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they may deem just and proper, and it shall be the duty of the said Re- A. D. 1853. porter to attend in person or by deputy, the sittings of the Courts of Appeals and Errors in Columbia and Charleston, and to report such arguments and statements of facts as may be necessary to a correct understanding of the decisions of the said Courts; for the pay of Jurors and Constables, forty thousand dollars, if so much be necessary.

IV. In the Treasury Department: For the salary of the Comptroller General, two thousand dollars; for the salary of the Clerk of the Comptroller General, seven hundred and fifty dollars, the said Clerk to be appointed and removable at the pleasure of the Comptroller General; for the salary of the Treasurer of the Lower Division, and for transacting the business of the Loan Office, and for Clerk hire, two thousand dollars; for the salary of the Treasurer of the Upper Division, and for Clerk hire, sixteen hundred dollars; for the Assessor of St. Philip's and St. Michael's for making out and affixing assessments of each return, eight hundred dollars. V. For the South Carolina College: For the salary of the President of the College, three thousand dollars; for the salaries of seven Professors of the College, two thousand five hundred dollars each, for the salary of the Treasurer of the College, five hundred dollars; for the salary of the Librarian of the College, six hundred dollars; for the salary of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, two hundred dollars; for the salary of the Marshal, four hundred dollars the salaries of the President, Professors, Treasurer and Librarian to be paid by the Treasurer of the Upper Division, quarterly in advance, their draft being countersigned by the Treasurer of the College; for the purchase of books for the College Library, two thousand dollars, to be paid to the draft of the President of the College, countersigned by the Treasurer of the same; for the expenses of one student at the South Carolina College, sent by the Orphan House in Charleston, four hundred dollars, to be paid to the order of the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Orphan House.

VI. For the Ordinary Civil Expenses: For the payment of the contingent accounts of the Upper Division, twenty-five thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; for the payment of the contingent accounts of the Lower Division, twenty-four thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; for the Commissioner, to be appointed by the Governor, to superintend the public works, one hundred and fifty dollars; for the payment of pensions and annuities, three thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; for the payment of such claims as shall be admitted by the Legislature, at its present session, seven thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; for the support of

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A. D. 1858. free schools, seventy-four thousand four hundred dollars, if so much be necessary, to be distributed among the several districts in the State in the proportion of six hundred dollars to each Representative in the popular branch of the Legislature; for the education of the Deaf and Dumb and of the Blind, five thousand dollars, if so much be necessary, to be paid to the Commissioners in the same manner as the appropriation heretofore made; for refunding taxes, as directed by the reports of the Committee of Ways and Means and of Finance, and agreed to by the Legislature, three hundred dollars, if so much be necessary; for the payment of such other claims or demands on the State, as may be allowed by the General Assembly upon the reports of other Committees, one thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; for compensation, according to the Act of eighteen hundred and forty-three, for slaves executed, two thousand dollars, if so much be necessary...

VII. For Military Expenditures: For the salaries of the following officers, Military ex- viz: Adjutant and Inspector General, two thousand five hundred dollars; penditures. Arsenal Keeper at Charleston, one thousand dollars; Afsenal Keeper and Powder Receiver at Columbia, at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum; Physician of the Jail and Magazine Guard at Charleston, five hundred dollars; and for the support of the Arsenal and Military School at Charleston, sixteen thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; for the support of the Arsenal and Military School at Columbia, eight thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; and the Arsenal School at Columbia, and Citadel School at Charleston, shall be under the direction of the Board of Visitors of said School, so that their support shall not exceed the appropriations respectively, to be drawn and accounted for to the Legislature by the said Board of Visitors; for the military account, as agreed to by both branches of the Legislature, one hundred dollars, if so much be necessary; for the military contingencies, five thousand dollars, to be drawn and accounted for as directed by the Legislature; for defraying the expenses of Artillery Companies throughout the State, fifteen hundred dollars, if so much be necessary, to be drawn and applied in the manner prescribed by the Act in relation to that subject; for the Quartermaster General, five hundred dollars; for the services of the Secretary of State, during the ensuing year, for all services in issuing all military commissions, and in lieu of any charge against the State for commissions for civil offices, eight hundred dollars, to be paid as other salaries are directed to be paid by law; for additional appropriation for the support of Military Academies at Charleston and Columbia, three thousand dollars; for the purpose of paying the account

of Glaze & Radcliffe, as recommended in the report of the Committee on A. D. 1853. the Military, to be drawn and expended as set forth in the same, and in the resolutions appended, nine thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; for repairing arms and Arsenal purposes in Charleston and Columbia, two thousand dollars.

VIII. For Ordinary Local Expenditures: For the support of the transient poor at Charleston, four thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid to the City Council of Charleston, and accounted for by them to the Legislature; for the salary of the Port Physician in Charleston, including boat hire and other incidental expenses, eight hundred dollars; for the execution of the quarantine laws at Charleston, one thousand dollars, if so much be necessary, to be paid to the City Council of Charleston, and expended under their direction; for the salary of the Superintendent of the Fire Proof Building in Charleston during the present year, one hundred dollars; for the support of the transient poor of Georgetown, five hundred dollars, to be expended by the Commissioners of the Poor of Winyaw, to be accounted for by them to the Legislature; for the salary of the Pilot of the Harbor and Bar of Georgetown, three hundred and twenty dollars; for aiding the support of a ferry on Elliott's Cut, two hundred dollars, subject to the order of the Commissioners of Roads for Saint Andrew's Parish.

IX. For the support of the Catawba Indians, two thousand dollars, if so much be necessary, to be paid to the order of the Indian Agent, and to be expended under the direction of the Governor.

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X. For Public Buildings: To complete the new jail at Abbeville, six Public buildthousand four hundred and fifty dollars; to build a new jail in Charleston, thirty thousand dollars, to build a new jail at Chesterfield Court House, six thousand dollars; to build a new jail at Walterboro', ten thousand dollars; to complete the jail and purchase a lot for the same at Newberry, one thousand dollars; to enlarge the Court House at Georgetown, five thou sand dollars; to enlarge Court House at Lancaster, four thousand dollars; to enlarge Court House at Darlington, four thousand dollars; to enlarge Court House at Lexington, three thousand dollars; to enlarge Court House at Williamsburg; five thousand dollars. The several amounts to be expended by the Boards of Commissioners of the several Districts respectively, and to be accounted for by them at the Treasury. And the Commissioners of Public Buildings for Colleton District are hereby authorized and empowered to sell the old jail and the lot of land attached thereto, and to apply the proceeds of sale to the purchase of another lot for the new jail, the said Commissioners to execute titles for the old jail and lot, possession of them

A. D. 1853. not to be delivered until the new jail is completed and ready for use. The title to the new lot purchased to be approved by the Solicitor of the Southern Circuit.

XI. For Extraordinary Expenses: For deepening the Sullivan's Island Extraordina- Channel of the Port of Charleston, four thousand dollars per month, (subry expenses, ject to the draft of the Commission on the Survey of Charleston Harbor,)

out of any moneys in the Treasury, which shall arise from dividends on the railway shares of the State; for the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars; to enable the Trustees of the Charleston College to improve and extend their buildings, four thousand dollars; for the Lunatic Asylum, one hundred dollars, to be expended by the Regents in the purchase of books and a map of the State, for the use of the inmates.

In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord

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one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and in the seventy-eighth year

of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.

ROBT. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate.
JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives.

No. 4128. AN ACT TO RENEW AND AMEND THE CHARTERS OF CERTAIN TOWNS AND VILLAGES HERETOFORE INCORPORATED.

I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That Town of the Aet incorporating the Town of Edgefield, together with the amendEdgefield. ments thereto, be and the same are hereby revived and extended, and the said town shall have and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges heretofore granted.

II. That the Act incorporating the Town of Greenville be so amended Town of that the the Town Council of Greenville be and they are hereby authorGreenville. ized to compound with persons liable to patrol duty in said town, for the payment of an annual tax in lieu of the performance of such duty; to establish a guard or police, for the better security and regulation of said Town; compel owners of lots in said Town to make and keep in repair side-walks adjoining their lots wherever the same shall be deemed necessary by the said Council, and to impose a fine for the default thereof, or

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for the payment thereof; to regulate the price of licenses on all pub-
lic exhibitions in said Town; to punish slaves and free persons of color for the
violation of the ordinances of said Town; to erect a powder magazine, and
to compel any person holding more than twenty-five pounds of powder to
store the same therein, and to make regulations for rates of storage there-
for, and for keeping and delivering the same; to prevent the sale and use
of fire-crackers and fire-works in the said Town; to impose an annual tax
upon the following property in said Town, to wit: Upon all real estate, not
exceeding twenty-five cents on the value of one hundred dollars, on all perty.
slaves between the age of sixteen and fifty years, not exceeding twenty-
five cents each; on all pleasure carriages, drawn by two or more horses,
not exceeding three dollars each; on all pleasure carriages, rockaways,
buggies, or other vehicles kept for pleasure, and drawn by one horse, not
exceeding two dollars each; on all hacks, omnibuses, drays, carts, wagons,
or other vehicles: kept for hire, not exceeding ten dollars each, to be regu-
fated respectively by the said Council; to appoint three freeholders of the
said Town to assess the value of real estate therein, upon oath, and to re-
turn the same to the said Council for taxation; and to fill any vacancy oc-
casioned by the death, resignation, refusal to serve, or removal from office
otherwise of the said assessors. And that all Acts or parts of Acts in re-
lation to the Town Council of Greenville, repugnant to the enactments of
this clause, be and the same are hereby repealed.

III. That an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Town of Chester,"
passed on the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, be so amended that the Town
Council of Chester shall have power to compound with persons liable to
patrol duty upon such terms as they shall by ordinance establish; the mon-
ey so received to be applied to the purpose of supporting a night watch for
said town; and all persons refusing or failing to pay such commutation,
shall be liable to patrol duty, and for non-performance thereof, to such fines
and penalties as are now provided by law. The said Town Council of
Chester shall have power to impose a tax upon the keepers of ten pin alleys,
and to grant or refuse licenses for the same, upon such terms and condi-
tions, and subject to such regulations as they may by ordinance `establish.
They shall also have power to impose a tax, within their discretion, on all
sales made by itinerant auctioneers; on public drays, wagons, livery sta-
bles, vehicles and horses kept for hire, and on the owners or possessors of
any dog or dogs, kept within the corporate limits of said town. The said

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