compensation of a commissioner).-The governor shall appoint a commissioner of agriculture, commerce, and immigration for a term of four years. The commissioner shall be charged with all matters tending to the general deveolpment of the State by inducing immigrants to enter and settle. He shall collect, compile, and publish a handbook of the State containing reliable data for general distribution. He shall make arrangements with transportation companies and immigration agencies to serve the interests of successful immigration. He shall require the heads of state institutions, departments of state government, and establishments chartered by the State to furnish information for the prosecution of his work. His efforts to promote immigration "shall be confined to white citizens of the United States, Ireland, Scotland, Switzerland, France, and all other foreigners of Saxon origin."

IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

ACTS OF 1866.
I.

[South Carolina State Laws, 1866, p. 409.]

AN ACT For the encouragement and protection of European immigration, and for the appointment of a commissioner and agents, and for other purposes therein expressed.

Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the State of South Carolina in general assembly and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. That for the purpose of encouraging, promoting, and protecting European immigration to and in this State the sum of ten thousand dollars be appropriated from the contingent fund to be expended under the direction of the governor for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. That the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint a commissioner of immigration, who shall open an office in the fireproof building in Charleston to perform such duties as may appertain to his office, and shall be paid for his services the salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum out of the fund aforesaid, in quarterly payments.

SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of said commissioner of immigration to advertise in all the gazettes of the State for lands for sale; to cause such lands, after having been duly laid off, platted, and described, at the expense of the owner or owners of said lands, to be appraised by three disinterested persons, and their titles to be examined by the attorney-general or solicitor of the State, and endorsed by them, as the case may be; to open a book or books for the registry of the same, together with the price demanded and the conditions of payment. And in case such lands be selected by any immigrant, to superintend the transfer of title and other necessary instruments and proceedings of conveyance.

SEC. 4. That the said commissioner shall periodically publish, advertise, and cause to be distributed in the Northern and European ports and States, descriptive lists of such lands as have been regis

tered and offered for sale, together with this act, and a statement of such advantages as this State offers in soil, climate, productions, social improvements, etc., to the industrious, orderly, and frugal European immigrant.

SEC. 5. That the governor shall also appoint one or more agents for the purposes aforesaid, with such salaries or compensations as he shall determine or hereinafter may be provided for, the commissioner of immigration to prescribe the duties of such agents, and to designate their point or points of operation.

SEC. 6. That the said commissioner shall be specially charged with the protection of the immigrants, in the proper selection of their lands; in the procurement of their transportation; in the guarding of them against fraud, chicanery, and peculation; in their temporary location in proper and reasonable places of board and lodging on their arrival; and in making all such regulations and provisions as may be in any manner necessary or conducive to their welfare. And all officers of the State are hereby required and commanded to aid and assist him in the objects aforesaid whenever requested.

SEC. 7. That the commissioner shall keep a separate book, wherein he shall register all applications from citizens, free of charge, for immigrant artizans, mechanics, farmers, or male or female help of any kind, together with the kind of service demanded and the compensation offered; and another book, wherein he shall record the names, crafts, and qualifications of immigrants that are looking for employment; and he shall make memoranda of such contracts as shall be made in consequence hereof.

SEC. 8. That the said commissioner of immigration do make a report of his proceedings at the annual session of the general assembly, and as often as the executive shall require.

SEC. 9. That all the expenses contemplated or which may be occasioned by this act shall be met by the appropriation directed in the first section, and shall not in any way create a claim against the State beyond such appropriation.

In the senate house, the 20th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1866.

AN ACT For the better protection of seamen and immigrants in the port and harbor of Charleston.

Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives, sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person, except a pilot or public officer, to board or attempt to board a vessel arriving in the port or harbor of Charleston before such vessel shall have been

made fast to the wharf without first obtaining leave from the master having charge of such vessel, or from her owners or agents.

SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for any owner, agent, master, or other person having charge of any vessel arriving or being in the port of Charleston to permit or authorize any sailors, hotel or boardinghouse keeper, not licensed as hereinafter provided, or any agent, runner, or employee of any sailor's or immigrant's hotel or boarding house to board, or attempt to board, any vessel arriving, in, or lying, or being in the harbor or port of Charleston before such vessel shall have been made fast to the wharf, or anchored, with intent to invite, ask, or solicit the boarding of any of the crew employed on such vessel.

SEC. 3. It shall not be lawful for any sailor's or immigrant's hotel or boarding-house keeper, or the employee of any sailor's or immigrant's hotel or boarding-house keeper, having boarded any vessel made fast to any wharf in the port of Charleston, to neglect or refuse to leave said vessel after having been ordered so to do by the master or person having charge of such vessel.

SEC. 4. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep, conduct, or carry on, either as owner, proprietor, agent, or otherwise, any sailor's or immigrant's boarding house, or sailor's or immigrant's hotel in the city of Charleston without having a license from the city council thereof.

SEC. 5. It shall not be lawful for any person not having the license in this act provided, or not being the regular agent, runner or employee of a person having such license, to invite, ask, or solicit in the city or harbor of Charleston, the boarding or lodging of any of the crew employed on any vessel or of any immigrant arriving in the said city of Charleston.

SEC. 6. The city council shall take the application of any person applying for a license to keep a sailor's or immigrant's boarding house or sailor's or immigrant's hotel in the city of Charleston, and upon satisfactory evidence to them of the respectability and competency of such applicant and of the suitableness of his accommodations shall issue to him a license, which shall be good for one year, unless sooner revoked by said city council, to keep a sailor's or immigrant's boarding house in the city of Charleston and to invite and to solicit boarders for the same.

SEC. 7. The city council may, upon satisfactory evidence of the disorderly character of any sailor's or immigrant's hotel or boarding house, licensed as hereinbefore provided, or of the keeper or proprietor of any such house, or of any force, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in inviting or soliciting boarders or lodgers for such house on the part of such keeper or proprietor or any of his agents, runners, or employees, or of any attempt to persuade or entice any of the crew to desert from any vessel in the harbor of Charleston by such keeper or proprietor or any of his agents, runners, or employees, revoke the license for keeping such house.

SEC. 8. Every person receiving the license hereinbefore provided for shall pay to the city council aforesaid the sum of twenty dollars. SEC. 9. The said city council shall furnish to each sailor's or immigrant's hotel or boarding house keeper, licensed by them as afore

said, one or more badges or shields, on which shall be printed or engraved the name of such hotel or boarding house keeper, and the number and street of his hotel or boarding house; and which said badges or shields shall be surrendered to said city council upon the revocation by them, or expiration of any license granted by them as herein provided.

SEC. 10. Every sailor's or immigrant's hotel or boarding house keeper, and every agent, runner, or employee of such hotel or boarding house keeper, when boarding any vessel in the harbor of Charleston, or when inviting or soliciting the boarding or lodging of seaman, sailor, or person employed on any vessel, or of any immigrant, shall wear, conspicuously displayed, the shield or badge referred to in the foregoing section.

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SEC. 11. It shall not be lawful for any person, except those named in the preceding section, to have, wear, exhibit, or display any such shield or badge to any of the crew employed on any vessel, or to any immigrant so arriving in the city of Charleston, with the intent to invite, ask, or solicit the boarding or lodging of such immigrant or of any of the crew employed on any vessel being in the harbor of Charleston.

SEC. 12. Whoever shall offend against any or either of the provisions contained in sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 11 in this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon a conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, and not less than thirty days, or by a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and not less than one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 13. The word "vessel as used in this act shall include vessels propelled by steam.

In the senate house the 20th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1866.

Approved, December 20, 1866.

W. D. PORTER,

President of the Senate. CHARLES H. SIMONTON,

Speaker House of Representatives.

ACT OF 1880.

JAMES L. ORR, Governor.

[South Carolina State Laws, 1880, No. 357, p. 432.]

AN ACT To aid and encourage immigration into this State by returning the amount of taxes paid by immigrants upon all real estate purchased by them, and upon the capital used in improvements thereon, except the two mills school tax, for a period of five years, and by authorizing the department of agriculture to use the funds under its control, in its discretion for that purpose.

Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. That on and after the passage of this act, for the purpose of inducing immigration to this State for the purpose of becom

ing residents thereof and citizens of the same, and upon satisfactory proof furnished to the comptroller-general of this State of his or their purpose to so make this State his or their home, shall be entitled to receive from the treasury of the State, annually, a sum equal to the aggregate amount of state taxes, less two mills, to be used for school purposes, which shall be exclusively so applied, which shall be levied and collected upon any and all real estate purchased by said immigrant or person moving into this State, in any city, town, or county within this State, used as a residence or used in connection therewith, and upon the capital which may be invested in the improvement and development of said real estate, not to exceed in value the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, by the said immigrant or said person moving into this State, the said sum of money to be fixed and determined by the comptroller-general of the State, in accordance with the tax returns, and to be paid by the state treasurer on the warrant of the said comptroller-general.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of all county treasurers and of the treasurers of all municipal corporations which are by law authorized to levy and collect taxes, to pay to the individual or individuals described in the first section of this act a sum of money, annually, equal to the aggregate amount of county or municipal taxes levied and collected during any year upon the property or capital described in the first section of this act.

SEC. 3. That the benefits of this act shall extend to the real estate purchased and the capital invested in the improvement and development of the same designated in the first section of this act for a period of five years after the purchase and improvement of said real estate, and no longer.

SEC. 4. That the department of agriculture be, and is hereby, authorized to use so much of the fund now by law under the control of that department as may in its discretion be deemed proper to encourage and aid in the introduction of intelligent and thrifty immigrants into this State.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on and after its

Approved, December 24, 1880.

ACT OF 1882.

passage.

[South Carolina State Laws, 1882, No. 42, p. 61.]

AN ACT To abolish the office of superintendent of immigration and to devolve the duties thereof on the commissioner of agriculture.

Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the office of superintendent of immigration, as created by the department of agriculture in this State, be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and the duties thereof devolved upon the commissioner of agriculture, the same to take effect on and after the 5th day of April, 1883.