The Daily Phoenix

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1872.

SENATE.

The Senate met at 12 M., President Ransier in the Chair.

The following bills were passed: To incorporate the Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, of Kingstree; to incorporate the Provident Land and Real Estate Company, of Charleston: to charter the Walhalla Female College; to relieve the State of South Carolina of all liability for its guaranty of the bonds of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company, by providing for the securing and destruction of the same.

The Governor sent to the Senate, with his approval, the following Acts: To re-charter the ferry over the Combahee River known as the Combahee Ferry; to provide for the speedy apportionment of State appropriations made for the support and maintenance of free common schools; to change the name of William Nathaniel Martin, and to make him one of the legal heirs of his father; to incorporate the Springfield Baptist Church, of the town of Greenville; to amend an Act entitled "An Act to charter the Yemassee and Millen Railroad Company;" to authorize the County Commissioners of Barnwell County to establish a public road from Branker's Bridge, via the town of Graham and House Ford, across the Big Saltkatchie Swamp, in the vicinity of Rush's Mill, to intersect the Buford Bridge-and Barnwell Road at that point; to authorize aliens to hold property; to revive and renew the charter and corporate privileges of the Trustees of the Bennettsville Academical Society: to require the County Commissioners to remove imbeciles from the Lunatic Asylum to their respective County Poor Houses; to revive, amend and extend the charter of the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Smyrna, in Newberry County; to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Columbia, Walterboro and Yemassee Railroad Company;" to regulate pilotage at the ports of Charleston. Beaufort and Georgetown; joint resolution authorizing the State Treasurer to purchase a set of fire and burglar proof doors for the vault in his office.

The Clerk of the Senate was authorized to draw a pay certificate for $5,000 on account of printing during the present session.

The Senate concurred in the amendment to the concurrent resolution to adjourn sine die on the 7th of March.

At 3 P. M., the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, at 12 M.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The House met at 12 M., Speaker Moses in the Chair.

Mr. Simons introduced a bill to renew the charter of the "Darekh Ameth," or Path of Duty Society of Columbia.

Also, concurrent resolution, recommending the removal of the political disabilities of James D. Tradewell, Esq., by the United States Congress.

Mr. S. J. Lee-Joint resolution authorizing the purchase of a suitable building in the town of Hamburg for the use of the Ninth Regiment State National Guards.

The Governor returned to the House with his approval, the following Acts: To amend an Act to incorporate the town of Cokesbury; to incorporate the Brotherly Association of Charleston; to change the names of Lee Abrams, John Abrams, Dunklin Abrams and Mary Abrams, to Lee Ferguson, John Ferguson, Dunklin Ferguson and Mary Ferguson, respectively, and to permit Chas. M. Ferguson to adopt them and make them his lawful heirs.

Sundry bills were taken up from the calendar, read the second time and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

A concurrent resolution from the Senate, to adjourn sine die on the 29th instant, was amended by the insertion of March 7. Adopted and returned to the Senate.

The following bills were read the third time and passed: To amend sundry sections of the code of procedure relating to the County Courts; to charter the Spartanburg and Port Royal Railroad Company; to incorporate the Florence, Bennettsville and Fayetteville Railroad Company; to incorporate the Reedy River Baptist Church, of Greenville County; to incorporate the Deutschen Bunderlicher Bund, of the city of Charleston: to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of Trial Justices;" to amend an Act entitled "An Act to extend the limits of the town of Camden,

At 3 P. M., the House took a recess until 7 P. M.