The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-02-26
ACTS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
List of the important Laws Enact
ed at the Session Just cIssed.

To protect keepers of boarding
houses.
To declare the Code as submitted by
the Code commissioner of South Caro-
lima to be The only general statutory
law of the State.
To prevent the sale of certain explo-
sive frecrackers.
To provide for an unlimited number
of directors for banking and trust cor
porations and to enable such corpora
tions to divide the same into two
classes-active and advisory-and pre-
scribe distinct duties for each class.
To amend Section 3,09l Of the Code
of Laws of South Carolina, 1902,
relating to publication of legal no.
tices.
To prohibit pools, trusts, monopo-
lies, etc.
To amend Section 2,z75 of the Gen
eral Statutes of the State, being Sec
tion 1872, OF. Volume 2. Revised Stat
utes of 1893, relating to kidnapping,
by extending the provisions of said
section to any case of taking away a
minor without consent of parent or
guardian.
To declare the law with regard to
reference in Acts to statutes codihed
in the laws of 1902.
To prevent the altering or removing
of landmarks.
To amend Sections 4 and 5 of an
Act entitled an Act to require the su-
pervisors of the State to publish quar-
erly reports, as to make the said Act
general, and so as to repeal inconsist-
.ent Acts and parts of Acts.
To amend Section 2,491, General
Statutes of 1882, appearing as Section
14S, OF Volume of the Revised
Criminal Statutes of 1893.
An Act to amend can Act to pre-
vent travelling medicine vendors from
plying their VOCATION approved 9th
day of March, 4. D., 1897.
To amend Section of an Act to
regulate the carrying, manufacture and
sale of pistols and to make a violation
of the same misdemeanor, approved
February 20, 1901, by stiking out GER
tain words and inserting other words
in lieu thereof.
To regulate the qualifications Of
non resident executors.
To amend the law in relation to the
names and locations of the voting
precincts in this State.
To provide for the preservation OF
valuable documents and papers of the
State of South Carolina.
Providing for a procedure to enable
the Attorney General to secure testi-
mony in relation to the violations OF
Acts prohibiting trusts and combina-
tions and violations Of law By corpora
tions.
To require municipalities to provide
drains for surface water. 3
To amend Section 2,852, of the Code,
relating to the persons for whose bene-
fit civil actions for wrongful acts
causing death may be brought.
To require the State Treasurer to
write of his books certain bonds
entered on said books as old bonds
not fundable lAct of 1896.
To establish Lee County.
To amend an Act to authorize and
empower cities, towns, townships and
other municipal corporations to issue
negotiable coupon bonds for the re-
funding or payment, in whole OF in
part, of bonded indebtedness, and any
unpaid past due interest thereon,
existing at the 5iame of the adoption
of the present Constitution, approved
March 9, 1896.
To amend Section l, 919 Of the Cen
eral Statutes of South Carolina, being
Section 2,o41 of the Revised Statutes
of this State, relating to the appraise-
ment of the personal estate OF intes-
states, by allowing the appraisement
to be made by qualified electors.
To extend the time for the payment
of taxes levied and assessed for the
fiscal year 1901, to pay judgments OBJ
tained and entered upon township
bonds issued in aid Of railroads, and
interest aud principal of such bonds
not reduced to judgment, when the
railroad has not been completed
through the township as projected, to
March l, 1903, without penalty.
To amend an Act to amend the law
in reference to the duties and powers
of the county auditor in reference to
the assessment Of property for taxa
ton where false, fraudulent or other