the same to be charged to the expense account of the State Commissioner, except as otherwise provided in this Act. SEC. 44. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 45. That wherever in this Act it is provided that process shall issue upon an affidavit based on information and belief, the affidavit shall contain a statement setting forth the sources of information, the facts and grounds of belief upon which the affiant bases his belief. SEC. 46. This Act shall not be held or construed to in any manner repeal or affect existing laws prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within certain distances of churches and schools. SEC. 47. That brewers in this State of rice beer heretofore engaged in the manufacture and sale of rice beer containing not more than two per cent. of alcohol shall be allowed thirty days from the approval of this Act to dispose of their manufactured product now on hand. SEC. 48. That Chapter 7, Title VII., of the Code of Civil Procedure of this State, entitled "Of Provisional Remedies in Ciyil Actions," shall not apply to any officer or person having duties to perform under this Act, and in no case shall an action lie against any such officer or person for damages to person or property as provided in said Chapter. SEC. 49. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its approval. Approved December 23d, A. D. 1893. No. 314. AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPLIES AND MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING NOVEMBER 1ST, 1893. 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 General levy a tax of five mills, exclusive of the public school tax hereinafter for State pur- provided for, upon every dollar of the value of all taxable property of this State, be, and the same is hereby, levied for the purpose of meeting appropriations to defray the current expenses of the Government for the fiscal year commencing November poses. 1st, 1893, and to meet such other indebtedness as has been, or shall be, provided for in the several Acts and Joint Resolutions passed by this General Assembly at the regular session of 1893 providing for the same. A. D. 1893. ty purposes. SEC. 2. That a tax is hereby levied upon all taxable property Levy for Counin each of the Counties of this State for County purposes for the fiscal year commencing November 1st, 1893, to the amounts hereinafter respectively stated, that is to say: For the County of Abbeville, for ordinary County purposes, three mills; on the taxable property of Ninety-Six Township, of one mill; for past indebtedness and deficiency of past fiscal year, of one mill. This of one mill to be levied on taxable property of Ninety-Six Township is for the purpose of paying attorney's costs and fees in the case of George W. Folsom vs. the Township of Ninety-Six. Abbeville 3% mills. For the County of Aiken, for ordinary County purposes, 24 Aiken 23⁄41⁄2 mills. mills. mills. For the County of Anderson, for ordinary County purposes, Anderson 334 two and one-half mills; for past indebtedness, one and onequarter mills; also the revenue arising from the Dispensary sales shall be applied to past indebtedness. mills. For the County of Beaufort, for ordinary County purposes, Beaufort 54 four and one-half mills; for past indebtedness, one-fourth of one mill; for roads and bridges, one mill; and the Treasurer of claim to be paid said County shall pay to the Bull River Phosphate Company their claim, amounting to two hundred and eighteen and sixtyfive one-hundredth dollars, abated taxes for the fiscal year ending November, 1892, as approved by the Comptroller-General. For the County of Chesterfield, for ordinary County purposes, five mills; for building jail, two mills. Chesterfield 7 mills. For the County of Chester, for ordinary County purposes. four and one-fourth mills; for interest on railroad bonds and retiring railroad bonds, two and one-half mills. Chester 634 mills. Clarendon 3% mills. For the County of Clarendon, for ordinary County purposes, three and one-half mills; for County Auditor, three hundred Specific approdollars; for County Commissioners and clerk, eight hundred priations. dollars; for County Treasurer's commissions, two hundred and fifty dollars; for County Board of Equalization, two hundred dollars; for jury, witnesses and Constable tickets, twelve hundred dollars; for Clerk of Court, one hundred and fifty dollars; for Sheriff, seven hundred dollars; for Trial Justices and Constables, thirteen hundred dollars; for Coroner, one hundred A. D. 1893. dollars; for Poor House, five hundred dollars; for repairs on roads and bridges, four hundred dollars; books, stationery and printing, two hundred dollars; for post mortem examinations and examining lunatics and conveying lunatics to the Asylum in Columbia, South Carolina, one hundred dollars; for Jury Commissioner and insurance, one hundred and sixty dollars; for Superintendent of Poor Farm, one hundred dollars; for Physician to Poor Farm, one hundred dollars; for repairs on roads and bridges, caused by ravages of storm, one thousand and twenty-five dollars; for interest on money borrowed, seven hundred dollars; for Sheriff's dieting account, four hundred Profits of dis- dollars: Provided, That the profits arising from the Dispensary be applied to the past indebtedness of the County. pensaries. Barnwell 334 mills. For the County of Barnwell, for all County purposes, three and three-fourths mills (34), to be expended as follows: for Specific appro- County Auditor, five hundred ($500) dollars; for County priation. Commissioners' per diem and mileage and clerk's salary, fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars; for County Treasurer's commissions for County only, four hundred and twenty-five ($425) dollars; for County Board of Equalization, one hundred and sixty ($160) dollars; for Clerk of Court, five hundred and eighteen ($518) dollars; for Coroner, four hundred ($400) dollars and no more ; for books, stationery and printing, five hundred ($500) dollars; for jury, Constable and witness tickets, five thousand ($5,000) dollars; for Sheriff (including dieting prisoners) and all other duties required by law in criminal cases, twenty-five hundred ($2,500) dollars in lieu of all accounts for dieting and fees and costs; for Trial Justices' and Constables' salaries, twenty-six hundred and seventy ($2,670) dollars, as now provided by law, for all services in criminal cases, except that the Constables shall receive the mileage as now provided by law for transporting proFees to Sheriff visions to jail, and no costs or fees shall be paid to the Sheriff or any Constable for serving any warrant or process issued by a Trial Justice, except where the offense charged in the warrant is a capital felony; for the support of the Poor House and inmates, the sum of twelve hundred ($1,200) dollars, and the Board of County Commissioners is hereby forbidden from maintaining in whole or part any pauper who is not an inmate of the Poor Roads and House; for repairs on roads and bridges, the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars, and the County Commissioners are hereby prohibited from expending any sum of money or contracting any debt in excess of two thousand ($2,000) dollars; for contingent and Constables. Poor House. bridges. A. D. 1893. G. D. Bellin ger. ness. Court expenses. The expenses, fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars and no more. Treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the sum of fifteen dollars to G. Duncan Bellinger for expenses to Barnwell, on business in behalf of the delegation, out of the surplus on hand; that the Treasurer is directed to pay the past indebtedness of thirteen Past indebtedhundred and fourteen and 32-100 ($1,314.32) dollars, for the fiscal year commencing November 1st, 1891, out of any funds now on hand. The Treasurer is required to set aside the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars of the funds collected from the fiscal year 1892-1893 for the pay of Court expenses, and if there is any surplus funds on hand from taxes collected or paid in by surplus. Trial Justices or the Dispensary authorities, the Treasurer is dirccted to cash all warrants drawn by the Board of County Commissioners for repairs on roads and bridges to the extent of two thousand ($2,000) dollars: Provided, The Chairman shall certify on each warrant if for work done on repairs of roads and bridges since first day of February, 1894; any surplus of funds to be paid out on warrant of the County Commissioners for the support of the Poor House and poor as aforesaid. That the Loans authorCounty Treasurer of Barnwell County be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to borrow, from time to time, on his official note, as County Treasurer, or other similar evidence of indebtedness, a sum or sums of money not exceeding in all five thousand ($5,000) dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent. per annum, for the purpose of paying the ordinary County expenses not arranged for above, in cash, and said Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to pledge as Pledge. security for such borrowed money the tax herein levied; that ized. count. the County Treasurer is hereby required to keep a separate bank Separate a caccount for Court funds, Poor House and poor, repairs on roads and bridges, Sheriffs, Trial Justices and Constables, and school funds. mills. For the County of Charleston, in which it shall be two and Charleston 21⁄2 one-half mills. That the proceeds of one-eighth of one mill of said levy shall be set apart and applied to the use of the militia Militia. in said County, in accordance with the special Act thereto relating. That the remainder of said levy shall be applied as follows: The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropri ated to meet the cost of continuing the construction of the stone Stone roadway. roadway leading from the city of Charleston towards the County line, and for no other purpose whatsoever, such sum to be expended entirely and directly in such work and repairs on said A. D. 1893. poses. road, not in the payment of salaries of any official connected with such road; and the remainder of the proceeds of said levy General pur- shall be used for general County purposes, including therein Court and jail expenses, also one hundred dollars each to the Superintendent Superintendents of Highways at McClellanville and James Island of Highways. to pay his salary for 1893 and the cost of necessary repairs to bonds. bonds and notes roads and bridges; also the sum of eleven thousand and two Interest on hundred dollars to pay the interest to mature during the fiscal year commencing November 1st, 1893, on the six per cent. bonds issued by said County, and also the installment of the principal Payment of of said bonds which will mature during said year. And also such sums as may be necessary to pay in full whatever balance may remain due and unpaid on the notes of the County Treasurer, given by him under authority of law, or any deficiency caused by the payment of such notes out of any other funds, after which Continuation may be paid the amount herein before appropriated for continuing the construction of the stone roadway; for repairs to bridges, avenues and culverts along the State Road, five hundred dollars. That all other funds and balances in the hands of, or to the credit of, the County Commissioners not otherwise appropriated, General Coun- or herein appropriated and not required, are hereby appropriated Tax by City to general County purposes. That the City Treasurer of the schools. city of Charleston shall levy and collect, when the first install of stone roadway. ty purposes. Treasurer for Art School. ment of the city tax is paid, in addition to the one mill tax now provided by law, an additional tax of one mill, to be accounted for and paid over by the said City Treasurer as the said one mill tax is now accounted for and paid, and the proceeds thereof to be used in support of the public schools of said city. That the sum of five hundred dollars of the public school fund appropriated to the support of the public schools in the city of Charleston shall be used in aid of the Art School in the city of Charleston, in consideration that the instructor of such school shall give to the pupils of the city public schools such instruction in drawing as the Board of Commissioners of the public schools of the city Loan by Coun- of Charleston may require. That the County Treasurer of Charleston County be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to borrow, from time to time, and as the same may be required, on his official note as County Treasurer, or other similar official evidence of indebtedness, a sum or sums not exceeding in all fortyfive thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, for the purpose of paying the salaries and commissions of all County officials whose salaries and commissions are ty Treasurer. Limit and poses. pur |