Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-01-23


ment Of the. principal shall first DC
|. within the said high school district
who return real estate on personal
property for taxation, lat an election
to be held in the same. manner as
elections fors special leyies for school
district purposes are now required to
be submitted under said section 1908
Of said code; and, provided, further,
that an annual interest on said issue
shall not exceed 6 per cent, and that
the. sale shall not be for less than par
and accrued interest.
"Sec. 10. That the sum of $780,
600, OF so much thereof as may be
necessary, for each of the school
years, beginning July l, 1907, be, and
the same is hereby, appropriated to
carry out, the provisions of this act,
and the comptroller general is here
by authorized to draw warrants upon
the State treasurer for such amounts,
upon the order of the State board Of
education, duly signed by the gover-
nor: ass chairman, and the State SUI
perintendent; of education, as seere-
lary:a Provided, That tuition shall be
free in every school reviewing aid
andef this act to all pupils in the
county where the school is located:
Provided, further, That nothing in
This. act shall be construed to mean
that pupils :.of different races shall
attend the same school.
6 The first !: thing the House did
Thursday morning was to kill the
bill to raise the pay Of circuit solici,
tors, by adopting the Judiciary CON-
nittee's unfavorable report.
after a brief debate it passe4 Mr..
Richards bill to appropriate $4,000
toward the erection of, practice
school at Winthrop College, condi
joned on the raising of $4,000 ad-
ditional outside. Nh. Richards cx-
planned that the new department,
would provide for the accommoda-
.tiongof@20O more students, that the
$4,000 was already on hand, and
that the Institution was crowded to
such an extent that last year 400
Fstndents had to be turned away.
MI. sCosgrove had his bill relating
Ito a general drainage law. made
special order for Wednesday next.
/ The resolution to introduce a bill
TO amend the Boumai ;& Branchville
Railroad Company passed.
Among the new bills was one by
Mr.. Lawson, to erect Supreme
Court building at cost Of 100000
Oh South Carolina University prop
erty.
Demands Counties Shall Decide.
The bill of the anti-dispensary
faction was introduced in the House
bA Representative Carey. 1t pro-
vides for a choice between the coun-
ties between county dispensalies and
county prohibition. IT, covers Is
printed pages and :sE7lTritten in AZ
sections. The bill.ess prepared by
T. P. Cothran, ot'Sf sstlyille, S. c.,
J. P. Carey, of ickes; ST c., e.
Marion Rueker SD sRaais. 1t was
drafted with ae.ssetes5 meeting the
fight which will sa .lade on it that
a county dispensarE measure is un-
constitutional under the constitution
adopted in 1897 by a Tillman consti-
tutional convention.
The House passed Mr.. Saye's bill
to appropriate $4,000 for manu-
ment to Calhoun at the capitol in
Washington. 1t also passed Mr.. YOU
mans bill to repeal the act provid-
ing per diem for road .overseers in
Hampton county.
In che Senate.
If Senator Smith had had his way
the State dispensary would have been
abolished forthwith, so far as the SEN
|nte was concerned. He introduced a
resolution to- aboSsh it, and asked for
immediate consideration, but objee.
ton being raised, the resolution went
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