes, actions, proceedings
and matters in the probate court
of the counties of Abbeville and
Edgefeld to be transferred to the
probate court of Greenwood
county.
Act to authorize and permit the
erection of a monument to the
women of the Confederacy on the
State house grounds.
Act to regulate the granting of
bail by magistrates.
Act to provide for the completion
of the State house.
AcS to amend an act entitled
IAN act to prevent drunkenness
and shooting upon the highways %
approved Sd March, 1899, making
the same more specific.
Act to amend section 1 of an
act entitled San act 10 dispense
with the publication annually If
the itemized statement of the dis
bursements by the county
treasurers of Fairfield. Chester
field, Clarendon. Williamsburg.
Abbeville, Edge6eld, Sumter.
Colileton, Chester, Orangeburg,
Greenville, Darlington, York, Pick
ems and Aiken countess" and the