S.C. Code Ann. § 39-3-330

The justice of the Supreme Court or the circuit judge to whom such application for the order is made shall grant such application, with such preliminary injunction or stay as may appear to such justice or circuit judge to be proper and expedient. The order shall specify the time when, and place where, the witnesses are required to appear and such examination shall be held either in the city of Columbia or in the judicial district in which the witness resides or in which the principal office, within this State, of the corporation affected is located. The order must be signed by the justice or judge making it and service of a copy thereof, with an endorsement by the Attorney General, signed by him, to the effect that the person named therein is required to appear and be examined at the time and place and before the justice, circuit judge or referee specified in such endorsement, shall be sufficient notice for the attendance of witnesses. Such endorsement may contain a clause requiring such person to produce on such examination all books, papers and documents in his possession or under his control, relating to the subject of such examination. The order shall be served upon the person named in the endorsement aforesaid by showing him the original order and delivering to and leaving with him, at the same time, a copy thereof endorsed as above provided and by paying or tendering to him the fee allowed to witnesses subpoenaed to attend trials of civil actions in a court of record in this State.