the duties thereof, by himself or his deputy or deputies, for and during A. D. 1795. the time for which he is elected, if he shall so long live. missioners to V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Daniel Desaussure, Thomas Jones, Edward Trescot, Nathaniel Russell, and Ste- Names of comphen Lee, Esquires, for the district of Charleston; John A. Cuthbert, approve of seJames Garvey, John M. Verdier, Peter Porcher, and Thomas Fuller, curities offered Esquires, for the dissrict of Beaufort; Col. Wm. R. Thompson, Charles by sheriffs. Jones Brown, Capt. Paul Warley, Col. Jacob Rumph, and Walter Robinson, Esquires, for the district of Orangeburgh; Paul Michau, junior, Samuel Smith, General Peter Horry, Daniel Tucker, and Edward Thomas, Esquires, for the district of Georgetown; William Pegues, William Thomas, Evander McIver, Allen Chapman, and Alexander McIntosh, Esqs. for the district of Cheraw; John Chesnut, Zachariah Cantey, Isaac Dubose, Burrel Boykin, and Duncan McRea, Esquires, for the district of, Camden; Warren Beaufort, Edward Tellman, James Jordan, Elijah Nunn, and William Kennedy, for the district of Pinckney; General Pickens, General Anderson, Colonel Henry M. Wood, Colonel Lemuel Alston, and Colonel Eliab Moore, for the district of Washington; Arthur Simkins, John Bowie, James Caldwell, Jonathan Downes, and Patrick McDowall, Esquires, for the district of Ninety-Six-be respectively appointed commissioners to approve of the securities which may be offered by the sheriffs hereafter to be elected or appointed; and the said commissioners, or any three of them respectively, are hereby vested with full power to judge and determine on the sufficiency of the securities which may be offered by the sheriff's respectively, and, the better to enable them to discharge that duty, to administer an oath to each of the securities who may be offered, that he is worth, over and above all his debts, the sum for which he offers himself as security. Provided also, that in case any of the said commissioners shall depart this State, die, resign, or refuse to serve, the Governor of the State shall fill up the vacancy occasioned thereby, until the next meeting of the Legislature succeeding such departure, death, resignation, or refusal to serve. In the Senate House, the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. ROBERT BARNWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT TO ENABLE THE UNITED STATES TO PURCHASE A QUANTITY No. 1611. EXCEEDING TWO THOUSAND ACREs, for WHEREAS, the late Secretary of State of the United States, in his letter to the late Governor of this State, did request that he would take Preamble. proper measures for obtaining the consent of the Legislature of this State, that the United States should purchase a quantity of land in this State, whereon arsenals and magazines might be erected: I. Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the A.D. 1795. authority of the same, That the United States, or such person or persons as may be by them authorized, shall have a right to purchase, in any part of this State that may be thought most eligible, the fee simple of any quanLand to be pur- tity of land, not exceeding two thousand acres, for the purpose of erecting chased by the arsenals and magazines thereon, agreeably to the Act of Congress entitled for arsenals and" An Act to provide for the erecting and repairing of arsenals and magamagazines. zines, and for other purposes," passed on the second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four. United States to be valued. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the perIf parties can- son or persons whose land may be chosen for the above mentioned purnot agree, land pose, should not be disposed to sell the same, or if the persons appointed to make the purchase should not be able to agree upon terms with such owner or owners of the said land, the same shall be valued upon oath by a majority of persons to be appointed by the Court of Equity or Court of Common Pleas of this State for that purpose; and the land shall be vested in the United States, upon their paying the amount of such valuation to the owner or owners of such land. State. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Jurisdiction re- land, when purchased, and every person and officer residing or employed tained by the thereon, whether in the service of the United States or not, shall be subject and liable to the government of this State, and the jurisdiction, laws and authority thereof, in the same manner as if this Act had never been passed; and that the United States shall exercise no more authority or power, within the limits of the said land, than they might have done previous to the passing of this Act, or than may be necessary for the building, repairing, or internal government, of the arsenals and magazines thereon to be erected, and the regulation and management of the same, and of the officers and persons by them to be employed in or about the same: Provided always, that the said land shall for ever be exempt from any taxes to be paid to this State. In the Senate House, the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. ROBERT BARNWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1612. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE BARRELLING AND PACKING OF BEEF AND PORK FOR EXPORTATION, AT THE TOWNS OF CHATHAM, CAMDEN AND VIENNA. Chatham. I. Be it enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of RepresentaCommissioners tives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of for the town of the same, That it shall and may be lawful to and for John Wilson, Allen Chapman, James Galispie, James Jenkins and William Strother, or any three of them, and they are hereby required, to appoint, on the second Monday in January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and on the second Monday in January in every year thereafter, two public packers of beef and pork, at the town of Chatham, in the county of Chesterfield; which said public packers shall have all the powers, discharge all the duties, and be subject to and observe all the regulations, which are prescribed for such packers in and by an Act of the Legislature entitled "An Act to A.D. 1795. prevent fraud and deceits in selling rice, pitch, tar, rosin, turpentine, beef, pork, shingles, staves and fire-wood, and to regulate the weighing of the several commodities and merchandize in this province," passed the seventeenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-six. for the town of II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for John Kershaw, Zachariah Cantey, John Ad- Commissioners amson, Thomas Broom and David Bush, or any three of them, and they Camden. are hereby required, to appoint, on the said second Monday in January, in the year aforesaid, two public packers of beef and pork, at the town of Camden, in the county of Kershaw; which last mentioned public packers shall have all the powers, discharge all the duties, and be subject to all the regulations, which are prescribed in and by this Act for the packers hereby to be established at the town of Chatham aforesaid. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for, Hickeson Barker, William Goodman, Tho- Commissioners mas Lee, Samuel Patterson and William Magan, or any three of them, and for Vienna. they are hereby required, to appoint, on the said second Monday in January, in the year aforesaid, two public packers of beef and pork, at Vienna, in the county of Abbeville; which last mentioned public packers shall have all the powers, discharge all the duties, and be subject to all the lations, which are prescribed in and by this Act for the public packers thereby to be established at the town of Chatham aforesaid. regu IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for any merchant, trader, or other person or persons whomsoever, from time to time, and at all times from and after the passing of this Act, to ship for exportation, on board any ship or vessel, any beef or pork for a foreign market, duly packed in pursuance of this Act, as if the same had been packed in the city of Charleston, by packers there legally appointed; any law, usage or custom, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any of the said persons, hereby empowered to appoint public packers as aforesaid, Vacancies how shall die, or depart the county for which he or they are respectively ap- to be filled. pointed, or shall refuse or neglect to act, it shall and may be lawful for the remainder of those appointed, or to be elected in pursuance of this Act, to elect one or more persons in their room; and the person or persons so elected shall be invested with, and he or they shall and may lawfully use, exercise and enjoy, the same powers and authorities, in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as the persons hereby appointed respectively can, or lawfully may or ought to do. In the Senate House, the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. ROBERT BARNWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. D. 1795. No. 1613. Federal currency adopted. AN ACT TO REGULATE THE MANNER OF KEEPING PUBLIC ACCOUNTS I. Be it enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met in General Assembly, That from and after the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, all accounts in the public offices of this State, and all accounts of the tax collectors, shall be expressed in dollars or units, dismes or tenths, cents or hundredths, and mils or thousandths; a disme being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, and a mil the thousandth part of a dollar. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the verdict of the juries, on all contracts which shall be made after the first day of May next, shall be expressed conformably to this regulation. In the Senate House, the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. ROBERT BARNWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1614. AN ACT TO GIVE FURTHER ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE PROPRIETORS FOR OPENING THE NAVIGATION OF THE CATAWBA AND WATEREE RIVERS. Preamble. Exemption from duties granted. WHEREAS, the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, by an Act passed at Fayetteville, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, did incorporate sundry persons therein named, and such others as should be associated with them, by the title of the Company for opening the navigation of the Catawba rivers; and did grant to them the right of causing a navigation to be made on the rivers aforesaid, by means of dams, canals and locks, or in such other manner as to them should seem most fit and convenient, from the South Carolina line as far up both branches of the Catawba river as may be found practicable, with certain other privileges therein mentioned; provided, that the State of South Carolina agrees that no restriction, duty, or impost, shall be laid on any commodity which is the growth, produce or manufacture of the State of North Carolina, brought through the said canals or rivers for sale or exportation, and that the same may be exported without re-inspection : I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That no restrictions, duty or impost shall be laid by any law to be made by this State, on any commodity which is the growth, produce or manufacture of the State of North Carolina, brought through the said canals or rivers for sale or exportation; and that the same may be exported without any re-inspection to be required by any law of this State; unless the State of North Carolina shall hereafter agree that the said commodities shall be subject to the same regulations of inspection as the same commodities of this State are liable to, coming from the Catawba river; and provided, that nothing in this Act shall extend to pre vent the Companies of the Wateree and Catawba Navigation, and the A.D. 1795. Company of the Santee Navigation, from imposing such tolls on the aforesaid commodities from North Carolina as they impose on the commodities of the growth, produce or manufacture of this State, going through their respective navigations. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing contained in the said Act of North Carolina shall be construed as a waiver Proviso. or relinquishment of the claims of the said State to part of the territory of this State, but the said claim shall be and remain in the same plight as if the said Act had not been passed. In the Senate House, the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. ROBERT BARNWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE A LOTTERY, THE PROFITS WHEREOF SHALL BE No. 1615. APPROPRIATED TO THE PROMOTION OF USEFUL MANUFACTURES IN THIS STATE. WHEREAS, William M'Clure hath petitioned the Legislature to assist him in establishing a cotton manufactory in this State, and it would be Preamble. very advantageous to this State to have useful manufactories established in the same : drawn. 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 a lottery shall be established and drawn, and Lottery to be finally concluded and completed, the profits whereof, after deducting the necessary expenses attending the same, shall be applied towards the promotion of useful manufactures in this State; that a profit shall be raised by the said lottery not exceeding the sum of eight hundred pounds; that Thomas Lehre, William Turpin, Col. Thomas Taylor, John G. Guignard, Benjamin Waring, John Simpson, and John Hunter, shall be, and they hereby are appointed, commissioners to conduct and manage the same; and the said commissioners, or any three of them, shall adopt such scheme or schemes for the purpose aforesaid as they may judge most proper, and shall appoint such time and place for drawing the same as they may think most advisable. £400. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said commissioners shall pay unto the said William M'Clure four hundred Wm. M'Clure pounds, out of the profits of the said lottery, two hundred to be paid as to receive soon as they shall receive a sufficient amount to enable them to pay the same with propriety, and the remainder to be paid when the said lottery shall be drawn and completely concluded. Provided, that the said commissioners shall, in trust for the State, previously take from the said William M'Clure an obligation or obligations, under the penalty of twice the amount paid to him, with such security as they shall deem sufficient, with a condition that he shall, within a certain time, by them to be ascertained, erect and complete a manufacture of cotton into what is commonly called |