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 would constitute conservatism, and that once fixed in the popular heart, this holy ordinance, now trampled under foot, would be saved from dishonor and sacrilege!

RHODE ISLAND.

An act for the more plainly marking explosive materials, prescribes, that every person who shall knowingly deliver, or cause to be delivered to any person or carrier any box, can, or other package of nitro-glycerine, gun powder, naphtha, or other equally explosive material, not marked with a plain and legible label describing its contents, or shall remove or cause to be removed any such label or mark, shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

The people of South Carolina having voted in favor of an amendment to the constitution of that state, the legislature at its last session ratified and made the same a part of the constitution of that State.

The amendment is in these words:

"Any bonded debt hereafter incurred by any county or municipal corporation, or political division of this state, shall never exceed eight per centum of the assessed value of all the taxable property therein."

An act touching the sale of spirituous liquors or prescriptions by druggists, provides that no druggist shall sell more than at one time on the same prescription; nor shall the druggist or apothecary give any prescriptions for the sale of spirituous liquors to any person, unless such druggist or apothecary shall be a practicing physician, or in actual attendance on such patient.

An act relating to liens on ships and vessels provides that the same shall be dissolved, unless the person claiming the same, shall within ninety days after he ceases to labor or