premises sold, and a bond with approved personal security, bearing inter- A.D. 1793. est from the date. Provided, that if the persons who are the borrowers of the paper medium shall pay, on or before the Wednesday four weeks after the first Wednesday in March next, all the arrears of interest and principal by them then due, and give such additional security as shall be required by the commissioner of the said treasury, then the said lands sold as aforesaid shall be restored, but subject to the original mortgage in trust for the public; and the former proprietors, or their legal representatives, shall be entitled to the same benefits they would have been entitled to if no default had been made. XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of an Act passed the twenty-first day of December, one thousand Calling in and seven hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An Act to repeal a part of the Act sinking the papassed the nineteenth of February, one thousand seven hundred and nine- per medium. ty-one, entitled an Act for gradually calling in and sinking the paper medium, issued by virtue of an Act entitled an Act to establish a medium of circulation by way of loan, and to secure its credit and utility, passed the twelfth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes therein mentioned," as shall be repugnant to the preceding clauses of this Act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and in the eighteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ESTIMATE Of supplies wanted for the support of Government, for the year 1793. Attorney General, for giving advice to the Governor and other public officers, in matters of public concern, in addition to his other duties, 200 00 00 Three Circuit Solicitors, each £100, 300 00 00 Treasurer in Charleston, for salary as Treasurer, and for transacting the business of the Loan Office, and Clerks, 740 00 00 Treasurer in Columbia, for his salary and clerk, 500 00 00 Clerk of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, each £287 574 00 00 Commissioners for settling public accounts, for one year's salary due to them, The Rev. Mr. Logue, for preaching before the members of the Legislature at DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. 15 00 00 402 14 02 20 00 00 JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1574. AN ACT to incorporate the Episcopal Church on Edisto Island, the Primitive Methodists of Trinity Church, Charleston, and the Primitive Methodists of Ebenezer Church, Georgetown. No. 1575. AN ACT to incorporate the United Independent Congregational Church of Dorchester and Beach Hill, in the Parishes of St. George and St. Paul. (Passed December 21, 1793. See last volume.) No. 1576. AN ACT TO ASCERTAIN AND FIX ON SOME MORE CONVENIENT AND CENTRAL SITUATION FOR THE COURT HOUSE AND OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS FOR THE COUNTY OF GREenville. Preamble. Court house, WHEREAS, a number of the inhabitants of Greenville county have preferred their petition to the Legislature, praying that the court house and other necessary public buildings for the said county might be erected in some more convenient and central situation than that in which they now are: I. 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 immediately after the passing of this &c. to be erect- Act, the commissioners hereinafter named shall be, and they are hereby, ed in a central authorized and fully empowered to assemble and consult on the most suitable and convenient place for holding the said court for the county aforesaid, having respect to the central situation of the same with regard to all the inhabitants of the said county. situation. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the court for the said county of Greenville shall be held at some place contiguous to the spot hereafter to be ascertained and fixed by the commissioners, until the court house and other public buildings are erected; and that all records and papers appertaining to the said court shall be removed by the A.D. 1793. judges of the said court, as soon as conveniently may be, after the passing of this Act. appointed. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Henry Mitchell Wood, Larkin Tarrant, John Thomas, junior, and James Harri- Commissioners son Barret, be, and they are hereby appointed, commissioners for carrying this Act into execution; and that the place to be fixed on by the commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be the permanent place for 'holding the court in the county aforesaid; any law, usage or custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. In the Senate House, this twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and in the eighteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT to alter and change the times for holding several County No. 1577. Courts; and for other purposes therein mentioned. (Passed December 21, 1793. See last volume.) AN ACT to incorporate the Vigilant Fire Company in Charleston. No. 1578. (Passed December 21, 1793. See last volume.) AN ACT FOR THE TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT OF PERSONS GUILTY OF No. 1579. pun WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide some mode for trying and ishing persons guilty of murder, manslaughter or homicide, in cases where Preamble. the mortal wound or injury may be given or done in one district, and the party wounded or injured may die thereof in another: Trials for mur I. 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 where any person shall be feloniously struck, der,manslaughwounded, poisoned, or otherwise injured, in one district, and die thereof ter, &c. how to in another, any inquisition or indictment thereon, found by jurors of the be conducted county or district where the death shall happen, whether it be found in certain cases. before the coroner, upon the sight of such dead body, or before the justices of peace, or other justices or commissioners lawfully authorized to enquire of such offences, shall be as good and effectual in the law, as if the stroke, wound, poisoning, or other injury, had been committed and done in the A. D. 1793. same county or district where the party shall die; and the person or persons guilty of such striking, wounding, poisoning, or other injury, and every accessary thereto, either before or after the fact, shall be tried by and before the same court, and (if convicted) punished in the same mode, manner and form, as if the deceased had suffered such striking, wounding, poisoning, or other injury, in the same county or district where he, she or they thereof died. In the Senate House, this twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and in the eighteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1580. AN ACT FOR THE ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE Poor in those COUNTIES WHERE COUNTY COURTS ARE ESTABLISHED. of the poor to WHEREAS, it is found necessary that commissioners of the poor be elected in those counties where county courts are established: I. 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 five commissioners of the poor, in each of the ommissioners counties where county courts are established, shall be elected at the same times and places, and in the same manner and form, and the elections be elected, &c. shall be conducted by the same persons as are named for that purpose in the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the inhabitants of the Election Districts, where county courts are not established, to choose commissioners of the poor." And that the commissioners so to be elected shall have all the authority, powers and privileges which are vested in, and be liable to all the pains and penalties which are imposed upon, the commissioners of the poor by that Act; to the end that the said Act shall be in full force and complete operation in all the counties in this State where county courts are established. In the Senate House, this twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and in the eighteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1581. AN ACT to enable the Circuit Court of Georgetown, at the ensuing Term, to meet on the twenty-eighth day of March next, instead of the first day of April; for extending the time for holding the Courts in Ninety-Six District; for the better advancement of justice in the Courts of Law and Equity; and for other purposes therein mentioned. (Passed December 21, 1793. See last volume.) A. D. 1794. AN ACT to organize the Militia throughout the State of South Caro No. 1582. lina, in conformity with the Act of Congress. (Passed May 10, 1794. See last volume.) AN ACT TO EXTEND AN ACT ENTITLED "An Act to provide for the No. 1583. final settlement of the accounts of the former Commissioners of the Treasury, and other Public Departments, and of all other persons having accounts with the State." extended. I. Be it enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That an Act entitled "An A former Act Act to provide for the final settlement of the accounts of the former commissioners of the treasury, and other public departments, and of all other persons having accounts with the State," be, and the same is hereby, extended until the first day of January next, unless the objects thereof shall be sooner accomplished, and the Legislature be enabled to discharge the commissioners from the trusts created by the same. In the Senate House, the tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT TO CLOSE THE LAND OFFICE FOR AND DURing the terM OF No. 1584. FOUR YEARS, UNDER CERTAIN LIMITATIONS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES WHEREAS, a spirit of speculation and land-jobbing hath gone forth, and many persons, greedy of gain, have embarked in such schemes, and Preamble. have obtained, and still continue to obtain, large and excessive grants of land, without any regard to their being granted, and even settled, and without distinguishing in the plats the numerous surveys included within the boundaries of their plats and grants, with a view to impose upon, deceive and cheat unwary foreigners, by sales of such pretended vacant lands; and whereas, no plan can be devised so effectually to check and defeat these iniquitous schemes as to shut up the land office, except for grants not exceeding five hundred acres, for a reasonable time: I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the Grants of land authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this restricted. Act, that the land office be, and the same shall be, so far closed, for the VOL. V.-30. |