A. D. 1882. No. 600. Powers and AN ACT TO RENEW, REVIVE. AND EXTEND THE CHARTER OF SECTION 1. Be 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 the charter of the Marion Academy Society, be, and the same is hereby, revived and renewed and continued in existence until privileges vested, repealed; and that all the rights, powers, and privileges be vested in said Society as heretofore provided by law; that the following named persons are hereby made corporators of said Society, to wit: C. D. Evans, J. M. Johnson, J. C. Mullins, W. J. Montgomery, John G. Blue, M. Iseman, Henry Clark, J. T. Walsh, and F. D. Jones, and their successors who shall have authority To act under to take possession of the property of said Society, and deal with laws adopted. the same, as well as all other property, rights, and assets to which the said Society may be hereafter entitled according to such rules and by-laws as a majority may adopt. Corporators. rules and by SEC. 2. That this Act shall be deemed and taken as a public Act, and take effect from its approval. In the Senate House, the eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. J. D. KENNEDY, President of the Senate. J. C. SHEPPARD, Speaker House of Representatives. Approved February 9th, A. D. 1882. JOHNSON HAGOOD, Governor. No. 601. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE SOUTH CAROLINA PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. SECTION 1. Be 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 Corporators. D. G. MacRae, John F. McLaurin, W. A. Hinshaw, R. J. Tatum, L. D. Hamer, J. F Everett, C. S. McCall, H. H. Newton, Kenox Livingston, W. C. Coker, H. D. Malloy, and J. T. Hay, their successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the South Carolina Pacific Railway Company, with the general rights and powers incident to such corporations, under the laws of this State. SEC. 2. That the South Carolina Pacific Railway Company A. D. 1882. shall have power to construct a railroad, with one or more tracks, Route of railway. from any point on the North Carolina line to Bennettsville, thence to Florence, or by or near Society Hill, or Cheraw, to Columbia, thence to any point on the Georgia line in Edgefield County, the route to be determined by a majority of the Board of Directors and corporators. SEC. 3. The capital stock of said Company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to five millions dollars, if so much be necessary to complete the road, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and the corporators above named are hereby authorized to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said Company, and organize the same at such time and in such manner as they may deem advisable, to be determined by the majority of the corporators, and may begin work whenever twenty-five thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to said capital stock. Capital stock. Right to con SEC. 4. That said Company when organized shall have the right to consolidate with any other railroad corporation upon solidate such terms as a majority of the corporators and Board of Direc tions. tors shall determine. other with corpora SEC. 5. That the Company hereby created shall have all the powers, rights, and privileges consistent with its purposes, and Powers, rights, and privileges the limitations hereinbefore prescribed, granted by the charter conferred. of the Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad Company by an Act passed by the General Assembly of South Carolina, approved February 18, 1878, being Act No. 350, of the 16th Vol. Statutes at Large, except that the time for the commencement of work on the said road, and for the completion of the same, contained in the 8th Section of said charter, shall not apply to the Company chartered hereby: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt said corporation from Not exempt taxation under the laws of this State. In the Senate House, the eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. J. D. KENNEDY, President of the Senate. J. C. SHEPPARD, Speaker House of Representatives. Approved February 9th, A. D. 1882. JOHNSON HAGOOD, Governor. from taxation, 20 A&JR A. D. 1882. No. 602. Greenwood subscribe five and 1883 if voted AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CHARTER THE GREENWOOD, LAURENS AND SPARTANBURG RAILROAD COM- Be 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 an Act entitled "An Act to charter the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad Company, and to repeal an Act entitled 'An Act to charter the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartanburg Railroad Company,' approved February 20, 1880," be, and the same is hereby amended by adding after the sixteenth Section of said Act the following Sections, to wit: "SEC. 17. That the provisions of the 6th Section of said Act Township may shall not apply to Greenwood Township, in Abbeville County, mill tax for 1882 but that it shall be lawful for said township to subscribe to the by township. capital stock of said Railroad Company such sums of money as may be collected from a levy of 5 mill tax for two consecutive years upon all the taxable real and personal property in said township, to wit, for the years 1882 and 1883: Provided, A majority of the legal voters of said township shall authorize and direct said subscription and levy by an election held according to the provisions of said Act. "SEC. 18. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions. of said 17th Section, the said Greenwood Township is hereby Election to be declared to be a body politic and corporate, and, upon the petitwenty-five tion of twenty-five qualified voters of said township, the County thirty days' no- Commissioners of Abbeville County are hereby directed and re held on petition of voters, tice. after quired to submit to the qualified voters of said township the question of subscription or no subscription; the said County Commissioners shall give thirty days' notice of the said election by publication in the nearest newspaper, and by notices posted in at least three public places in said township, appoint managers without compensation, who shall conduct said election at the regular elections precincts appointed by law, and the said voting shall be by ballot. Those voting for subscription shall vote a ballot upon which is printed or written the word “Subscription," and those voting against subscription shall vote a ballot on which shall be written or printed the words "No Subscription." A. D. 1882. Returns to be "SEC. 19. It shall be the duty of the managers at their respective precincts to count the ballots at the close of the polls, declare the result, and return certificates of the result of the made to County same to the Chairman of the said Board of County Commissioners for Abbeville County. Commissioners. "SEC. 20. That should a majority of the ballots be cast for Time and mode subscription, the said Chairman of the Board of County Com- of collecting tax. missioners for said County shall give due notice thereof to the County Treasurer of Abbeville County, whose duty it shall be thereupon to collect the amount of said subscription at the regular times and places of collecting State and County taxes; that is to say, the said Treasurer shall collect the amount subscribed, for the year 1882, to said Railroad Company, at the same time of collecting the State and County taxes for 1881, and the amount subscribed to the said Railroad Company for 1883, at the same time of collecting the State and County taxes for 1882; and the same penalties and forfeitures for non-payment of the same shall attach as for non-payment of State and County taxes; and for the collection of said taxes the said Treasurer shall be allowed such reasonable compensation as Compensation may be authorized and fixed by the Board of County Commis- be fixed by Counsioners of the County of Abbeville. of Treasurer to ty Commission ers. Money paid to President. to Trustees. "SEC. 21. The County Treasurer shall pay over upon the order of the President of the Greenwood, Laurens and Spar- Treasurer of comtanburg Railroad Company, to the Treasurer of said Company, pany on order of the money collected by virtue of the levy aforesaid, and the President of said Railroad Company shall issue certificates of Certificates of stock in said Railroad Company to trustees selected by the tax-stock to be issued payers of said Greenwood Township, who shall hold the same for the benefit of said township, and subject to the direction of the voters of the same. That the amount subscribed by said township, as provided for, shall be expended in grading and, Subscription to constructing the said Railroad from Greenwood to Saluda grading road. River. In the Senate House, the eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. J. D. KENNEDY, President of the Senate. J. C. SHEPPARD, Speaker House of Representatives. Approved February 9th, A. D. 1882. be expended in JOHNSON HAGOOD, Governor. A. D. 1882. No. 603. Portion of Lex AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION XI. OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO Be 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 XI. of an Act entitled "An Act to provide a General Stock Law and regulate the operations of the same," be amended by adding to said Section the words "and so much of Lexington County as ington County lies between the Broad and Saluda Rivers," so that said Section excepted. shall hereafter read: "that this Act shall take effect on the first day of April, 1882, except in the Counties of Charleston, Beaufort, Aiken, Lexington, Colleton, Hampton, Orangeburg, Chesterfield and Williamsburg, in which Counties this Act shall go into effect on the first day of October, A. D. 1882: Provided, Stock of ex- That the stock of any inhabitant of the said Counties shall be cepted Counties liable to the penalties of this Act if found straying without the liable to penalties of Act. limits of the said Counties: Provided further, That the above of exception shall not apply to so much of Aiken County as is inAiken County cluded in the Township of Schultz, so much of the Township o Hammond as lies between the Hamburg Road and Savannah River, and the Township of Silverton: and so much of Lexington County as lies between the Broad and Saluda Rivers. And Additional por- also, so much of Lexington County as is included between the ton County ex-line of Edgefield County, and a line commencing at the Edge Portions ⚫xcepted. tions of Lexing copted. field County line, near James Fulmer's, running thence to the old Hollow Creek road near Uriah Crout's, thence to Mrs. Rebecca Bar's, near Concord Church, thence a straight line to St. Peter's Church, thence to Hallman's Mill Creek Bridge, on Bethel road, thence up Bethel road to where Edgefield and Aiken Counties join. In the Senate House, the eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. J. D. KENNEDY, President of the Senate. J. C. SHEPPARD, Speaker House of Representatives. Approved February 9th, A. D. 1882. JOHNSON HAGOOD, Governor. |