sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That upon the several persons herein after mentioned, who have purchased lots or squares in the town of Columbia, or their legal re presentatives, producing to the commissioners for disposing of the public land in the town aforesaid, certificates from the board of trustees of the college aforesaid, that they have executed to them full and sufficient conveyances, in fee simple, of the squares and lots herein after particularly described, the commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized and directed to cancel the following bonds, to wit: the bond of George Wade, for the purchase of two acres, making part of the square bounded by Richardson, Divine, Sumter and Green streets; also the bond of William Cunnington, for the purchase of the square bounded by Sumter, Green, Marion and Medium streets; also the bond of Thomas Rhett Smith, for the purchase of the square bounded by Sumter, Blossom, Marion and Divine streets; also the bond of Ezekiel Pickens, for the purchase of the square bounded by Marion, Divine, Bull and Green streets; and also the bond of Bartlee Smyth, for the purchase of the square bounded by Marion, Green, Bull and Medium streets.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners aforesaid shall be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to convey to the trustees aforesaid, in fee simple, the square bounded by Sumter, Divine, Marion and Green streets, in the town aforesaid; also the square bounded by Marion, Blossom, Bull and Divine streets; and the half square, adjoining Wade's purchase, bounded by Richardson, Divine, Sumter and Green streets, as aforesaid.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the trustees aforesaid shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to stop up and inclose all or any part of Green, Marion or Di

vine streets, which are included within, and boundTM ed by Bull, Blossom, Sumter and Medium streets. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That until the salaries of the faculty of the said college shall commence, the comptroller be authorized and empowered, upon application of the said trustees, to pay to them or their order, towards purchasing a philosophical and mathematical apparatus and library for the said college the annuci sum appropriated by law for such college. 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 permit the honorable Elihu Hall Bay

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to leave the state.

HEREAS the honorable Elihu Hall Bay,

one of the associate judges of the state, has requested permission to leave the state:

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 the said Elihu Hall Bay, be, and he is hereby authorized to leave the state, for any time not exceeding one year.

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 Ind pendence 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 several societies there

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in mentioned.

HEREAS the reverend Thomas Deloach, and others, have petitioned the legislature of this state to be incorporated as a society, under

the name of "The Baptist Church of Christ on Cland's creck." And whereas Thomas Dozier, and others, have petitioned, in like manner, to be incorporated, under the name of "The Red Bank Church." And whereas the reverend Henry Kir, and others, have petitioned in like manner, to be incorporated, under the name of "The Baptist Church of Christ on Little Stephen's crock:”

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 said Thomas Deloach, and others, and all those persons who now are, or hereafter may be members and officers of the said first mentioned baptist church on Chand's creek, being free white persons, shall be, and they are hereby incorporated as a body politic and corporate, and shall be known in deed and in low, by the name of "The Baptist Church of Curist on Cland's creek;" and that the said Thomas Dozier, and others, and all those persons who now are or hereafter may be members and officers of the said second mentioned baptist church of the Red Bank creek, being free white persons, shall be, and they are hereby incorporated as a body politic and corporate, and shall be known in deed and in law, by the name of "The Red Bank Church;" and that the said Henry Kir, and others, and all those persons who now are or hereafter may be members and officers of the said third mentioned baptist church on Little Stephen's creek, being free white persons, shall be, and they are hereby incorporated as a body politic and corporate, and shall be known in deed and in law, by the name of "The Baptist church of Christ on Little Stephen's creek."

"And whereas also, Malachi Howell, and others, have petitioned in like manner, to be incorporated, under the name of "The Minerva Society:"

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 said Malachi Howell, and others, and all these persons, being free white persons, who now are or hereafter may be members and officers of the said Minerva Society, shall be, and they are hereby incorporated as a body politic and corporate, and shall be known in deed and law, by the name of the Minerva Society; and that the said Malachi Howell, and others, being fice white persons, and all those persons who now are or here fer may be members and officers of the said Minerva Society, shall be, and they are hereby incorporated as a body politic and corporate, and shall be known in deed and in law, by the name of the Minerva Society.

And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporations respectively, by their names aforesaid, shall have a succession of officers and members, to be appointed or elected in such manner, and according to such form, as may be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the said societies, being not contrary to the laws of the land; and that they respectively, shall have a common seal, with power to alter the same, together with the said rules and regulations, in such manner and as often as they may deem necessary.

And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporations shall be capable in law, to purchase, have and to hold any estate, real or personal, in fee or for a term of years, to lease, alien, or otherwise dispose of the same, in fee or for a term of years, in any way they may deem proper; and that it shall be lawful for the said corporations to receive and hold, for ever, or for a term of years, any donation of real or personal property, and to appropriate the same for the use of the said corporations. Provided such estates and donations as aforesaid, shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars each.

And be it further enacted by the authority afore

aid, That the said corporations, by their names aforesaid, my sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this state, and may make such by-laws, not repugnant to the laws of the land, as they shall deem necessary. And this act shall be deemed a public act, and taken notice of and given in evidence as such, without special pleading.

In the S nate House, the eighteenth Day of December, in the Ya four 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 in favor of John Kershaw, and the other representatives of colonel Joseph Kershaw, late of the town of Camden, deceased.

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HEREAS a certain James Carcy, took and carried away from the said Joseph Kershaw, in his life time, some time in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eightytwo, several valuable slaves, the property of said Joseph Kershaw, from the city of Charleston in this state, to the island of Jamaica, so that the said Joseph Kershaw, or any person or persons, for his use, hath never yet recovered the said slaves, or either of them: And whereas also, two slaves, one named Cato, and the other named Quash, which were the property of the said James Carey, are now in the possession of the said representatives of the said Joseph Kershaw, and that although the estate of the said James Carey was generally confiscated, yet the said two slaves, named Cato and Qash, were never sold by the commissioners of confiscated estates, because they thought that the claim of the said Joseph Kershaw, to retain, as a recompence, the said two last mentioned slaves, just and equitable: And whercas also, the said re