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are under the sum of five pounds, before the said intendant and wardens, or any two of them: ail which fines, when recovered, shall be applied to Council the use of the said town: and the said town may assess council may assess a tax on the inhabitants of the said town, not exceeding one third part of the amount of the general tax, which is paid by such inhabitants for property being within the limits of said town. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the said town council to make any byc-laws inconsistent with or repugnant to the laws of the land. And Provided also, That all the bye-laws and ordinances they may make, shall at all times be subject to the revisal or repeal of the legislature.

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And be it further enacted by the authority Powers aforesaid, That the said wardens shall cach of and autho- them have full power and authority, and they Wardens. are hereby required to keep peace and good or der in their respective words; to issue warrants, and cause all offenders against law to be brought before them, and on examination, either to release, admit to bail, if the offence aforesaid be bailable, or commit to the custody of the sheriff of Camden district, or of Kershaw county, as the case may require, who is hereby required and commended to receive and keep the person so committed in safe custody until discharged Wardens by due course of law. And the said wardens, or any two of them, shall, in rotation, meet twice every month, or oftener if occasion requires, at some convenient and public place in Camden, to hear and determine all small and mean causes, agreeably to the directions of the act of the general assembly, and all other matters of complaint arising within the said town; and the intendant and each and every of the said wardens for the time being, shall be vested with all the

to meet twice a

month to hear cau

and authorities that justices of the peace Fowers are vested with by the laws of this state, and shland may exercise the same in every part of the said town, for the preservation of the peace and good order thereof.

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And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case of tumult or riot, or ap- In case of pearance or probability of tumult or riot, in the riot, inten said town, the intendant shall immediately sum- summen mon together the town council, and order the the town constables of the town to attend the town coun- council cil, and such measures shall thereupon be taken as shell appear most adviscable for preventing or suppressing such riot or tumult; and if any town constable shall neglect or refuse to chy the order for attendance from the intendant, he srkit a sum not exceeding five pounds sterling for every such offence; and any other inhabit refusing to obey the orders of the intendant, for the purposes of suppressing any riot or tumult, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding two pounds sterling for every such refus.l.

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And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said town council shall have Town fuil power and authority from time to time, to commit to close prison in the gaol of Korshav. mit delin county, all such person and persons who shall quents to incur any penalties and forfeitures intended to be inflicted by any of the bye-laws of the said corporation, passed conformable to the powers vested in them by this act.

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And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation shall be, and Empower. they are hereby fully authorized and empower- lotteries. ed, from time to time, to erect and proceed to the drawing, and finally to conclude any lottery or lotteries that they may think necessary to esta blish for the use and benefit of the said town,

And he it further enacted by the authority This acta aforesaid, That this act shall be deemed a pubpublic act. lic act; and if any person or persons shall be sued for any thing done by virtue of this act, he may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence.

In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the fifteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Speaker of the House of Representatives,

An ACT to exempt John Fisher and Malcolm Brown from the pains and penalties of the acts of confiscation and banishment, and to restore to them such parts of their estates as remain undisposed of by the commissioners of forfeited

estates.

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HEREAS John Fisher, late of Orangeburgh, and Malcolm Brown, by their humble petitions to the legislature of this state, did, among other things, severally pray to be exempted from the pains and penalties of the acts of confiscation and banishment, and that such parts of their estates as now remain undisposed of by the commissioners of forfeited estates, should be restored to them:

Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the said John Fisher and Malcolm Brown, shall be, and they are hereby exonerated and discharged from all the pains and penalties to which they were severally lia

ble under the said acts of confiscation and ba. nishment; and that the said acts, so far as they respect the said John Fisher and Malcolm Brown, be and are hereby repealed, except as hereinafter excepted.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the estates, both real and personal, which belonged to the said John Fisher and Malcolm Brown, previous to the passing of the said acts of confiscation and banishment, be, and the same are hereby restored to the said John Fisher and Malcolm Brown respectively, in as full and ample a manner as if the said acts of confiscation and banishment had never been passed. Provided always, That this act of restoration shall not extend, or be construed to extend to revest in the said John Fisher and Malcolm Brown, any property actually sold by the commissioners of confiscation, or to any negroes given as a bounty to the military.

In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the fifteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

An ACT for relieving and exempting the reve rend Edward Jenkins from banishment.

HEREAS the reverend Edward Jen

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kins hath presented his petition to the legislature, setting forth that upon the dissolution of the connexion between Great-Britain and the colonies, now the United States of America, he being restrained by conscientious scruples

from taking the oaths of allegiance and abjura. tion, which, by an act of the legislature, were required of the inhabitants of this state artiest of fidelity to the United States, withdrew from this state, and thereby incurred banishment, and praving to be relieved and exempted the chiom:

Be it therefore enacted by the hooralle the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the au thority of the same, That the said Edward Jenkins shall be and is hereby relieved and exempted from banishment, and is and shall be permitted to return to and remain in this state, any law to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord' one thousand seven laundred and inty-one, are in the fifteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

DAVID RAMSAY,

President of the Senate,

JACOB READ,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

An ACT to exempt Villiam Greenwood from the pains and penalties of the act of confisca

tion and banishment.

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HEREAS William Greenwood, Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Leger and Mrs. Elizabeth Love Hutchinson, have petitioned the legislature that the said William Greenwood may be freed and exempted from the pains and penalties of the act of confiscation and banishment:

Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the said act, so far as