person or persons whomsoever, on the best terms that can be obtained for the same, not exceeding the usual rates of storage in Charleston, and to ap ply the monies arising therefrom, to the same purposes as are directed in and by an act, entitled, An act for regulating the inspection and exportation of tobacco, and for other purposes therein mentioned." And the inspector and inspectors aforesaid, are hereby directed and required to collect and pay into the hands of the commissioners aforesaid, the amount of the storage that may arise as aforesaid, in the same manner as they are directed in and by the aforesaid act, with respect to the storage of tobacco. Provided always nevertheless, That all such cotton, or other articles, that may be received on store, shall be received on the express condition, that the same, or any part thereof, may, at any time, be removed, at the discretion of the commissioners aforesaid, whenever, in their opinion, the whole or any part of the said ware-houses may be wanted for the purpose of storing tobacco.

In the Senate House, the eighteenth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, and in the twenty-seventh Year of the Independence of the United States of America.

JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. ROBERT STARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

An ACT to prevent the unnecessary attendance of Witnesses in Courts of Justice.

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HEREAS a great delay of justice is experienced by compelling witnesses to bonds and notes to attend the courts of justice, and prove the same:

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 from and after the fifteenth day of February next, the absence of a witness to any bond

or note, shall not be deemed a good cause by any court of justice, for postponing a trial respecting the same; but that the signature to such bond or note may be proved by other testimony; unless the defendant, at the time of filing his or her plea, shall swear or affirm, according to the form of his religious profession, that the signature of the bond or note in suit, is not his cr hers; nor in case the defendant or defendants should be executors or administrators, shall the cause be postponed for want of the subscribing witness to the bond or note in suit, but the signature may be proven by other testimony; unless one of the executors or administrators who are defendants, shall swear or affirm, as aforesaid, at the time of filing his or her plea, that they have cause to believe the signature to such bond or note is not the testator's or intestate's, as the case may be. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the court from postponing such trial, if in their opinion a sufficient cause shall be assigned for such postponement.

In the Senate House, the eighteenth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, and in the twenty-seventh Year of the Independence of the United States of America.

JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. ROBERT STARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

An ACT to incorporate the Marlborough Academy, the Philomatic Society of Marion district, and the Jfrson Monticello Society of Fairfield district.

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HEREAS the members of the Marlborough Academy, the members of the Marion Philomatic Society, and the members of the Jefferson Monticello Society, have, by their petitions, prayed to be incorporated; and the views of the said institutions appearing to be laudable, and likely to produce benefit to the public:

Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House

of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the members of the said academy and societies, shall be, and they are hereby severally incorporated as bodies politic and corporate; and shall be known in deed and law by the names of the Mariborough Academy, Marion Philomatic Society, and the Jefferson Monticello Society.

And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the members of the said corporations shail, by their names aforesaid, respectively, have perpetual succession of officers and members, to be elected in such manner, and after such form as may be prescribed by the respective laws and regulations of the said corporations, now existing, or hereafter to be made for the government of the same; and that they shall, respectively, have a common seal, with power to change and alter the same, as of ten as they, respectively, may deem it expedient.

And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporations, respectively, shall be able and capable in law, to purchase, hold, possess and enjoy, either in perpetuity or for a tem of years, any estate, real or personal. Provided the same do not exceed ten thousand dollars; and. to sell, alien, or otherwise dispose of the same, as they, from time to time, may deem expedient; and by their name, respectively, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of this state.

And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and judicially taken notice of as such, without special pleading.

In the Senate House, the eighteenth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, and in the twenty-seventh Year of the Independence of the United States of Americas

JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. ROBERT STARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

An ACT to incorporate the State Bank, and im posing certain restrictions on the Directors, Of ficers and Servants of Banks in this State.

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HEREAS John Blake, president, and David Alexander, John Kirk, Micah Jenkins, Thomas Shubrick, John Dawson, jun. William Allan, Theodore Gaillard, jun. Wade Hampton, Daniel Doyley, Thomas Ogier, Robert J. Turnbull, and Morton Waring, directors of the State Bank, in the city of Charleston, have, on behalf of themselves and the other stockholders in the said bank, set forth in their memorial to the legislature, that they cannot accept of the charter heretofore granted unto them in and by an act of the legislature, passed the last session, for the reasons in their said memorial particularly set forth and contained: And whereas, the legislature, upon due consideration of the said reasons, have deemed the same satisfactory, and have accordingly deemed it expedient to repeal the said act as far as it relates to the said bank, and to associate with, and to incorporate the said bank, upon other terms more advantageous to the members or stockholders of the same:

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 so much of the said act, passed The act of on the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, entitled, "An act to incorporate the South-Carolina and State Banks," as relates to the said State Bank, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

1801 repealed.

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rated.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforeState Bank said, That the said John Blake, president, David Alexander, John Kirk, Micah Jenkins, Thomas Shubrick, John Dawson, jun. William Allan, Theodore Gaillard, jun. Wade Hampton, Daniel Doyley, Thomas Ogier, Robert J. Turnbull, and Morton Waring, directors, with all such per

sons who now are or hereafter may become
stockholders in the said company, be, and they
are hereby incorporated and made a corporation
and body politic by the name and style of "The
President, Directors and Company of the State
Bank," and so shall continue, until the first day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and twen-
ty-three; and by that name shall be and are hereby
made able and capable in law, to have, purchase,
receive, possess, enjoy and retain, to them and
their successors, lands, rents, tenements, here-
ditaments, goods, chattels and effects of what
kind, nature or quality soever, to an amount
not exceeding, in the whole, two millions four
hundred thousand dollars, including the amount
of the capital stock of the said bank; and the same
to sell, grant, demise, alien or dispose of; to sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded,, answer and
be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of
record, or any other place whatsoever; and also to
make, have and use a common scal, and the same to
break, alter and renew at their pleasure; and also
to ordain, establish and put in execution, such
by-laws, ordinances and regulations as shall seem
necessary and convenient for the government of the
said corporation, not being contrary to law, or to
the constitution thereof, (for which purpose general
meetings of the stockholders shall and may be cal-
led by the directors, at such time or times as to
them shall be deemed necessary,) and generally to
do and execute all and singular such acts, matters
and things, which to them it shall or may apper-
tain to do; subject, nevertheless, to the rules, re-
gulations, restrictions, limitations, and provisions,
herein after prescribed and declared.

And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That for the well ordering of the affairs of Fifteen di-
be appoin
the said corporation, there shall be fifteen direc- rectors to
tors, three of whom shall be appointed by the le- ted.
gislature, in the manner hereinafter mentioned; and