To serve for four years, and fill vacancies.

Compelled to serve only four

years. C

Form Board.

Assess money for repairs of Court House

and Jail.

Report to
Comptroller
General.

Fines to be paid

to Commission

ers.

See No. 57.

the Court House and Jail of the District for which such person shall have been appointed.

SEC. 2. That each Board of Commissioners shall be appointed to serve for four years, and until the appointment of a new Board be made, and shall have power to fill all vacancies in their núm ber, occasioned by death, resignation, removal from the District, or refusal of any person appointed to serve; and the person so elected, shall have all the powers, and be subject to all the penal. ties, provided for in the first clause of this Act; but no person elected or appointed, shall be compelled to serve more than four years in succession.

SEC. 3. That the said Commissioners shall meet and form a Board within their respective Circuit Court Districts, at such time and place as a majority of them shall appoint, and shall have power to appoint a Chairman, and all necessary Officers; and the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority, as often as they may think necessary, to as sess, levy, and collect, in the same manner, and to the same extent, as Commissioners of the Poor are now authorized by law, all such sums of money as may be necessary for repairing the Court House and Jail of their respective Circuit Court Districts; and it shall be the duty of each Board of Commissioners, annually to report to the Comptroller General, the sums of money so assessed and levied by them, for the purposes aforesaid.

SEC. 4. That all fines and forfeitures incurred and imposed in any Court of Sessions, for any Circuit Court District in this State, shall be paid to the Commissioners of Public Buildings for such District; to be applied in aid of their assessments, for the purpo Right of infor- ses aforesaid: Provided, that nothing in this clause contained, shall be construed to interfere with the right of any informer, where the whole or any part of a fine or forfeiture, is given to him or her, by any Act heretofore passed.

mer saved.

Not to affect present or

former appropriations.

SEC. 5. That nothing herein contained, shall affect any appro priation for Public Buildings, made at this or any previous Session of the Legislature.

No. 78.

Commissioner not to be Con

tractor.

JOINT RESOLUTION-1825. p. 113.

Resolved, That no Commissioner of Public Buildings, shall hereafter become the contractor for, or the undertaker of, any building or work, the construction of which it is his duty to Superintend, or he is in any way interested in such contract or undertaking.

JOINT RESOLUTION-1826. p. 45.

No. 79.

Commissioners to report to Le

Resolved, That the Commissioners of Public Buildings, be required to report, annually, the amount of unexpended balances gislature See Nos. 59, 60, remaining in their hands, and submit final returns to the Legisla- 61, 64. ture, when any work is completed, for which an appropriation is made.

Extract from AN ACT CONCERNING THE DISTRICT Officers and No. 80. THEIR OFFICES.-Passed 1837. Ch. 18. p. 41.

ral and Solici

condition of offices;

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Attorney General, and Attorney Genethe Circuit Solicitors, and they are hereby authorized and requi- tors to examine red, to examine, annually, and at such times as they may deem expedient, into the condition of the offices above named, of the several Districts, in their respective Circuits, and to ascertain if the said several officers respectively, shall have discharged all the duties, and performed all the services which now are, or shall And report to hereafter, be required of them, respectively, by law, and to make a report of the condition of said offices, and the manner in which the said several officers respectively, shall have discharged their duties, to the Courts of Law of the several Districts, respectively,

Courts in full;

at the Fall Term in each year, and also to the Legislature, at And to the Legislature. each annual Session.

indictment

SEC. 3. That if any one of the said District Officers, shall be Court to order reported, as aforesaid, as having wilfully failed, or neglected to dis- against delincharge any of the duties, or to perform any of the services apper. quent. taining to his office, which now are, or shall hereafter be, required of him by law, it shall be the duty of the Court, to order a bill of indictment to be preferred against such delinquent Officer.

Commissioners

SEC. 4. That the fines to be imposed by virtue of this Act, Fines to go to shall be paid over to the Commissioners of Public Buildings of the of Public Buildings. respective Districts, in which such failure or neglect shall have occurred.

torney and So

SEC. 5. That as a compensation for the additional duties requi- Salaries of Atred of the Attorney General and Circuit Solicitors, by this Act, licitors increastheir salaries shall be increased, each by the sum of two hundred See Act 1828, dollars.

SEC. 6. That an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the repairing of Court Houses and Jails in this State," passed on the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thou

* Clerks, Sheriffs, Ordinaries, Master, Commissioners and Registers in Equity.

ed each $200.

p. 12

offices.

sand eight hundred and twenty-seven, authorizing and requiring the Commissioners of Public Buildings, to keep in repair and su perintend the Court Houses and Jails of their respective Districts,. Commissioners be so amended as to authorize and require the said Commissionto keep in repair interior of ers, in their respective Districts, also to superintend and keep in repair, the interior of the several offices of the aforesaid District Officers; and to cause to be constructed and placed therein, and Provide fixtures kept in repair, suitable fixtures or cases, for the reception and ́ preservation of the Records, Books, and other papers appertain. ing and belonging to said offices, respectively; and to cause to be erected, and kept in repair, such out buildings and fences, on the Out buildings Jail and Court House lots, as they may respectively deem necessary, for the use and convenience of the Sheriffs, or Jailors, resi. ding in said Jails respectively, or for the protection of said Jails and Court Houses; and to cause to be made out and completed, such Records and Books, in the several offices named in the first section of this Act, in their respective Districts, as may be directed and ordered by the said Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, whose duty it shall be, from time to time, to give such directions, and make such orders, as may be necessary for the completion of the Records and Books in said offices respectively.

and fences.

Records and
Books as
Court may
order.

No. 81.

Commissioners

to approve security.

mine:

on oath.

COMMISSIONERS TO APPROVE SECURITIES TO
BONDS OF PUBLIC OFFICERS.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF.-Passed 1795.
2 Faust, p. 8.

Appoints Commissioners in each of the Circuit Court Districts then existing,

"To approve of the securities which may be offered by the Sheriffs hereafter to be elected or appointed; and the said Commissioners, or any three of them, respectively, are hereby vested Power to deter with full power to judge and determine on the sufficiency of the securities which may be offered by the Sheriffs, respectively; and To administer the better to enable them to discharge that duty, to administer, on oath, to each of the securities who may be offered, that he is worth, over and above his debts, the sum for which he offers himself as security: Provided, also, that in case any of the said Commissioners shall depart this State, die, resign, or refuse to serve, Gover nor to fill the Governor of the State shall fill up the vacancy occasioned thereby, until the next meeting of the Legislature.

vacancy.

AN ACT TO REVISE AND AMEND "AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT Commissioners to be appointed TO ESTABLISH AN UNIFORM AND MORE CONVENIENT SYSTEM OF by the Legisla JUDICATURE."-1799. 2. Faust, p. 262.

Directs, "That the Sheriffs of the Districts aforesaid, shall give security, to be approved of by Commissioners for that purpose, to be appointed by the Legislature, in manner and form as in and by" the above Act of 1799.

ture.

AN ACT LIMITING THE TERM OF SERVICE OF CERTAIN OFFICERS
WHO HAVE HERETOFORE HELD THEIR OFFICES DURING GOOD
BEHAVIOUR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES THEREIN MENTIONED."
Passed 1812. p. 35.

Directs as to the Attorney General, Solicitors, Tax Collectors, Ordinaries, Clerks, Registers and Commissioners of the Courts of Equity, that

bonds be given ;

No. 82.

And that such bonds be taken in the several Districts through. Bonds to be taken by Commis. out this State, respectively, by the Commissioners appointed to sioners. take bonds and securities from the Sheriffs of the several Dis. tricts of said State, and be transmitted by the Commissioners Transmitted to Comptroller aforesaid, to the Comptroller General, to be by him deposited in General. the Treasurer's Office of the Upper Division, when they relate to the Upper Division; and when relating to the Lower Division, to Deposited in be deposited in the Treasurer's Office, in Charleston.

Treasurer's
Office.

General to ap

AN ACT EXPLANATORY-Passed 1814, p. 52. Directs, "That the Comptroller General be, and he is hereby Comptroller authorized, to approve of the security hereafter to be given by the prove securities Attorney General and Solicitors, respectively."

And that every Register and Commissioner in Equity give bond,

of Attorney General and Solicitors.

missioners in

“To be taken, and securities approved of, by such Commission- Bond of Comers as are or shall be appointed to approve the securities of the Equity, to be Sheriff of the Circuit Court District, in which the Register and missioners, as Commissioner aforesaid, shall respectively reside."

See Act directing annual examination of Bonds-1819. p. 42: and Act fixing form of Bonds ---1≥29. p. 21.

taken by Com

Sheriffs.

No. 83.
Coroners.

Appointment to be made by

joint resolu

tion.

Vacancy in re

by Governor.

CORONERS.

ACTS 1821. p. 23.

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE APPOINTMENT OF CORONERS. When any vacancy shall happen in the office of Coroner, for any of the Circuit Court Districts of this State, the same shall be filled by a joint resolution of the Senate and House of Represen tatives, in the same manner as Justices of the Peace and Quorum, are now appointed.

Whenever any vacancy shall occur in the said office, by death, cess to be filled resignation, or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature, the same shall be filled by the appointment of the Governor and Commander-in-Chief; which appointment shall continue until the end of the next Session of the Legislature, and until a successor shall be appointed.

Bond to be given.

Shall continue

four years, and

Every Coroner shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give bond, with sufficient security, to the State of South Carolina, in the sum of two thousand dollars, except the Coroner for Charleston District, who shall give bond in three thousand dol lars, for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, which bond shall be lodged, after being approved of as Sheriffs bonds are, in the Office of the Treasurer of the Upper or Lower Division.

All Coroners appointed by the Legislature, shall continue in until successor office for four years, and until a successor shall be appointed, and enter upon the duties of his office.

enter.

Commissioned by Governor.

Shall not act as

ty Sheriff.

It shall be the duty of the Governor, whenever any person appointed to the office of Coroner, shall have given bond, as herein before directed, to commission such person, according to the provisions of this act.

No Coroner shall hereafter act as Jailer, Deputy Sheriff, or Jailor or Depu- hold any appointment under the Sheriff of the District; and in case any Coroner shall accept of any appointment from the Sheriff of his District, his office of Coroner shall be vacated, and the Office vacated Governor may fill the vacancy upon application; and the appointupon violation. ment so made by the Executive, shall continue in force, until another appointment shall be made by the Legislature.

Power to com

jail.

The several Coroners shall have power to commit prisoners in mit prisoners to their custody, to the common Jails of the several Districts respectively, and all power necessary to carry this provision into" effect, is hereby given to the Coroners.

See Act 1827. p. 65, authorizing the appointment, by any Judge, of a person to act, in the service of process, as Coroner.