The Daily Phoenix

Eighty-Third Day's Proceedings in Senate.

Thursday, March 18. The Senate was assembled.

The House returned to the Senate an Act to provide for the conversion of State securities; which was ordered to be enrolled.

The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred a House bill to regulate the granting of licenses by County Commissioners, City and Town Councils, reported back the same, with a recommendation that the bill be laid on the table.

The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred a bill to make appropriations and raise supplies for the year commencing in October, 1868, reported back the same, with a recommendation that the bill do pass, with sundry amendments, submitted by the committee.

The Committee on Engrossed Bills reported as duly and correctly engrossed, and ready for a third reading, a bill to facilitate the settlement of the affairs of the Bank of the State of South Carolina. Passed, and ordered to be sent to the House.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives attended in the Senate, when the following Acts and joint resolution were ratified: An Act to protect laborers working under contract on shares of crops; an Act to authorize the consolidation of the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad Company and the Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company, and to amend the charter of the same; an Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to regulate attachments;' an Act to amend the charter of the Sulphuric Acid and Super-phosphate Company; an Act to establish a lazaretto or quarantine hospital in the harbor of Charleston; an Act to incorporate the Longshoremen's Protective Union Association, of Charleston; an Act to establish a ferry between Hilton Head Island and the main land in Beaufort County; an Act to provide for the uniform and proper promulgation of all legal and public notices; an Act to provide for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the State; joint resolution to provide for the publication of the Acts, reports, resolutions and journals of the General Assembly.

House of Representatives.

The House met at 11 A. M.

The Committee on Engrossed Acts reported as duly and correctly engrossed, for a third reading, a bill to incorporate the South Carolina Improvement and Trust Company; which was amended, and ordered to the Senate.

Bills to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to regulate the manner of drawing jurors, and to provide for the care of the poor,' were read the third time, passed, and ordered to be sent to the Senate.

A Senate bill to determine the value of contracts made in Confederate States notes or their equivalent, was read a second time and adopted.

A bill to facilitate the settlement of the affairs of the Bank of the State of South Carolina, was read the third time, and referred.

A message was received from the Senate, that a bill to authorize the Common Council of the city of Charleston to amend an ordinance entitled 'An ordinance to aid in rebuilding the burnt district and waste places of the city of Charleston,' had been laid on the table.

After routine business, adjourned.