courts of their respective counties on the days to they now which they now stand adjourned, and the clerks stand ad journed, of the respective courts may adjourn the court and the from day to day; and if no court shall be held clerks may and administered, all causes, matters and contro- adjourn versies, then depending before any of the said courts, shall be and are hereby adjourned over to the next court prescribed to be held by virtue of this act.

And to prevent unnecessary and private sales, to the prejudice of the honest debtor and creditor:

courts.

make sales

in the

sheriffs.

Be it further enacted by the authority afore- Directions said, That no sheriff shall sell any property in how to any private or retired part of his county, but he shall sell the same on the first Saturday in every counties, by county month, at noon, at the court-house of the coun- herifi ty, except the judges should direct other places for the sale, and except in Richland county, in which the sale shall be held at the state-house; and the sheriff shall publish all notices of sale at the court-house of the county and two other notorious places in the said county, and in the most notorious place of the neighborhood from whence the property was taken, and also in one of the gazettes, if the gazette is published in or near the county.

to keep ta

rituous

liquora.

And be it further enacted by the authority Justices of aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful for any per- peace not sons exercising the office of a justice of the peace verns, or within this state, to keep any tavern, or to retail retail spi spirituous liquors; nor shall any licence for retailing spirituous liquors be granted to any person exercising the office of justice of the peace, nor to any person or persons in his house or family, or for his emolument: And if any person or persons shall offend against the true intent and meaning of this act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty pounds to any person or per

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system

sons who will inform or sue for the same, and be for ever thereafter rendered incapable of serving in the office of a justice of the peace in this state.

And whereas, The majority of the inhabitants of the counties where county counts are stablished within the districts of Orangelaugh and Beaufort, are desirous that the said courts should not be continued among them:

Be it further enacted by the authority aforeThe coun- said, That the said courts be and they are hereLy suspended; and all records relative to the suspended business of ordinary in such county courts, shall in Orange. be transferred over and kept by the ordinary of burgh and Be fort the district, in his office; and all records relative districts, to the other judici. business in the said county

holding

the courts fixed.

courts shall be transferred over and kept by the clerk of the circuit court of the district, in his office; and all other records of the said county courts, shall be transferred over and kept by the register of mesne conveyances of the said district, in his office; and all suits having been commenced in the county courts shall be continued in the district court, without being commenced de novo; and all such records shall be of as full force and validity as if they had continued in the said county courts, and the same had not been suspended.

And be it further enacted by the authority Times of aforesaid, That the county courts shall be heid in the counties herein after mentioned, on the days following, to wit: For the counties of Union and Richland, on the ficut days of January and June, in every year; for the counties of Fairfield and Spartan, on the twelfth days of January and June. in every year; for the coun ies of Chester and Pendleton, on the twenty-fourth days of Ja nuary and June, in every year; for the coun ties of Greenville and York, on the fifth days of

February and July, in every year; for the coun ties of Lancaster and Laurens, on the seven. teenth days of February and July, in every year; for the counties of Newberry and Kershaw, on the twenty-eighth days of February and July, in every year; for the county of Claremont, on the eleventh days of March and August, in every year; for the county of Clarendon, on the twen, ty-fifth days of March and August, in every year; for the county of Edgefield, on the ele venth of March and the first day of September; for the county of Abbeville, on the twenty-fifth day of March and the twelfth day of September; for the county of Marlborough, on the first days of March and September; for the county of Chesterfield, on the eleventh days of March and September; and for the county of Darlington, on the twenty-second days of March and Scptember, in every year; and if any of the said days shall fall on Sunday, then the said court shall meet and sit on the day following.

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.

An ACT to suspend the operation of the limitation act for the time therein mentioned.

B

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 operation of an act, entitled, "An act for settling the titles of the inhabitants

of this province to their possessions in their estates within the same, and for limitation of actions and for avoiding suits at law," passed the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve, shall be, and the same is hereby suspended, so far as the same shall extend to actions of debt, detinue, covenant and assumpsit, until the twenty-fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred ninety-three.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person who, on the twentysixth day of March next, would be barred by or for want of prosecution, from the recovery of any lands or real estates, shall be barred on that day; but that every such person shall be barred on the first day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred ninety-one. 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.

An ACT for gradually calling in and sinking the Paper Medium, issued by virtue of an act, entitled, “An act to establish a Medium of Circulation by way of Loan, and to secure its credit and utility," passed the twelfth of October, one thousand seven hundred and eightyfive.

W

HEREAS it is necessary to call in and sink the paper medium, circulating in this state, as speedily as possible:

medium to

terest, and

one-se

pal.

Be 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 borrowers of the paper medium The bor and the purchasers of property sold by the com- rowers of missioners of the loan office, who have assumed the paper. the debts of any of the borrowers, shall be oblig- make payed to pay into the hands of the commissioners ment of inof the loun-office, one year's interest on the first Wednesday in March next; and the same shall venth of the princi and may be recovered in the way and manner prescribed in the act, entitled, "An act to establish a medium of circulation by way of loan, and to secure its utility," passed the twelfth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five. And they shall also be obliged to pay to the commissioners of the loan-office, one seventh part of the principal sum borrowed, on the second Wednesday in May next; and the same shall be recovered in the manner following: the commissioners, or a majority of them, shall, within two weeks immediately following the said second Wednesday in March next, (having previously advertised the names of the defaulters in the gazettes of Charleston and Columbia, with a notice that suits will be commenced as hereby prescribed,) commence suits on the bonds, and proceed to foreclose the mortgages of such of the borrowers and other debtors, as may make default in the payment of the said proportion of their respective debts, for three-fifths of the principal sum borrowed; and such suits and proceedings shall be carried on without delay, and conducted to judgment, decree and execution as soon as possible; and as soon as the money is recovered, the same shall be defaced and destroyed in the manner hereinafter directed: Provided nevertheless, That upon the payment