The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-19
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;LegislatiVe Melange;

The senate finance committee re-
ported unfavorably on Representative
JohBston's bill changing the charter
fees which had been passed by tho
house. The report was adopted. The
bill provided that the secretary ol
state collect the following fees upo.
each charter issued or renewed to any
corporation, payable when the said
charter is issued or renewed. The
sum Of / mill upon each dollar Of
| capital stock: for the record each de-
claration, petition or return precedent
to the granting of any commission OF
corporation charter amendment or in
crease or decrease of capital stock or
renewal of charter. required by law
TO be recorded in said office, the sum
Of $3.50 for each paper SO recorded ::
for filing each declaration or other
paper by any foreign corporation, S.;
for filing each charter granted in an
other state and bylaws adopted there
under, or either required by law to be
| fled, IS.
/ The same committee reported on
| Governor McSweeney's veto Of the
! joint resolution passed last session re-
! quiring the state treasurer TO write off
his books certain bonds lthe state
bank bonds), recommending that the
resolution be passed over the COVER
| nor's veto. The report went on the cal
endar and was made special order.
The appropriation bill came before
the house the past week. The appro-
priations for state colleges met with
the usual number of hostile motions,
and the appropriation for Winthrop
college was reduced $4,000. The
Richards bill, to increase the amount
of each scholarship from s44 to s10O,
may be assigned the cause for this re-
duction. The house, by majority of
21 votes, refused to make direct cut,
but afterwards adopted Mr.. Lide's
motion to require all scholarships to
be paid out of the general appropria-
ton. The bill had provided Tor an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for operating
expenses and $5,456 for scholarships
Winthrop got s57,456 last year and
asked for $65,456 this year, but in
stead is given $46,544.
A bill has been passed in the SEN
ate requiring the superintendent OF
education to have first grade teach
rer's certificate from the state board OF
education. The examination papers,
are to be prepared by that board and
applicants are to stand examination
before the county boards to whom the
question will be sent. Other bills
were: To provide for building jail
for Clarendon county, to authorize the
borrowing of money therefor and to
provide TO the repayment theeof;; to
authorize and require the county
board G commissioners OF Lee county
to build a jail for said county and to
levy a tax therefor; to authorize and
empower counties and incorporated
cities and towns to own and operate
rock quarries and work convicts there
on and extend the police jurisdiction;
to incorporate the Union Manufacture
ing and Power Company, to enable
the commissioners of the sinking fund
to lend funds to the county board OF
commissioners Of Oconee county to
paw the Indebtedness Of said county,
board of commissioners to pledge the
special tax levy herein provided for to
secure the same.
When the superintendent OF educa-
ton bill came up in the senate for
third reading Senator Sharpe moved
to indefinitely postpone the bill. ne
was absent yesterday and said that ne
believed the bill unconstitutional,
hence his motion. A yea and nay vote
was demanded and the, bill was inde-
finitely postponed by vote of 2l to
12. Several senators had entered on
the journal their reasons for changing
their votes, the constitutional obJecs
ton being paramount.
In the senate at Tuesdays sesslo:,
the following bills passed third read
ing. To amend Section STA, criminal
code, relating to privilege of licensed
druggists under the dispensary law, 30
as to allow wholesale druggists to sell
alcohol without profit to licened drug
gists to change and designate certain
townships in Sumter county, and 10
provide for chang.i5 the registration
certificate; to create a board OF flre
commissioners for the city OF Green
vile, in this state, to define It's powers
and duties; to prohibit the driving OF
cattle and other live stock into THIS
state from other states and to provide
a penalty therefor; to provide for the
erection of a new Jail for Berkeley
county: to provide for repairing the
monument erected by the state upon
the battlefield OF Chickamauga; to
INCORPORATE the Union Manufacturing
and Power Company; to authorize and
proyide for the erection OF ne"
court house for the county OF Darling
ION aOO lOE oAAo
perfecting the public records OF SAID
county; to authorize the trustees OF
Can't School district, of Anderson
county, to issue bonds for the purpose
of erecting a school building and
equipping same.
The house, after an all-day session.
finished the general appropriation bill.
The bill was adopted practically as re-
ported by the ways and means COM
mittee. The only changes of any i'm
portance were the cut of $3.50 in the
Winthrop appropriation, by taking the
scholarship fund out of the general
maintenance fund, and the cut OF the
funds for the state board Of health to
$4,000. There was fight, as usual,
on the pension fund. on the South Car
DINA College appropriation, on the
Citadel and all along the line, but none
20 +hoeo oronocitio0a prevailed Con-