Vacancies in such scholar ships. Ib., § 4. Appropriation for clothing. SEC. 26. As the youths so chosen shall graduate, or in case of the death, expulsion or removal of them, or any of them, the Commissioners aforesaid are authorized and empowered to fill any vacancy occasioned thereby. SEC. 27. The sum of one hundred and forty dollars is hereby anIb., 138, 5. nually appropriated for the clothing of each of the said boys while they remain at the said University: Provided, nevertheless, That they shall not continue beyond the term usually allowed to candidates for the first degree. Free students from County. each 1865, X111,13, % 10; 1869, XIV, 204, 87. How appointed. Salaries; Tuition fund. 24. SEC. 28. There shall be admitted to the University one student annually from each County in the State, who shall be entitled to entrance into as many as three of the schools, not including either the school of law or medicine, without the payment of tuition fee. Such student shall be appointed by the Governor, on the nomination of the delegation in the General Assembly from the County in which the students shall respectively reside; the nomination to be made by the delegation in accordance with such regulations as the Governor may prescribe: Provided, That every student thus appointed shall show, upon examination before the Faculty, the degree of proficiency required of other students for admission into the University, and shall be otherwise admissible, according to the regulations governing the University. SEC. 29. To each of the Professors shall be paid, from the Treasury of the State, quarterly, an annual salary of two thousand dol1869, XIV,204, lars, and to the Demonstrator of Anatomy an annual salary of one thousand dollars. There shall also be paid to each Professor, from "the tuition fund," as additional salary, the sum of five hundred dollars, which shall be paid at the expiration of the University term. If the tuition fund shall not be sufficient therefor, the Treasurer shall apportion the same among the Professors, and should there be, at the expiration of any University term, a surplus of "the tuition fund," it shall be passed by the Treasurer into the University fund, to be applied, under the direction of the Trustees, to the general purposes of the University. Additional du SEC. 30. The Trustees shall have authority to assign any Professor ties of Professors, to additional duties in any other school or schools without additional Ib., 25. Faculty. salary. Chairman of SEC. 31. All Professors shall be members of the Faculty of the University; and one of the members shall be chosen, annually, by 38. 1869, XIV, a vote of the Faculty, to act as Chairman of the Faculty. 1865, XIII,314, 204, 85. school. SEC. 32. The Board of Trustees shall have the authority to estabPreparatory lish, in connection with the State University, a preparatory school, under such rules and regulations as they may think best to adopt: Provided, That a course in the University shall not be made a con Ib., 28. Not to receiv→ pecuniary aid dition of admission into said school: And provided, further, That said school shall at no time receive any pecuniary aid from the from State. State. 24. Tuition fees. SEC. 33. The tuition fees to be paid by the students in the several schools shall be as follows: For entrance into the school of law or Ib.. 203,3; medicine, fifty dollars, with the privilege of entering any of the 1865, XIII, 315, other schools, upon the payment of fifteen dollars for each school; for entrance into three or more of the other schools, fifteen dollars for each school; for entrance into any two of the other schools (if a student shall enter but two,) twenty dollars; and for entrance into any one of the other schools (if a student shall enter but one,) twenty-five dollars. The tuition fees shall be paid into the Treasury of the University in advance, and shall be set apart and known as the "tuition fund." The compensation for room rent, use of Library, and such damages to the property of the corporation as may be done by each student, shall be regulated by the Board of &c. Trustees. Compensation for room rent, race or color. 1869, XIV, 203, 21; Con., Art. SEC. 34. Neither the said Board of Trustees, nor the Faculty of Distinctions of the University, shall make any distinction in the admission of students or the management of the University, on account of race, x, 10. color or creed. SEC. 35. The Comptroller General is authorized and required, Buildings to be annually, to insure against fire the University buildings at Columbia. insured. 1819, VI, 139, 15. Treasurer to give duplicate SEC. 36. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the University, in making his returns to the Comptroller General, to make out and returns. deliver to him, at the same time, fair duplicates thereof. ib., 2 14. Board of Com missioners. 1871, XIV, 609, X, 27. SECTION 1. His Excellency the Governor, the Comptroller Gen eral, and the State Superintendent of Education, are constituted a 1; Con., Art. Board, to be known by the name, style and title of the Board of Commissioners of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, and are hereby vested with the supervision and control of the affairs and government of the South Carolina Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, located at Cedar Springs, Spartanburg County. The Governor shall be ex officio Chairman, and Chairman; the State Superintendent of Education, Secretary of the said Board. Secretary. Meetings; pay. Ib., 610, 22. Duties of Secretary. Ib., 2 3. Board. Powers of Ib., 24. Appropriation indigent deaf and dumb. 1824, VI, 513, rect. SEC. 2. The said Board of Commissioners shall meet annually, on the first Monday in November, at the office of the Governor, and at such other times and places as the Chairman of the Board shall diSaid Board shall receive no compensation for their services. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of said Board to visit the South Carolina Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind at least twice during each school session thereof, in order to notice the condition of the institution, the efficiency and faithfulness of the instructors and officers, and the progress of the pupils thereof, and to submit to the said Board written reports of such visits. He shall be allowed actual traveling expenses incurred in making such visits, the same to be subject to the approval of the other members of the Board, and be paid from the funds appropriated for the support of the institution. SEC. 4. The said Board of Commissioners shall have power to appoint a principal and such teachers and officers of the institution as they shall deem requisite, and to fix their salaries; to establish conditions, forms and regulations for the admission of pupils to the institution, and to prescribe such rules and by-laws as they, in their judgment, shall deem necessary for the management and good government of the institution. SEC. 5. The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars is hereby annually for eucation of appropriated to defray the expenses of educating so many deaf and dumb persons, between such ages as the Commissioners, in their dis1; 1847, XI, cretion, shall indicate, (born of parents, citizens of this State,) as shall apply to receive the benefit of this provision, and as shall be judged by the Commissioners not able to meet, out of their own means, all the expenses of their support and education. 436, 1. Sum for each not to $150 annually. SEC. 6. The sum which shall be allowed for the board, tuition, exceed and all incidental expenses, of one deaf and dumb person, for one 1852, XII, 187, year, (except traveling expenses, clothing and medical attendance,) shall not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars; and, as to the expenses excepted, the Commissioners shall take care to place them upon the most economical scale. 21. children. SEC. 7. The said Commissioners shall be authorized, to the extent. Indigent blind of one-half the appropriation made by Section 5 of this Chapter, and 1847,X1, 436, § 2. subject to same provisions, to send to such asylum, for education, such blind children as may be deemed appropriate objects. Power of Commissioners with reference to ap SEC. 8. The whole or part of the expenses of the several applicants shall be paid, according to the opinion which the Commissioners may form as to the pecuniary condition of the applicants; propriation. and, in case of more applications than would exhaust the annual 1854, VI, 514,55. appropriation, the Commissioners shall make selection according to their opinion of the deserts of the various applicants. To draw ap 1848, XI,524, 1. SEC. 9. The Commissioners shall have power to draw the annual appropriation herein mentioned, and to send so many of the deaf propriation. and dumb and the blind as can be supported by the annual appropriation, and as they shall deem proper objects of public bounty, to such asylum. 1834, VI, 514, 26. SEC. 10. The Commissioners shall, annually, report to the Legis- Report of Comlature an exact statement of their various proceedings during the missioners. past year, showing precisely how they disbursed the money expended, the names of the persons who have received the bounty, the ages and places of residence of such persons, and information as to their progress; which statement shall be accompanied by the vouchers of all sums expended. TITLE XI. OF WAYS, BRIDGES, FERRIES, FENCES, DAMS AND DRAINS. CHAPTER XLIV. Of Highways. XLV. Of the Repair of Highways and Bridges. XLIX. Of Dams and Drains. Navigable streams declared ? 1; Con., Art. VI, 1. SECTION 1. That all streams which have been rendered, or can to be highways. hereafter be rendered, capable of being navigated by rafts of lum1853,X11,305, ber or timber, by the removal therefrom of accidental obstructions, and all navigable water courses and cuts, are hereby declared navigable streams; and such streams shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of this State as to the citizens of the United States, without any tax or impost therefor, unless the same be expressly provided for by the General Assembly; and if any person shall obstruct the same, otherwise than as hereinafter provided, such person shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and such obstruction may be abated as other public nuisances are by the laws of this State. Commissioners to be appointed ways. Proviso. SEC. 2. The Boards of County Commissioners have power, and to lay out high- they are hereby authorized, to appoint Special Commissioners to lay out public highways in those cases where they shall be satisfied 214, 16; Con, that the road applied for is important: Provided, however, That the 1825. IX. 559.35. said Commissioners shall have no power to open any new road until 1868, XIV,130, Art. IV. § 19; 10 Rich., 389. |