2003 An Act prescribing, on the part of this State, the times, places and manner of holding Elections for Representatives in the Congress of the United States.664 *2004 An Act to extend the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to remedy the de- fects of the Court of Ordinary in the several districts where there are no County Courts, as to matters and cases in which the Ordinaries of those districts may be respectively interested," passed the seventh day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, to all the Circuit Court dis- tricts throughout the State..... An Act for ratifying and confirming a Convention between the State of South Carolina and the State of North Carolina, concluded at Columbia, in the State of South Carolina, on the eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, and in the thirty third year of 2008 An Act to prevent the pernicious practice of Duelling.. 2009 An Act to authorize and oblige the several Gaolers in this State to receive for safe keeping such person or persons as may be apprehended or may be in confinement according to law, in any district wherein the gaol or gaols now are, or may hereafter be, destroyed by fire or other accidents; and for *2010 An Act to exempt the officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the City Guard of Charleston from militia duty.... 2011 An Act to increase the number of Justices of the Quorum and Peace in several Districts in this State...... 2012 An Act making it unnecessary for the Sheriffs of certain Districts, herein men- tioned, to advertise sales of property taken in execution in the public An Act limiting the term of service of certain officers, who have heretofore held their offices during good behaviour; and for other purposes therein *2014 An Act to incorporate the Free Mason Hall Company... 2015 An Act to afford Landlords or Lessors an expeditious and summary mode of gaining re-possession from tenants or lessees, who shall hold over after the An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the opening and widen- ing of State, late Motte and Union streets, in the City of Charleston, in such manner and under such provisions as are herein specified."....... ..677 An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act for regulating the admission of Attornies and Solicitors to practice in the Courts of this State.". ........677 2018 An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act to enable the Catawba Indians to make leases of their lands, for life or lives, or terms of years; An Act to enable the Company for opening a Canal from Back River to Chapel Bridge, to raise by Lottery the sum of five thousand dollars...... *2021 An Act to establish a Bank, on behalf of and for the benefit of the State......680 2022 An Act to raise supplies for the year one thousand eight hundred and twelve; and for other purposes therein mentioned 2023 An Act to make appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and *2024 An Act to amend "An Act for regulating the Courts held by the Associate Judges of this State, at the conclusion of their respective Circuits, and of the Courts of Appeal held by the Judges of the Courts of Equity within this State," passed the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, by changing the day for holding the Courts; and for legalizing the Jury drawn for the next ensuing An Act making additional appropriations for the year one thousand eight hun- dred and thirteen; and for other purposes therein mentioned.. *2026 An Act to alter and amend the Militia Laws of this State.... *2027 An Act to explain and amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Bank, on An Act to authorize the Hon. Theodore Gaillard, one of the Judges of the Court of Equity of the State, to leave the same for the time herein men- *2029 An Act for appointing an additional Commissioner or Master in Equity for the Court of Equity in Charleston; and for other purposes therein mentioned..696 An Act to allow the United States to exercise jurisdiction for certain purposes over the land on which Fort Mechanic is erected, in the City of Charleston.696 An Act to incorporate the several Societies therein mentioned; and for other An Act for ratifying and confirming a provisional agreement entered into be- tween the State of South Carolina and the State of North Carolina, con- cluded at M'Kinney's, on Toxoway river, on the fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen... ....697 *2033 An Act to alter the times of holding the Courts of Common Pleas and General An Act attaching to the District of Lancaster that portion of territory included within the limits of this State, by the line lately run out, from the termina- tion of the line of 1764, at the Salisbury road, to the South-east corner of the Catawba line at 12 mile Creek; and for other purposes relating thereto..697 An Act to authorize the Sheriff of Chester District, or his successor in office, to execute titles to Joseph Robins for a certain tract of Land therein men- An Act appointing Commissioners to lay out and make a portage at Lockert's 2037 An Act to prevent the obstructions to the passage of fish up Reedy river, from its mouth to the Tumbling Shoals; and for other purposes therein men- An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the Pendleton Circulating Library Society to alter the western boundary line of the public square in the village of Pendleton; and for other purposes..... An Act to alter the name of Martha Campbell to that of Martha Smith; and to change the name of William Washington Bray Ellis to that of William Washington Ellis; and for other purposes therein mentioned........ ..702 *2040 An Act to establish certain Roads, Bridges and Ferries; and for other purposes 2043 An Act to enable persons, hereafter, on petition to the Courts of Law or Equity in this State, to change their names; and for other purposes therein men. An Act for the protection of the maratime frontier of this State.... *2046 An Act to prolong the time for certain militia officers to take the oath or affirma- ANTORD LIBRARY STATUTES AT LARGE. AN ORDINANCE TO SUSPEND ALL SALES BY EXECUTION, FOR THE No. 1341. SPACE OF TWENTY DAYS. I. Be it ordained, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That no sale of any estate, real or personal, within twenty days after the passing of this Ordinance, seized under execution, shall be deemed or held to be valid in law; and the sheriffs, or other officers, of the several and respective districts within this State, are hereby required, authorized, and empowered to postpone the sale of all such estates, real or personal, as have been or shall hereafter be seized under execution within the twenty days aforesaid; and every sheriff or other officer who shall proceed to the sale of any estates within the twenty days as aforesaid, shall forfeit his office, and be rendered incapable, upon conviction, of holding any office of emolument or profit within this State, for the space of six years: provided, nevertheless, that no sheriff or other officer, except those of Charleston district, shall be held liable to the alty of this Ordinance, if he or they shall give satisfactory proof upon oath, in any court of record in this State, that he or they were neither informed nor knew of the passing of this Ordinance. pen In the Senate House, the twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and in the eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN LLOYD, President of the Senate. JOHN J. PRINGLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Sales under execution to be suspended. AN АСТ то ESTABLISH THE LEGALITY OF NOTICES WHICH GIVEN IN THE STATE GAZETTE. MAY BE No. 1342. I. Be it enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority Legality of of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this Act, all public notices. notices whatever, which shall be published in the State Gazette, shall be deemed, held and received as legal notice for the district of Charleston, in VOL. V.-1. A. D. 1787. the courts held for the said district: provided the same be published three times, once in every week successively, in the said paper. In the Senate House, the eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and in the eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN LLOYD, President of the Senate. JOHN J. PRINGLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1343. AN ACT FOR PROCURING THE MORE PUNCTUAL AND REGULAR ATTENDANCE OF PERSONS ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REP Preamble. Penalty on managers of elections for neglect to make return. the time of ery day of default. RESENTATIVES. WHEREAS, the business and sitting of the Legislature is very much retarded and prolonged by the dilatory and irregular attendance of persons elected and returned members of the Senate and House of Representatives, to the great expense and other detriment of the public; to remedy and prevent which, as much as possible, I. Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, and by the authority of the same, That if the churchwardens, or other managers and conductors of the election of any district or parish, shall neglect to make a return at the time and place the Legislature is to meet, according to the exigence of the writ to them directed, then, and in such case, the churchwardens or managers so neglecting, shall pay the sum of twenty pounds, to be sued for and recovered by the attorney general, and be paid into the treasury for the use of the State. II. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person who Persons elect shall or may be elected and returned, and doth qualify to serve in the ed to appear at Senate or House of Representatives, shall and must, and is hereby ordered meeting, or for- and directed, personally to be and appear at the time and place duly prefeit 20s. for ev-scribed and appointed for the meeting of the Legislature, on pain of incurring the penalty of twenty shillings for every day he shall make default; and on his appearance the cashier of the House to which he belongs shall, and is hereby ordered, on pain of being proceeded against as for a contempt of the House and breach of privilege, to report to the President of the Senate, or Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, the number of days such person shall have made default, and the President or Speaker shall thereupou require him to show cause or excuse why he should not pay such penalty, and shall leave to the judg ment and determination of the House to which he shall belong, whether such penalty shall be exacted; and in case it be the judgment and determination of the House that the same shall be exacted, then the cashier shall demand the payment thereof; and in case of refusal or noncomplinnce within seven days, the said person shall be taken into custody and proceeded against by order of the House to which he shall belong, as for a contempt and breach of privilege: provided, nevertheless, and it is hereby enacted, that any person who shall be duly elected and returned a member of either House of the Legislature, and who shall determine to decline to serve and qualify, in case it may not be convenient for him to attend for the purpose, it shall and may be lawful for him to signify and express his A. D. 1787. determination by a letter signed by himself, in the presence of a member of the same district or parish, and which said member shall deliver the letter addressed to the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives. to appear, to be III. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person duly elected and returned as a member of either House of the Legisla- Persons elected and neglecting ture, shall neglect and fail personally to appear and qualify, or decline to serve, or signify and express his determination to decline or not qualify, by reported by the letter as aforesaid, at the meeting as aforesaid of the House for which he cashier. is returned to serve, then, in such case, the cashier of the House for which he shall be elected and returned a member, shall report such default to the President or Speaker, and the person so making it shall be liable to be sent for at his own expense, and taken into custody, and to answer and show cause and excuse why he should not be liable to the penalties and to be proceeded against as is above mentioned within the second clause of this Act. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any member of either House, who hath qualified and taken his scat, shall neglect to Members neglecting to apappear at the time and place to which the House may be duly adjourned to promeet, or convened by a requisition of the Governor for the time being, he ceeded against. shall be liable to the same penalties, and shall be proceeded against as is prescribed and directed in the said second clause of this Act. pear, to be V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the cashier of either House shall fail in their duty as above prescribed, he shall be Cashier failing to do his duty liable to be called on by the President or Speaker to receive such censure to be repri or reprimand as the case may require, and the House to which he belongs manded. may resolve and direct. Repealing VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the twenty-second section of the Act for electing members, passed the twenty-clause. first day of September, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-one, shall, and the same be, from and immediately after the ratification of this Act, repealed, and it is hereby declared void and repealed. In the Senate House, the eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and in the eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN LLOYD, President of the Senate. JOHN J. PRINGLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT TO AUGMENT THE TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF CAMBRIDGE. No. 1344. WHEREAS, the difficulty of making a Board of Trustees for governing the college of Cambridge, is greatly injurious to the interests of the said college; Preamble. College of I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the Additional authority of the same, That the honorable Adanus Burke, Esquire, James trustees for the Mayson, James Lincoln, and Charles Goodwin, Esquires, John Williams, Cambridge. John Bullock, John Owen, and William Swift, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, trustees, in addition to those formerly appointed, |