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AN ACT CongbuninuSchool Funds.
Section 1. Be it enacted In/ the
Senate and House of Representatives of j
the State of South Carolina, now it et i
and sitting in General Assembly, and by
the authority of the same, That the
General Assembly shall1 Hvy, at each
regular session thereof, sn annual special
tax, to ho known and designated as the
"school tax," on all taxable property
throughout the State, lor the support
and maintenance of Free Common
Schools, which tax shall be collected at
the same time, and in the same manner,
and by the same ngmts, as the general
State tax, and which tax shall be paid
into the Treasury of the Stato.
Skc. 1. That it he declared a m'sdo
men nor, on the part of the State Trea
surer, to apply or appropriate any funds
or nioucys derived from, or collected en
account of, snid school tax, for any pur
pose or purposes whatever, except that.
of Free Common Schools; and, ou con
viction thereof, he shall pay a fine of not
less than five thousand dollars ($."> ,000,)
the same to be used for school purposes,
and shall be imprisoned at the discre
tion of the Court.
Skc. 3. That the Stale Treasurer
shall furnish to tho State Superintend
ent of Education, annually, on or be
fore the first Tuesday of March, of each
year, except the present year, which
shall be the first day of April, a certi
lied statement, showing the amount of
mn.ie.ys collected or received by him ou
account of s?id school tax.
Sec 4. That it shall bn tho duty of
the State Superintendent of Education
to apportion, ni the law specifies, the
Free Common School funds of the State
among the several Counties thereof.
Skc - 5. That it shall be the duty of
ench ^otinty School Cos:mi.?i'riier t?M
appoition, according to law, the Free
Common School funds of his County
among the several school district there
of: J*r'H-t'drd, That any School District
believing itself wrongpd by such appor
tioutnent may appeal to tho State
Superintendent of Education, whose
decision shall be final
Skc. (?. 'J hat it shall be the duty o'
each County Treasurer to report, mouth
ly, ou the fifteenth day of each mouth,
to the County School Commissioner of
his County, the amount of collections
and disbursements made by him for the
mouth on account of ptdl tax uud all
other school funds; and it shall be a
misdemeanor, ou the purt of any County
Treasurer, tn neglect, fail or rcluse to
make such report; and, on conviction
tnercof, he shall pay a fine of uot less
thau five hundred dollars (J>50() 00, the
same to be used for school purposes in
his County.
Sec. 7. That all moneys disbursed by
any County Treasurer, on ncc ?uut of
school funds, or poll tax, shall be paid
on tho order* of Boards of School Trus
tecs, countersigned by the County
School Commissioner : Provided, That
accounts or claims of School Trustees,
lor enumerating school children, shall
be paid ou the orders of the C'ouuty
School Commissioner.
Ski". 8. That each County Treasurer
shall make out and forward to tho State
Superintendent of Education, annually,
on the first day of November, a certified
statement showing, by school districts,
tho amount of poll tax aud (be amount
of local or school district tuxes collected
by him for the fiscal year ending on the
31st of October next preceding ; and
should any County Treasurer fail, neg
lect or refuse to make and for1-nrd the
(statement us herein required, the Stale
Superintendent of Education shall make
out a written complaint to the Circuit
Solioitor for the County iu which tho
said Treasurer resides, who shall prose
cute the said.County Treasurer for tho
same, and on conviction thereof ho shall
be subject to a fine of five hundred
dollars ($500.00,) the same to bo mod
, for Free Conituou School purposes in
his County.
Approved February 20, 1873.
AN ACT to Rkc.ulate the Service
of Process Ishlimi from the
Supreme Court.
Be it enacted by tho Scnato and
Houso of- Representatives of the Stato
of South Carolina, now met and sitting
in Genoral Assembly, and by the
j authority of the same, That the Supreme
I Court of this Stato be, and is hereby,
'empowered- to require the 8heriffof
eich 'and every County in this Stute, to
whom any order or process issuing f.om
said Court mny be directed, to serve and
execute the same; and shall have the
Baine power to enforce such service and
execution, and to punish default therein,
us is now vested in the Circuit Courts
in process issuing therefrom.
Approved February 20, 1X73.
AN ACT to Bnforck the Payment
of i'iik PolL Ta x.
Section 1. 11/: it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in Qoncrral Assembly, and
by the authority of the same, That there
shall be assessed on all taxable polls in
the Stntc an anuual tax of ono dollar on
each poll, the proceeds of which shall
be'applied to educational purposes; and
if any person shall refuse or neglect to
pay said tax, before the expiration of
the tituo fixed for the p*ayincut of all
taxes, r.hc County Treasurer shall, with
in twenty days thereafter, furnish a list
of all delinquent polls to tin* County
Commissioners of the County. Where
the persons so taxed nnd delinquent
have no properly to be distrained for the
payment of said poll tax, as authorized
in the Act providing for the assessment
and taxation of property, approved
September 15, 1SGS, the person or per
sons bo delinquent shall be subject to u
penalty of double the amount of their
poll tax ; and on failing to paj- the suno,
when notified of the fact, within ten
days after such notice, Puch person or
persons shall be required to work upon
the highway or roads, in their respective
Counties, ns the County commissioners
may direct, not exceeding three days,
Skc. U. That Said county c'uunniss
inner? ?hall, ufifcr receiving the delinqu
?nt poll list?j summon such delinquents
to appear at their oflieO, and then and
there uivo them the opportunity to pay
the d mole tax ; and on failing t> do si,
such delinquents shall be required to
work upon th< highways and roads ol
their respective counties as the county
commissioners may direct : and il the
said delinquents, being personallj wann
ed by tho said commissioners, or by
written notice, served at their place ol
residence, ?hall refuse or neglect, haviug
had ten days' notice, to attend by then
selves, or substitutes equally able to per
form said duties as themselves, or to .pay
the double tax in lieu of said duties, or,
having attended thcuisclves, shall refuse
to conform to the requirements of this
Act, vir obey the directions of the county
commissioner.*, they shall be considered
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on Ciuvic
lion thereof, be imprisoned for the same,
in county jail, for a term not less than
ten days.
Approved February 20, 1873.
AN ACT for the Better Protection
of Rei.ioious Worship.
fic il marted J>y tho. Sende and
llou^c of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the author
ity of tho smite, That if any j erson shall,
willfully and maliciously, disturb or
interrupt any meeting, society, assembly
or congregation, convened for the pur
pose o' religious worship, or shall cuter
such meeting, while in a stato rf
intoxication, or shall use or sell spi.itu
ous liquors, or us? bl.isphomous langu
age at or near the place of meet ing,
such person shall bodeo'ued guilty of a
misdemeanor, aud shall on conviotion,
be sentenced to pay a fine of not less
than twenty, or more than one hundred
dollars, or be imprisoned lor a term not
exceeding one year, or less than thirty
days, or both, or cither, at the discretion
of the Court.
Approved February 20, 1S73.
An Act to Amend Section 17 <>k
chapter XliY ok the generai.
Statutes or The State.
Jic it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly and by the authority of the
same, That Section 17, chapto" XliV of
the General Statutes^ of the Stato, bo
amended by striking out the words
??forty fivo," and insert in lieu thereof
the words "fifty five."
Approved February 22, 1773
AN ACT to Amend an Act entitled
"An Act to 1 ncimu'OUATk. tiir
Town ok Lewikvii.le, S.'C"
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lie it mai frtl by the Senntannd House
<>I* Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in Gener
al Assembly, and by the authority of the
same, That an Aet entitled ."An Act to
ibeorpora'e the town of Lojnsvillo, S.
C," passed February 28?j 187'i be
amended by striking out vtho words
? three fourths" wherever same
occur ui the Act, and insert the words
?'one third."
Approved Fe', ruary 20. j 5
A.\ A' 'T tm Am km? ('n U'Tk.u C\ X
<?f i iik (i km.n.m. Smtj^Ks OF the
St at b.
J)i it viuirtv! /<// the Sei jB&and House
of Representatives of the Sr|te of South
Carolina, now met and "'?tijjg iu Gener
al Assembly, and by t hcfaulhority of
the same, That Chapter .jfjXX of the
General Statutes of the Statt be amend
ed as follows : Strike o? tho word
"thirty." wherever it occtVs-iti Section
1 1. nnd insert the word 'nttety ;" strike
out the words'ninety day.-y-rh' Section
13, and insert "six mouth.
Approved February U0,,tf8''*3.
Advice to the (?rls.
? Ih^
lie-in. say at sixteen, V) look in tin
glass whenever }<>u pas? one, and to
make up your mind that j>o.u are not as
beautiful as you might ? be. Grow
gradually discontented 'ipth your com
plexiun. ami make up yovV mind that it
must and shall be improved. Talk a
good deal ahou* your w? jj^J-obarius to
your young lady frieflftfT^bvi wi!! bo
sure to encourage you \i\ your low csti
mate of them. I 'r..\v the attention uf |
3our maiden aunts, grandmothers, etc.,
to your complexion. J hey will soon
discover "that it is "your liver."
Rcgin n course of weeping on your
pillow at night. It will improve your
eyes and eye sight. \\ car a dotted veil
in the street, and never ovpo.se yourself
to KUi I).-.UI.5. Jly these, ptetl >S, an ! by
constuutly picking out littlebl>ck specks
on your face, you will bee >me a m mo
maniac, ami you |?ill be ready I r the
second course of procedure as follows :
lining ready, take any daily newspa
per, and -hunt out. buy and USO ill th J
magical ''bouUtifiors" thai are advertised
in its columns : "Balm of Moss Rosas,''
"Dowu of Angels' Wings," "D roams of
the Violets," "Old Aunty Guntcr's
complexion Wash," "Indian Skin Trans
former, discovered by a venerable squaw
while in search of the graves of her fore
lathers," nnd all the re.it of them.
Some will be chalk or whiting; some,
inuocent starch powdcth some, araenie,
bismuth and white lo\d. Some will
make you look like the ghost of a work
iug baker, who had not time to wash his
lace. Somo will fill your pores with
little blacks ; sonic will poison you ;
some will hurt your eyesight ; some will
paralyze y?>ur hands No mutter, go
ahead; buy them all, plaster them on,
and oil or cold cream yourself at night
If you choose you may rub red paint on
your cheeks at the stmc time. In a
year or so will come tie thirl .?t'ige, in
which ycu wiil coDsumo all the univcr
sal panaceas on record. You will take
Smith's Pills, Jones' Hitter's lirOWtl's
Toni's, Robinson's Mysterious Human
Health Protector, ifcc, fto. You will
try allopathy, bonieoptthy, the wat"r
cure, electricity, magnetism, and nil the
I quack medicines.
You began by being a healthy young
woman, with a few pimples on your skin,
which would havo departed of thorn
Bclvcs after a while. Vou arc now an
invalid, with a parchment complexion
and an unhappy disposition, and one day
you look in the glass and discover gray
i hairs on your head. Nature, finding
I that you would dose yourself into a
pallid ghostliness, tries to do what she
can f<>r yon by gtving you such hair a
will point the change less hideously.
You feel horrified; you fly to the papers
ouee more, and read uu advertisement
in which Daubs?as an utterly disiuter
ested party?advises you to rejuvenate
yourself, if you arc prematurely gray,
by tho use of his Ambrosial Hair Dye,
"harmless, potent, and perfumed."
You at once go out to buy this com
pound, which, when bought, proves to
bo a grimy mixturo with a very nasty
smojl, and so begin np"n the hair dyes,
and go on till one day there is an end of
all things for you, and out of respect to
your memory people call it a visitation
of Providence, and not a visitation of
hair dye, which they would call it if
they told the truth.
Americans Abroad.
TUB PREY/ OF EXTORTIONATE land
LORD.
A writer from London to the Toledo
Blade remarks that many Americans,
desiring to show their disregard for
money, have been doing it so long and
so extensively that they have made it
inconvenient for those of limited purses
to get along decently. All over the
continent they have spoiled the servants
and the hotel keepers, and caused prices
to be advanced about fifty per cent, on
all their countrymen. A hotel keeper
looks upon an American as a. treasure
chest, out of which he is at liberty to
extract as much money as possible, aud
be is not backward in making the at
tempt. And when an American endcav
ors to travel economically he is subject to
a variety ol slights and annoyances, and
will occasionally be told that ho does
not behave as liberally as his respectable
countrymen* London used to be better
in this respect, than Paris or Rome, but
it is now quite as bad. The hotels and
lodging houses put on all sorts of 1 extras'
and outrageous charges, and frequently
the managers do not hesitate to Ho un
blughiugly in order to extort money
from their patrons. 1 am quartered at
a respectable bo el, overlooking Convent
(iard n, it was rccummcudcd to me as a
comfortable house, aud one where the
the charges would be just and correct.
I called for my bill yesterday, and told
them T preferred to pay weekly; thoy
endeavored to induce mo to let it Stand
until I was ready to go away, but 1
insisted, und the bill was brought.
There were extra charges fur things
which I knew I never had, and they
had put on an extra shilling for ea rli
morning's breakfast, alter telling lue
that 1 Could order anything on the bill
id*fare. '1 hey charge three pence a day
I'm stationery, and make every man pay
lor it whether be writes a let er or not
I protested, but it was no u-e. It was
their custom, they said to charge three
pence a day for stationery, and a man
might use as much as ho* wished. Up
to that time I had not used a sheet ol
their paper, but hencelVrth they cannot
complain that 1 neglected it. I find it
makes good cigar lights, and when I go
away from hero it will fill up the loose
corners of my trunk very neatly. If
they niakejanything out of me on the
stationery swiudel, they must be wider
awake than I think they are. I paid
their bill under protest, aud remained.
I Why didn't you go away! somebody
wiil a>k.. What is the use in moving ?
I I haro bad a row with them, aud though
I couldn't get that bill reduced I con
vinced them they would not make much
by trying it on again. I gave warning
ibat 1 would not pay for another '-extra
aud have been careful to havo none for
which any charge could be made. If I
went to another hotel I should have the
same row to go through over again
They arc all alike in this respect and
will clu-it without compunction of con
science. 1 am in the position of tho
railway superintendent who refuse 1 to
discharge a conductor known to be
dishonest, on the ground that the man
had already bought a watch, diamond
pin, horse, and other things out of bis
stealings, while the new man, to take
bis place, would be obliged to equip
himself in the same way. It is better
to bear tho ills wo have than fly to oth
cis that may be worse, aud are certain
I to bejust as bad.
Are ladies aware that tho waterfall
aud chignon are borrowod from the low
Cat order of women in Japan, whoalways
have a weakne'8 for them ? In the
wildest portions of Africa, as the draw
ings made by travelers invariably show,
chignonn are worn, and the more danger
ously wild tho women, the greater tho
chignon. In Jupan, also, it has been
obsorvod, the less a woman haa inside
her head, tho more she manages to ar
raiii/i outsido of it.
Kight furlongs make a mile?Tho
(Irnnd IUpids Times says there is a farm
er near Tackson who has a mile of yqfxog
ones. He has four boys sod four girls.
His name is "Furlong."
Negro Juries,
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial has been in the Red River
Country, where the black population so
largely preponderates, and the juries
are selected from both races. He says :
"I asked a white man who had had con
siderable jury experience, how it worked.
He said "it worked tolerably well after
a fellow got used to it.'
"Did it take much effort to get used
to it?" I asked.
"Yes, sir, you bet it was the con
foundest hardest thing to get used to
ever you heard of* I haven't got used to
the smell yet. Of a hot day in a close
room with a lot of fat niggers sitting on
a case, it's pretty hard. Rut we have
to submit, for if some of us white peo
pie didn't go on tho jury it would be all
niggers, and that would be ruin."
"Row are the juries divided ? I
asked.
"Oh, just as it happens, so there is
some of each race on every jury. Some
times there's only two niggers, some
times four, sometimes six, and sometimes
ten."
"How nrc they about agreeing upon
verdicts ?"
"They arc better than tho whites.
The niggeis never hang a jury. When
I am ou a jnjy with them, and thesuit
is on an account, for instance, I just
figure up the amount, and say : 'Boys,
here, Jones owes Smith so much and
so much and so much, giving the figures
much, giviug figures, which leaves Jones
behind with Smith so much, aud that's
what we must render judgment for-"
The}- all agree to it, although they don't
know any more about figures than a hog
docs about theology."
"I'll say this for the niggers," he
continued, "thoy^ are uot stubborn on a
jury at all; but as far as my experience
goes, they aro always anxious to do the
right thing between man and man "
?'When their own color is involved
how is it ?" I asked.
"Just the same. They do not nhicld
their own people. They'll hang a nig
i gcr for murder just as quirk as they will
I a white man, aud a good deal quicker.
Sometimes 1 think they arc a little too
hard on their own race. But I supposs
they fear we will chargo them with par
tiality. On the whole, u nigger makes
a pretty fair juryman,"
"Was there no great opposition to his,
serving in that capacity?"
"Oh. yes, thunder was to pay for a
while. White men said they wouldn't
sit with a nigger, they would die first,
aud all that, but they had to swallow
the dose, and have now got used to it.
Thero is nothing like being used to any
I thing is thero ?
Masquerading iu Roy's Clothes*
A correspondent at Little Rock, Ark.
writes : That a marshal has just return
cd from Allenville, Mo., having in his
eustody a young girl named Mollie
Sherwood, who for intervals during the
past two years hss been passing for a
boy undej the name of Rill Henderson.
About two years age her parents resid
ing in Cupe Girardcau, died. She was
then thirteen years old, aud her two
brothers placed her out to work in a
ho'el at Allcnvil e. Recoming tired of
this employment, she donned boy's cloth
ing, called herself Rill Henderson, and
applied for and received a situation as
post boy to carry tho mail to and from
Allenville. For ono year, unsuspected
she fulfilled tho functions of this post.
Then her sex was suspected, and at
Allenvillo she was placed under arrest
and compelled to wear the female garb
After this sho tried working in a hotel
as maid servant, but soon tiring of this
again resumed the trousers and worked
as a farm band. Subsequently she
came to Agusta, iu this State, as a
drover's assistant, and thenoo went to
Jncksouport to work in a 1'very stable.
After a while the men and boys about
the stable, believing her to be a woman
began to call her names, * and, as she
says in order to get away from tho place
she took certain horses belonging to the
stablemen and madooff with them. The
marshal followed her and overtook her
with the horses at Allenville and arrcs
ted her on a charge of horse stealing.
The people there know her well and
were inclined to prevent tho cf&oors from
arresting her. Pistols were drawn on
both sides, but fiua,ly the girl went of
b er own free will with the marshal,
She is now in the Jacksoopost jail
awaiting trial for horse stealing. Tho
girl is a pretty blonde, and during all
her vicissitudes her virt ue has never been
questioned.
Some years ago a new file company
/ras organized at Reading, and the mem
hers one evening thought they would
have a little innocent fun at the expense
ol Hopkins, their president. They de
cided to rush round with tho engine to
Hopkins, house after dark, .to throw up
their ladders, pull out their hose, climb
on his roof and scare him with the be
lief that his dwelling was on fire. Hut
the very day Hopkins moved out of the
house and a J'rcsbyterian clergyman
moved in, without the company being
aware of the change. So about eight
o'clock they dashed out, and went
through all the movements, getting on
the roof and splashing water around and
creating a terriGc disturbance generally.
A rival company noticiug what was
going on. also hurried to the scene and.
without understanding the joke, attach,
cd their hose to a plug, smashed in the
frout windows; and began to empty a
two inch stream on the family off that
Presbyterian clergyman. They sqirted
into all the rooms, split up the window
shutters with an axe, broke down the
front door, ran out the furniture, tore off
the shingles, and bawled through tram
pets until tho luted girl had convulsions
on the kitchen stairs. The first compa
uy tried to explain, but the new comers
thought on effort was being made to get
them out of the way, and a fight ensued
and presently firemen wcro sliding off
tho roof, and peltiug down the chimneys
and bleeding over the entry carpet, and
having boisterous encounters with span
ncrs and brass horns on the stairs. And
the next morning that Presbyterian di
vine and bis family moved out. They
:.aid the place seemed to be too animated
and sensational for a quiet dornestio
circle. They wanted a house whera
i h^re was calmness and peace: where
they could havo rooro security for their
privancy and pianos, and for their front
doors and shingles, aud pcaoo of mind
and window sashes
Better Than Whiskey.
"Bill Arp" writes; "Gentlemen, there
is one thing about drinking. I almost
wish every man was a reformed drank
ard. No man who hasn't drank liquor
knows what a luxury cold water is. I
have got up in the night in cold weath
er after I had been sprccing around, and
gone to the well burning np with thirst,
feeling liko the gallows and the grave
aud the infernal regions were too good
for tnc, and when I took up the bueket
in my hands, and with my elbows tremb
ling like I had the shaking ague, put
the water to my lips, it was tho most dell
cious, satisfying, luxurious draft that
ever wont down my throat.
"I have stood there and drauk until I
could drink no more, and gone back to
bed thanking God, for the pure inno
cent, and cooling bevcragn, and cursing
myself from my inmost for ever touching
th-j accursed whisky. In my torture of
mind nnd body I have made vows and
promises, and broken thorn within a day, -
Hut if you want to know the luxury of
cold water, get drunk and keep at it till
you get on fire, and then try a bueket
lull at the well iu tho middle of the
night. You wou't want a gourd full?
you'll feel like the buoket ain't big
enough, and when you begin to drink
an earthquake couldn't stop you. I
know a hundred men who will swear to
the truth of what 1 say, but you see it's
a thing they dont mcau to talk about)
it's too humiliating,"
I Say ? A gentleman who was in the
habit of interlarding his discount with
tho expression, "I say," having been in
formed by a friend that a certain indi
vidual had made some ill natured re
marks upon this peculiarity, took the
opportunity of addressing him in the
following amusing style of rebuke; "I
say, sir, I hoar you say 1 sav 'I say' at
ovory word I say. Now, sir, \Uh?4gh'l
kuow 1 say 'I say' at every wor4 X say,
still I say, sir, it is not for you io say
I say ?I say' at every word!
Husband and wife sailed from D?vrry
for Glasgow, en route for Edinbiarg,
recently, the wife having on her knee
the thirty third child. Of the thirty,
thrco there aro at present alive tweity
four. It is more than probable that a
similar ease could not be pointed out,