any court having sufficient jurisdiction, wherein no imparlance or dilatory plea shall be allowed; and that the offender or offenders shall be committed on conviction thereof, and shall remain in close confinement until the same be paid, and shall also be subject to such other corporal and ignominious punishment as the court may think fit to order. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- This act & said, That this act shall be deemed a public act, public act. and may be given in evidence without special pleading. In the Senate House, the twenty-first Day of December, JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. An ACT to establish certain Roads and Ferries, and for other purposes therein mentioned. B Catawba E 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 immediately after the sturgis's passing of this act, that a ferry commonly known ferry on by the name of Stergis's ferry, near the Old Nation river esta Ford, Catawba river, shall be continued and estab- blished. lished as a public ferry for the term of fourteen years, and be vested in Daniel Sturgis and Thomas Spratt, the younger, and their heirs and assigns; and they are hereby permitted to receive the former rates of ferriage, established by law for the said ferry. Little Pe And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the ferry on Little Pedee river, known Moody's by the name of Moody's ferry, be, and the same ferry on is hereby established a public ferry, and vested in dee estab Daniel Cirmical, and his heirs and assigns, for the lished. term of seven years; and that no person or persons shall be permitted to build a bridge or establish a road from ferry within three miles of the said ferry, eit er above or below the same; and that the following rates of forrige shall be established for the same, viz: for every passenger on foot, four cents; for every man and horse, seven cents; for every head of other horses, four cents; for every two wheeled carriage and horse or horses drawing the same, twenty-five cents; for every four wheeled carriage and horses drawing the stane, fifty cents; for every rolling hegshead, horses and drivers, twenty-five cents; for every head of horned cattle, sheep, goats and hogs, two cents. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Road from Thomas Broxton, Jacob Mole, John Wildon the stage Brown, Jacob Folk, Samuel Miley and John IrCharles vin, be, and they are hereby appointed comton to Au- missioners to lay out and keep in repair a road Broxton's leading from the stage road from Charleston to Auferry. gusta, to Broston's fony, and passing the Old gusta, to Broxton. Cowpen Ford on Little Saltcatchers, direct to Orangeburgh; and that the inhabitants shall be liable to be called out within a distance not exceeding two miles, to cut and put the said road in repair. And the said road shall, when so cleared and put in repair, be subject to the direction of the commissioners of the roads in the respective districts where the same shall pass. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeBroxton's said, That the ferry commonly called Broxton's forry vest. Ferry, on Great Saltcatcher, shall be, and the same ed in W. is hereby established a public fery, and vested in the said Thomas W. Broxton, and his heirs and assigns, for the term of seven years; and that the following rates of ferriage shall be established for the same: for every foot passenger, three cents; for every man and horse, seven cents; for every two wheeled carriage and the horse or horses drawing the same, twenty-five cents; for every four wheel carriage and the horse or horses drawing the same, thirty-seven cents; for every rolling hogshead and the horse or horses 'drawing the same, thirty-seven cents. ferry esta And be it further enacted by the authority aforesid, That a public ferry be establi hed over the Columbia Congaree river, from the extremity of Senate- blished. street, and the profits arising therefrom be equally divided, one half to be vested in the trustees of the Columbia academy, for the benefit of that institution, and the other in the heirs of Richard Hampton, deceased, for the term of fourteen years, and that the rates of ferriage be established as are established at the ferry known by the name of Hampton's ferry on the said river Congarce. to Coop Williams And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Thomas Blackwell, Josias Dupre and Road from John M'Clary, be, and they are hereby appointed Kingstree commissioners to re-establish a road leading from er's ferry. Kingstree to Cooper's ferry, on the north side of Black river, and that the said commissioners join the board of Kingstree commissioners for the reestablishing of the said road; and that the board of commissioners of the roads in the parish of Prince Road from George shall appoint one or more persons, living the line of near the said road, as commissioners to superin- burgh to tend the opening and keeping in repair the said Prince road, from the place where the road as aforesaid George. shall cross the divisional line between the county of Williamsburgh and the parish of Prince George; and that the said persons so appointed, shall be members of the board of commissioners of the roads of the said parish, shall be vested with the same powers, and be subjected to the same penalties as other commissioners of roads are now or shall hereafter be vested with or subjected to. dee river, And be it further enacte l by the authority aforesaid, That the ferry on Great Pedce river, belong- Port's foring to Frances Port, be, and the same is hereby ry on Pere-established and vested in the said Frances Port, re-estabher heirs and assigns, for the term of seven years, and that the former rates of ferriage by law, be, lished. ries in the Keowee Earle. and the same are hereby allowed to be taken at the said ferrv. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That two ferries in the fork of Tugaloo and Two fer- Keowee rivers, one to cross each of the said rivers, fork of Tu- shall be vested in Samuel Earle, esquire, for the galoo and term of fourteen years, and during that time the rivers, ves. following rates of ferriage shall be paid at cach of ted in S. the said ferries: for every four wheeled carriage and horses in harness or gears, with the riders and drivers, fifty cents; for every two wheeled carriage and horses drawing the same, with the riders and driver, twenty-five cents; for every hogshead of rolled tobacco, and the horse or horses drawing the same, with the driver, twelve and a half cents; for every head of horses, four cents; for every head of black cattle, two cents; for every foot passenger, four cents; for every head of hogs, sheep or goats, two cents; every man and horse, seven cents. And no ferry or bridge shall be erected or established within three miles above or below the said two ferries, by this law vested in the said Samuel Earle. ton's lake ter field, and to ferry on Santee. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeRoad from said, That a public road be laid out and opened Bruing- fom Bruington's lake, on the south branch of to Cam Black river, the best and most direct way to Camble's mus- ble's musterfield on M'Girt's swamp, and from thence to Murray's ferry on Santee agreeable to a Murray's line marked out for that purpose by John Hardwick, surveyor; and that the present road from said musterfield to Santee, be no longer continued as such by the commissioners of the roads having jurisdiction over the same; and that William Taylor, John Conyers, James Camble, William Neelson, Isaac Keels and Theodore Gourdin, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out, open and complete the said road from Bruington's Lake to Santee, as above directed. And the said board of commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have the power to call out all the male slaves from the age of sixteen to fifty years of age, residing within ten miles of said road, provided they do not exceed six days in a year; provided, the slaves residing on the west side of the road leading from Mouzon's bridge on Black river, to M'Girt's swamp, be exempted from working on the road hereby intended to be laid out and opened. establish and vested And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a toll bridge be, and the same is here- Toll by established over Big Saltcatcher river, at the bridge place where Livermore's bridge was erected on the ed over said river, and that the toll bridge be vested in the Big Saltpresent proprietor, William Weekly, his heirs and catcher, assigns, for the term of fourteen years; and it shall in William not be lawful for any person or persons, during the Weekly. term aforesaid, to keep a ferry or ferries, or to erect any other toll bridge within three miles of the bridge aforesaid, on the said river. And the said William Weekly, his heirs and assigns, shall, during the time aforesaid, be entitled to receive at the said toll bridge, the toll at present or formerly received at the said bridge. from toll or And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons who are now exempted by Persons law from paying toll or ferriage at any ferry or exempted bridge now established in this state, shall be, and ferriage. they are hereby declared to be freed and exempted from the payment of toll or ferriage at any bridge or ferry established by this act; and that if the owners, keepers or proprietors of any bridge or ferry, shall insist on receiving, or compel by threats or other like means, the payment of toll or ferriage from any person or persons so declared to be exempted from the payment of the same, that such person or persons guilty of such exaction, shall be subject and liable to a fine not exceeding the sum of four dollars, to be recovered by warrant under the hand and scal of any justice of the peace of this state, living in the county or parish adjoining to |