A. D. 1795. and known by the name of Manchester wares; in which manufacture the said William M'Clure shall constantly employ and instruct at least as many as seven white persons, for the term of seven years. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Balance how commissioners shall hold the rest of the profits of the said lottery, and shall to be applied. apply them towards the promotion of such useful manufactory or manufactories as they may think deserving of their donation or support, taking care to require and take from every person to whom they may pay any part of the said profits such a bond or bonds as they are herein directed to take from the said William M'Clure. Provided, that no appropriation of the money remaining at the disposal of the commissioners shall be made without the concurrence of five or more of the commissioners appointed by this Act. In the Senate House, the twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. ROBERT BARNWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1616. AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners therein appointed to clear out and remove the obstructions in the River Savannah, between Vienna and Campbellton, and the Town of Augusta; and to draw a Lottery or Lotteries for that purpose. (Passed December 12, 1795. See last volume.) No. 1617. AN ACT for opening a public road from Granby to Hampton's Bridge, at Augusta, and for establishing four Toll Bridges; and for other purposes therein mentioned. (Passed December 12, 1795. See last volume.) No. 1618. AN ACT to empower Commissioners therein named to cut, sink and keep in repair Drains and Water Passages in Cacaw Swamp, in St. Paul's Parish. (Passed December 12, 1795. See last volume.) A. D. 1795. AN ACT to vest the City Council of Charleston with certain powers therein mentioned. (Passed December 19, 1795. See last volume.) No. 1619. AN ACT to complete East Bay-street, in Charleston, and for other No. 1620. purposes therein mentioned. (Passed December 19, 1795. See last volume.) AN ACT TO REVIVE AND CONTINUE IN FORCE THE FEE BILL, PASSED No. 1621. ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE, AND FOR OTHER PUR- I. Be it enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authori- Act of 1791 rety of the same, That the Act entitled "An Act for the establishing the enacted. annual salaries of the public officers of government, and for ascertaining and regulating the fees to be taken by those who by law may be entitled to them throughout the State," shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, revived and in full force; and that the same shall continue in full force until altered by law, except such parts thereof as have already been altered by law. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the attornies clerks. of the district courts throughout the State, shall render a faithful and true Attornies and account, and to the clerks all fees by them received on their account, pay at least once in every six months; and that the said attornies, when called upon, shall, once in six months, shew their dockets, or some other full and true account of all suits that shall be ended, abated, compromised, settled or determined before judgment, or be out of court; and in all such suits or cases, the clerks shall immediately have a right to issue executions for their fees in such cases, in manner above mentioned; and the attornies shall, on application of the clerks, furnish them with the names and places of abode of the real plaintiff, or their agents, where the plaintiffs are out of this State. trict. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the fees for recording plats shall be ascertained and fixed by the courts, or one of Clerks of the judges, at the time of the trial, or before the costs shall be taxed; that Charleston disthe clerks of Charleston district shall be entitled to receive the sum of one shilling for recording each and every judgment mentioned and contained in each and every of the circuit dockets, to be collected, remitted and sent to him with the said dockets, by the clerks of the district courts; that all fees that may accrue, for any business done after issuing of the first execution, VOL. V.-34. A.D.1795. shall be paid for in cash at the time such business is done; and that the clerks shall be entitled to receive one shilling for each and every execution issued by them, for their fees due to the clerk's office, In the Senate House, this nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. ROBERT BARNWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1622. AN ADDITIONAL ACT to the Act entitled "An Act to organize the Militia throughout the State of South Carolina in conformity with the Act of Congress ;" and for other purposes therein mentioned (Passed December 19, 1795. See last volume.) No. 1623. AN ACT to alter the time for the sitting of the Courts of Clarendon, Clairmont, Chester, Spartan, York and Abbeville. (Passed December 19, 1795. See last volume.) No. 1624. AN ACT to alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act to enable Commissioners therein appointed to clear out and remove the obstructions in that Branch of Ashepoo River which is called the Horse Shoe Creek, and to cut or sink and keep in repair a Drain or Canal from the head of the said Creek up the Swamp called the Round O Swamp, to the junction of the two Branches of the said Swamp, at the Plantation known by the name of Gilcickers: for opening Louder's Lake, and for other purposes therein mentioned," passed on the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four. (Passed December 19, 1795. See last volume.) No. 1625. AN ACT to incorporate the Agricultural Society of South Carolina. (Passed December 19, 1795. See last volume.) A. D. 1795. AN ACT for laying out certain Roads and establishing certain Ferries; No. 1626. and for other purposes therein mentioned. (Passed December 19, 1795. See last volume.) AN ACT RESPECTING THE TOBACCO WAREHOUSES AT FALMOUTH, AT No. 1627. ADAMS'S FERRY, AT SPRING HILL, AND AT CHATHAM, IN CHESTERfield County, WHEREAS, a number of the inhabitants of the District of NinetySix have, by petition, represented to the Legislature that the inspections Preamble. established at the tobacco inspections at Falmouth, Adams's Ferry, and Spring Hill, are under such regulations as are found inconvenient to the citizens of that district, and have prayed that in future the inspectors at those warehouses shall hold their appointments for only two years: 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 Joseph Hightower, John Gray, Samuel Walk- Commissioners of inspections er, Thomas Rey, and Robert Ware, shall be, and they are hereby appoint-appointed. ed, commissioners of the said three inspections, in the room of the present commissioners, and shall have all the powers and authority that are vested in the present commissioners; and that whenever any vacancy shall happen in the number of the said commissioners, either by the death or resig-, nation of any one or more of them, or by removing out of the district, or otherwise, the Legislature shall appoint some disinterested person or persons to supply such vacancies. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no inspector for either of the said warehouses, hereafter to be appointed, shall hold his office longer than two years, unless he be re-elected by the commissioners. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That William Strother, William Ellerbe, Allen Chapman, James Gallespie, and John Willson, be, and they are hereby appointed, commissioners of the tobacco inspection at the town of Chatham, in Chesterfield county, and shall have all the power and authority that are vested in commissioners at the other tobacco inspections in this State. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and in the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. ROBERT BARNWELL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. At Chatham. AN ACT to incorporate Williamsburgh Academy, and to empower No. 1628. the Trustees of the same to establish a Lottery or Lotteries. (Passed December 19, 1795. See last volume.) A.D. 1795. No. 1629. AN ACT to vest certain Lands, in the District of Beaufort, in Trustees, for the purpose of building and endowing a College in the Town of Beaufort, and to incorporate the same; and for other purposes therein mentioned. (Passed December 19, 1795. See last volume.) No. 1630. Preamble. Time of funding extended. indents to be refunded. AN ACT FOR MAKING FURTHER PROVISION FOR THE DEBT OF THE WHEREAS, the sum subscribed on the thirtieth day of September last, agreeably to the terms of an Act entitled "An Act for making such provision for the debt of the State of South Carolina, as is specified therein," does not exhaust the interest due to the State on the debt funded to its credit by the United States; 1. Be it 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 commissioner of loans be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to receive and fund all such indents as were fundable under and by virtue of an Act passed on the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninetyfour, entitled "An Act for making such provision for the debt of the State of South Carolina as is specified therein," and which indents the holders thereof have neglected to fund under the said Act; and the claims of Jas. M'Call, as specified in the commissioners' report: Provided, the said indents shall be subscribed on or before the last day of March next, on the same terms and subject to the same restrictions and provisoes as the said Act contains. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Part of Gillon's commissioner of loans for the time being be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to receive on loan, the said loan to continue open till the last day of March next, on the terms hereinafter declared, all indents issued to the late Commodore Alexander Gillon, on the portage bill book, which have been paid to the persons entitled, from the said portage bill book, to receive the same, and generally all indents which were issued to the said Alexander Gillon, and are now in the possession of other persons. Provided, the persons now holding any indents issued on the portage bill book shall satisfactorily prove to the said commissioner of loans, on or before the last day of March next, that they were bona fide purchasers of the same previous to the twenty-fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and moreover, that at the time of such purchase they had no notice of the resolution of the House of Representatives of the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, expressive of their opinion of Commodore Gillon's conduct. III. And be it further enacted, That on receiving the said indents the Terms of fund-commissioner shall calculate the interest accruing on them respectively to ing. the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, the aggregate sum whereof shall be paid in three certifi |