A. D. 1811. of Chesterfield, for dieting a prisoner and guard, one hundred and twentyseven dollars, twelve and a half cents. For medicine and attendance on prisoners in the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, to Dr. Freeborn Adams, sixty-nine dollars, fifty cents. To Dr. Hugh M'Burnie, thirty dollars, ninety-nine cents. To Dr. Edward Fisher, seven dollars fifty cents. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the repairs of the court houses and gaols hereinafter mentioned. For the court house of Georgetown district, eight hundred dollars. For the court house of the district of Union, two hundred and fifty dollars. For the gaol of Edgefield district, one hundred dollars. For the gaol of Greenville district, two hundred dollars. For the gaol of Chester district, a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. To Alexander Kincaid, on account of interest money due him, seventyfive dollars, forty-five cents. For Charles Miller, sen. four hundred and twenty-eight dollars fiftyseven cents, for arrears of his pension allowed since the year ninety. For William Stroud, eighty-five dollars and seventy-two cents, for arrears of pension allowed since the year eighteen hundred and eight. For Robert Boyd, forty-two dollars and eighty-six cents, for arrears allowed since the year eighteen hundred and nine. As a compensation to the Rev. William Knox, for preaching a session sermon at Williamsburgh court house, March term, eighteen hundred and ten, twelve dollars and eighty-five cents, to be paid out of the fines and forfeitures. For John Miller, one hundred and fifty dollars, as a compensation for land granted to him by the State as a bounty, but never obtained. XII. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the finishing and completion of the goal of Georgetown, to be paid to the order of the commissioners for superintending the building of the said goal. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in the thirty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America. SAMUEL WARREN, President of the Senate. JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 2003. AV 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. Preamble. WHEREAS, by the census of the inhabitants of the United States, taken in conformity with the Constitution thereof, and the Act of Congress, this State is entitled to send nine members to the House of Representa- A. D. 1812. tives of the United States, at the next Congress : Election dis 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 this State be, and is hereby, divided into nine tricts. districts, for the purpose of electing representatives from this State to the Congress of the United States; of which the district of Charleston, exclusive of St. John's, Colleton, and St. Andrew's, shall form one district; that the united districts of Colleton and Beaufort, including the parishes of St. John's, Colleton, and St. Andrew's, shall constitute one district; that the united districts of Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Marlborough, Williamsburgh and Darlington, shall constitute one district; that the united districts of Barnwell, Orangeburgh, Lexington and Richland, shall form one district; that the united districts of Fairfield, Newberry and Laurens, shall form one district; that the united districts of Edgefield and Abbeville, shall form one district; that the united districts of Pendleton and Greenville, shall form one district; that the united districts of Spartanburgh, Union, York and Chester, shall form one district; and the united districts of Lancaster, Kershaw, Sumter and Chesterfield, shall form one Each district district; and each of the said districts shall send one representative to the House of Representatives of the United States, who shall be chosen by to Congress. the persons qualified to vote for members of the House of Representatives of this State. to send one representative II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the elections of representatives from this State to Congress shall be held at the Elections, same times and places, and be regulated and conducted by the same man- when to be agers, and in the same manner, as the elections of members of the State held. Legislature; and the person who, at any of the said elections, shall have the greatest number of votes in any of the said districts, shall be the memher for that district, to the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States, from this State. bia. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the respective managers of the several election districts aforesaid shall, within Ballots to be twenty days after each and every election for representatives in Congress, sent to Columtransmit the ballots by them respectively taken to Columbia, safely and securely enclosed in paper, sealed with their seals, and directed to the Governor or Commander-in-chief of this State, or to the Secretary of this State, by a person by them to be employed particularly for that purpose, who, at the time of receiving the said packet, shall take an oath before some magistrate, "safely to convey and deliver such packet, agreeably to the directions, (sickness and unavoidable accidents excepted); and in case of sickness, that he will deliver the same, in good order, and the seals unbroken at the time of such delivery, to some other person, to be conveyed to Columbia." And the Governor, or the Secretary of State, as the case may be, on the receipt of any such packet shall cause to be administered to the person delivering the same, the following oath, viz: “I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that the paper or packet now delivered by me, with the contents, were placed in my hands by the managers of the election district of (or by in case he has received the same from the messenger first entrusted,) and that the said packet has not been delivered out of my custody to any person since the same was delivered to me, nor has the said paper or packet been opened by me, or any other person, to my knowledge, or with my connivance or consent. So help me God." Which paper or packet, so delivered, shall VOL. V.-S4. A. D. 1812. Votes to be counted by be received by the Governor, or Secretary of State; and the several persons who shall be employed in conveying the said packets to Columbia, from the several election districts in this State, shall be entitled to receive, and shall be paid, three dollars per diem, for coming to and going from Columbia, allowing forty miles for each day's journey. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Governor or Commander-in-chief for the time being, or, in case of his sickcommissioners, ness, death, or absence, the Lieutenant Governor, on every first Monday in December next after each succeeding election, shall cause the said returns to be publicly opened, examined and counted in his presence, at Columbia, by three or more commissioners, to be by him, and under his hand and seal, appointed for that purpose; and shall ascertain the number of votes given at the different elections, for every person, and what nine persons shall have, respectively, the greatest number of the votes in the said several districts, and shall then deposit the original poll of each of the said nine districts in the office of the Secretary of State; and after having ascertainElections to be ed what uine persons have been elected, as before directed, he shall notify, proclaimed by by proclamation, that those persons have been duly elected members of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States, from this State: Provided, that if both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be absent from Columbia, the Secretary of State, together with three commissioners, to be appointed as herein before directed, shall and may open and count the votes, and ascertain the nine persons elected as aforesaid, and transmit the result thereof to the Governor, or, in case of his absence or death, to the Lieutenant Governor, to be notified by proclamation as aforesaid: Provided, that the three commissioners, to be appointed as aforesaid, shall, in all cases, before they proceed to act in the premises, take an oath before some magistrate, That they will faithfully and impartially, and to the best of their skill, discharge the duties required of them by this Act." the Governor. Duty of the managers. Persons elect ed for two or more districts to make choice, 86 V. And be it further enacted, That the managers of the said elections be, and they are hereby, required, the next day after the poll shall be closed, to count over, in a public manner, the ballots which shall be given in the respective election districts, for the respective candidates or persons ballotted for; and the said managers shall keep an account, in writing, of the number of votes which each candidate shall have, and shall also transmit to the Governor, with the ballots, a duplicate of such account. VI. And be it further enacted, That in case the same person shall be returned for two or more districts, he may, within twenty days after due notice shall be given him thereof, choose for which district he will serve : and on his making such choice, or neglecting so to do, within the said term, the Governor or Commander-in-chief shall direct another election to be held within twenty days thereafter, for the vacant district or districts, to be conducted as is before directed by this Act. And the Governor or Commander-in-chief shall proceed in the same manner where the member elected in any of the said election districts refuses to serve, or omits to signify to the Governor or Commander-in-chief, within twenty days after he has received due notice of his election, his intention of serving. And in case of the death of any person elected, or if his seat shall become vacant by any other means, or if two or more persons shall have equal votes for the same district, the Governor or Commander-in-chief shall order a new election, as the case may require, to be conducted as is herein before prescribed. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all Acts A.D. 1812. or clauses of Acts contrary to this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. In the Senate House, the twenty-ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and in the thirty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America SAMUEL WARREN, President of the Senate. JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT to extend the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to No. 2004. remedy the defects 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 eightynine, to all the Circuit Court districts throughout the State. AN ACT FOR RATIFYING AND CONFIRMING A CONVENTION BETWEEN THE No. 2005. YEAR OF THE WHEREAS, a dispute and difference have arisen and subsisted between the said States of South Carolina and North Carolina, concerning boundaries, the said States claiming respectively the same territories. And whereas, it appeared to be the sincere wish and desire of the said States of South Carolina and North Carolina, that all and singular the differences and claims subsisting between the said States relative to boundary should be amicably adjusted and compromised. And whereas, the Governor of the State of South Carolina, being duly authorized for that purpose, did appoint Joseph Blythe, Thomas Sumpter, jr., and James Kilgore, commissioners, and did invest them, or a majority of them, with full and absolute power and authority, in behalf of that State, to settle and compromise all and singular the differences, Controversies, disputes and claims which subsist between the said State and the State of North Carolina, relative to boundary, and to establish, and permanently fix, a boundary between the two States; and the said State of South Carolina did declare that it would at all times thereafter, so soon as the actings and doings of the said commissioners, in and touching the said disputes relative to boundary, should be ratified by the Legislature of the State of South Carolina, the same should be forever binding on the State of South Carolina. And whereas, the Legislature of the State of North Carolina did appoint Preamble. A. D. 1812. John Steele, John Moore and James Wellborn, commissioners, and did invest them with full and absolute power and authority, in behalf of that State, to settle and compromise all and singular the differences, controversies, disputes and claims, which subsist between the said State and the State of South Carolina relative to boundary, and to establish, and permanently fix, a boundary between the two States; and the said State of North Carolina did also declare, that it would at all times thereafter ratify and confirm all and whatsoever the said last mentioned commissioners, or a majority of them, should do, in and touching the premises, and that the same should be forever binding on the said State of North Carolina. And whereas, the said Joseph Blythe, Thomas Sumpter, John Steele, John Moore and James Wellborn, commissioners on the part of the said States of South Carolina and North Carolina respectively, did by mutual consent assemble at the town of 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, in order to the due execution of their respective trusts, and did respectively exchange and consider their full pow ers, and did declare the same legal and forever binding on both States; and on confering on the most effectual means of adjusting the differences subsisting between the said States, and of establishing and permanently fixing a boundary between them, did mutually agree, for and in behalf of their respective States, to the following articles, that is to say: ARTICLE 1. The line beginning at a cedar stake on the Atlantic ocean, and running thence north-west and west to a point at the Salisbury road near the Catawba lands, as described in the plans of survey begun in one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five, and ended in one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, shall be and remain the same in its whole extent as heretofore established. ARTICLE 2. From which point at the said Salisbury road mentioned in the preceding article, instead of following the road to where it enters the Catawba lands as at present, which road is liable to change and uncertainty, a line shall be run and marked in a direct course to the south-east corner of the said Catawba lands at twelve mile creek; which line is hereby established in lieu of the said road; thence along the line of the said Catawba lands, pursuing its different courses, to where the Catawba river enters the said lands on the north, thence with the middle stream of that river northwardly to the confluence of the northern and southern branches thereof, and thence due west along the line as run and marked by commissioners in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two, to the termination of the said line. ARTICLE 3. And from the termination of the said line of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two, a line shall be extended in a direct course to that point in the ridge of mountains which divides the eastern from the western waters, where the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude shall be found to strike it nearest to the termination of the said line of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two; thence along the top of the said ridge to the western extremity of the State of South Carolina; it being understood that the State of South Carolina does not mean by this arrangement to interfere with claims which the United States, or those holding under her act of session to the United States, may have to lands which may lie (if any there be,) between the top of the said ridge and the said thirty-fifth degree of north latitude. ARTICLE 4. The contracting parties for their mutual benefit and convenience, agree to adopt and confirm the lines of boundary as described in the preceeding articles, and to renounce respectively to each other every right, claim, and pretension which may be inconsistent with the true mean |