Committee on Federal Relations :

From the report of the same Committee of the House of Repre

sentatives on the removal of colored troops..

Committee on Roads and Buildings :

From the subject of altering the Road Law..

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61

60

G.

.7, 2, 3, 29, 52, 71

Governor, the Provisional, Messages from...

M.

Manning, Hon. John L., elected United States Senator.

Acceptance..

Mordecai, Benjamin, and others, petition for a Railroad charter.

P.

Public Buildings, petitions of, for Clarendon .

Sumter.

Petigru's Code, resolution in relation to..
Perry, Hon. B. F., elected United States Senator.

R.

Reports of Committees of the Senate.

Special Committee:

On the Constitution and veto power..

On the place of sitting of the General Assembly.
On the mode of voting by the General Assembly.
On the petition of citizens of St. Helena....
On the penalty of ten per cent. on land-owners.

On the removal of United States troops from the College Build

ings.

.57,

On the College, Education and Legislative Library :

On Federal Relations:

On the Constitutional amendment on the slavery question..... 72 On Agriculture and Internal Improvements:

On the Saluda Turnpike Road..

On the Judiciary:

In relation to persons of color and the Code...
On the subject of a Jail in Sumter....

.54, 65

On the office of Treasurer of the State

On Finance and Banks:

On the subject of Tax-Collectors..

On the expenses of the special session.

.68, 69, 76

46, 59 64

27\

Resolutions introduced into the Senate:

By Mr. Sullivan, relative to Bills at the special session.
By Mr. Sullivan, referring to the Governor's Message.
Townes, relating to the sale of the Saluda Turnpike.
Buist, for an advance to officers of the Senate.

Resolutions introduced into the Senate:

By Mr. Shingler, in relation to colored troops.

Kershaw, in relation to the Camden Branch Railroad.
Buist and Tillman, relative to mode of voting.

Buist, in relation to the law of evidence.

Henery, relative to the Public School Buildings of Charles

ton...

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29

30

32

35

.35, 45

Arthur, relative to State Treasurers.

Dozier, relative to Petigru's Code.

McCutchen, for change of Road Laws.

Buist, relative to printing the Code..

40

41

Dozier, relative to the continuance of the session..
Arthur, for employing assistant Messengers.
Arthur, relative to the District records..

.41, 48

troops.

Winsmith, relative to buildings occupied by United States

Tillman, relative to the Constitution of the State.
Dozier, relative to the Provisional Governor..

Tillman, relative to business at the special session..

Lawton, relative to debts contracted in Confederate currency..

..48, 54

Arthur, relative to the order of business by the General

Assembly.

Tracy, in relation to Tax-Collectors in the Parishes.
J. H. Williams, on retrenchment..

Sullivan, referring Message No. 4 of the Governor.
Kershaw, relative to the Jail of Sumter District. .

Buist, appointing proxies in the Charleston and Savanah
Railroad...

Arthur, in relation to the expenses of the Legislature..
Bratton, in relation to the Constitutional amendment on

slavery..

Tracy, in relation to the Constitutional amendment on slavery.

Dozier, relative to the order of business.

.67, 75

Tillman, in relation to District Courts..
Buist, relative to interest on State bonds..

Kershaw, relative to Constitutional amendment on slavery. 73
Sullivan, relative to Constitutional amendment on slavery. 73
Tracy, relative to Constitutional amendment on slavery. 74, 65
Sullivan, relative to Constitutional amendment on slavery. 73

Resolutions introduced in the House of Representatives :

Appointing Managers of Elections for Union and Sumter..

Providing for the election of Clerk of the Court for Charleston... 53 For taking a recess of the General Assembly.

.58, 59

Providing extra compensation to the College Treasurer.

Empowering Hon. Wm. Henry Trescot to act in relation to cotton

seizures.

Providing for paying the Clerks of the two Houses.

Providing for removing records from Chester..

Of Committees of Conference :

On the sale of the Saluda Turnpike.

Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives.

Ön Railroads:

In relation to the Camden Branch Railroad.

... 75

48

In relation to the re-organization of the Militia....

On proposals for the Public Printing...

On Public Printing:

Of Ways and Means:

House.

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.46, 47

53

75

51

58

57

58

Providing per diem and mileage to the Keeper of the State

Rules of the Senate.

Rawls, B. and T. J., petition for the use of a canal.

.17, 37

75

57

other officers elected....

Senators, allotment of under the Constitution.

Senator of the United States Congress, elections for.

3

5

5

.5, 6, 7, 21, 22

23

23

St. Helena Parish, citizens of, petition in relation to their lands....49, 50 Saluda Turnpike Road, sale of.

..26, 40, 59, 64, 66, 74

Slavery, Constitutional amendment relating to-Message of the Governor and action thereon.

.71, 72, 73, 74, 77

T.

Treasurers of the State, resolution in relation to..

Winsmith, J., protest of.

W.

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JOURNAL

OF THE

SENATE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

SPECIAL SESSION, COMMENCING OCTOBER 25, 1865.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1865.

At 7 o'clock P. M., on this day, the President pro tem. of the Senate took the Chair, pursuant to the order suspending business on the 11th inst., and called the Senate to order.

The Clerk called the roll, when the following Senators answered to their

names:

Hon. F. D. Moses, President pro tem.; and, Hon. Lemuel Boozer, from Lexington; Hon. James Hemphill, Chester; Hon. W. D. Johnson, Marlboro; Hon. A. Q. McDuffie, Marion: Hon. George F. Townes, Greenville; Hon. John Townsend, Orangeburg; Hon. George W. Williams, York; Hon. John Wilson, Anderson.

A quorum not being present, the President pro tem. announced that no motion being made to send for absent Senators, the Senate would stand adjourned to meet on Monday next, at 11 A. M.