Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-01
GOVERNOR BLEAsE VETOED q
NuMsER-oTHERs WILL BE
"THE LAW OF THE LAND"
BILLS OF GENERAL INT EREsT
Governor Rlease Has Not Signed Act
to investigate Dispensary commis-
sion-other investigating Commit
tees Appointed

Columbia.-The general assembly
passed, enrolled and ratified a large
number of acts and with the excep-
ton of number vetoed by the gov
srnor, these will now become a part
Of ''the law of the land" In the fol-
lowing list will be found the acts
Of statewide interest ratified, al
though the governor has since We
iced q number of these.
To apportion ~errssentation in the
house of representatives.
To permit elections in cities of
more than 5000 and less than 10000
and cities of more than $4,000 and
less than 100000 for the adoption of
commission form of government.
To amend the law in reference to
compensation of county officers.
Billiard Tables In Small Towns.
To require a license for pool and
billiard tables not in incorporated
towns.
TO require the filing of written in
,truments lodged for record.
To require the distribution of the
iispensary, fund among the common
schools and provide the method
hereof.
To amend the law relating to mag
Istrates, their constables, powers, du-
lies, jurisdiction and salaries.
: To amend the law for the protec-
lion of game birds and animals and
70 provide close season.
To promote the public health by
training swamps, building levees and
establishing drainage and levee dis
:ricts, and issuing and selling bonds
therefor,
To amend an act providing for the
payment of jurors in circuit courts.
To regulate the introduction of laws
,f other states, territories and gov.
,rnments.
To provide houses of detention for
iemale conyicts.
To require the analyzation Of ferti-
izers without requiring the purchaser
% furnish name of the manufacturer
TIE regulate the buying and selling
If cotton in bales and cotton seed.
To annul any clause in contract
limiting time within which suit may
be brought other than the statute of
limitations as to such causes CT ac-
ion.
To provide for the payment of one
annual pension for benefit of a de-
,eased pensioner.
Must Pay Wages Promptly.
To provide penalty and manner Of
collection thereof where corpora
ion fails to pay wages when due.
To continue the State hospital COM
mission and to authorize it to erect
buildings.
To provide fer the levy of taxes
.or county and school purposes for
rear beginning January, 1911.
To empower the railroad commits
zion to require the installation of any
device which will promote safety, pro-
lection and comfort to train crews
md travelling public.
To provide for an investigation of
The acts and doings of the state dis
2ensary commission, and the acts and
1oings OF the attorney general in
connection Herewith, and of the acts
md doings of the committee of the
general assembly, appointed under. a
concurrent resolution of the general
assembly.
To authorize and empower the
ooard of trustees of Clemson Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college to
establish two or more experiment
stations.
To amend an act entitled can act
TO regulate the sale of cocaine" ap-
proved the Goth day of February, A.
D. 1907, so as to further provide for
The regulation of the handling and
use of cocaine and to change the pun
shment therefor.
To amend section so of an act to
ieclare the law in reference to, and
10 regulate the manufacture. sale,
use, consumption, possession, trans