Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina

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Page 318 - That the Senators and Representatives of this state in the Congress of the United States, be and they are hereby requested, to...
Page 12 - He shall, from time to time, give to the General Assembly information of the state of the Commonwealth, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge expedient.
Page 397 - Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress...
Page 70 - Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating thirty thousand dollars, to enable Professor Morse to establish a line of telegraph between Washington and Baltimore.
Page 7 - The legislature shall provide for an annual tax sufficient to defray the estimated expenses of the state for each year ; and whenever the expenses of any year shall exceed the income, the legislature shall provide for levying a tax for the ensuing year, sufficient, with other sources of income, to pay the deficiency, as well as the estimated expenses of such ensuing year.
Page 29 - To secure the full enjoyment of said homestead exemption to the person entitled thereto, or to the head of any family, the personal property of such person, of the following character, to wit : household furniture* beds and bedding, family library, arms, carts, wagons, farming implements, tools, neat cattle, work animals, swine, goats and sheep, not to exceed in value in the aggregate the sum of five hundred dollars, shall be subject to...
Page 235 - COOKE moved to lay the amendment and the amendment to the amendment on the table ; and the question being put, " Will the House agree thereto?
Page 31 - In the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the per diem and mileage of the members of the...
Page 366 - Hewctt have been appointed a committee on the part of the Senate, to act with a like committee on the part of the House...
Page 306 - The question being taken on the passage of the bill, it was decided in the negative by a decided majority. The engrossed bills for the relief of Margaret Perry, and for the relief of William Mclntosh, were severally read the third time, passed, and ordered to be sent to the Senate for concurrence.

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