advanced by them, and to replace the said sum in the hands of the powder A. D. 1753. receiver, and the monies borrowed from the fortification fund, then It is hereby ordained, That the deficiency, whatever it may be, shall be raised by a tax on the inhabitants of this Province in the same manner and proportion as the annual charges of this Government are borne and defrayed, and shall be provided for by the first Act that shall be passed for defraying the charges of this Government after such deficiency shall be made.

appear.

In the Upper House of Assembly, the 5th day of March, 1753.
Concurred to: JAMES KINLOCH.

In the House of Assembly, the 5th day of March, 1753.

By order of the House.

JAMES MICHIE, Speaker.

In the Council Chamber, the 5th day of March, 1753.

Assented to: JAMES GLEN.

AN ACT TO IMPOWER THE COMMISSIONERS WHO WERE APPOINTED FOR No. 811.
BUILDING A CHURCH IN THE PARISH OF PRINCE WILLIAM, IN GRAN-
VILLE COUNTY, AND THE COMMISSIONERS WHO WERE APPOINTED FOR
BUILDING A CHURCH IN GEORGETOWN, AND THE COMMISSIONERS WHO
WERE APPOINTED FOR BUILDING A CHAPEL OF EASE IN THE PARISH
OF ST. JAMES SANTEE, IN CRAVEN COUNTY, TO ERECT AND SET UP
PEWS IN THE SAME, AND TO DISPOSE OF THE SAID PEWS, TO ENABLE
THEM TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE FINISHING OF THE SAID CHURCHES
AND CHAPEL RESPECTIVELY.

WHEREAS, the commissioners who were appointed for building a church in the parish of Prince William, in Granville county, by their Preamble. petition to the General Assembly have set forth, that pursuant to the power given them for building the said church, they had almost finished the same, but the sums given by the General Assembly, and subscribed and paid by private persons, were not sufficient to defray the expense thereof; that in the Act for building the said church, no power is given to the commissioners for erecting and setting up pews, and for disposing of them, which the petitioners conceive if they were impowered to do, they would thereby be enabled to raise a further sum toward finishing the same, and praying that a law may be made for those purposes; we therefore humbly pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted,

ered to set up

pose of the

I. And be it enacted, by his Excellency James Glen, Esquire, Governor in-chief and Captain General in and over the Province of South Carolina, The commisby and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council, and the sioners impow House of Assembly of the said Province, now met in General Assembly, and pews in the by the authority of the same, That the commissioners for building a church and dischurch in the parish of Prince William, in Granville county, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority, and they are hereby fully impow- simple. ered and authorized, to erect and set up pews in the said church, in such manner as they shall think fit, and to dispose of and convey to any persons, and their heirs and assigns forever, by an instrument of writing to be drawn up and executed for that purpose, the said pews, in the manner following, (that is to say) the persons who shall have contributed most

same in fee

The largest

A. D. 1753. toward the building of the said church, shall be entitled to and have the first choice of the pews in the same; provided that the moneys contributed which shall entitle any subscriber to the choice of a pew, shall not make contributor to in the whole less than the sum of seventy pounds currency; and in cases where it shall happen that several persons have contributed alike, such persons shall draw lots for the choice.

have the first

choice of a pew.

of Georgetown

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners for building the church in Georgetown, or a majority of them, Commissioners and the commissioners for building a chapel of ease at Echaw, in the and Echaw, parish of St. James Santee, in Craven county, to which board of commismay erect pews sioners Edward Jermain is hereby added and appointed, or a majority of and dispose of them as above. them, shall have power and authority, and they are hereby fully authorized and impowered, to erect and set up pews in the said church and chapel respectively, and to dispose of and convey the said pews to any persons, their heirs and assigns forever, in like manner as the commissioners for building the church in Prince William's parish are impowered to do; which last mentioned commissioners are directed and required to give preference in the choice of the said pews to those persons who shall have estates in the said parish, and have contributed most toward the building of the said church or chapel.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Pew money to moneys which shall be received by the said several sets of commissioners be laid out on for the disposal of the said pews, shall be by them, or a majority of them, applied for and toward the defraying the expence of building, finishing and adorning the said churches and the said chapel of ease respectively, and to no other use or purpose whatever.

the church.

JAMES MICHIE, Speaker.

In the Council Chamber, the 21st. day of April, 1753.

Assented to:

JAMES GLEN.

No. 812. AN ACT for making Black river navigable, from the Western boundary of the Township of Williamsburgh, down to the tide way, as far as the place commonly called the Narrows.

(Passed 21st April, 1753. See last volume.)

AN ACT for appointing and impowering Commissioners to make the Wateree river navigable, and for laying out and making a road from the Upper Settlements near the Catawba nation, on the Northeast side of the said Wateree river, to the place on Santee river commonly called Beard's Ferry, and from thence to the road leading from the Congrees to Charlestown.

(Passed 21st April, 1753. See last volume.)

A. D. 1753.

AN ACT to exempt the Inhabitants of the lower district of the parish No. 814. of St. James Santee, in Craven county, from working on or contributing towards any repairs to be made to the road or causey leading over Lynch's Island.

(Passed 21st April, 1753. See last volume.)

AN ACT for appointing Commissioners to build a Bridge over the No. 815. pond in the Four Holes Swamp, commonly called Gibbes's pond, and to lay out, make and keep in repair, a road to and from the said bridge, as convenient as may be, into the Orangeburgh old road, from the head of the path leading from Dorchester to Izard's Cow-pen.

(Passed 21st April, 1753. See last volume.)

AN ACT to continue an Act entitled "an Act for the better regulating No. 816. the Militia of this Province, and for repealing the former Acts for regulating the Militia, and for repealing an Act for the further security and better defence of this Province."

(Passed 21st April, 1753. See last volume.)

AN ACT FOR SECURING THE PAYMENT OF THE SUM OF TWO THOUSAND No. 817.
AND FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS TO THE HONORABLE HECTOR BERINGER
DE BEAUFAIN, ESQ., AND THE SUM OF THREE THOUSAND AND FIVE
HUNDRED POUNDS TO GABRIEL MANIGAULT, ESQ., THEIR RESPECTIVE
EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS OR ASSIGNS, WITH INTEREST, AT THE RATE
OF SIX PER CENTUM PER ANNUM, OUT OF THE FUND APPROPRIATED TO
THE USE OF POOR PROTESTANTS COMING FROM EUROPE TO SETTLE IN
THIS PROVINCE, THE SAID SUMS HAVING BEEN LENT BY THEM TO SUP-

PLY THE DEFICIENCY IN THE SAID fund.

WHEREAS, by reason of the great number of foreign Protestants who have lately arrived from Europe to settle in this Province, the fund which was appropriated as a bounty for settling the said Protestants was anticipated, and many of the said Protestants were detained in Charlestown for want of money in the said fund to pay them the said bounty; and whereas, the Honourable Hector Beringer De Beaufain, Esq. lent the sum of two thousand and five hundred pounds, and Gabriel Manigault, Esq. the sum of three thousand and five hundred pounds, for the use of the said poor Protestants, upon a resolution of the General Assembly to pass an Act for securing the payment of the same, with interest, out of the fund aforesaid; we therefore humbly pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted,

Preamble.

A. D. 1753.

1747, to poor

tlers, till the

I. And be it enacted, by his Excellency James Glen, Esq., Governor-inchief and Captain General in and over the Province of South Carolina, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council and the House of Assembly of the said Province, now met in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the public treasurer of this ProNo money to be vince for the time being, shall not, on any account or pretence whatever, paid under the issue or pay any sum or sums of money to any person or persons whoever Act of June 14, out of the fund appropriated as a bounty to poor Protestants coming from Protestant set- Europe to settle in this Province, by an Act of the General Assembly, passed the fourteenth day of June, in the twenty-first year of his present Majesty's reign, commonly called the general duty law, until there shall paid the sums be a sum sufficient in the said fund to satisfy and pay the said Hector they advanced, with 6 per cent. Beringer De Beaufain, his executors, administrators or assigns, the said interest. sum of two thousand and five hundred pounds, and one year's interest, at six per centum per annum, and the said Gabriel Manigault, his executors, administrators or assigns, the said sum of three thousand and five hundred pounds, with one year's interest, as aforesaid; any thing contained in the said Act or any other Act or Acts of the General Assembly of this Province to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

above named

persons are

II. Provided always nevertheless, and be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said public treasurer shall be, and he is hereby obliged, enjoined and required, at the end of one year from the time the sums were respectively lent, to pay the said Hector Beringer De Beaufain, his executors, administrators or assigns, the said sum of two thousand and five hundred pounds, and the said Gabriel Manigault, his executors, administrators or assigns, the said sum of three thousand and five hundred pounds, with interest as aforesaid.

JAMES MICHIE, Speaker.

In the Council Chamber, the 21st day of April, 1753.

Assented to:

JAMES GLEN.

No. 818. AN ACT for raising and granting to his Majesty the sum of Forty-three Thousand one Hundred and two Pounds two shillings and six pence three farthings, for defraying the charges of this Government for one year, commencing the twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two, Old Style, inclusive, and ending the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three, New Style, exclusive.

[NOTE. The imperfection of the Julian computation of the annual calendar, occasioned the Gregorian calendar to be adopted in many parts of Europe. In England it was not adopted till the year 1752, when the error required the intercalation of eleven days. Accordingly, by an Act of Parliament of that year, the 3d of September was made the 14th; and the year, which heretofore was reckoned as commencing in March, was ordered to commence the 1st day of January. The difference between old and new style is therefore eleven days. The body of this Act is not inserted, not varying essentially from the Acts of Assembly making annual grants and appropriations, several of which have been already inserted.]

No. 819.

AN ACT for incorporating the Charlestown Library Society.
(Passed May 8, 1754. See last volume.)

A. D. 1754.

AN ACT for repealing such parts of an Act entitled "An Act to cut No. 820. and sink drains and passages into the north and west branches of Stono river," as relate to the west branch of Stono river, and to impower the commissioners therein named to cut and sink drains and water passages into the said west branch of Stono river, and to cut or sink a drain or water passage in the swamp called Basford's swamp, in the parish of St. Bartholomew.

(Passed May 8, 1754. See last volume.)

AN ACT for building a Draw-bridge across Ashley river, in the parish of No. 821. St. Andrew, from some place at or near Stoney Point, on the east side of the marsh opposite to the said Point, on the west side of the said river, and for making a Causey upon the said marsh, leading to the said bridge, and for making a road to the said bridge and causey, and for vesting the said bridge, when built, in such person and persons, his and their heirs and assigns, forever, as shall be at the expence of building the said bridge and making the said causey, and keeping the same at all times hereafter in repair.

(Passed May 8, 1754. See last volume.)

AN ACT to prevent the inveigling, stealing, and carrying away Ne- No. 822. groes and other Slaves in this Province, and to prevent the carrying away of Schooners and Pettiaugers, and also for repealing so much of an Act entitled "An Act for the better ordering and governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province," as relates to the time within which offenders that are apprehended shall be tried, and giving the Justices and Freeholders a power to postpone the trial of such offenders. (Passed May 11, 1754. See last volume.)

AN ACT for ascertaining the district for cutting, cleansing and keeping No. 823. in repair the Creek or Cut commonly called the Hawl-over.

(Passed May 11, 1754. See last volume.)