The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-03-10
BILLS OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
NOW LAW.
HOLDS UP QUARTET.
Measures of Importance Get John
Hancock of the Chief
Executive.


with the exception Of four measures
of statewide effect and four county
bills in duplicate. The total number
passed is 444.
The chief executive placed his sig
nature on several bills Of interest to
the women of the state, the measures
thereby becoming law. He signed the
measure of Representative Sapp
placing the females on a parity with
men in all elections in South Caro-
lima, general and primaries. The
measure places the same age limit
and the same constitutional require
ments on the new made electors.
Another measure fathered or per-
haps mothered by the women was
the measure raising the age of con-
sent of a woman child from IA to
16. This act was signed and is now
law. The bill, besides raising the
age of consent from IA to 16, pro-
vides that if the woman child be over
10 years of age the jury may bring
in a special verdict recommending
the mercy of the court and in this
case the judge can not sentence the
convicted man to more than IA years
in the penitentiary. Another provis-
ion is that when the girl is between
the ages of Il and 16 the punishment
shall not exceed five years, the pun
ishment to be in the discretion of the
presiding judge The most important
provision of the measure is the last
one inserted at the insistence of Sen
ator Clifton that provides where the
defendant can prove previous unchas-
tity of the girl that the punishment
shall not exceed one year or a fine of
$500.
Representative Cooper's measure
fixing the open season for domestic
doves and marsh hens in South Caro-
lima from August Is to March 1 was
among the acts getting the John
Hancock of the governor.
The act amending the high school
law so as to allow at least one state
aided high school in each county was
also signed and thereby became law.
Ribbit Bill Signed.
Representative Peurofoy's rabbit
BILL" allowing persons to kill rabbits,
raccoons, and squirrels on and after
July Is if the animals were eating
crops was given the signature of the
chief executive. The measure makes
the closed season for rabbits, rae
coons, squirrels and opossums from
March 1 to September 1, but allows
the killing after July Is, if crops are
being DESTROYED.
Another 'swomen's'' bill, the one
placing the females in the exempted
class as to jury duty, was signed and
is now the law of the state.
The measure making it unlawful
for any state or county officer to ex-
ceed the amount appropriated for the
various Offices and preventing the
converting of one fund to another &C
tivity was signed.
The governor also placed his sig
nature on the bill to ratify consti-
tutional amendment SO as to allow
cities and towns to own and operate
ice plants. He likewise signed the
measure introduced by c. T. Smith,
Jr., increasing the number of names
to be placed in the tales box from
400 to 500.
The bill placing railway mail clerks
in the exempted class as to serving
on juries was given the executive ap-
proval and signed.
Other measures of more than usual
interest included the bill of Senator
Miller enlarging the powers of cir
cult judges at chambers, the meas
ure reenacting the state warehouse
law so as to eliminate certain OBJ
jections raised by the federal reserve
banks on the cotton certificates and
making the term of the warehouse
commission four years, the reenact-
ment of the fishing laws with lum-
Der of minor changes.
Four Measures Held Up.
The Richland county supply bill,
carrying county levy Of eight mills,
was signed.
The measure requiring telegraph
companies to deliver messages free Of
charge in incorporated towns of 80
900 population or more, the bill by
which Columbia assumes an old
school debt of $4,000 from Shandon
school district, the measure prohibit
ing anyone except members to wear
the official emblem Of the American