An act to incorporate certain societies and companies and to renew certain charters heretofore granted. 1848.

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An act to incorporate certain societies and companies and to renew certain charters heretofore granted. 1848.

Legislative act incorporating the South Carolina Medical Association.

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South Carolina Medical Association

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The South Carolina Medical Association (SCMA) was established when a group of medical leaders of the state, primarily from the Medical Society of South Carolina, called a convention in Columbia on February 14, 1848, resulting in the formation of the South Carolina Medical Association. Based in principle on the newly organized American Medical Association, the SCMA served the entire state as a resource to physicians in the areas of practice management, education, licensing, and legislative influe...

South Carolina. General Assembly

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S.C. Statute 1811(5)639 specified that every board of commissioners of free schools was to make a yearly return to the legislature. Governor Middleton recommended the passage of this act as a response to the systematic lack of education in the state. The first appropriation made possible 124 elementary schools for the state. As the system progressed, the term "free school" became embarrassingly exchangeable with pauper schools, because the 1811 act carried within it a written directive that an a...