Es requir tend said ed to at courts. Two judg. courts be, and they are hereby required to attend at Cambridge during the said term, for the purpose of holding the said courts; and that in case the said court of sessions shall adjourn before the court of common pleas, that the judge, who shall preside in and hold the same court of sessions, shall take his seat and assist during the session of the court of common pleas, till the end of the term, or until all the causes ready for trial are dispatched. e ution under And whereas, Doubts have arisen whether lands and tenements are liable to be taken in execution under a decree on summary process in the courts of common pleas: Be it further enacted by the authority aforeLands lia- said, That all decrees on summary process, on ble to ex- being duly docketed in the said courts, shall be as effectual to bind the lands and tenements of summary the defendant, as other judgments; and the execution thereupon shall and may be levied upon the lands and tenements, in like manner as other executions have been and may be levied. process, ecutors or where one And to furnish an adequate remedy at law against executors and administrators, in cases where one or more may be out of the state: Be it further enacted by the authority aforeRemedy said, That in cases where there are two or more against ex-executors or administrators to any estate, and adminis- any one or more of them hath withdrawn or shall trators, withdraw or reside out of the state, it shall and or more of may be lawful for any creditor, or person havthem are ing right or cause of action against such estate, out of the to sue out his writ against all the executors or administrators, naming and setting forth therein the executor or administrator, one or more, who is or are out of the state; and the said writ being executed in the usual form upon those who are within the state, the suit shall be deemed to be state. good and effectual in law to all intents and purposes; saving only that the judgment in such cases shall not extend to work any devastavit upon the person or persons so absent, or to affect him, her or them in their private right. And whereas, The act, entitled, "An act to establish a court of equity within this state," directs that the said court shall sit at Columbia for all causes where the defendant shall reside in Camden, Orangeburgh and Cheraw districts; at Cambridge, for all causes where the defendant shall reside in the district of Ninety-six; and at Charleston, where the defendant shall reside in either of the districts of Charleston, Beaufort or Georgetown; but the said act makes no provision for the trial of causes where there are two or more defendants, some residing in districts ranged under one of said courts, and some in districts ranged under another: where de diferent Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That where there are several defendants, How to residing in different districts, ranged under dif- proceed ferent courts, the complainant shall commence ferdents and pursue his proceedings in that court which reside in takes cognizance over the districts in which the districts. greatest number of defendants shall reside; but where an equal number of the defendants reside in districts ranged under diffrent courts, the complainant may elect in which of such courts he will commence his proceedings; and the judges of the said court of equity shail and may make all proper and necessary rules for carrying the intention of this clause into effect. Whereas, Considerable inconveniences have arisen from the present mode of assessing, apportioning and collecting the county taxes in the several counties in this state, where county courts are established: county courts to assess, apportion Be it further enacted by the authority aforeJudges of said, That in future the judges of the county courts, in the said courts, shall be, and they are hereby empowered to assess, apportion and collect the county taxes, within their counties respectively, for the purpose of defraying the county expenses, according to the most equitable plan whereby the same can be assessed, apportioned and collected, any law, usage or custom to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. and collect county tax In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and in the eighteenth 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 the election of commissioners of the poor in those counties where county courts are established. W HEREAS it is found necessary that commissioners of the poor be elected in those counties, where county-courts are established: 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 five commissioners of the poor, in each of the counties where county courts are established, shall be elected at the same times and places, and in the same manner and form, and the elections shall be conducted by the same persons as are named for that purpose in the act, entitled "An act authoriz ing the inhabitants of the election districts, where county courts are not established, to choose commissioners of the poor," and that the commissioners so to be elected shall have all the authority, powers and privileges, which are vested in, and be liable to all the pains and penalties which are imposed upon the commissioners of the poor by that act, to the end that the said act shall be in full force and compleat operation, in all the counties in this state where county courts are established. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and in the eighteenth 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 the trial and punishment of persons guilty of murder or manslaughter, and their accessaries, where the deceased may be wounded, poisoned, or otherwise injured in one district, and die thereof in another. HEREAS it is necessary to provide WHE some mode for trying and punishing persons guilty of murder, manslaughter or homicide, in cases where the mortal wound or injury may be given or done in one district, and the party wounded or injured may die thereof in another: 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 where any person shall be feloniously struck, wounded, poisoned, . or otherwise injured in one district, and die thereof in another, any inquisition or indictment thereon found by jurors of the county or district where the death shall happen, whether it be found before the coroner upon the sight of such dead body, or before the justices of peace, or other justices or commissioners lawfully authorized to enquire of such offences, shall be as good and effectual in the law, as if the stroke, wound, poisoning or other injury had been committed and done in the same county or district where the party shall die; and the person or persons guilty of such striking, wounding, poisoning, or other injury, and every accessary thereto, either before or after the fact, shall be tried by and before the same court, and (if convicted) punished in the same mode, manner and form, as if the deceased had suffered such striking, wounding, poisoning or other in jury in the same county or district where he, she or they thereof died. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and in the eighteenth 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 Vigilant Fire Company in Charleston. W HEREAS the Vigilant Fire Company in Charleston have, by their petition, prayed to be incorporated, and it appears that their views are laudable, and their association beneficial to the citizens of Charleston: |