Acts of the General Assembly of South-Carolina

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State Printer, 1848 - Session laws - 142 pages
Acts for 1849 and 1855 contain Senate and House journals.

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Page 470 - Society ;" and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be -answered unto...
Page 437 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven and in the one hundred and twenty first year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
Page 448 - unlawfully and wilfully use any dredge, or any net, instrument, or engine whatsoever, within the limits of any oyster bed, laying, or fishery, being the property of any other person, and sufficiently marked out or known as such...
Page 463 - No note or obligation given by any stockholder, whether secured by pledge or otherwise, shall be considered as payment of any part of the capital stock...
Page 447 - SOCIETY, and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid shall have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in...
Page 481 - ... it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause be deemed to be dissolved ; but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold and make an election of directors in such manner as shall have been regulated by the...
Page 476 - Where any lands or right of way may be required by the said company for the purpose of constructing their road and for want of agreement as to the value thereof, or from any other cause, the same cannot be purchased from the owner or owners, the same may be taken at a valuation to be made by five commissioners or a majority of them, to be appointed by the Circuit Court of the County where some part of the land, or right of way is situated...
Page 444 - ... jurisdiction, and on conviction thereof shall be punished for such offense by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court before which such conviction shall be had.
Page 460 - Such of the said directors who may have been absent when the said excess was contracted or created, or who may have dissented from the resolution or act whereby the same was so contracted or created, may respectively exonerate...
Page 468 - ... and shall be further liable for all damages which the said corporation may suffer in repairing the injury, and in the interruption of...

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