L28276 MAR NOTE. The concluding part of the Acts of 1846, continued on the following page, is reprinted to make pages 425 and 426 continue regularly, without the blank of a page, which would otherwise occur in binding the volume, as will be seen by reference to page 425 of last year's Acts,-the leaf, comprising pages 425 and 426 of the Acts of 1846, is to be cut out by the binder, when the several parts of the volume are ultimately put together. AN ACT TO VEST IN LOUISA WATERS AND HER HEIRS FOREVER ALL THE A. D 1816. No. 3003. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That all the right, title and interest of the State, in and to a certain House and Lot, in Lot vested in the Village of Chester, in Chester District, bounded by lots of Major John Kennedy, and of Wm D. Henry and by the Public Street, be, and the saine is hereby vested in the said Louisa Waters and her heirs forever, In the Senate House, the eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Louisa Waters. AN ACT TO ENABLE MARY HODGE TO RECEIVE HER ANNUITY BY ATTORNEY. No. 3004. receive her annu Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, Mary Hedge, an Annuitant of the State, Mary Hodge to now resident in the State of Alabama, be permitted to receive her Annuity ty by Attorneyby Attorney, and for that purpose, the Treasurers be, and they are hereby authorized and required, on the proper assurance, that the annuitant aforesaid, is still living, and resident without the limits of the State, to draw orders on the Tax Collector for Clarendon County, for the time being, for the amount due, payable to the authorized Attorney of said annuity or a proper warrant, taking from the said Attorney a receipt for the money paid, as well as the evidence of authority, to be filed in the Treasury Department, as often as such payments may be made. In the Senate House, the eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one ६ ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 26s A. D. 1847. No. 3005. ax on lands. laves, Free egroes, &c. ots. oyments, &c. AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING IN OCTOBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That a tax, for the sums and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised and paid into the public Treasury of this State, for the use and service thereof, that is to say: Thirty cents ad valorem, on every hundred dollars, of the value of all the lands granted in this State, according to the existing classification Leretofore Catawba Lands. established; one half cent per acre, on all lands lying within the Catawba Indian boundary, to be paid by cach grantee or lessee, of said Indian lands, until otherwise directed by law; fifty-two cents per head on all slaves; two dollars en cach Free Negro, Mulatto and Mustizoe, between the ages of fifteen and fifty years, except such as shall be clearly proved to the satisfaction of the Collector, to be incapable from maims or otherwise, of procuring a livelihood; twenty-five cents ad valorem, on every hundred dolars of the value of all lots, lands and buildings, within any city, town, village, or borough, in this State; sixty cents per actorage Em- hundred dollars, on factorage, employments, faculties and professors, (whether in the profession of the law the profits be derived from costs of suit, fees or other sources of professional income, and on the amount of commissions received. by Vendue Masters, and Commission Merchants, Clergymen, Schoolmasters, School mistresses and Mechanics, excepted;) fifty-five cents upon every hun dred dollars worth of Goods, Wares and Merchandize, embracing all the articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange, (the product of this State, and the manufactured product of any of the United States, or Territories thereof, excepted,) which any person shall use, or employ as articles of trade, sale, barter or exchange, or have in bis, her or their possession, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, either on his, her or their own capital, or borrowed capital, or on account of any person erchandize of or persons as agent, attorney or consignee; fifty-five cents upon every kurdı ed ansient persons dollars worth of Goods, Wares and Merchandize, whatever, which any transient person, not resident in this State, shall sell or expose for sale, in any house, stall or public place; ten dollars per day, for representing publicly for gain and reward, any play, comedy, tragedy, interlude or farce, or other employment of ay, Shows, the stage, or any part therein, or for exhibiting Wax Figures, or other shows of any kind whatever, to be paid into the hands of the Clerks of the Court, respectively, who shall be bound to pay the same into the public Treasury, except Lerchandize. in cases where the same is now required by law to be paid to Corporations, or otherwise. In the Senate House, the seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one R. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate pro. tem. W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. D. 1847. AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING IN OCTOBER, No. 3006. ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN, I. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the following sums be and they are hereby appropriated for the payment of the various officers and expenses of the State Government, that is to say: IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT: For the salary of the Governor, three Executive Department. thousand five hundred dollars; for the Private Secretary of the Governor, five hundred dollars; for the Messenger of the Governor, two hundred and fifty dollars; for the Contingent Fund of the Executive Department, ten thousand dollars; to be subject to the draft of the Governor, and to be accounted for annually by him to the Legislature; for the rent of the Governor's House, in Columbia, three hundred dollars. Legislative II. IN THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT: For the pay of the Members of the Legislature, and the Solicitors and Attorney General, during the present Ses- Department. sion, eighteen thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; for the salaries of the Clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, one thousand dollars cach; and to the said Clerks, for the services of two Assistant Clerks, two hundred and fifty dollars for the Clerk of the House, and two hundred and fifty dollars for the Clerk of the Senate, to be paid at the adjournment of the Legislature; for the salaries of two Messengers and two Door-Keepers, each two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid at the adjournment of the Legislature; for the salary of the Keeper of the State House and Librarian, seven hundred dollars; for the salaries of the Reading Clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, each two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid at the end of the Session; for the services of Engrossing Clerks, to be paid under the diree A. D. 1847. tion of the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, one hundred dollars; for the Priaters to the Senate and House of Representatives, in pursuance to the contracts made by the Committees of both Houses, four thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; for the Printing executed by the said Printers, during the present Session of the Legislature, the same to be paid to them as soon as the amount on the said contracts shall be ascertained by the Treasurer of the Upper Division; for the Printer for printing in pamphlet form, the Acts, Journals of both Houses, Reports and Resolutions agreed to, the Governor's Message, Reports of the President of the Bank and Comptroller General, with the usual accom, anying Documents, two thousand five hundred dollars, if so much be necessary. Provided, That the number of copies spceified in the proposals of the printer, as accepted by the Legislature, shall be printed ard deposited in the office of the Treasurer of the Upper Division, at Columbia, before the twentieth day of February next; and the amount to be paid, according to the proposals, shall be ascertained by the Treasurer aforesaid; for Benjamin Hart, for contingent expenses during the present Session of the Legislature, six hundred dollars, if so much be necessary, to be accounted for by him, at the Treasury, and reported by the Treasurer to the General Assembly; for Stationery, Fuel, distributing Acts, experses for the Election returns, fourteen hundred dollars, if so much be necessary; for the purchase of Books for the Library of the Legislature, five hundred dollars. Judiciary HII IN THE JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT: For the salary of one Judge, thrce thousand five hundred dollars; for the salaries of mine Judges, three thousand dollars cach; for the salary of the Attorney General, eleven hundred dollars; for the salaries of Five Solicitors, nine hundred dollars each; for the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, in Columbia, six hundred dollars; to be paid quarterly by the Treasurer of the Upper Division; for the salary of the Messenger of the same Court, at Columbia, two hundred and fifty dollars; for the salary of the Librarian of the Court of Appeals, in Columbia, two hundred dollars, the same to include the expenses of Fuel; the salary of the said Librarian and Messenger, hereafter to be paid quarterly, in the same manner as other officers; for the purchase of Books for the Library of the Court of Appeals, at Columbia, five hundred dollars; for Fire-Wood and Fuel for the Court of Appeals, at Columbia, fifty dollars, if so much be necessary, to be drawn by the Clerk of the said Court, and expended under the direction of the Judges; for the salary of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, in Charleston, six hundred dollars; for the salary of the Messenger of the same Court in Charleston, two hundred and fifty dollars; for the salary of a Librarian of the Court of Appeals, in |