THE

STATUTES AT LARGE

OF

SOUTH CAROLINA;

EDITED, UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATURE,

BY

THOMAS COOPER, M. D.-L. L. D.

VOLUME FOURTH,

CONTAINING THE ACTS FROM 1752, EXCLUSIVE, TO 1786, INCLUSIVE.

ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY.

COLUMBIA, S. C..
PRINTED BY A. S. JOHNSTON.

1838.

192836

Table of Contents.

N. B.-The Acts which are referred to the last volume are marked thus *; those of
which the titles alone are now to be found, are left unpaged.

A. D. 1753.

No. 810. An Ordinance for enabling and impowering the persons therein named, to

import into this Province, from the Northern or other Colonies, a quan-

tity of Indian Corn, not exceeding fifty thousand bushels, for the use

and consumption of the inhabitants, by borrowing the sum of two thou-

sand five hundred and thirteen pounds and fourteen shillings, now lying

in the hands of the Powder Receiver, and the monies in the Public

Treasury appropriated to the use of the fortifications, and for replacing

the same in the manner therein appointed........

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811. An Act to impower the Commissioners who were appointed for building a

Church in the Parish of Prince William, in Granville County, and the

Commissioners who were appointed for building a Church in George-

town, 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....

*812. An Act for making Black river navigable, from the Western boundary of the

Township of Williamburgh, down to the tide way, as far as the place

commonly called the Narrows....

*813. 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 north east 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 Congree's to

Charlestown....

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*814. An Act to exempt the inhabitants of the lower district of the Parish of St.

James Santee, in Craven County, from working on or contributing to-

wards any repairs to be made to the road or causey leading over Lynch's

Island....
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*815.

An Act for appointing Commissioners to build a Bridge over the 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 conveni-

ent as may be, into the Orangeburgh old road, from the head of the

path leading from Dorchester to Izard's Cow-pen....

*816. An Act to continue an Act entitled "An Act for the better regulating the Mi-

litia 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".

817. An Act for securing the payment of the sum of two thousand 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

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