Jones, his heirs and assigns, for the term of four teen years from the completion of the same; and that it shall and may be lawful for the said Henry Jones, his heirs or assigns, to take and receive, as a toll for passing the said bridge, the following and no more, that is to say: fifty cents for every waggon and team, or other four wheeled carriage; twenty-five cents for every cart or chair, with one or two horses and driver; six cents for every man and horse; and one cent for every head of cattle, hogs, sheep or goats. And be it further enacted by the authority aforePersons said, That all persons already and to be hereafter exempted exempted from paying feriage or toll at any other ferry or bridge, are hereby exempted from paying toll at the said bridge. from paying toll. tions. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeRemula said, That the said Henry Jones, his heirs or assigns, shall be liable to pay all persons whomsoever, the full amount of any injury to their person or property, by reason of the badness of the bridge and causeway, so to be made, built or crected as aforesaid; and also twenty-five cents for every hour any person shall be hindered or delayed in passing the said bridge and causeway, unless such injury or prevention shall be occasioned by unavoidable accidents; to be recovered before the nearest magistrate: Provided the same be sucd for within two months from the time of such injury or delay. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeProtect said, That if any person shall wilfully destroy or ing clause. injure the bridge or causeway aforesaid, he, she or they, so destroying or injuring of the same, shall pay to the said Henry Jones treble damages, to be recovered by action of trespass in any court in this state having jurisdiction. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeRoad from said, That Thomas Young, Elijah Ford and HenBluford's ry Jones. be appointed commissioners for opening bridge. a road from major William Bluford's bridge on the Saltcatcher, to the said Henry Jones's bridge, to be built by virtue of this act, and that John Woolfe, Christian Patrick and John Cook, be appointed commissioners for opening a road from the said bridge to the town of Granby, and that all the male inhabitants, between the ages of sixteen and fifty years, residing within six miles of the said road, are hereby declared to be liable to open the same. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- No ferry or said, That no person shall be at liberty to build a bridge to be kept bridge or establish a ferry within three miles above or below the said bridge to be built by virtue of miles. this act. And whreas it would be greatly conducive to the convenience of travellers, that a ferry should be established over Broad river, at the plantation of William Lyles: within 3 blished. Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a ferry shall be, and is hereby estab- Lyles's lished over Broad river, at the plantation of the ferry estasaid William Lyles, and the same is hereby vested in him, the said William Lyles, for the term of fourteen years; and that the following rates of ferriage shall be received: For every four wheeled carriage or waggon, fifty cents; for every two wheeled carriage, twenty-five cents; for every rolling hogshead, with two horses, twenty-five cents; for every man and horse, seven cents; for every foot passenger, four cents: Provided, That nothing contained in this clause shall be construed to extend to prevent Leonard Subar from keeping a flat for his own use, in transporting persons to and from his mills. Wither And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That John Ervin, Gavin Witherspoon, Tho- Road from mas T. Wickham, Reese Perkins, Hugh Ervin, spoon's James Gregg, John Orr, John Cooper, Thomas ferry to the Finklca and John Thompson, shall be, and they line. are hereby appointed commissioners on the south R Cheraw ferry to line. west side of Pedee river, in Liberty county, for keeping in repair the main road leading from Witherspoon's forry, on Lynch's creck, up to the Cheraw district line; and are hereby fully authorized to call out and employ the male inhabitants, from sixteen to fifty years of age, residing on the south-west side of the said river, within ten miles of said road, to work thereon, for any number of days, not exceeding six in one year: And the said commissioners are hereby vested with the same powers, and subject to the same penalties as they are with respect to the other public roads. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeFrom Wi- said, That Ralph Smith, Austin Stone, Obadiah therspoons Hand, Daniel Miers and William Stone, shall be, Darling and they are hereby appointed commissioners for ton county laying out, opening and keeping in repair a road leading from Witherspoon's ferry, on Lynch's creek, up said creek to Darlington county line; and are hereby fully authorized to call out and employ the male inhabitants, from sixteen to fifty years of age, residing within ten miles of said road, to work thereon for any number of days, not exceeding cight in one year; and that Charles Pigot, Daniel Dubose, junior, William Law, John Huggins, and Andrew Dubose, senior, shall be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for laying out, continuing, and keeping in repair the said road, up said creek to M'Callum's ferry; and that the county court of Darlington shall direct and appoint the persons who shall work on said road. roads in Clarendon county. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, Commissi. That the judges of Clarendon county court, and oners of their successors, shall for ever hereafter be relieved from the duties, and be deprived of the powers and authority of commissioners of the roads; and James Davis, Edward Richardson, Matthew James and Henry Richbourg, and three others by them to be appointed, shall be commissioners of the roads in said county, and shall have, hold, exercise and enjoy all the powers, rights, privileges and au thority, and be subject to all the pains, penalties, fines and forfeitures to which and with which the commissioners of the roads, where county courts are not established, are now, or at any time hereafter, shall be entitled or subject, or in anywise vested, and shall, from time to time, fill up any vacancy or vacancies which may happen in their members, in the same manner as the said commissioners are authorized to do, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. lake. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a public road be laid out and opened Road from from Rogers's lake, the nearest and best way to the Rogers's bridge on Crooked creek, a little below Tristram Thomas's mills, until it shall intersect a road leading from Kolb's ferry to Fayetteville; and that Tristram Thomas, Robert Allison and Edward Crossland, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out the same. roads ac cording to And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the act of the legislature, making per- Persons to sons liable to work upon the roads within a cer- work on tain distance of their place of residence, shall be so construed as to compel every person to work distance. upon all public roads within that distance, whether the same be measured or calculated by the course of a public road, or that of any private road. person to And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the solicit- No unau or of the district in which any part of the high thorized road may have been, or shall be diverted from its after the original course, unless by law, and he, the said course of solicitor, is hereby enjoined and required, on in- the road. formation of any two persons, to commence a suit against any person or persons, who may have altered, or who shall hereafter alter the road, without authority, in order to compel the parties offending, as soon as may be, to restore, at their own expense, the high road, in its course as established by law, And whereas the judges of the county courts, and the commissioners of the roads, have, by an act of the legislature, passed the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, the power of granting roads, &c. Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no petition shall be hereafter received by the legislature, praying for the establishment of any road, unless application shall first have been made to the commissioners of roads; unless the same shall extend through more than one county or parish. In the Senate House, the twentieth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and in the twenty-first Year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. END of the ACTS of DECEMBER, 1796. |