thority on the face thereof, and may involve them in purchases ruinous to them and prejudicial to the credit and reputation of the state; in order, therefore, to prevent the alarms of the people, and the great litigation and numerous suits that may arise from the said unreasonable, excessive and unlawful surveys and grants, and to prevent imposition on foreigners and citizens of other states: clared to Be it enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid, That the said surveys were made in Certain violation of the instructions given to the deputy grants desurveyors in this state; that the said grants have have been been obtained contrary to the intention of the improperly obtainlegislature in establishing the mode of granting ed the lands now vacant in this state; that the governor must have been deceived when he signed the same, and that on its being proved in the manner before enacted, to the satisfaction of any district court, and jury, within whose jurisdiction the land lies, that such grants actually contain within their limits one or more settlements, the property of others, under former surveys, without taking notice of or designating the same in their plats, and obtaining their consent, (where such consent could have been obtained,) to run the same, the court shall declare the said grants to be fraudulent, and the same shall be void to all intents and purposes. structions And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every surveyor who shall have wil- Surveyor fully and knowingly violated the instructions of violating the surveyor-general in not marking out the boundaries of all lands formerly granted, and which of the surare within the survey by him or them made, veyor-ge shall be prosecuted by the attorney-general, and be prosecircuit solicitors of the respective districts, on cuted. proper application being made to either of them. neral, to Certain persons allowed to run out certain lands. Whereas, John Sloan, and the reverend John Monk, and William Hill, jun. by their petitions to the legislature, have set forth, that they had at considerable expense erected a bloomery on South Edisto, in Edgefield county, for manufacturing of iron ore into bar iron. And whereas, under the existing laws of the state, and the regulations of this act, it is impossible for the said petitioners to run a sufficient quantity of vacant land to enable them to conduct and prosecute the said bloomery with advantage or effect, and it being an object of great national importance to encourage the manufacture of raw materials: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioner of location for the district of Ninety-six, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to issue his warrants, one in behalf of John Sloan, for six thousand acres of land, and another in the joint behalf of said John Sloan, the reverend John Monk, and William Hill, jun. for ten thousand acres of vacant land, the nearest to the said iron works, and that the said lands so to be located, be granted to the said persons, any thing in this act contained, or any law to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. In the Senate House, the tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and in the eigh teenth 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 incorporate the Port Republic Bridge Company, and to authorize them to build a bridge and causeways. W HEREAS Robert Barnwell, Stephen Elliott, William Elliott, John Barnwell and William Hazzard Wigg, Esqrs. the committee of the Port Royal Bridge Company, have, in behalf of the said company, petitioned that they be incorporated, and it appears that the plan of the said company, if executed, will be beneficial to the inhabitants of Port Royal and Beaufort, and the ports on the main adjacent thereto : Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the au- port Rethority of the same, That the said company, and public their successors, shall be, and they are hereby Bridge incorporated as a body politic and corporate, and incorposhall be known in deed and in law, by the name rated. of "The Port Republic Bridge Company." Company conferred. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company, by their name The usual aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession of of- powers ficers and members, to be appointed and elected in such manner and according to such form as may be prescribed by the rules and regulations now existing or hecalter to be made, for the government of the said company, and that they shall have a common seal, with power to alter, change and make new the said rules and regu lations and common seal, as often as they shall judge expedient. to hold And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation shall be able Allowed and capable in law to purchase, have, hold, re- property, ceive, take, possess and enjoy to itself in perpe- and make tuity, or for any term of years, any estate, real by-laws or personal, of what kind or nature socver, (pro Cause ways and bridge. ted. vided the same shall not produce a clear income exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars per annum,) and to sell, alien or otherwise dispose of the same, as they may think proper; and by their said name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answear and be answeared unto in any court of law or equity in this state, and to make such rules and by-laws, (not repugnant or contrary to the laws of the land,) as, for the good order and proper government of the said company, may by them be thought necessary; and that they shall and may retain, possess and enjoy all such estates, real and personal, monies, goods, chattels and effects, as they are now entitled unto, whether the same be now held by them, or by any person or persons in trust for them. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have power to make causeways over the marsh land, and to erect a bridge over the channel, between Port Royal Island and the main land, at such place or places as they may think most fit. And be it further enacted by the authority Toll gran- aforesaid, That the said company shall be enti tled to demand and receive the same rates and tolls for passing over the said causeways and bridge as are now legally demanded for passing over the ferry near the same place. And be it further enacted by the authority No bridge aforesaid, That no ferry or bridge shall be estabor ferry to lished or built within five miles from the bridge to be erected by the said company, after the same shall be built and fit for use. be kept within five miles. Bridge And be it further enacted by the authority and cause aforesaid, That after the said causeways and bridge are finished, the said company shall con ways to be kept in repair. stantly keep the same in good and compleat re pair, and always have a proper number of hands continually attending thereto; and that this act shall be deemed a public act, and judicially noticed as such without special pleading. In the Senate House, the tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and in the eigh teenth 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 extend the time for taking out of the Secretary's office, such grants of land as now lie in the said office, and for other purposes therein mentioned. W HEREAS by a clause of the act, entitled, "An act for establishing the mode of granting the lands now vacant in this state, and for allowing a commutation to be received for some lands that have been granted," passed on the nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, it is enacted, "that all grants of land in the secretary's office, and which should not be taken out within twelve months from the passing of that act, should be then sold to the highest bidder by the commissioners of the treasury; and such lands have not been sold, and it is thought expedient to extend the time of sale stil! longer: 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 sale of the said lands shall be postponed to the fifteenth day of December next, and no longer; and that if any |