A. D. 1787. AN ORDINANCE for repealing part of an Ordinance passed the 26th No. 1364. day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, in relation to Port Royal Causeway. (Passed March 27, 1787. See last volume.) AN ORDINANCE to enable the Court of Georgetown District to No. 1365. procure a Jury for the next Sessions; and for providing a new Jury List. (Passed March 27, 1787. See last volume.) AN ACT for repealing such Acts of Assembly as regulate and restrict the No. 1366. erection of houses below the Curtain Line, on the Bay of Charleston; to widen the Bay Street; and to permit houses, of any size, to be erected to the eastward of the same. (Passed March 27, 1787. See last volume.) AN ACT FOR RESTORING UNTO MRS. MARGARET ORDE SUCH PART OF No. 1367. HER ESTATE AS HAS BEEN CONFISCATED BY AN ACT ENTITLED "An Act for disposing of certain Estates and banishing certain Persons therein named," PASSED AT JACKSONBURGH, THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF FEBRU ARY, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO. WHEREAS, Mrs. Margaret Orde, formerly Margaret Stevens, a native of this State, and wife of John Orde, formerly a captain in his Britannic Majesty's Navy, but now Governor of the Island of Dominique, hath petitioned the Legislature of this State that such part of her estate as became vested in the said John Orde, by virtue of his intermarriage with her, and which was confiscated by an Act entitled "An Act for disposing of certain estates and banishing certain persons therein named," passed the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eightytwo, be restored to her; and whereas, her petition, from a full investigation of the circumstances attending her case, appears to be reasonable; Preamble. I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the author- The estate of Margaret Orde ity of the same, That all the estate, both real and personal, which belonged restored to her. unto the said Mrs. Margaret Orde, previous to her intermarriage with the said John Orde, be, and is hereby, restored unto the said Mrs. Margaret A. D. 1787. Orde, her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, absolutely, for ever, for her sole and separate use and disposal, and free from the interference or intermeddling of her said husband; and that the said Margaret Orde shall have a right to give, grant, sell, bequeath or devise the same, as she may think proper, notwithstanding her coverture. Provided always, that this act of restoration shall not extend to any property actually sold by the commissioners of confiscation, or to any negroes given as bounty to the military. In the Senate House, the twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and in the eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN LLOYD, President of the Senate. JOHN J. PRINGLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1368. AN ACT FOR REGULATING AND FIXING THE SALARIES OF SEVERAL OFFICERS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES THEREIN MENTIONED. Preamble. Officers salaries. WHEREAS, by reason of the large debt incurred by the Revolution, and the consequent great distress of the State, it behooves every good citizen to step forward in the duty required of him by his country on terms less burthensome to the public than heretofore; I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That every officer hereinafter recited, elected or to be elected, shall, for the performance of the duties of his office, receive a certain salary, that is to say: The Governor of the State, nine hundred pounds per annum. Attorney General, two hundred pounds per annum. Delegates to Congress, six hundred pounds each, to be paid at the seat of Congress. Private secretary to his Excellency the Governor, who shall also be clerk of the Privy Council, one hundred and fifty pounds. Auditor of public accounts, three hundred and seventy-three pounds six shillings and eight pence, for one year; provided that the said auditor shall bring up his books, and have them ready for the inspection of the Legislature at their next meeting. Commissioners of the treasury, five hundred and seventy-one pounds eight shillings and eight pence. Clerk of the Senate, two hundred and eighty-seven pounds per annum. Clerk of the House of Representatives, two hundred and eighty-seven pounds per annum. Two messengers, one for the Senate, and the other for the House of Representatives, seventy pounds each per annum. Two doorkeepers, fifty pounds each per annum. Powder inspector and arsenal keeper, one hundred pounds per annum. Collector of the customs for the port of Charleston, five hundred pounds per annum. Collector of the customs for the port of Georgetown, one hundred pounds per annum. Collector of the customs for the port of Beaufort, one hundred pounds A.D. 1787. per annum. Two waiters of the customs for the port of Charleston, one hundred pounds each per annum. Waiter of the customs for the port of Georgetown, thirty pounds per annum. Waiter of the customs for the port of Beaufort, twenty pounds per annum. Searcher of the customs for the port of Charleston, one hundred and fifty pounds per annum. Which said salaries the commissioners of the treasury are hereby au- To be paid thorized and required to pay to each officer so recited, in quarterly pay- quarterly. ments, any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary notwithstanding. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no officer either House to of the Senate and the House of Representaves, shall hereafter take or re- No officer of ceive, directly or indirectly, any fee or perquisite whatsoever, except by receive any order of the House to which he respectively belongs; any usage or custom fee, &c. to the contrary notwithstanding. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no officer Officers not to heretofore elected, or hereafter to be elected, to any pecuniary office in hold any other this State, above one hundred and fifty pounds, shall hold any other office of emolument under this or the United States. office of emolu ment. IV. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all Acts or Acts and clause or clauses of Acts, where the salaries of any of the aforesaid clauses of acts repealed. officers are fixed, so much of the said Act, clause, or clauses of Acts as relates thereto, is hereby repealed. In the Senate House, the twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and in the eleventh year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN LLOYD, President of the Senate. JOHN J. PRINGLE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT FOR ESTABLISHING A MARKET IN THE TOWN OF GEORGETOWN; No. 1369. AND DISPOSE OF A LOT OF LAND IN THE SAID TOWN; AND FOR APPOINT- WHEREAS, the place allotted and set apart in the original plan of the town of Georgetown, for a market place, is at too great a distance from the settled part of the said town to be made use of by the inhabitants thereof for the said purpose; Preamble. I. Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the Location of the same, That the public market place in the said town shall hereafter be market house. and continue in the centre of Front or Bay street, at the end of Broad street; and the said place shall be held, deemed, and taken to be the market for selling and exposing to sale all sorts of wholesome meats, provisions, and other necessaries, and for the resort of all or any of the in A. D. 1787. habitants of this State for buying any of the provisions sold or exposed to sale therein; and if any person or persons, usually following the trade or occupation of a butcher, shall expose to sale any butcher's meat in any other place in the said town, or within one mile thereof, than in the said market, every such person so offending, and being thereof convicted before the commissioners hereinafter directed to be chosen, or any three of them, on the oath or solemn affirmation of one or more persons, shall forfeit the meat so exposed to sale, and the sum of five pounds for every such offence; one moiety thereof to the use of the poor of the parish of Prince George, the other to the informer; to be recovered by warrant under the hands and seals of any three of the said commissioners, and levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods. meats to II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any perUnwholesome son or persons shall expose or offer to sale in the said market, any poor carrion, blown, puffed up or unwholesome meats, the said commissioners, be destroyed. or a majority of them, on complaint thereof made, and such complaint appearing to them to be true, are hereby empowered to cause the same to be taken away and burnt, or otherwise destroyed. without a ticket III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any negro Negroes not al- or other slave shall sell or expose to sale in the said town any rice, corn, lowed to sell poultry, or other provisions, (fresh fish excepted,) without a ticket from his or her respective master or mistress, overseer, or employer, particularly enumerating the articles so exposed to sale, it shall be lawful for any white person to seize such articles, and to apprehend and bring such slave before the said commissioners or any three of them, who are hereby required and empowered to condemn all such articles which shall not be specified in the said ticket, as forfeited to the use of such person seizing the same. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners commissioners, or a majority of them, be empowered to contract with any to contract for building a person or persons for the building a market house with convenient stalls, market house. on the place allotted for the market as aforesaid, and to receive subscriptions for carrying the same into effect; and also to let to hire the several stalls to be built in the said market, at such rates as they shall think reasonable; and the moneys arising therefrom to apply in the first place towards the payment of the sums of money to be subscribed as aforesaid, and the remainder thereof (after deducting the necessary expenditures in repairing and keeping clean the said market) to be applied towards defraying the expenses of keeping clean the streets of the said town, as is hereinafter directed. of brass or iron. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all weights Weights and and measures to be used in the said market shall be of brass or iron, and measures to be be made agreeable to the standards thereof, as fixed in Charleston, and if any person whatsoever shall presume to sell in the said market any commodities by any weight or measure under the said standards, or by false scales and beams, the person or persons so offending shall forfeit the sum of five pounds for the first offence, and ten pounds for every like offence afterwards; the one-half thereof to be applied towards keeping clean the streets as aforesaid, the other to the informer; to be recovered by the said commissioners as before directed. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners commissioners, or a majority of them, shall also have full power and auto contract for thority to agree with any person or persons to keep the streets and other cleaning streets public parts of the said town clean and in repair, and to remove all filth and public nuisances therefrom. A. D. 1787. obstructions to VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall lay any timber, brick, dirt, or any other obstruction or annoyance whatsoever, in the said streets or other public places, so as to obstruct Penalty on perthe passage of any persons or carriages through the same, and shall con- sons allowing tinue the same for three hours therein, without the consent of a majority remain in the of the said commissioners, then the commissioners, or any two of them, streets. may, by order under their hands, direct the person so laying, or ordering such annoyances to be laid, in the said streets or other public places, to remove the same within three hours after such order; and in case such person shall refuse or neglect so to do, then the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby empowered to have the same removed, and to assess the person or persons so laying such annoyance, for the charges of removing the same, who shall also forfeit the sum of two pounds for every day he, she, or they shall suffer such annoyance to be and remain in any of the said streets or public places, after such order given for removing the same; the said expenses and penalty to be recovered by the said commissioners as before directed, and to be applied towards defraying the expenses of keeping clean the said streets as aforesaid. trustees vested VIII. And whereas, the trustees named in the grant of the said town by John Cleland and others, are long since dead, and their representatives Powers of the now reside at so great a distance from the same as to be unable to exer- in the commiscise the powers and authorities given and reserved to them by the said sioners. grant; Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and singular the said powers and authorities are hereby divested out of the said trustees, and the same (except such as are herein altered) shall hereafter be vested in the said commissioners, and their successors, in as full and ample a manner as they were before vested in the said trustees. choose com- IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the first Monday in May next, and on every first Monday in April thereafter, Inhabitants to between the hours of nine in the morning and four in the afternoon, the taxable inhabitants of the said town shall choose by ballot five commission- clerk, &c. ers for carrying this Act into execution; and shall also choose a clerk of the market, who shall have the same powers as are usually exercised by the clerk of the market of the city of Charleston; and the churchwardens for the time being of the said parish of Prince George, are hereby authorized and required to conduct the said election, they giving two weeks public notice thereof previous to the same; and in case any person so chosen as commissioner, shall refuse to act, or neglect doing his duty as aforesaid, every such person shall forfeit the sum of five pounds, to be recovered by summary proof, on proof of such refusal or neglect before one of the judges at the circuit court of the district of Georgetown; and the money so recovered shall be paid to the acting commissioners, to be applied towards defraying the expenses of keeping the said market in repair, or keeping clean the streets and other public places of the said town: provided that no person shall be compelled to act as a commissioner for more than one year, in any term of three years. X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person Penalty on peror persons shall oppose, obstruct, or insult the said commissioners, or any sons insulting of them, in the execution of their or his duties, such person or persons so commissioners. offending shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds, to be recovered on oath before any one of the justices of the peace for the district of Georgetown, to be applied as is herein last directed. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case the said commissioners, clerk of the market, or other person whatsoever, General issue shall be sued for any matter, cause, or thing, by them or any of them done ed. may be plead |