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? V THE NEW LAWSJ Bills and Resolutions by Recent Legis laiure. ?" "? 1 W mrnr n i TIPS'TV B1LL> IIIAI ?tKt KAUriCU. Captions of All Tha General Legisla1?^? ?130 Bills in All Were Passe^ j Following: is a list of the principal bills anil resolutions passed by the recent session of the Legislature, which are now laws. All private laws and laws of a purely local nature hare been el i nsulated from 'this list, so that C it comprises only such as bc.'.r upon i the whole people of the State. There 1 were in all 130 'bills passed, besides a cumber of concurrent resolutions. The general acts passed were .is follows: Act to provide a mode for the amend of charters of corporations heretofore or hereafter granted. Act to prevent the spread of forest v fires. Act to regulate the expenses of examining kraaties and conveying them 4o the State -hospital for the insane. Act TeJating to the estates of minors. ' Ac to abolish the office of phosphate inspector. Act to further amend section 4 of an act entitled "An act to reduc-e the required hetigih't cf a lawful fence and to punish ]>ersons failing to maintain ftawful fences when any stock cross the same." approved the 2d day of March, A. IX 1896,, as amended 'by an act approved 17th cf February, 1597. and by an act approved 19th day of February. 189$. so a*? to correct in said amenda lory .acts. Act to amend section 131, volume 2, revised' statutes of 1893, so as to prohibit sale and shipping of partridges for five years. Art to amend the title of an act entitled "An art to exempt certain counties herein named from the operation of chapter XXVII, title X, of the general statutes, relating to the general stock law," approved December 24th. A. D. 1886, so as to make it conform to the 'body of the act. Act granting to the United States the title otf the State to, and the jurisdiction of the State over certain lands on Sullivan's Island, 'In Charleston county, for miiiiitary purposes. Act in relation to reinsurance and the transaction of business by fire insurance companies or associations 'otherwise than through resident agents. Act to regulate the .practice in suits brought on causes of action which are saved from the bar of -the statute of lim^ation 'by -part payment or written etc kffb wl edgem en t. Act far the registration of -births. ? Jot'Iic inil nnovidp for UlJTlVJSTro aiiu , reporting infectious and contagious diseases. Act making thr failure to return ^bo-ats. flats or tools entrusted to any person ?for the purpose of mining or gathering phosphate rock, within two days after being required 'by the owner 60 to do, a misdemeanor. Act to further protect waterworks, sewers and drains of cities and towns. Act to amend section S of an act entitled "An act to provide for t'he formation of railroad, steamboat, street railway and canal companies, nd to define the powers thereof, and to provide a mode for amending the charters thereof." so its to authorize and empower street radlway companies tc nuke, produce. generate and supply iieht. power and heat "by the means of electricity and gas. Art to empower ana aucnonzi- me presiding judge at any restaur or special term of the circuit court to appoint a stenographer, and to provide v fcr bis compensation. Joint resolution -to provide for paving $40 to J. H. Pate and S30.C1 to J. L. Parrot* fcr surveys for Lee county prior to the decision of supreme court annulling the art creating Lee county. I Act retorting to the duties of the I county auditor. A-ct to require the keeping of .1 record and report of criminal statistics. Act to fix the tinvjs for .holding the courts in the Third judicial circuit. Act to repeal section 229>1> of an act entitled "An act to amend the general statutes Telat/ic.g to the assessment and tnxes for school purposes, and to add two new sections to be ' known ns stations 229a and 22&b." approved Dec. 24. 1S90. Joint resolution 'to authorize and require the State board of control to pay from the dispensary fund to the com missioner c* the sinking fund $2.O37.S0. balance expenses incurred and paid by scOd commissioners in maintaining a suit whereby the board of trol held <t'he use and possession oi Agricultural ball, j Act to provide -for an additional clerk in. the oiTi-ce of tho comptroller general. Act to -cor.firm -the incorporation in; - nc -nn rs-irrtlir 1 m.l North tins m-iic v/i ...v, >. _ western Railway eom-panv and to <leficTvts powers. .Jcir.it ret-c'.ntlcn to authorize The committee on legislative library to distribute among colleges and histoid-j col societies surplus copies of acts and ' other publications of the State. | Act to amend an-act entitled "An act to amend n act approved the 17th day of February, A. D. 1897. entitled An act 'to provide the pupils attend-! Sng the free pu'bl'ic schools with school I I I text-books at actual cost.'" apprwH 21st day of February. A. D. 1S98-. A-4 to nrov:> for the completion of the \Vir.,ihrop Xornul and Industrial college of South Carolina, a:: 1 ;> appropriate money for the same. Act making it unhv.ful for any municipal officer to take a contract for work for the imin'eipa.1 corporation of which he is an officer, and to provide a penalty for violation of this act. Act to authenize an 1 p. rm.it the creation o: a monument to the women of the Confederacy on the State -hotee grounds. Act to provide for the erection of monuments on the battlefield cf Chioka manga. to the valor and heroism of South Carolina soldiers. Act ro amend an act entitled "An ?c: to provide for the corporation of towns of less than one thousand inu .1.onnr/iwl M ilch !?ll \ I). iii?; i .t n i.c, i?|? wi v . v ?. . _ 1S9G. by adding thereto :i new section, to be known as section 22. Act to anion 1 section 1114 of the revise.! statutes of 1S93. which prescribes the general paweis cf the lio-ril of visitors of the Santa Carolina uMilitarv academy. so > io give the slid board the powers cf conferring the degree of bachelor of sciences. Act to regulate the granting of bail oy magistrates. Act to regulate the granting of trail !>y magistrates. Art to provide for the completion of the State house. Act to amend an act entitled "An act to prevent drunkenness and shooting upon the highways," approved 3d March. 1890. making the same more specific. Aoi to adjust certain indebtedness between the United States and the State of South Carolina as to certain bonus and claims due by the one and the other. Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons, providing a penalty therefor and incorporating a court for the violation of the same iu indictments' for murder, manslaughter. assault and assault and battery of high an4 aggravated nature, astault and assault and battery with intent to kill, and in every rase where the crime is charged to have been committed with a deadly weapon," approved the IT.h day ?: February, A. D. 1S.97. so as to except peaee officers in the actual discharge a! their duties as peace officers from the provisions thereof. Act to authorize the commissioners of the sinking fund to lend funds to the county hoard of commissioners of .Marlboro county to build a new jail for soiid county and -to authorize taid board to pledge the special tax levy to secure the payment of the same. Act to provide for the assessment for taxation of railroad property which has been on the tax books for the years in which they have been off the tax books, and to fix the time when such taxes .-hall become due and for the collection thereof. Ac: :o regulate the catching, gathering. sale, export or earning of oysters, clams and terra pine, to declare tae law in reference thereto and to abclih the office of terrapin inspector, as herein provided. Act 'Co amend an act entitled "An act to require all railroads and railroad companies operating trains and doing 'business in this Scale to provide and operate separate apartments in coaches for the accommodation and transportation of white and colored passengers in the State," approved the 19th day of February, A. I). 1S9S. Act to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate the holding of inquests by coroners and trial justices, approved December 24, 1894. Act to require clerks to satisfy of record certain mortgages of real estate and to prescribe the form. Act to establish a reform.!tory in connection with the State penitentiary. Act to amend section 919 general statutes, being section S70 revised statutes, pr evicting for a State board of medi'cal exaaoiners, so as to provide also for a homeopathic board of medical examiners. Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act in relation to the proof of r^-nmted intruments other tban wills," approved 21st February. 1S9S. Act relating to the duties of sheriffs to establish a new school district in Georgetown county and to authorize t.he levy and collection o' a local tax therein," approve 1 December 24, A. D. 1S85, as amende 1 bv an act approved December 24. A. 1). ISS7. so as to provide that the tru tecs appointed by the State superintendent cf educ ation shall 1>e ccmmii-ioned by him. and to repeal conflicting acts as to this <11 s-, trier. Joint resolutions proposing an amendment to the constitution of the Sc.ite o! South Carolina to be known as article I. of amendment, to coaslitucion. to authorize and empower the general assembly to provide by law for the condemnation and c quSfcable assess-, ment of lands for drainage purposes. ( Act to pro\:de for the incorporation cf religious, educational, social, fi t. terrral. or charitable, churches, lodge societies, associations, cr companies, and for amending the charter of those already formed and to 'be formed. \r? to renuire me burning or burial of any dead swine whenever death shall result frcm any natural cause and to provide a penalty for any failure so to do. Act to provide a means whereby any purchaser in this State of commercial fertilizers or manures may have the same analyzed by Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical college free of costs, and to provide a penalty for <le- j livering fertilizers cf manures short in ingredients appearing on sack or vessel holding same. Act to regulate the drawing of mon- i ey from the Stats treasury appropriatej | ed 'to State institutions. Act to require railrond corporations, I where two or more lines enter or pxss 1 | through -the corporate limits of any i city or town in this State, to build i connecting tracks for the inter. h>urge, j and delivery of cars and freights. A a to anion.1 section 1 of an act entitled "An act to define the rights of the sinking fund commission as : > unpaid tax claims and forfeited and other lands in the control of said commission. and for the management of t.he s.-.me and the disposition of other asi sot-." approved 18th day of Ftihruary, j 189$. Act relating to State colleges. ! Joint resolution to provide for the j purchase of SO copies of each of the t wo volumes of the history of tlie State i t > wit: "The History of South Caro: lina under the Proprietary government ii:t<?_ 1 ~i ? " nii-1 "The H'rtrrrv of South i Carolina under the Royal government 1719-1770." by Edward MvCrady, pu'o: lished by the McMillan company of Now York, and 50 copies of th^ colonial and revolutionary history cf uppci South Carolina by J. B. O. Landrum and authorize and direct the ecmp! troller general to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer 'to pay for the same. Aft to provide for State insurance for public 'buildings. Act to -define the ditties of sheriffs in ! oases of escaped convicts. I Act to amend an act entitled "An j act to amend an act to provide for the adoption of legitimate children and al| lowing rhtm to inherit." Act to make appropriations to meet ' the ordinary expenses of the State government for the fiscal year commencing January 1. 1900. I Act to make appropriations for the i payment cf the per diem and mileage i and stationery certificates of the nie-mi bers of the general assembly, and sal-, i ar'fa of the subordinate officers and ' employes t'aereof and .for other purposes herein named, j Act to amend an act entitled "An ; .. >? -> ip the county govern! znent of the various counties of shi.j c ? .e." approved t?th day of March, ls99. Act relating to fees and salaries o* 1 county officers of the several counties ; of thos State. Act to amend the militia laws of the State. Act to raise supplies and make appropriations for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 1900. Telegraphic Briefs. The Virginia Legislature has made June :l, Jefferson Davis' birthday, a le- I gal ho'iday in Virginia. Caught in a snow-slide near Eureka. i Col.. Chris Ihm-cn. one of the owners ! of the Lucky Friend Mine, va- swept to his death. Ferdinand Bacr was sentenced a! New York Saturday to t'u years' imprisonment for killing Edward It. . Milinuuii, it iir^iu auiik iiuu a: - . ti-'tTom Hammond and C. C. Geaiy were arrested at Jacksonville, Fla.. , charged with murdering the three members of the Roberts family ten days ago. and with robbing them of $10,000. The New York City Board of Estimate has annulled the Street Cleaning ; Commissioners' contract with '/. F. , Magill for the disposal of garbage, and ! has appropriated $149.1 So to purchase his crematory plant. G. W. Bliek. a merchant at Emporia. Va.. was murdered by an unknown man for $140. of which he was robbed. ' Pretty Ribbon BeltA rihhoii ln'Jt passed throti*;]i a hand- ' >i.me round or <;I?]?mvr lotekle at tin back the rihhons tied either at the sMe or at the left of the front in a Mitart looking 1 ?ir- etoire how is stili a favoreil liuish to lite waists of dotal dress jjowns. Iii 1 yin?; the rihhon tlulu tlanl still lilted is to form somewhat Ion;; loops standini: upwards, wiiu corresponding loops helow tin* waist. ' These look host when slightly iiTojru !;ir in length. Attention to such details may scciii unnecessary, hut in reality they are not unimportant. Much more depend^ on iritles of this sort in ilie general effort of a gown than might he supposed. It is the French woman's appreciation of the minor details of her toilet. 110 matter how tritljug. tSirti has endowed her emuitrywomen with the well-deserve*! reputation of belli;; the best-dressed women in the world. l?e sin- parlor maid or princess, she is sure to in daintily and charmingly attired. The Irish Agricultural Or mnizatioit Boeioty is a so doty of philauthrojiic men and women fo tie- j>r motion of j co-operation among the Irish farmers. The society does not eont.ihute to the expense of sustaining the cooperative organizations or supply i their dire tor- or managers, but il . does pay the eost of original organ izntion. iiiclnnmg the literature and ! the serv'ces ? f an organizer. As the i icsuli < f the work of the society there J were at the dare <f the last annual in eting 412 societies, with 40.00d members. The majority of these ! farmers' societies . re probably cream- j tries, but there are companies tor al- i nnst all rural purposes, including mark* ting societies, co-operative ?t. r* s anil co-oi erative banks. The work is effecting a great change in the habits of Ir.sh fanners and in | their financial condition. I w X / COMMISSION CALLED. Arrangements to Complete Stale CapT- j f to! Being Pert ctcd. There is to he no unnecessary <!el ty In tiie preliminaries ti starting tbe q work upon the completion of riie Slate -. capital. The commission appoint".! j under tie: nrem a-r r.' the general a a- 0 ser.ibly to ink" ' ? weil* i:i hand and ^ carry it through, a ' ipg in r.?r,j:in?'t'i n , with .he sinking t'liiut < tinimis.-uon. to get to work forthwith. ,, ( i Friday Gov. MnSweoney, who ,.. chairman cf beta commissions, issued a rail tor .i meeting tf ih" State hour-p | comir'.-sit;:: io ix; heal on \Vedr."~?Liy \ r; at 11 a. :n. in the cx?ru;tv< chamber. ia Tlie commission is composed of the ^ irrnnniAr t!.r> ? v f>" Si.lie Sfll- ' * n ,.... ........... I( ator Marshall ami Representatives j ti.iiiit and Patten. I ], Several members of the commission, | it is understood, ha/e about deter mined tj i ro -e- ! regularly as the ;.et | directs, and :-rc.n t think that if tiuic ; is any cl the loyal q?ie:-tioi-? n ja cently raiv.i about tiie :,",nk:ni.' money. It Is a matter between the !$< legislature and the bondholders, and d that it is no: the province of the board , S to carry the matter :o the court: that | r< the board should do as directed by its h creator, and if any question is to he !? laised, the bondholders should rais-> it. ri A careful investigation o! the sink- v ing fund's hooks shows that even if v t'no Irwrvtm? nf tho. mnnpv se* aside for *>' the retirement of the beads and stocks gets lied up in the courts, there is in ( the hands of the sinking fund com-|( missioners yabout $25,000, passib! '? more, that lias no relation whatever to c the security of the bonds, and this can j.' be loaned without any question what- j, ever and used to carry on the work necessary to be done during the re- \ maunder of this year. So it would seem that: no matter '' P what turn the questions presented j might take in the courts, tf any l>on:l hoiJer is inclined to carry them there, r; the work will go ahead and at leas: a a good beginning will have been made '' by the time the general assembly j meets next January. TV, R..IU o i v uuiiu a i\u:ii uau. , ^ .Showing how one county of the , C S;.i.e is to us? its convicts, the follow-) ins recent act of the legislature is of r interest: 1 3 Section 1. That on and after the ap- f< proval of this act by the governor, fi whenever in their judgment it shall he c fcr the ibest interests of the county of a Chesterfield, the county board of cent- a missioocrs of said county shall-have n the power and authority to us? the : c <haingang of said county, or any por:io:i thereof, in the grading and con- t -a sanction of the railroad bed of the 1 11 Chesterfield and Lancaster railroa I li company within the limits of sai l o county: Provided. That the sal i com o pan* sit all furnish all necessary ma- ' l< terial and tools for said construction, > n and shall feed, clc-chc, maintain and ci securely keen said chaincang while i o employed as aforesaid without ox- j n pense to the county. I ii Sec. 2. The sheriff of Chesterfield j county shall turn over to the Chester- j t field and Lancaster Railroad company j ti any prisoners sentenced to the chain- | r sans in said county in his custody, for tl employment as mentioned in section i j ti of thjs art. upon the order of the j ti county board of commissioners of said 1) county, through the supervisor. i n Sec. 3. That all acrts and parts <>.' i acts in; jn.-istent with this art be. and ! f( are hereby, repealed. J c The secretary of State has re- j p ceived notice of the increase of the ; P capital stock of the Anderson ccttoi i t( mills of Anderson from $.">00,000 tc | ii $000,000. This makes nearly a quar- , v ter million new capital projected It I c< cotton mills in tiie last two days. i d A cotntnissica has been issued to tin si Latta Co-operative Tobacco company i tl of Latta. The capital stock is to 1) ! $::.l"00. The corporator.? are Willis n Bethea, 1?. M. Dew. .1. J. Bethea. E. (1 C. Allen. N. B. George, Fink!: a Bro- c< "tlicrs and L. H. Smith, all cf Lot; a r< Henry Brig nun was kill: J Friday si morning by Will Mad d ox a. McOoli. o: l.cth were night mill hinds and had j n been unfriendly, though first cousins. Ji As they came from work M add ox it struck Brigman in the head with a ! ei stick, from the effects of which he j ei died in an hour. ! cl At the commencement exercises r>! | M Furman I'liiver.-lty this summer 3am-; ft uel E. Mc-Fadrlen. of Chester, will be as the alumni orator and the Rev*. Dr. ir David M. Ramsey, or Charleston, will p: deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Tha j new alumni hall will be dedicated in ei convmencement week. b: 5 Killed at a Fire. j Qi Philadelphia, 1'a., Special. One \vo? 21 01 man was killed, several persons se- j a( rlously iujnml. and a half million do!- tr lars of property destroyed by fire which r broke out in the heart of the whole- j vl sale millinery district. The burned j rf area covered nearly two acres. Clara ^ Cohen. 23 years of age. a seamstress jr in the employ of Harris and Bernard ! ei Cohen, met her death by jumping from rf the fifth floor of the building in which j ol the fire started. The burned out es- ; tablishments were mostly in millinery ! a< and fur dealing business. | ti i <- ' ' ''; ? JIM CROW LAW. :uH Text of the Caughman Bill Recently Passed. Following is the text of <Mr. B. L. aug'iirnan's law to require railroads to peiato separate coaches for the races: S< ction 1. Be it enacted -by the genral assembly of the State of Soutii arolina. That tlie title of said act 1X9V> he, and the same is hereby, mended by striking out after the orris "separate coaches" the words or separate apartments in coaches," a that the same shall read a3 follows: An act to require all railroads ami lilrond companies operating trains nd doing business in this State to rovide and operate separate coaches 3r the accommodation and fcransporltfou of white and colored passengers 3 the State." Sec. 2. That section 1 of said act be. , nd the same is hereby, amended by triking out after the word "furnish," a said seetion, -the words "separate purtmenta in iirst-ciass coaches or ?parate first coaches," so itiat the said ?etion shall read: Section 1. Be it iiacted by the general assembly of the t:ttP of South Carolina, That all rail nads and railroa<l companies engaged ii this State as common carriers of assengers for hire shall furnish sepaite roaches for the accommodation of .iiite and colored passengers. Proi.icd. Equal accommodations tshall be applied to all persons without distinction of race, color or previous condiion, in such coaches: Provided, furher, That all first-class coaches shail e provided with a compartment at ach end of such coaches, said comartment shall be provided with seass ir three or more persons, on one comartraont shall be printed the words. For Females" and on the other "For bales." Sec. 3. That sections 2 and 6 of said ct he. and the same are hereby, reealed; so that as amended said act hall read: "An act to require all railroads and lilroad companies operating trains nd doing business in this State to rovidc and operate separate coaches or the accommodation and transpori:ion of white and colored passengers l the State. Section 1. "Be it enacted by the genral assembly of the State of South 'arolina: "Section 1. That all railroads and ailroad companies engaged in this tate as common camera 01 passenger:* )T hire siiiall furnish separate coaches or the accommodation of white and dored passengers: Provided, Equal ccommodations shall he supplied to II person*, without distinction of race, ulor or previous condition, in such uaehes. "Sec. 'J. That the provisions of this c-t shall not apply to nurses on trains, or to narrow gauge roads or branch ? ines nor roads under 40 in length, r to relief trains in ease of accident, r to through vestibule trains not in?nded or used for local travel, nor to frnio-Vit trains with n n.issenerer Bach attached for local travel, nor to Hirers or guards t<raDsportati<ng prisoers, or lunitics, nor to prisoners or inaticc being so transported. "Sec. 3. That 60 days from and after he approval of this act the rate of -aniportation of passengers on all ailroads to which the provisions of his act shall apply shall not exceed hrec cents per mile for every mile aveled; and such railroads shall not e required to have second-class Baches or to sell second-class tickets. "See. 4. That it shall be unlawful >r the officers or the employes having harge of suoh railroad cats as are rovided for by this act to allow or ermit white and colored passengers ) occupy the same car, except as herel permitted and allowed; and for a iolation of this section any such offl?r or employe shall be guilty of a misemeauor and, on conviction thereof, hall be punished by a fine of not less tan $25 nor more than $100. "Sec. 5. That any passenger re mining in said car other than prov!rd for hini, after request by the ofti;r or'employe in charge of said car to ;mo\*e into the ear provided for him, lall be guilty of a mL-akmieanor, and, n conviction thereof, ' shall be fined ot less than $25 nor more than $10. urisdiction of such offenses shall be l the county in which the same ocurs. The conductor and any and ah oiployes on such cars are hereby lothed with power to eject from the > nv naajonTop wh-rv PA <4111 VI V (I * .liij j/tw'w.ox,. lses to remain in such car as may be signed or provided for him, or to relove from a car not so as-signed and rovidcd. "See. f?. That in case the coach for iiher. white or coloivd passengers sould )>e full of passengers and nother coach cannot be procured at ie time, then the conductor in c'hargt* f the train shall be, and he is hereby, ithorizeil to set apart so much of the ther coach as may be necessary to ^commodate the passengers on said uin. "Sec. 7. Should any rail-road or railed company, its agents or employes. iolate the provisions of Wis act, such lilroad or railroad company shall be able to a penalty of not more than >00 nor less than $300, for each vioition. to be collected by suit of any tizen of the State, and the penalty (covered shall, after paying all proper e-; and costs, go into the general fund ' the State Treasury. "Sec. 8. That all acta and parts of its inconsistent with this act be, and le same are hereby, repealed." tf