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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 were any debt nct Court of exceeding twenty pounds, is contracted cut of w the city, or any damage (not effecting the rights of freehold) is committed out the limits the cef, ance of and the party contracting such debt, or commit- debts conting such damage, is found within the city, that damages the court of wardens shall be and they are here- done out of by invested with power and jurisdiction to take cognizance of the same, in as ample a manner as if the debt had been contracted or as if the damage had been done within the limits thereof.

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And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said court of wardens shail And mov and may, and they are hereby authorized and grant.com. empowered, on the application of any person or examire persons interested in any suit d'epending in the witnesses. said court, to grant a commission to be directed to one or two commissioners, empowering them to examine and cross examine, on oath or solemn affirmation, the witnesses mentioned in the said commission, who reside without the limits of the city: And the testimony of the witnesses so examined shall be as valid as if the same were taken in open court. Provided, That the person or persons making such application, shall give to the plaintiff or defendant (as the case may be) six days notice of such application: And if any person mentioned as a witness in such commission, shall refuse to give testimony to the best of his or her knowledge, on oath or solemn affirmation, before the said commissioner or commissioners on being summoned, every person so refusing, if he shall reside and be in the election

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district of the commissioner summoning him, at the time when summoned, shall be liable to a fine of twenty pounds, to be recovered by the party aggrieved, in any court of record within the state.

And whereas, advantages may arise by enforc ing, in a summary manner, the performance of contracts on short credits, if the court of war dens were invested with power to take cogniz ance by separate processes, of all cases where several bonds, notes or other evidences of debt due by one debtor, are in, or come to the hands of the same creditor; and which bonds, notes, and other evidences of debt, amount in the whole to more than twenty pounds, though each separately is under that sum:

Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That where the same creditor is possessed proceed of divers bonds, notes, and other evidences of ereditoris debt due from the same debtor, and which said possessed bonds, notes, and other evidences of debt amount evidences in the whole to more than twenty pounds, though of debts, each separately is under that sum, it shall and one debtor, may be lawful for the court of wardens, on ap

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plication made by petition, to issue separate processes, and enter up separate judgments, and issue separate executions, on such of the said bonds, notes and other evidences of debt, as if each of them had been in distinct hands: Provided each process, judgment and execution, shall not exceed twenty pounds; and provided all the demands which the same plaintiff appears to have against the same defendant, if they do not together exceed twenty pounds, shall be blended in the same process to prevent splitting of actions.

And whereas, it has been doubted whether the counsellors, attornies, solicitors and clerks of the

superior courts, are amenable to the court of wardens in causes within their jurisdiction:

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Be it therefore enacted and declared by the Counselauthority aforesaid, That as in a free republic, lors, attor the citizens ought to be entitled to equal liber- citors and ties and equal privileges, so no set of men are clerks, are exempt from the process of any court within the not exlimits of its jurisdiction, without such exempti- process, on is expressly granted by the constitution; any law, usage or custom 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 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 establish a county and county court in the district of Kershaw.

HEREAS the inhabitants of Kershaw

W district, as by their petition to the legis

lature is set forth, have experienced many inconveniences by being annexed to Lancaster, Claremont, Fairfield and Richland counties, which renders it necessary to establish the same into a separate county, agreeable to the consti

tution:

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be called

Kershaw

Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Kershaw Senate and House of Representatives, now met district to and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the said district shall be, county. and is hereby established as a county, to be called and known by the name of Kershaw

County, the lines and boundaries of which, till they are altered by the legislature, shall be as Lines and follows, that is to say: beginning on the east

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side of the Watcree river at Stark's ferry, from thence by a line running to the ford of the Hanging-Rock creek; thence down Lick creek to Fiat creek; thence down Flat creek to Big Lynch's creck; thence down Big Lynch's creek to Spivy's ferry or ford; thence to Carter's crossing place in Claremont county; thence down the fork to Swift and Rafting creek; thence across the Waterce river to Spear's creek in Richland county; thence up Spear's creek to the fork of Spear's and Raglin's cicek; thence up Raglin's creek to John Doughty's on the Twenty-five mile creek; from thence in a direct line to the mouth of Colonel's creek, on the Wateree river; thence across the Wateree river to Stark's ferry at the beginning: which said county shall be entitled to county courts, to be Lolden on the twenty-eighth day of February, the sixteenth day of April, the seventeenth day of July, and the fifteenth day of November, in every year; and the said courts shall hold, exercise and enjoy the several powers, jurisdictions and authorities, as are by law vested in the county courts of this state.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That John Simpson, Douglass Starke, sham Moore, Philip Pearson, Thomas Ballard, Benjamia Waring and Samuel Boykin, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey the lines between the countics of Kershaw and Lancaster, and the lincs between the counties of Kershaw and Claremont; and to report to the legislature at their next meeting, a plat of the aforesaid three counties, with remarks on the population, situation, and other circum,

stances necessary to be taken into considera; tion in forming the dividing lines of the said

counties.

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 establishing certain Regulations in

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Georgetown.

HEREAS the inhabitants of Georgetown, Prince George parish, Winyaw, have long laboured under great inconveniences, for the want of some persons properly authorized to keep in repair the streets and causeways of the said town, and to prevent the illicit trafficking with negro slaves. And whereas, (by the cession from this state to the United States, of all right to collect tolls and duties upon shipping and merchandize entering into the ports of the state) the port of Georgetown has been deprived of the funds, formerly appropriated by law to the purpose of kecping a pilot-boat and pilots for the said port:

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Be it enacted by the honorable the Senate and commisHouse of Representatives, now met and sitting sioners to in general assembly, and by the authority of the ed, and same, That commissioners of the streets, (to be vested appointed by the inhabitants of Georgetown,) tain powshall have power to assess, according to the va- ers.

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