Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1912-01-18
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rural poliae system in Anderson
county.
Mr.. Sinkler-To amend an act to
incorporate the Medical College OF
South Carolina.
Mr.. Carlisle-To incorporate the
Lockhart Power Company and defhe
it's duties and powers.
Mr.. Crosson-To regulate the work
ing of the chaingang in Lexington
county.
Mr.. Crosson-To provide for work
ing on the highway of Lexington
county by contracts.
Mr.. Carlisle-To incorporate Pied
mont Power Company.
Mr.. Weston-To regulate the elec-
tion of the elective members OF the
board of trustees of the public schools
of the city of Columbia.
Mr.. Epps-To amend an act to pro-
vide county government for Will
liamsburg county.
Mr.. Earle-To prevent the placing
of carcasses on the premises of an
other.
Mr.. Laney-To create state crop
pest commission.
Mr.. Mars-To amend an act to re-
quire marriage licenses and regulate
their issuance.
The House of Representatives.
Mr.. Woodward W. Dixon, a men,
Der of the house from Fairfield coun-
ty. has announced that he will run
in the primary for lieutenant gov
ernor. His candidacy entirely I'M
affiliated with any candidate for gov
ernor.
Permission was granted for the use
of the hall of the house Of representa-
tives for the state Democratic con-
vention next May. There was no op-
position, of course, to the resolution
offered by Mr.. Rembert.
Mr.. Salley withdrew his bill to re-
quire all steam railroads in this state
to use Eastern time.
A hearing was arranged for on SEN
ator Sullivan's bill to require tele-
phone companies to furnish connec.
tions to their subscribers without ex-
ira charge.
The house has lost two Of its best
members. Associate Justice Thos. B.
Fraser, by his elevation to the su-
preme court, will not sit in the house
He will begin his service at once.
Mr.. Frank p. Gary will no longer
serve as a member. He will qualify
at once, and his first term OF court
will be in Charleston, early in Febru'
ary. Both seats will remain vacant
for the session.
The house acted favorably upon a
concurrent resolution, already passed
by the senate, endorsing the ROCK
Hill plan" for curtailing the acreage
of cotton. The concurrent resolution
was introduced in the senate by Sena
tor Stewart.
The judiciary committee of the
house has made reports on the libel
act and on the special message OF the
governor in ference to it. The first
report of the committee, made by
four of it's members, which 1t ap
pointed a subcommittee, recommends
that all the governors libel act mes
sage, except his specific objections
to the act which the constitution re
uuires printed in the Journal, be eX
punged from the record, since "the
style and langu' ye in which the same
IS couched are such that self-respec'
forbids that dignified Legislative
body should permit it TO become par'
OF the records of its acts"
The second report OF the Judiciary
committee, read recommends tha
the libel act pass in spite OF the gov
ernors veto.
New House Bills.
Mr.. Jones-To provide for the es
tablishment and maintenance CT
rural police system in Lancaste
! county.
Mr.. Bowman-To require the coun
ty treasurer of Orangeburg county Il
publish quarterly list OF fines pait
him by the magistrates OF the county
, Mr.. Scott-To amend section o
, an act entitled AN act to provide TO
the organization and regulation o
) mutual protection associations" az
I, proved February 4, 1910, by repealinI
2 restriction as to territory"
: B. c. Edwards-To amend sectiol
l IA OF an act approved March l, 1908
: and as further amended by an act al
e proved March S, 1910, amending a
/ act entitled "An act to establish tn
e Insurance Department OF South Care
lima and to provide for the conduc
Of the same" approved February =
o 1908, by adding to said section IA
t proviso regulating the additional !
cense fee TO be paid by foreign lif
f insurance companies licensed to d
business in this state.
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