Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-02-28
EDGEFIELD s. c.. WEDNESDAY, 2,
list OF LAWS ENACTED.
But Only >the Laws vi Varied Impof.
tahce Ale Included iii Statement Of
Legislative Work;

but ouIV puo i"Wo 01 'se '-~sF -.
tahce Ale Included in Statement OF
Legislative Work:
As usual the general assembly did 9
great deal Of local legislation and
these acts are not Of general interest,
affecting generally only the counties
in which they arise. Below will be
found list Of the enactments in
which the entire State is interested:
To establish Christmas holidays in
the State colleges.
To incorporate the Union Carnegie
Free Library.
To change the lame Of South Car
olina College to the University of
South Carolina:
To ratify and confirm the charter
Of the Central Carolinaa Power Com
pany.
To provide for monument to
mark the grave of General Thomas
Sumter.
To prevent restaurant 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 candi-
dates for medical licenses to go to the
general fund.
Making appropriation for dispen-
sary investigation.
To establish board of pardons.
Appointing a bank examiner. I
Establishing fish commission. !!
Establishing a fund for disabled
iremen by taxing insurance compan-
les.
To fx the salaries of the circuit
stenographers at $500.
To establish a county court III Rich.
land.
To celebrate South Carolina day in
the public schools.
10 buy new flags for the State
house.
To charter the Central Railway.
company Of South Carolina.
To prevent merchants Of car brass.
es from selling their stock otherwise
than usual.
To require railroads at functional
points through the railroad commits
sion TO erect depots. :
To require railroads and other
common carriers to provide toilets at
stations.
To give federal government con-
troll over the quarantine stations.
To prevent railroad companies
from charging extra fare for cross.
ing bridges when entering the State.
To give the federal government
control over certain lands on Sulli-.
vans Island.
To require common carriers to- re-
weigh freight and to establish scales.
for that purpose. ssf$
To require railroad companies to,
e si<e concerning the sfp.
ment Of live stock.
TO cut dead trees from near the
public roads.
TO INCORPORATE the Newberr hit
nlire and Augusta Railroad pany.
To incorporate the Middle Carolina
and Western Railway company.
70 punish indecent exposure.
To change name of the Saluda Riv-
er Power Company 10 the Greenville-
Carolina Power company and allow
ing the company to build dam across
The Salrda below The present one.
To allow suits against insurance
companies TO be brought in the coun-
ties where the loss occurs.
Joint resolution to buy 80 copies
of Elias "The Jews of South Car
olina."
To incorporate the Piedmont Pow
er company.
To allow an illegitimate child to
be inherent from It's mother.
To amend dispensaryla law, making
regulations as 10 other counties the
same i'll Horny and Beaufort.
The general bill on 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
cn-also one in Sumter.
10 publish the names Of benefciar-
les in State institutions and the NAM
es of their parents or guardians.
To prevent supervisors and COM
missioners from furnishing county
supplies while in Office.
To make the solicitors salary ST.
roo
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
officers.
To require State house clerks to
give bond.
To re-survcy the Edgefeld-Aiken
line.
To have expert chemists examine
The bodies of persons supposed to
have been poisoned.
To prohibit wrong use Of badges