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the Fish Commission has distributed 166,000 

 California salmon, 945,000 shad, 4,545 Ger- 

 man carp, 58 blue bream, and 50 black bass. 



MANUFACTURES. The water-power of South 

 Carolina has been estimated at 3,000,000 horse- 

 power, of which it is said only 15,000 horse- 

 power is now used by all kinds of mills in the 

 State, leaving a very large margin for future 

 development. The cotton-mills in the State 

 contain now 180,701 spindles and 4,120 looms, 

 paid in wages during the year $728,900 to 4,262 

 hands, and have a capital of $4,547,000. This 

 does not include the Pendleton Factory ; the 

 Charleston Manufacturing, which began opera- 

 tions at the end of the year ; or the Pelzer Mills, 

 which suspended for repairs and enlargement. 

 The stock of all these factories, except five, is 

 above par, and the stock of these five is at par. 

 The Langley stock is quoted at $173, the G-ran- 

 iteville at $170, the Piedmont at $150, the Ready 

 Eiver, Clifton, and Camperdown at $125, the 

 Farryville and Pelham at $120, and the Cedar 

 Shoals and Valley Falls at $1 10. The dividends 

 paid rapge from 10 to 20 per cent. The State 

 has wisely supplemented the natural induce- 

 ments she offers to capitalists in her water- 

 power and her products, by legislation which 

 exempts capital invested in factories from all 

 taxation, except the two-mill school-tax, for 

 ten years. An effort was made at this year's 

 session of the Legislature to repeal this law, but 

 it was overwhelmingly defeated. The same 

 Legislature granted charters to nine new facto- 

 ries, with an aggregate capital of $1,725,000. 



The financial condition of the city of Charles- 

 ton is much improved, and may now be said to 

 be perfectly sound. At the beginning of this 

 year its debt amounted to $4,264,050, being 

 $1,000,000 less than it was ten years ago, and 

 $500,000 less than it was in 1881. The interest 

 on the debt amounts to $183,474. In 1870 it 

 amounted to $314,557. This reduction of prin- 

 cipal and interest was not effected by scaling 

 or readjusting, but by paying the principal 

 and by refunding the matured debt in long- 

 date non-taxable bonds bearing a low rate of 

 interest. In 1881 the debt was $95 for every 

 man, woman, and child in Charleston. Now 

 it is $85. The Legislature wisely repealed the 

 power heretofore exercised by the city, to bor- 

 row money and contract debts ; and now the 

 municipal government is absolutely prohibited 

 from contracting any debt in excess of the in- 

 come of the current year, unless the debt to be 

 incurred shall be approved first by a vote of 

 two thirds of the City Council ; second, by two 

 thirds of the voters of Charleston at a special 

 election ; and, third, by the General Assembly 

 of the State. The trade of Charleston, for the 

 commercial year ending August 31st, was large- 

 ly in advance of that of the preceding year. 

 The value of the trade of the year was $74,- 

 839,904, against $71,211,000 last year. In na- 

 val stores the receipts of spirits of turpentine 

 increased from 51,386 casks to 65,000 casks ; 

 the receipts of rosin from 231,417 barrels to 



256,000 barrels ; lumber from 18,610,857 feet 

 to 45,000,000 feet. 



The State Legislature was convened in extra 

 session on June 27th for the purpose of divid- 

 ing the State into seven congressional districts, 

 instead of five, so as to provide for the two 

 additional members of Congress to which the 

 State became entitled under the last apportion- 

 ment act. 



The full text of the redistricting law is as 

 follows: 



An Act to divide the State of South Carolina into Seven Con- 

 gressional Districts. 



SECTION 1. 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 au- 

 thority of the same : 



That the State of South Carolina shall be divided 

 into seven congressional districts, as follows : The 

 First Congressional District to be composed of the 

 county of Charles ton, except James Island, Folly Isl- 

 and, Morris Island and the islands lying between 

 them, the lower harbor of Charleston Harbor and the 

 ocean coast-line from and below high-water mark ; 

 the towns of Mount Pleasant and Somerville, and so 

 much of the parish of St. James Goosecreek as lies 

 between the western track of the South Carolina Kail- 

 way and the Ashley River, in the county of Berkeley, 

 and below the county of Colleton ; the townships or 

 Bell's, Burns, Cam, Dorchester, George, Givham, 

 Hey ward, Koger, Sheridan, and Verdier, in the county 

 of Colleton : the townships of Branchville, Caw -caw, 

 Cowcastle, Edisto, Elizabeth, Goodland, Hebron, Lib- 

 erty, Middle, Newhope, Union, Willow, Eocky Grove, 

 and Zion. in the county of Orangeburg; and the 

 county of Lexington. 



The Second Congressional District to be composed 

 of the county of Hampton ; the townships of Brox- 

 ton's and Warren in the county of Colleton, the 

 countv of Barnwell, and the counties of Aiken and 

 Edgefield. 



The Third Congressional District to be composed 

 of the counties ot Abbeville, Newberry, Anderson, 

 Oconee, and Pickens. 



The Fourth Congressional District to be composed 

 of the counties of Greenville and Laurens, the coun- 

 ty of Spartanburg, except the townships of White 

 Plains and Limestone Springs ; the county of Union, 

 except the townships of Gowdeysville and Drayton- 

 ville, and the townships of Centre, Columbia, and 

 Upper, in the county of Kichland, and the county of 

 Fairfield. 



The Fifth Congressional District to be composed 

 of the county of York, the county of Chester, the 

 townships of White Plains and Limestone Springs, 

 in the county of Spartanburg ; the townships of 

 Gowdeysville and Draytonville, in the county of 

 Union, and the counties of Lancaster, Chesterfield, 

 and Kershaw. 



The Sixth Congressional District to be composed 

 of the county of Clarendon, the townships of Lake, 

 Lee's, Johnson's, and Surnter, and the town of Kings- 

 tree, in the county of Williamsburg, and the counties 

 of Darlington. Marlboro', Marion, and Horry. 



The Seventh. Congressional District to be composed 

 of the counties of Georgetown and Beaufort, the lower 

 township of the county of Richland, the county of 

 Sumter, the townships of Amelia, Goodby's, Lyons, 

 Pine Grove, Poplar, Providence, and Vance's, in the 

 county of Orangeburg ; the townships of Anderson, 

 Hope, Indian, Kings (except the town of Kingstree), 

 Laws, Mingo, Penn, Eidge, Button's, and Turkey, in 

 the county of Williamsburg ; all of the counties of 

 Charleston and Berkeley, excepting such portion 

 thereof as are hereinbefore designated as a part of the 

 First Congressional District ; the townships of Collins, 

 Adam's Bun, Glover, Fraser, Lowndes, and Blake, in 

 Colleton County. 



