A. D. 1893. fixed by law; also to pay the Court expenses; also to pay the installment and interest on the County debt to mature in 1894, and also such expenditures for ordinary County purposes as require immediate payment; such sum so borrowed to be repaid, with interest thereon, by the said County Treasurer from the taxes Pledge of taxes. levied upon and to be collected in the said County for the present fiscal year as soon as the same may be collected, and to constitute school teachers. are to be made. a valid claim against said County and a prior lien on all of the County taxes levied, except the school tax and the tax for the Exceptions. use of the militia in the said County, for the present and future fiscal years, until the same are paid and discharged in full; such amounts, if so borrowed, to be paid on such salaries and claims without any preference whatever. That the County Treasurer Salaries of be, and he is hereby, authorized and instructed to pay on the warrant of the School Commissioner the sum of five hundred dollars, if so much be necessary, to be expended solely in the payment of salaries for the school teachers in School District No. 1 of Charleston County, and that said sum be charged against said school district and be repaid out of the school tax of said district when the same shall be collected. That all How payments claims against the County, except the salaries and commissions of the County officers whose salaries and commissions are fixed by law, and the County Treasurer's notes herein above provided, shall be paid upon the warrants of the County Commissioners as now provided by law; the salaries and commissions of such officers whose salaries and commissions are fixed by law to be paid by the County Treasurer monthly on the receipt of such officers; and said County Commissioners are hereby required to Audit of claims. audit all claims, except such salaries and Treasurer's notes, presented to them within ten days from the date of such presentation, and forthwith to draw their warrant on the County Warrants. Treasurer for the amount so found due: Provided, The money to meet the same is in the hands of the County Treasurer. For the County of Colleton, there shall be levied upon the Colleton 51⁄2 taxable property of the County of Colleton the following: For ordinary County expenses, three mills; for interest on County railroad bonds, three-fourths of one mill; for deficiencies, one and three-fourths of one mill: Provided, That any surplus arising out of the levy for interest on County railroad bonds shall go to the sinking fund provided for by an Act of the Sinking fund. General Assembly for the redemption of railroad bonds : Provided, further, That one thousand dollars, if so much be to deficiency. Proviso. mills. Appropriation A. D. 1893. ty expenses. necessary, realized from the sale of liquor, be applied to deficiency, balance to County expenses: Provided, further, Current Coun- That any fund now or hereafter subject to the check of the County Commissioners, by operation of law not necessary to be applied as therein stated, by reason of any express contract, be applied to current County expenses: Provided, further, That the County Commissioners of said County are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow such amounts of money as may be necessary to pay all Court expenses and interest on County railInterest and road bonds at a rate of interest not to exceed seven per cent. per annum, and to pledge as security for such borrowed money the tax herein levied for said purposes. Loan. piedge. mills. Loan. Darlington 3 For the County of Darlington, for ordinary County purposes, three mills; and the County Commissioners of Darlington County are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money at a rate of interest allowed by law, to an amount not exceeding the total taxes assessed in said County for County purposes, and Pledge of taxes. to pledge the taxes of said County for such money as may be borrowed by them from time to time for the actual needs of said County and the interest thereon. Edgefield 4% mills. security. For the County of Edgefield, for jurors and witnesses, threeeighths of one mill, and the County Commissioners of Edgefield Loan and County are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money for said purposes and pledge the said levy of of one mill as security therefor; for ordinary County purposes, two (2) mills; for repairs of roads, bridges and ferries, one mill; for past indebtedness, one-half of one mill; and the County Commissioners are hereby authorized to borrow money for said purposes not to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars and pledge the levy of 3 mills as security therefor. The County Loan for school Treasurer and County Commissioners are authorized to borrow money not to exceed the sum of six thousand dollars to pay school claims and to pledge the levy for this purpose as security for the same. claims. Fairfield 4% mills. ized. For the County of Fairfield, for ordinary County purposes, three and one-half mills; for past indebtedness, one mill; and Loan author- the County Commissioners are hereby authorized to borrow money upon such terms, and at such rate of interest, as may seem to them to be reasonable, for the purpose of paying in cash the deficiency for the fiscal year 1892 and the Court expenses of the Transfer of year 1894. And the County Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to transfer to the fund designated "miscellaneous funds. fund" all the road commutation funds now in his hands or hereafter collected by him, and to transfer all unexpended balances arising from regular tax levies and special tax levies for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year 1892 to similar funds for the fiscal year 1892. For the County of Florence, for ordinary County purposes, three and one-half mills; for past indebtedness, one-third of one mill. A. D. 1893. Florence 8 5-6 mills. Georgetown 5 mills. Loan by WinSchool District. yah Graded For the County of Georgetown, for ordinary County purposes, five mills: Provided, The Trustees of the Winyah Graded School District of Georgetown in Georgetown County be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to borrow a sum not to exceed twenty-two hundred and fifty dollars to defray the expenses of continuing the exercises of the school in the aforesaid school district during the school term for the year 18931894, and to pledge as a security for such loan the school taxes Pledge of taxes. which would have been collected this Fall and Winter but for the special Act postponing such collection until the Fall of 1894. mills. For the County of Greenville, for ordinary County purposes, Greenville 8 three and three-sixteenths mills; for preparing an index to the records of the Register of Mesne Conveyances, one-sixteenth of one mill; for past indebtedness, one mill; for retiring Air Line Railroad bonds, one mill; interest on Air Line Railroad bonds, one and one-fourth mills; interest on Greenville and Laurens Railroad bonds, one-half of one mill. That all balances in the Balances. hands of the County Treasurer be applied to the current expenses of the County. For the County of Hampton, for ordinary County purposes, four mills Provided, That any balance in the County treasury arising from any tax levied for the present fiscal year, not specifically appropriated, shall be applied to the next fiscal year for paying certificates of jurors and witnesses and of such Constables as may be in attendance on the Courts of General Sessions and Common Pleas. mills. Hampton 4 balances. For the County of Horry, for ordinary County purposes, two Horry 35% mills. and one-fourth mills; for poor of County, seven-eighths of one mill; for roads, bridges, public buildings and contingent account, etc., one-half of one mill. mills. For the County of Laurens, for ordinary County purposes, Laurens 64 two and three-fourths mills; for railroad tax, three and one-half mills. A. D. 1893. Kershaw € mills. ized. purposes. For the County of Kershaw, for ordinary County purposes, four mills; for interest on railroad bonds, two and one-half mills. And that the County Commissioners of Kershaw County be, Loans author- and they are hereby, authorized to borrow from time to time, and as the same may be required, on their official note as County Commissioners, or other similar official evidence of indebtedness, Terms and a sufficient sum of money, at a rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent. per annum, for the purpose of paying the salaries and commissions of all County officials whose salaries and commissions are fixed by law, also to pay all Court expenses, also all teachers' pay certificates, also the jail and dieting fees of the Sheriff and all expenditures for ordinary County purposes; such Pledge of taxes. sums so borrowed to be repaid with interest thereon by said County Commissioners from taxes levied upon and to be collected in the said County for the present fiscal year, as soon as the same may be collected, and to constitute a valid claim against said County and a prior lien on all of the County taxes levied. Lancaster 74 mills. balances. For the County of Lancaster, for ordinary County purposes, four and one-half mills; for interest on County bonds issued in aid of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, two and three-fourths Application of mills: Provided, That any balance that may remain of the funds arising from the foregoing levies, after the payment of all claims against the same, may be applied by the County Commissioners of Lancaster County to any other claim against said County. Special town- The County Commissioners of Lancaster County are hereby authorized and required to levy a special tax of four mills in Pleasant Hill Township in said County, and a special tax of four and one-half mills in Gill's Creek Township in said County, to pay the interest on the bonds issued by the said townships, respectively, in aid of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company. ship taxes. Lexington 8% mills. ship taxes. For the County of Lexington, for ordinary County purposes, three mills; for special County tax, one-half of one mill, which is to be applied to making up loss of the fiscal year of 1877-78; Special town- for interest on bonds in aid of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad, in Broad River Township, four mills, and three mills in Fork and Saluda Townships for a sinking fund for the purpose of retiring railroad bonds: ProLoans author- vided, That in anticipation of the collection of said tax the County Commissioners be, and they are hereby, authorized to borrow, on the credit of the County, and upon the pledges of the taxes first collected, and turn over to the County Treasurer, ized. Pledge of taxes. schools. the sum of six thousand dollars, if so much be necessary, for the A. D. 1893. current expenses of the County for the fiscal year ending October 31st, 1894, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent. per annum: And provided, further, That the County Treasurer Loans for and County School Commissioner of Lexington County be, and they are hereby, authorized to borrow, from time to time during the fiscal year, such sums of money as may be necessary to pay the school claims of said County, not to exceed the sum of seven thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not to exceed seven per cent., and to pledge the taxes to be collected for that purpose for Pledge of taxes. the payment of the money so borrowed and the interest thereon, and the County Commissioners be, and are hereby, authorized to use the funds arising from the special County tax of mill hereinbefore provided for such County purposes as they deem proper : Provided, That all money borrowed shall be held and paid out Proviso. by the County Treasurer as now provided by law. mills. ized. of a township For the County of Newberry, for ordinary County purposes, Newberry 34 three mills; for deficiencies, three-fourths of one mill; and the County Commissioners are hereby authorized to borrow sums of Loans authormoney, from time to time, not exceeding in the aggregate seven thousand dollars, if so much be necessary, and to pledge the first Pledge of taxes. collection of taxes for ordinary County purposes for the payment of the sum so borrowed and the interest thereon, and the Treasurer of Newberry County is hereby authorized and required to Appropriation use the money collected from the taxpayers of No. 1 Township tax. to pay interest on bonds issued in aid of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad, amounting to two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-three cents, to the payment of interest on bonds issued in aid of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad. He is also authorized and required to place to the credit of the school fund of No. 8 Township the sum of sixty-four dollars and forty-five cents, this amount having been collected from the taxpayers of No. 8 Township to pay interest on bonds issued in aid of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad. mills. For the County of Marlboro, for ordinary County purposes, Marlboro 3% three and one-half mills; all claims to be paid in the order of their priority. For the County of Marion, for ordinary County expenses, three Marion 33⁄41⁄2 mills mills; for past indebtedness, three-fourths of one mill (.) That the County Commissioners of Marion County be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to borrow money at any rate Loans authorized. |