OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA: BEING THE ANNUAL SESSION OF 1852. COLUMBIA, S. C.: R. W. GIBBES, STATE PRINTER. 1852. JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. BEING THE REGULAR SESSION OF NOVEMBER, 1852. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1852. General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, begun and held at the Capitol, in Columbia, on the twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, on which day, being that fixed by the Constitution for the meeting of the General Assembly, The Honorable JAMES SIMONS, Speaker, (a member from Charleston,) and the following Members of the House of Representatives, appeared and took their seats: From Abbeville.-Messrs. J. W. Hearst, and Thomas Thomson. From Barnwell.-Messrs. William A. Owens, S. W. Trotti, James Patterson, and N. G. W. Walker. From Charleston-Messrs. G. N. Reynolds, jun., Henry C. King, J. F. Poppenheim. From Chester.-Mr. Tillman Ingram. From Chesterfield.-Messrs. James W. Blakeney and E. B. C. Cash. From Christ Church.-Mr. Thomas M. Wagner. From Claremont.-Messrs. J. T. Green, J. D. Ashmore, and J. B. Witherspoon. From Clarendon.—Mr. J. I. Ingram. From Darlington.-Messrs. E. W. Charles, J. Ervin Byrd, and John F. Ervin. From Edgefield.-Messrs. W. S. Mobley, A. J. Hammond, John C. Allen, Wiley Harrison, Z. W. Carwile and S. Christie. From Fairfield.-Messrs. Henry H. Clarke, J. N. Shedd and R. B. Boylston. From Greenville.-Messrs. Wm. P. McBee, Nathaniel Morgan and Perry E. Duncan. From Kershaw.-Messrs. Joseph B. Kershaw and A. H. Boykin. From Kingston-Mr. Robert Munro, jun. From Lancaster.-Mr. W. C. Cauthen. From Laurens.-Messrs. C. P. Sullivan, John Hudgens, R. E. Campbell and George Anderson. From Liberty.-Mr. W. R. Johnson. From Marlborough.-Messrs. Charles A. Thornwell and Thomas C. Weatherly. From Newberry-Messrs. A. C. Garlington, James M. Crosson and Reuben G. Pitts. From Orange.-Messrs. L. M. Keitt and L. E. Coone". From Pendleton.-Messrs. William S. Pickens, William D. Steele, Elijah Alexander, jun., O. R. Broyles, Francis Burt and George R. Brown. From Prince Williams.-Mr. William F. Hutson. From Richland.-Messrs. James D. Tradewell, C. T. Howell, Wade Hampton, jun., and Wm. Maybin. From Saxe-Gotha.-Messrs. John Fox and J. C. Hope. From Spartan-Messrs. J. W. Tucker, E. C. Leitner, J. Winsmith and B. F. Bates. From St. James, Santee.-Mr. John A. Gadsden. From St. Matthews.-Mr. O. M. Dantzler. From St. Peters.—Mr. J. S. Lawton. From Union-Messrs. R. Beaty and J. M. Gadberry. From Williamsburg.-Messrs. A. Isaac McKnight and B. W. Bradley. From Winyah-Messrs. Gabriel Manigault, J. Izard Middleton, and J. Harleston Read, Jun. A quorum of members being present, the SPEAKER took the Chair, and the Clerk read the Journal of the proceedings of the last day of the last session. The Senate, by their Clerk, informed the House that a quorum had assembled, and was now ready to proceed to business. Messrs. Benjamin Fanueil Hunt, member elect from Charleston, and James Eppes, member elect from Clarendon, were sworn and took their |