it relates to the said William Greenwood, be, and the same is hereby repealed. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousend seven hundred and ninety-one, and 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 Wiliam Bull, esquire. from the pains and penalties of the acts of confisca tin and banishment, and to permit âm to send Lack and employ his negroes and other slaves in this state. THEREAS, William Ball, esquire, by his petition to the legislature of this stat, hath represented that his infirmity and advanced age will prevent him from returning to this state to avail himself of the benefits intended to be conferred on him by an act,, entitled, "An act to exempt William Bull from the pains and penalties to which he is liable by several acts of the general assembly," passed the twentyeighth day of March, in the year of on Lord one thousand seven hund.edand cighty-seven; which representation hath been folly substantiated: 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 William Bull william shall be and is hereby freed, exonerated and dis- Bull excharged from all the pins and penalties to which from con. he was liable under the several acts of confisca- fiscation tion and banishment, passed by the legislature of this state; and that the said acts of confiscationand empted and banishment. back his Regroes. banishment, so far as they affect the said William Ball, be, and the same are hereby repealed. And whereas, The said William Bull, by his aforesaid petition, did pray for leave to send back and employ in this state the several negro and other slaves which he was constrained to take and carry away with him on his leaving this state: Be it therefore further enacted by the authori May send ty aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, it shall and may be law ful to and for the said William Bull, his executors, administrators and assigns, to send back, keep and employ in this state, all and every the negro and other slaves which he took off and carried away with him on his leaving this state as aforesaid, together with the issue and increase of the said female slaves, any law of this state to the contrary thereof notwithstanding; and that the sixteenth clause of an act, entitled, "An act to regulate the payment and recovery of debts, and to prohibit the importation of negroes for the time therein limited," passed the fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, so far as the same may affect the said William Bull, be, and the same is hereby repealed. 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. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. END of the ACTS of FEBRUARY, 1791. At a General Assembly, begun and helden at Columbia, on Monday the third day of January, in t Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Naety-one, and from thence continued by divers adjournments to the twentieth day of December in the same Year, and in the sixteent. Year of the Inde- An ACT to amend the act, entitled, "An act declaring the power and duties of the Enqui rers, Assessors and Collectors of the Tuxes, and other persons concerned therein." W HEREAS experience has evinced that it is prejudicial to the interest of this state, that the enquirers, assessors and colectors of taxes should continue in tl.cir respective offices during good behaviour: For remedy thercof, Be it enacted by the hororable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That every enquirer, assessor and collector of taxes hereafter to be appointed, shall hold his office only during the pleasure of the legislature of this state, any law, usage or custom to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the sixteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. U Times of holding courts of equity in future. An additional ACT to the act, entitled, "An act to establish a court of equity within this state," passed the nineteenth day of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-one. BR E it 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 court of equity shall in future be held at Charleston the second Monday in cach September, instead of the third Monday in that month as it is now fixed by law; and at Cambridge for the districts of Ninetysix, Washington and Pinckney, excepting that part of Pinckney district which comprehends York and Chester county, on the twenty-eighth day of April, and the twenty-fourth day of November in each year, instead of the fifth days of May and December in each year; and shall continue to sit from day to day, Sundays excepted, at Cambridge for the space of six days, if the business shall require so long a time; and at Columbia, for the district of Camden, as it is now delineated, inclusive of that part of Pinckney district which is comprehended in York and Chester counties, Cheraws and Orangeburgh, on the sixth days of May and December in each year, instead of the fifteenth days of May and December as now established by law, and shall continue to sit from day to day until the business ready for hearing be dispatched. And whereas, The inhabitants residing in the remote districts of this state, may be often deprived of the benefit of injunctions, issuing out of the court of equity, to stay proceedings at law, by reason that levies may be made under executions before they can make regular application to the court for such injunction on account of their distance: For remedy whereof, writs of in before ac Be it enacted, That whenever any person shall Mode of be dissatisfied with a judgment at law, and shall obtaining think himself relievable in equity, he may, at junction. any time within forty days after the adjournment of the court at which such judgment was obtained, give notice by himself or his attorney, in writing, to the sheriff of the district with whom execution may be lodged, that he means to file his bill in the court of equity, praying for a writ of injunction, and shail annex thereto an affidavit of such intent; and such sheriff, on being served with such notice and affidavit within the said time, whereof he shall make truc entry in his books, shall be bound, on receiving security as herein after prescribed, to stay further proceedings on such execution. Provided the said Notice and notice and affidavit be served on him before ac- affidavit to tual sale of the property; and in cases where be served levies shall have been made on any moveable tual sale. property, the complainant, on giving bond to the sheriff, with two good sureties to be approved by him, subject to the future approbation of the court, in a sum equal to double the real value of the property so levied on, and conditioned to return in good order to such sheriff, the whole of the said property, if the complainant does not. procure from the court of equity, and cause to be served on him, a writ of injunction within thirty days from the date of such bond, shall be entitled to receive back and retain all such moveable property; and the said complainant shall be bound to proceed to file his bill and apply for an injunction, according to the rules and practice of the court of equity, within twenty days after giv. ing such bond to said sheriff; and if no writ of injunction issuing out of the court of equity be served on said sheriff within thirty days after his taking said bond, commanding him to stay pro |