to divide the counties of Kershaw and Lancaster shall commence at and A. D. 1792. run from Stark's ferry, on the east side of the Wateree river, in a direct line to the ford of Hanging Rock Creek, on the main road leading from Camden to Waxaw's, from thence down the main Charleston road to George Miller's, thence in a direct line to Harrison's Ford, on Great Lynch's Creek; and that the same shall be, and are hereby declared to be, the dividing lines between the said counties of Kershaw and Lancaster.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the line to divide the counties of Kershaw and Claremont shall commence at and run Division lines of Kershaw and from Spivey's ferry aforesaid, in a direct line running to the fork of the road Claremont. at Garret's old field, from thence to the mouth of a small gut which runs out of the Wateree river to Swift Creek, above General Sumpter's plantation, from thence up the middle of said gut to the Wateree river; and that the same shall be, and are hereby declared to be, the dividing lines between the aforesaid counties of Kershaw and Claremont.

Richland.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the line to divide the counties of Kershaw and Richland shall commence at and Kershaw and run from the Wateree river, immediately opposite to the point or mark terminating the line of division between the two aforesaid counties of Kershaw and Claremont, to Spear's creek, below the mouth of Ragling's creek, in Richland county, from thence up Ragling's creek aforesaid to John Dougherty's on Twenty-five Mile Creek, from thence in a direct line to the mouth of Colonel's creek on the Wateree river, and from thence across the Wateree river to Stark's ferrry aforesaid: and that the same shall be, and are hereby declared to be, the dividing lines between the said counties of Kershaw and Richland.

In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the seventeenth 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 OBTAIN A MORE ACCURATE SURVEY AND MAP OF THE

STATE.

No. 1559.

J. Purcell ap

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, the same, That Joseph Purcell be, and he is hereby appointed, Geographer pointed State to the State, and he is hereby vested with full power and authority to survey Geographer. all the rivers, creeks, high roads, State lines, district lines, county lines and parish lines of the State; and when the said Joseph Purcell shall have completed his said survey, he, his heirs and assigns, shall have the sole right of publishing and vending the map thereof for the term of twenty years, to commence from the day of first publishing the same; provided, the said map map vested in is not drawn on a smaller scale than ten miles to an inch. And if any person him. or persons shall pirate, sell, publish, or expose to sale, within the said term, without the consent of the said Joseph Purcell, his heirs or assigns, the Map so to be drawn and published by the said Joseph Purcell, such of fender or offenders shall forfeit to the said Joseph Purcell, his heirs and

Copy-right of

A.D. 1792. assigns, such map or maps, and also the sum of two pounds for every other map of the same kind found in his, her or their custody; to be recovered in any court of common pleas in the State, by action of debt, in which no wager of law, essoign, privilege or protection, or more than one imparlance, shall be allowed. Provided, that nothing contained in this Act shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent any other person from surveying this State, or any part thereof, and publishing a map of his survey, for the emolument of himself or his assigns.

In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the seventeenth 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. 1560. AN ACT TO ALTER THE LINE OF DIVISION BETWEEN THE COUNTIES OF LAURENS AND GREENVILLE.

I'reamble.

altered.

WHEREAS, a number of persons, inhabitants of the upper end of Laurens county, by their humble petition to the General Assembly, have represented many inconveniencies which they are under from the line of division as now established between the aforesaid two counties;

I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the Division lines authority of the same, That as soon after the passing of this Act as may be convenient, the division line between the said two counties of Laurens and Greenville shall be run from the Ford on Enoree river, opposite Zadack's Ford, in a direct course to the widow Killit's, on Raburn's creek, and from thence along the old Indian boundary line to Saludy river; and that the line so run shall hereafter be deemed the division line between the aforesaid two counties.

In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the seventeenth 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. 1561. AN ACT to incorporate the General Committee for the Charleston Baptist Association Fund.

(Passed December 21, 1792. See last volume.)

A. D. 1792.

AN ACT TO ASCERTAIN AND FIX THE LINE OF DIVISION BETWEEN THE No. 1562. PARISHES OF ST. PETER'S AND ST. LUKE'S; AND FOR OTHER PURPO

SES THEREIN MENTIONED.

WHEREAS, the commissioners appointed under and by virtue of a Resolve of the Legislature of this State, to run and ascertain the line of division between the parishes of St. Peter's and St. Luke's, having by their Preamble. report recommended that the main waters of the Great Swamp, as far as the fork at the plantation of the widow Brantley, from thence up the easternmost branch of the said Great Swamp to the plantation of John Audebert, where the said branch joins Cypress Creek, and from thence down the said Cypress Creek to the main swamp of Coosawhatchie, as a proper dividing line between the said parishes:

ion established.

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 the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, the said main Lines of divis waters of the said Great Swamp, as far up as the fork at the plantation of the widow Brantley, from thence up the easternmost branch of the said Great Swamp to the plantation of John Audebert, where the said branch joins Cypress Creek, and from thence down the said Cypress Creek to the centre of the main swamp at Coosawhatchie, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, the dividing line between the said parishes of St. Peter's and St. Luke's; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. And whereas, a division of the board of commissioners of the high roads will be more for the convenience of the inhabitants of the said parish Commissioners of St. Peter's: Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the of roads. commissioners appointed for the road leading from the Great Swamp bridge to the Sister's ferry, and the upper part of the parish, shall be known and distinguished by the name of the Black Swamp Board of Commissioners; and those who shall be appointed for the road leading from the Sister's ferry road to Purysburgh, and the lower part of the parish, by the name of the Purysburgh Board of Commissioners.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Joseph Lawton shall be, and he is hereby appointed, a commissioner for the high roads in St. Peter's parish, to join the Black Swamp Board, and Peter Porcher, senior, a commissioner of the said road to join the Purysburgh Board.

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

DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate.

JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

A. D. 1792.

No. 1563. AN ACT TO REIMBURSE

Preamble.

Appropriation.

SUNDRY INHABITANTS OF BEAUFORT DISTRICT
MENTIONED; AND TO MAKE AN
THEREOF, IN CONFORMITY WITH THEIR PETITION.

THE SUM THEREIN

APPROPRIATION

WHEREAS, sundry inhabitants in Beaufort District have, by subscription, contributed the sum of four hundred and ninety pounds sterling towards the erection of a gaol, within one mile of Coosawhatchie bridge; and whereas, they have, by their petition preferred to the Legislature, prayed that the said sum of four hundred and ninety pounds should be reimbursed by the State and granted to the president and members of the Society for promoting and encouraging the education of children, and assisting and establishing schools in that district;

I. 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 the said sum of four hundred and ninety pounds shall be, and the same is hereby, vested in the said President and members of the said society, for the purposes in their petition mentioned, on the following terms and conditions, that is to say, the said president and members of the said Society, or any person by them appointed, shall be entitled to receive from the treasurer of the State aforesaid, annually, and every year during the term of five years, for the use, benefit and behoof of the said Society, the interest of the said sum of four hundred and ninety pounds; and, at the expiration of the said term, shall be, and they are hereby, entitled to receive the aforesaid principal sum of four hundred and ninety pounds.

In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the seventeenth 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. 1564. AN ACT to alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act for incorporating divers Religious Societies therein mentioned," so far as the same relates to the Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island.

(Passed December 21, 1792. See last volume.)

No. 1565. AN ACT to extend the time for rebuilding the Bridge over Ashley River, which was vested in the late Colonel Richard Hampton, his heirs and assigns, by Act of the Legislature.

(Passed December 21, 1792. See last volume.)

A. D. 1792.

AN ACT TO EMPOWER THE PRESIDENT AND WARDENS OF THE INDIGO No. 1566. SOCIETY IN GEORGETOWN TO ESTABLISH A LOTTERY.

WHEREAS, the President and Wardens of the Indigo Society in Georgetown have, by their petition, represented, that they have a fair prospect of establishing a seminary of learning, and that it would much promote their scheme for that purpose if they could obtain the power to establish a Lottery ;

Preamble.

ed.

1. 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 Paul Trapier, President, and Hugh Horry, Lottery grantand Daniel Tucker, senior and junior, Wardens, of the Indigo Society, and their successors, as a body corporate in law, under the name of the Indigo Society, shall have full power and authority, and they are hereby fully authorized and empowered, to erect and proceed to the drawing, and finally to conclude, a Lottery, for the use and benefit of the said Society. Provided, they do not, by the said lottery, raise a fund exceeding four hundred pounds.

In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the seventeenth 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 extend the time allowed by law to Wade Hampton and No. 1567.
John Compty, respectively, for building Bridges over the Congaree and
Broad Rivers.

(Passed December 21, 1792. See last volume.)

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TRUSTEES OF CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE, IN No. 1568.
THE DISTRICT OF NINETY-SIX, TO ESTABLISH A LOTTERY, FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THAT INSTITUTION.

WHEREAS, it hath been represented that the funds of the College of Cambridge, in the District of Ninety-Six, are considerably deranged, and would receive considerable benefit from an authority to establish and draw a lottery, for the purpose of raising a sum for the benefit of the said institution :

Preamble.

1. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the Lottery granted authority of the same, That the Trustees of Cambridge College, or any College. to Cambridge five of them, to be appointed by a Board of Trustees for that purpose, shall have full power and authority, and they are hereby fully authorized and