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A. D. 1791.

No. 1530.

Preamble.

AN ACT TO APPOINT COMMISSIONERS FOR LAYING AND RAISING AN AS-
SESSMENT ON THE TAXABLE PROPERTY IN THE PARISH OF PRINCE
GEORGE, (AGREEABLY TO ITS ANCIENT BOUNDARIES,) for the purpose
OF PAYING THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LATE THOMAS LYNCH, Esq.
DECEASED, THE AMOUNT DUE ON A CONTRACT MADE WITH HIM BY THE
COMMISSIONERS OF THE ROADS.

WHEREAS, Colonel Hugh Horry has represented, by petition, that he, together with the late Paul Trapier and Benjamin Huger, Esqs., deceased, by virtue of an Act passed on the twentieth day of March, which was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, did, as commissioners of the high roads, for the parish of Prince George, in the District of Georgetown, contract with the late Thomas Lynch, Esq. deceased, for making the causeway across Lynch's Island, between north and south Santee, being part of the high way between Charleston and Georgetown, and did agree to pay him the sum of eight thousand pounds old currency, within six months after the completion of the said work; in consequence whereof the said Thomas Lynch undertook and completed the said piece of work; and that in and by the above mentioned Act the said commissioners, or a majority of them, were authorized to lay and raise a tax or assessment on all the male inhabitants in the said parish from the age of sixteen to the age of sixty years, sufficient to pay off and discharge the expense of making the said causeway; as by the said Act, reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear; and that the war, and the confusion consequent thereon, at that time prevented the said commissioners from making the said assessment pursuant to the terms of the said Act; and that he, the said Hugh Horry, is the only survivor of the said commissioners, and as such has been sued by the executors of the said Thomas Lynch, for the sum of money stipulated to be paid by the said contract, together with interest thereon; and it is necessary and proper that some provision should be made for paying off the sum of money which may be due on the said contract.

I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of RepPrince George resentatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority Parish to pay of the same, That if the said Representatives of the said Thomas Lynch, the heirs of T. deceased, shall, on the contract beforementioned, recover a verdict against Lynch.

by assessment

the said Hugh Horry, any verdict so recovered, together with all costs and charges necessarily incurred by him in and about his defence, shall be paid in the manner herein after directed; that is to say: all the taxable property within the lines which, on the twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, were the boundaries of the parish then called the parish of Prince George Winyaw, shall be taxed, rated and assessed, by the commissioners hereinafter appointed for that purpose, in such manner and proportion, and at such rate, agreeably to the rules and proportions of the Act for raising supplies for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, as will be necessary to make up the sum or verdict so recovered as aforesaid against the said Hugh Horry, together with his costs and charges aforesaid, to be paid by the respective owners of such property, in such proportions, and at such periods, as the said Hugh Horry would be obliged to pay the same, if this Act had not been passed.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That William Brailsford, Jacob William Harvey, Richard Godfrey, William Heming

way and Thomas Allston, be, and they are hereby appointed, commission- A.D. 1791. ers for the purposes before mentioned, and they and a majority of them

are hereby vested with all and every such power and powers, to carry Commissioners into effect the true intent and meaning of this Act, as are vested in the appointed. collectors of the general tax of this State, and in like manner shall be sub

ject to the same pains and penalties to which the said collectors are liable.

In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the sixteenth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.

DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate.

JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE EXHIBITION OF THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS, No. 1531. UNDER CERTAIN REGULATIONS.

hibitions to be

I. Be it enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of Theatrical Exthe same, that the intendant and wardens of the City of Charleston, and licenced. the intendant and wardens in Camden, and the magistrates in each of the election Districts throughout the State, may permit and licence persons to exhibit theatrical entertainments, within the bounds of their respective jurisdictions, any thing contained in the Act entitled "An Act for the promotion of industry and suppression of vagrants, and other idle and disorderly persons," to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; and the persons who shall be so licenced are hereby excepted from the pains and penalties inflicted by the said Act; and that for every licence granted in the City of Charleston, a sum of one hundred pounds, and for every licence granted elsewhere, the sum of twenty-five pounds, shall be paid into the public treasury, for the use of the State; and such licence shall continue in force for one year from the granting thereof, and no longer.

In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the sixteenth 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 AUTHORIZE THE HOLDERS OF THE FOREIGN DEBT IN FRANCE No. 1532. TO REDEEM THE SAME IN AMSTERDAM.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the Legislature, by John Splatt Preamble. Cripps and William Crafts, that the foreign creditors of this State, whose debts are payable in France, would be able to transfer the same to their satisfaction, provided the said debts were made redeemable in the city of

A. D. 1791. Amsterdam: and whereas, it is incumbent on this State to facilitate the negociation of the said debts:

I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority of the same, That the said John Splatt Cripps and William Crafts, or Debt redeema- their assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized, on the part of the said ble in Amster- creditors or their assigns, whose debts are payable in France, upon the

dam.

Agents to

negociate the transfer.

delivery of the evidences of the said debts, to register the same at the treasury of this State, redeemable in the city of Amsterdam, whereby the said creditors shall be entitled to all the benefits of an Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance for funding and ultimately discharging the foreign debt of this State."

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said John Splatt Cripps and William Crafts, or their assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered, on the part of this State, to negociate the transfer of the said debts.

In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the sixteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate.

JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

No. 1533. AN ACT to make and establish the Vestries and Churchwardens of the Episcopal Churches of the Parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael, in Charleston, two separate and distinct bodies politic and corporate, and to enlarge their powers.

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No. 1534. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH CERTAIN WAREHOUSES FOR THE INSPECTION AND STORAGE OF TOBACCO, AT THE PLACES THEREIN MENTIONED.

Preamble.

erected.

WHEREAS, application has been made by sundry persons praying that inspections for tobacco might be erected and established at certain places hereinafter mentioned;

I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Tobacco ware. Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the houses to be authority of the same, That proper warehouses shall be erected by the commissioners hereinafter appointed, where tobacco, previous to its being exported or exposed for sale, may be brought for inspection, and after being passed shall be deposited till called for, for exportation; which warehouses shall be established at the following places, that is to say: one warehouse at the plantation of John Sharp, on the Savannah river, Abbeville county, opposite the place in Georgia called Petersburg; one warehouse at Cambridge, in the district of Ninety-Six; one warehouse at the

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town of Orangeburg; one warehouse on Savannah river, at Drury Pace's A.D. 1791. ferry; one warehouse on the west bank of Broad river, at Hendersonburgh.

Commissioners

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Jos. Colhoun, Esq. Fleming Bates, Ebenezer Petigrue, Higginson Barksdale, and Joseph appointed. Milligan, shall be commissioners for the warehouse at John Sharp's plantation; James Goudey, John Merriweather and Wm. Huggins, shall be commissioners for the warehouse at Cambridge; and Jacob Weymer, John Chevillett and David Rumph, shall be commissioners for the warehouse at Orangeburgh; and Drury Pace, Robert Ware, and Samuel Scott, shall be commissioners for the warehouse at Drury Pace's ferry,in Edgefield county; and William Farr, Nathan Glen, and James Glen, shall be commissioners for the warehouse at Hendersonburgh. And the said commissioners shall be, and are hereby, vested with all the powers, authorities, privileges and benefits, and shall be subject to all the duties and penalties to which commissioners of other inspections are or made liable by any law of this State. And the owners of the lands on which the warehouses may be built, and the officers and servants at each of the said warehouses, shall also be entitled to all the profits and emoluments, subject to all the duties, and liable to all the penalties, given, created and imposed by any law of the said State.

tobacco laws to

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That copies of this law, and also of all preceding laws respecting the inspection of Copies of the tobacco, now in force, be transmitted by the commissioners of the treasury be sent to each to the board of commissioners of each respective inspection throughout inspection.

the State.

Commissioners

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners for building warehouses and appointing inspectors of tobac to compel payco, already appointed or hereafter to be appointed, shall have power to ment of surplus settle with and receive from the inspectors, at the respective warehouses, monies. all surplus money that may be in their hauds, at the expiration of every year; and on the inspectors refusing or neglecting to pay the said bal ance or surplus, the said commissioners shall have full power and authority to compel payment of the same.

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners of the tobacco warehouses known by the name of Hammond's, Pickens's and Campbell's warehouses, are respectively empowered to lower such of the taxes as have been laid by law, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of inspection.

In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the sixteenth year of American Independence.

DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate.

JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Taxes to be

reduced.

AN ACT to incorporate the Grand Lodge, and the several Lodges under No. 1535. the jurisdiction thereof, of South Carolina Ancient York Masons.

(Passed December 20, 1791. See last volume.)

A. D. 1791.

No. 1536. AN ACT for incorporating the Society of Free and Accepted Masons in this State.

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THE GENERAL AS"An Act for erect

No. 1537. AN ACT TO REPEAL SUCH PARTS OF AN ACT OF SEMBLY, PASSED MARCH 19, A. D. 1785, ENTITLED ing and establishing a College in the Village of Winnsborough, in the District of Camden, a College in or near the City of Charleston, and a College at Ninety-six, in the District of Ninety-six, in the State of SouthCarolina," AS RELATE TO THE COLLEGE ESTABLISHED IN CHARLETON, AND FOR CONTINUING THE SAID COLLEGE IN CHARLESTON, UNDER OTH

Preamble.

Trustees of the
College of
Charleston.

ER REGULATIONS.

WHEREAS it appears to the Legislature, that many inconveniences have arisen in carrying into execution the Act entitled "An Act for erecting and establishing a College in the Village of Winnsborough, in the District of Camden, a College in or near the City of Charleston, and a College at Ninety-six, in the District of Ninety-six, in the State of South Carolina," passed the nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, both as to the time of election of officers among the trustees of Charleston College, and as to the other stated times and places of meeting of the trustees of the said College; and also that by blending the regulations for the said three Colleges into one Act, doubts had arisen in many instances as to the construction of the same; for remedy whereof,

I. Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, that Thomas Bee, Esq. President, Richard Hutson, Esq. Vice-President, Daniel Desaussure, Esq. Treasurer, (the present officers) and the rest of the trustees of the College of Charleston, duly appointed, that is to say, Charles Pinckney, John Rutledge, Arnoldus Vanderhorst, John Mathews, David Ramsey, Gabriel Manigault, Ralph Izard, William Smith, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Thomas Heyward, Jr. Hugh Rutledge, Edward Rutledge, Major Thomas Pinckney, John Lloyd, Daniel Burdeaux, Joseph Atkinson, Roger Smith, and Henry William Desaussure, Esq., and their successors to be elected in manner herein directed, shall, forever hereafter, be one body politic and corporate, in deed and in name, by the style of trustees of the College of Charleston; and that by the same name they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, and be able and capable in law to have, receive, take, and enjoy, to them and their successors, lands, messuages, rents, liberties, franchises, and hereditaments of any kind, nature, quality or value, in fee and perpetuity, and also estates for lives and for years, and all sums of money, goods, chattels, and things whatsoever and of whatsoever value, for buildding, erecting, and supporting the said College in Charleston; provided the same do not exceed in the whole the yearly value of five thousand pounds

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