Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-02-23
NEW GENERAL LAWS.
Some of the More Important Enact.
ments Of the Legislature.

Some Of the More Important Enact.
ments Of the Legislature.
The following list prepared by the
Columbia State, includes the titles of
most of the general interest acts
passed by the general assembly dur
Ing Its recent session:
To establish Christmas HOLIDAYS in
the state colleges.
To incorporate the Union Carnegie
Free library.
To change the name of South Caro-
lima college to the University OF South
| Carolina
To ratify and confirm the charter
or 1.-The Central Carolina Power COM
| pany. .-JF ~ +,
To provide for a monument to
mark the grave Of Gen. Thomas Sum-
ter.
To prevent restaurants and eating
house keepers at railroad and steam
boat stations from furnishing meals
to white and colored passengers to-
gether
To have application fees of can
didates for medical licenses to go to
the general fund
Making appropriation for dispen-
sary investigation.
To establish board Of pardons.
Appointed a bank examiner.
Established fish commission.
Established a fund for disabled
firemen by taxing insurance compan-
les. .
To fix the salaries OF circuit stem
ographers at $500.
To establish county court in
Richland.
To celebrate South Carolina day
In the public school.
To buy new flags for the state
house.
To charter the Central railway
company Of South Carolina.
To punish the stealing of car
brasses.
To prevent merchants when In
debt from selling their stock other
wise than usual.
To require railroads at functional
points, through the railroad commits
sion to erect depots.
To require railroads and other
common carriers to provide toilets
at stations
To give the federal government
control over quarantine stations.
To prevent railroad companies
from charging extra fare for cross
Ing bridges when entering the state
To give the federal government
control over certain lands on Sulli-
vans Island.
To allow South Carolina college to
to close College street between Pick
ems and Bull and to open Pickens
between Green and Pendleton streets,
To require common carriers to re-
weigh freight and to establish scales
for that purpose.
To require railroad companies to
give information concerning the ship
ment of live stock
To cut dead trees from near the
public roads.
To incorporate the Newberry,
Whitmire and Augusta railroad COM
pany.
To incorporate the Middle Carolina
and Western railway company.
To punish indecent exposure.
To change name Of the Saluda Riv-
er Power company to the Greenville-
Carolina Power company and allow
ing the company to build a dam
across the Saluda just below the pres
ent one.
To allow suits against insurance
companies to be brought in counties
where the loss occurs.
Joint resolution to buy fifty copies
Of ElZas's "The Jews Of South Caro-
lima"
To allow an illegitimate child to
To amend the dispensary law, max
ing regulations as to other counties
the same in Horny and Beaufort.
The general bill in voting precincts.
The pure food bill.
To appropriate $4,000 for the
jamestown exposition.
The general magistrates bill.
To establish an industrial school for
boys-the reformatory.
To make Thursday of fair week a
legal holiday in Richland.
To establish a county court in Ak
en-also one In Sumter.
To publish the names of benefici-
aries In state institutions and the
names Of their parents and guardians
To prevent supervisors and commits
sioners from furnishing county sup
| plies while in office.
To make solicitors salaries ST.
700.
To repeal the law exempting Con-
| federate veterans from license when
| dealing In seed cotton.
Allowing city councils rather than
boards Of health to appoint health Of
| fcers
To require state house clerks to
give bond.
To re-survey the Edgefield-Aiken
line.
To have expert chemists examine
the bodies Of persons supposed 70
have been poisoned.
To prohibit wrong use of badges or
insignia of secret orders by persons
not members.