corporation authorized to manufacture, sell or use gas for the purpose of light, heat or power, or with or from any authorized agent or such person or corporation, for the use of gas belonging to, or produced or furnished by, any such person or corporation, who shall wilfully withdraw, or cause to be withdrawn, in any manner and appropriate such gas from the pipes or conduits of any such person or corporation, for his own use, or for the use of any other person or corporation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. And any person who shall aid, abet or assist such other person in such withdrawing and appropriating of such gas from such pipes or conduits to or for the use of such other person, or to or for the use of any other person or corporation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished in like manner. A. D. 1911 Persons hold prohibited law. SEC. 2. That any person who has a contract, agreement, license or permission, oral or written with or from any per- ing contract son or corporation authorized to manufacture, sell or use gas from violating for the purpose of light, heat or power, or with or from any authorized agent of the same, for the use of the gas belonging to, or produced or furnished by, any such person or corporation, for certain specified purposes, who shall wilfully and intentionally withdraw, or cause to be withdrawn, in any manner and appropriate to his own use, or to the use of any other person or corporation, for purposes other than those specified, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in Section 1 of this Act. And any such person to whom such gas is furnished from or by means of a meter, who shall wilfully and with intention to cheat and defraud any of said persons or corporations, alter or interfere with such meter, or by any contrivance whatsoever withdraw or take off gas in any manner except through such meter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished as provided in Section 1 of this Act. A. D. 1911 SEC. 3. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved the 14th day of February, A. D. 1911. No. 91. AN ACT TO AMEND AN Act EntitleD “AN ACT TO PROTECT SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Act of 1908, State of South Carolina, That an Act entitled "An Act to pro 25 Stats., 1085, amended. Punishment tect hotel, inn and boarding housekeepers," approved the 21st day of February, 1908, be amended by adding thereto another section to be Section 4, as follows: Section 4. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this Act shall pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or be of provisions. imprisoned for not more than thirty days, in the discretion of for violation the magistrate. Approved the 3d day of February, A. D. 1911. No. 92. AN ACT TO REQUIRE ALL STEAMBOAT COMPANIES, FIRMS OR SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Unlawful for State of South Carolina, It shall hereafter be unlawful for any steamboat steamboat company, firm or corporation, running a line of change sched- boats from Savannah to Bluffton, South Carolina, and way certain lines to ule without notice. Penalty. stations, and return on a regular schedule, to change their schedule without giving ten days' notice of said change by posting same in a conspicuous place at each landing. SEC. 2. Any steamboat company, firm or corporation violating the provisions of Section 1 of this Act, shall be subject to a fine of not less than $50 and not more than $100. Approved the 17th day of February, A. D. 1911 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 333 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF $333, Crim amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That Section 333, of the Criminal inal Code, Code of South Carolina, be amended by adding at the end of said section the words: "The Commissioner of Agriculture, Commerce and Industries, and the State Factory Inspectors are hereby charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this law, and said Commissioner is hereby empowered, from time to time whenever he may deem it necessary, to employ female inspectors for the purpose of collecting evidence. The sum of $300.00, if so much be necessary, shall annually be appropriated for the purpose of compensating such female inspectors," so that the section, when so amended, shall read as follows: Suitable employees. seats Section 335. It shall be the duty of all employers of females in any mercantile establishment, or any place where goods, or for female wares, or merchandise are offered for sale, to provide and maintain chairs, or stools, or other suitable seats for the use of such female employees, to the number of one seat for every three females employed, and to permit the use of such seats by such employees at reasonable times to such an extent as may be requisite for the preservation of their health. And such employees shall be permitted to use same, as above set forth, in front of the counter, table, desk or any fixture, when the female employee for the use of whom said seat shall be kept and maintained is principally engaged in front of said counter, table, desk or fixture, and behind such counter, table, desk or fixture, when the female employee for the use of whom said seat shall be kept and maintained is principally engaged behind said counter, table, desk or fixture. Any person who violates or omits to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of this Misdemeanor. section, or who suffers or permits any woman to stand, in violation of its provisions, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each A. D. 1911 offense. The Commissioner of Agriculture, Commerce and Industries, and the State Factory Inspectors are hereby charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this law, and said commissioner is hereby empowered, from time to time whenever he may deem it necessary, to employ female inspectors for the purpose of collecting evidence. The sum of $300.00, if so much be necessary, shall annually be appropriated for the purpose of compensating such female inspectors. Approved the 17th day of February, A. D. 1911. Filing of writ ten instruments re quired. No. 94. AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE FILING OF WRITTEN INSTRUMENTS SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That it shall be the duty of all Clerks of Court and Registers of Mesne Conveyances in this State to keep a file book in his office in which he shall file all conveyances, mortgages, liens, contracts and papers relating to real and personal property, by entering therein the names of the grantor and grantee, mortgagor and mortgagee, obligor and obligee, date of filing and nature of the instrument immediately upon its lodgment for record, and such filing shall be notice. to all persons, sufficient to put them upon inquiry of the purport of the instrument so filed and the property affected thereby Provided, That this Act shall not apply to the counties of Clarendon, Colleton and Sumter. Approved the 18th day of February, A. D. 1911. § 3005, Civil Code, amended. No. 95. AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 3005, VOLUME I, CODE OF LAWS, 1902, RELATING TO CERTAIN MORTGAGES. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That Section 3005, Volume I, Code of Laws, 1902, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the period at the end of said section and inserting in lieu thereof a comma, and by adding after said comma the follow ing words, "which said mortgage, when so taken, shall constitute a lien on the crops therein described in preference to all subsequent mortgages on said crop or crops," so that said section, when so amended, shall read as follows: A. D. 1911 only for the ing place to be Section 3005. No mortgage of any crop or crops shall be Mortgage of good and effective to convey to the mortgagee any interest in crops valid any crop or crops other than the crop or crops to be raised year. Plant. during the year in which said mortgage is given, and unless the described. land whereon said crop or crops are to be raised shall be described or mentioned in said mortgage, which said mortgage, when so taken, when indexed or recorded as required by law, shall constitute a lien on the crops therein described in preference to all subsequent mortgages on said crop or crops. Approved 18th day of February, A. D. 1911. No. 96. AN ACT TO AMEND SUBDivision 8 of SECTION 1893 of Vol- Subdivision 8 amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That Subdivision 8 of Section 1893 of $1893, of Volume I, Civil Code of 1902, be amended by adding thereto Civil Code, the following: "And provided, further, That nothing herein contained shall prevent a corporation where so authorized by resolution of its board of directors or managing board, from executing and delivering a valid mortgage on property to secure a bond (or note) given solely for the unpaid portion of the purchase money of property bona fide purchased and mortgaged, where the conveyance or grant to the corporation and such bond (or note) and mortgage bear the same date, are interchangeably delivered at the same time, and the mortgage covers no more property than that which has been so purchased, such mortgage being hereby authorized;" so that said paragraph 8 of Section 1893, when so amended, will read as follows: Section 1893. *** S. To borrow money for the purpose Purchase of carrying out the objects of its charter; to make notes, bonds money mortor other evidences of debt; and upon a vote of the stock gages. |