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ARLESTON 1866. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. the pleasure of laying before his Excellency our readWe have morning the Message of written paper. of ers this ORR, an able and general well condition the State, depressed a word giving After Governor hastily glancing at state the of her industry, of cheer- and for recommendations ing the the hope failure for of the the future, crops, as he and thinks he proceeds will promote to make the such an terest of the State and her people. to provido He advises to the the Constitution Legislature of the State be consum- in reamendment the District Courts; which Ho can says the 3d gard to at the next session. of these Courts to mated article, limiting the jurisdiction have beon incorporated colored into people, the should Constitution, never left to and establish the Legislature such of the suwould then have been Courts as the interests Constitution of perior may and require. inferior As it the is, the legislation of Concounter to District gress. as The an experiment; Governor as owes indeed its all existence to State the State runs views the legislation Court and must only be considered that upon a revolution, state of things consequent in a state of transition. at the Dismade the for a dispensing society of Grand of Jurics the renire for loss the vises Court, and the reduction making the jury duty onerous, and at the same trict Petit Jury from 24 to 18, time saving the State a of large amount of several money. other recommendations of justice; He makes in the administration of Deeds and Notaries others salutary in reforms regard to Commissioners Public. to the importance of of modifying the ostabHo next rofers law of the State, in viow to public the criminal penitentiary; is opposed the imand lishment whipping of at the a whipping-post law against speaks sheriffs of portance for of neglect enforcing of duty the in No allowing less than prisoners seventy State to jailors, oscape from are their said custody. to have escaped in this of prisoners within the last fow months. election for members that He recommends held the bionnially, on the chosen, day 80 Congress of to the be General Assembly seats in the are December membors that they will much take their better arrangement elected than fourteen forfollowing,- members were seats. merly, when could take their months before they to the transfer of jurisdiction thinks military to the the action from He the next adverts thus far has civil justified authority; negroes of to that experience Assembly in permitting the Governor 1 the Court. From this labor and the on to speak on the discouraged their his testify General in he has subject of here migration, passes freed- labor men-that "If the negro remains remunerativo to subsist and be made Schools must be to and clothe him his children, and his moral the passage of an lished must for says: educate recommends training." sufficiently comfortably. churches act of mak- built the esHe also on the Commissioners the various ing it incumbent suitable buildings accommodation at and Poor freedmen. is District to provide Poor of Houses aged, infirm for the and helpless in the Message subsistence of discussion that The next subject State. From this we learn the revenue of the received into the treasury amount the entire the revenue year, is $477,743.97 31st of October, this during in the treasury on of jeet to draft, a national currency. there was balance of the $173,055.03, important which sub$73,245.35 was in soveral The Governor recommends of taxation ; among income them we fear changes in the matter and stamp duties, and an circum- to stances, our system tax, which, of licenses under will existing not prove internal very revenue palatable the y it be The citizens. Bank of the State of be South discontinued, Carolina and Governor put recommonds into the hands to of Commissioners for 0 t an that early whole liquidation. amount of the public including debt, the principal debts t n contracted and The interest, for of or this on account State, $5,205,227.74. not of the war, was, The on Gov- the day of immendations for ernor makes soveral of this debt, and to first the arrangement October last, and interest. providing in reference the to the payment solected of principal by the Oommissioners is within the for cor81, establishment The site of Columbia, a penitentiary facing the canal, Carolina about 1. porate limits above of the depot of the South of the buildRailroad. half a mile The architect is in confident charge that he will for in ings, cells Captain in readiness T. B. LEE, by the first of January n have the reception of convicts. leniency and forbearance of the Gov. ORR recommends creditors to debtors, in view part to gor in on the crops part made of this year in the almost abolition every of im- the of ethe bad State. He again debt. urges He also recommends Bof prisonment passage South of a for Homestead Carolina University Law. There is the are at next present topic W adverted The to in the Message. attendance. Governor Onn ho de re recommends sixty-five Medical students the School, appointment in and successful one of of two Law, Professore to departments into of a ad ns also Modern Languages, from for He those the two advocates of the establishment reduced and recommends operation. profes- put the is for Borship that the Board of number Trustees to seven be members. he present unwieldy refers to the failure of with the legis corn ter and recommends to lative The scheme Governor for supplying a further the consideration people of the ce 1Z, subject. A general Incorporation Act is strongly recom re mended consideration in the Message. of the Constitutional Amond the at ba, he. The proposed by Congress, next treats engages it very briefly rs, tention ment, of the Governor. it unnecessary He to do more already than les seeming to think the many strong concurs. arguments AN t his recapitulate against it, in which "It he is unnecessary at brought In conclusion, he which says has been so far decided State dwell upon a subject of the people of the erpiby the public opinion in saying that if the Constitu don that tional I Amendment am justified is to be adopted, let it be
