laws and Joint Resolutions shall be collected and bound together separately in the first part of the volume, and be entitled "General Laws and Joint Resolutions;" and all Acts relating to matters other than public shall be collected and bound together in the latter part of the volume, and be entitled "Special Acts and Joint Resolutions," and also to index the same in one index. And all local Acts and Joint Resolutions shall be arranged according to Counties in alphabetical order. A. D. 1912. Cross reference in mar Whenever an Act or Joint Resolution of a previous session is amended, repealed or referred to, a reference shall be gin. made in the margin to the volume and page of the Statutes at Large where such Act or Joint Resolution is to be found. . There shall be printed in alphabetical order as an appendix List of char printed. to the Acts and Joint Resolutions of every regular session ters; how the list of charters granted by the Secretary of State for the then next preceding fiscal year, such list to be printed in the same type as the body of the Acts, embracing only the name of the corporation in small caps, to be followed in lower case, and without paragraphs, with the location and purpose of the corporation, amount of authorized capital stock and date of charter. ing; how paid Sec. 57. The Comptroller General is hereby authorized Public printand directed to draw his warrant, and the State Treasurer for. to pay the same out of any moneys in the State Treasury not Civ. '02, § 56. otherwise appropriated, for the public printing, upon the production of proper vouchers, which shall consist of copies of the temporary printing executed, and signatures of the permanent printing as the work progresses. tion; not to be exceeded. In no fiscal year shall the Comptroller General draw his Appropriawarrants or the State Treasurer pay same for an aggregate amount for printing in excess of the sum of twenty thousand dollars unless a larger amount has been appropriated, in which case such warrants shall not exceed the appropriation. A. D. 1912. To provide Laws, Jour Section 58. A sufficient number of the Journals, Reports for binding of and Acts of the General Assembly, for the use of the memnals, etc. bers of the General Assembly, and for the State Librarian Civ. '02, § 57. to make the exchanges with other States, shall be bound in a good and substantial manner; and the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives are authorized to have the same done immediately upon the close of the session, or as soon thereafter as practicable. To deliver permanent work to State Librarian, tribute to per Sec. 59. On the completion of the permanent work, they shall deliver the same to the State Librarian, who shall forwho shall dis: Ward, by mail or otherwise, as he may deem expedient, a entitled copy thereof to each of the members of the General Assemceive copies. bly, and a copy of the Acts and Joint Resolutions to the Civ. '02, § 58. different States, institutions, and officers entitled by law to receive the same. sons by law to re When to be Sec. 60. The Acts of each session of the General Assemprinted. bly of this State shall be printed, bound and delivered to Civ. '02, $59. the keeper of the Legislative Library, ready for distribution, within thirty days from the adjournment sine die of each of its several sessions, whether annual or extra, and the And distrib- said keeper of the Legislative Library shall within five days thereafter deposit in the mail or express one or more copies thereof, addressed to each officer, person or corporation as now provided by law, and as hereinafter prescribed. uted. How Acts Sec. 61. Copies of the Acts and Joint Resolutions shall and Resolu- be distributed as follows: tions should be distributed. 1. To the Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec, Canada, one copy. 2. To each Circuit Judge, one copy. 3. To each Solicitor, one copy. 9. To each County Superintendent of Education, one copy. 10. To each County Supervisor, one copy. 11. To the Supreme Court at Columbia, one copy. 12. To each Magistrate in the State, one copy. 13. To each of the chartered Colleges of the State, one copy. 14. To the Library of the Legislature, one hundred and fifty copies. 15. To the University of South Carolina, two copies. 16. To the Charleston Library, two copies. 17. To the Governor of each State of the Union, for the use of the State, one copy. 18. To the Legislature of each State, one copy. 19. To the Library of Congress, two copies. 20. To heads of Departments at Washington, for the use of their Departments, one copy. 21. To the Historical Society of New York, one copy. 22. To the Athenæum, Philadelphia, one copy. 23. To the Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, one copy. 24. To the Yale College Library, one copy. 25. To the Libraries of the University of Virginia and Alabama, one copy each. 26. To the Colleges at Athens, Ga., Princeton, and Chapel Hill, N. C., one copy each. 27. To the Athenæum, Boston, one copy. 28. To the Committee of Public Records, London, one copy. 29. To the London Museum, one copy. 30. To the King's Library, in Paris, one copy. 31. To the University Library at Heidelberg, one copy. 32. To the Royal Library at Berlin, one copy. 33. To the University Library at Gottingen, one copy. A. D. 1912. A. D. 1912. may be made to Revised this Code. 34. To the Historical Societies of South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, each one copy. 35. To each Master, one copy. 36. To the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., one copy. Amendments Sec. 62. Whenever in any Act heretofore or hereafter by reference passed reference is made to the Revised Statutes or this Statutes or Code for the purpose of altering, amending, adding to or Civ. '02, § 61. repealing any part thereof, such reference, alteration, amendment, addition or repeal shall be construed to apply to the original law purporting to be revised in said revision as fully and specifically as though such original law were mentioned in the Act containing such reference, alteration, amendments, addition or repeal. Code Com be elected; Sec. 63. A Code Commissioner shall be elected by the missioner to General Assembly of 1911, for a term of ten years and his term; salary. salary shall be four hundred dollars per annum, payable Civ. '02, § 62. quarterly, by the State Treasurer on the warrant of the Comptroller General: Provided, That the Code Commissioner elected at the session of the General Assembly for 1901 shall hold office for a term of ten years and shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars for the fiscal year, commencing January 1, 1901, and thereafter annually until the expiration of the term of his office a salary of four hundred dollars, to be paid quarterly by the State Treasurer upon the warrant of the Comptroller General. In case of a vacancy from any cause, the General Assembly shall as early as practicable elect a Code Commissioner for the unexpired term. Duties. To revise Re Civ. '02, § 63. Sec. 64. It shall be the duty of said Code Commissioner, port of pre- immediately after his election, to examine the report made decessor, etc. by his predecessor in office to the General Assembly and, if any, correct all errors appearing in the revision submitted with said report; supply all omissions; omit redundant and obsolete enactments, and such as have no influence on existing rights and remedies; and to reduce the public statutes of this State, inclusive of such as are passed at the present session, into as concise and comprehensive a form as is consistent with clear expression of the will of the Index same. General Assembly; and, in addition thereto, he shall prepare indices and cross indices to said codification, publish A. D. 1912 same. Annotate How published. To prepare Acts for pub Annual Re ing the same in the appropriate volume as hereinafter provided, note by annotation the decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of South Carolina under the different Sections of the Statutes codified as herein provided, and also of the Constitution of 1895 of said State, and rules of Court as herein provided to be published; annex to the volume containing the general laws a list of all general public statutes repealed since the enactment of the General Statutes of 1882, giving the title, and date of approval, of the repealing Statute; and he shall annually prepare for publication, as soon after the adjournment of the General Assembly as practicable, the Statutes and Joint Resolutions passed at the preceding session, dividing the same into such lication. as may be of a general and permanent kind and such as may be local and of temporary nature, with a correct index and cross index of same; and that he also publish with such statutes, alphabetically arranged and with date of granting same, a list of all charters granted by the Secretary of State. He shall annually report to the General Assembly, at each session, all changes made in the Statute law embraced in port. the Code at its previous session, together with a note of or reference to the decisions of the Supreme Court, on the Sections of said Code published during the current year, said report to be annually published by the State Printer in such form as the Code Commissioner may prescribe. Sec. 65. The Code Commissioner shall collect and revise Decennial Report. all the General Statute law of the State now of force, as Civ. '02, § 64. well as that which shall be passed from time to time, and to properly index and arrange the said Statutes when so passed. He shall also reduce into a systematic Code the General Statutes, including the Code of Civil Procedure, with all the amendments thereto, and shall on the first day of the session for the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and at the end of every subsequent period of ten years, report the result of his labors to the General Assembly, with such recommendations and suggestions as to the abridgement and amendments as may be deemed necessary and proper. The said report, when ready to be made, shall be printed and laid on the desks of the members of both houses of the General Assembly on the first day of the first session, but |