The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-02-26

January l, 1902.
To amend Section 339, Revised
Statutes, being Section I'll, General
: Statutes, relating to the collection
of taxes without being stayed by
process of Court.
To prohibit Land cars and lever cars
being left within fifty yards of any
public crossing and to fix the penalty
therefor.
To define train robbing and fix the
punishment therefor.
To require all railroad companies
doing business in this State to provide
spittoons in all passenger trains.
To provide the measure of damage
to which any common carrier may be
held for the conversion to its own use
of any property held by it on consign-
ment or in cours of consignment.
To further define connecting lines Of
common carriers and to fix their
liability.
To provide for payment of costs OF
criminal cases transferred from one
county to another.
To regulate the drawing, empanell-
ing and term of service of jurors in
the Circuit Courts of this State.
To make uniform and to limit the
fee to be paid to the Circuit Court
stenographers of the several circuits
for transcript Of testimony and pro-
ceedings in Court demanded by a
party.
To authorize the school trustees of
the public schools to purchase books
for certain purposes.
To exempt school trustees from road
duty.
To provide for the examination into
the expenditure of appropriations for
State educational institutions, the
condition of the same, and report to
the General Assembly.
To further regulate the working and
maintaining Of the highways and
bridges. of this State.
To abolish the Office of phosphate
Inspector and to devolve the duties
thereof upon certain county auditors
and to fix their compensation therefor.
To amend Section 9S, of the Revised
Statutes OF 1893, SO as to exempt
dentists from jury duty.
To amend Section 1854, of the
Revised Statutes of the State of South
Carolina of 1898.
To amend the Act in relation to the
proof of recorded instruments other
than wills.
To amend an Act to exempt soldiers
and sailors in the service of the State
of South Carolina, or of the Confed-
crate States, in the war betewen the
States, from taking out license as
hawker and peddler required by
Chapter XLIlI of Volume I, Revised
Statutes, 1893, of South Carolina, ap-
proved the 25th day of February, a.
D., 1897, by making same apply to
towns and cities.
Raising pensions to 100000.
To regulate county aid to ex-Confed-
crate soldier, and to prevent their dis
reimbursement.
Creating a county pension commits
sioner, defining his duties and to
further define and regulate the duties
of county pension boards hereafter.
To amend Section 3 of an Act
entitled an Act to provide for pensions
for certain soldiers and sailors now
residents of South Carolina, who were
in the service of the State or of the
Confederate States in the late war be-
tween the States, approved 10Th of
February, 1900, so far as it relates to
widows of Confederate soldiers and
sailors.
To require public ginners to keep
their books for inspection.
To allow all farm products to be
marketed in towns in this State with
out license.
Empowering the winding up or dis
solution of all corporations.
Prescribing the manner in which
cities and towns may extend their
charters of incorporation.
To amend an Act to provide for the
incorporation of cities of more than
5000 inhabitants, approved February
10, 1901, so as to add another section
thereto, to2be known as Sectionss33, and
to make the charters granted thereun-
der perpetual. -
To empower cities and towns of this
State to give exclusive franchises to
persons or corporations furnishing
water or light thereto, respectively,
under certain conditions.
To establish Congressional districts