A. D. 1799. ment of taxes. XIX. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the instalment of the paper medium which shall be due on the first Wednesday in March next, shall not be required to be paid by the Act entitled "An Act for raising supplies for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninetyTime of pay four," but shall be paid on the first Wednesday in March, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five; but all the interest to become due on the said paper medium shall be annually paid in, and when received shall be destroyed by burning, under the inspection of a committee of the Legislature: Provided always nevertheless, that no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this clause who shall not give an additional security, if required by the treasurer of Charleston, in all cases where he is not fully satisfied of the sufficiency of the former security, and in all cases where default has been made in paying what has heretofore been due, or which may be made in paying the interest to grow due in March Poor tax. Copies of this nished. Magazine guard. be allowed on the paper medium. next. XX. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the tax collectors throughout this State, in their several parishes and election districts respectively, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to collect the poor tax in their several parishes and election districts; and they shall be allowed the usual commissions for so doing. XXI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners of the treasury shall be, and they are hereby, required to furnish copies of this Act to each of the collectors appointed by law throughout this State, within one month after the passing of this Act, and their reasonable expenses occasioned thereby shall be reimbursed. XXII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the pay hereinafter to be provided for the support and maintenance of the magazine guard, be restricted to that of the pay of an officer, a sergeant and six men; and that the sum of fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the payment of the said guard, under the direction of the comptroller. XXIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of July next, no person or company shall, on any preNo banking to tence whatever, issue or re-issue any note or notes in the nature of bank notes, or otherwise, on the credit of the paper medium of the State; and such notes aforesaid as may now be in circulation, bottomed on the paper medium, shall be immediately called in; and the treasurers and tax collectors are hereby forbidden, under the penalty of losing their offices and forfeiting the sum of one thousand dollars, from receiving such notes as herein mentioned, in payment of taxes or duties; and every bank, or persons associated as bankers, issuing or re-issuing such notes, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten thousand dollars, which shall be recovered by action in any of the courts of law in this State. And that it shall be the duty of the comptroller to enquire into and examine whether such notes are in circulation, and give information accordingly to the attorney general, whose duty it shall be to bring suit or suits accordingly. XXIV. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the public Public arms to arms which now are or hereafter shall be purchased on behalf of this be distributed. State, shall, by order of his Excellency the Governor, be equally distributed among the several brigades of the militia of the State; and that the several and respective brigadier generals shall and may allow the said arms to be sold for costs and charges among the men of his brigade, and cause the money arising from such sale to be paid into the treasury, to be appropriated for the purchase of other arms, to be distributed in manner aforesaid: Provided nevertheless, that no one man shall be permitted to purchase more than what shall be sufficient to arm himself of the arms aforesaid. XXV. Whereas, there are many wealthy citizens of this State who derive very considerable revenues from monies which produce an interest, and who do not contribute a due proportion to the public exigencies of the same; Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that each and every enquirer, assessor and collector throughout this State shall, on their enquiry for the returns of the taxes of this State for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, administer the following oath to all such persons as may be liable to pay the same, viz: "I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that the account which I now give in is a just and true account of the quantity and quality of the lands and number of slaves, and the sum or sums of money which have produced me an interest since the first day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, in any manner whatsoever, which I am possessed of, interested in, or entitled to, either in my own right or the right of any other person whomsoever, either as guardian, executor, attorney, agent or trustee, or in any other manner whatsoever, according to the best of my knowledge or belief; and that I will give a just and true answer, according to the best of my knowledge, to all questions that may be asked me touching the same; and this I swear without any equivocation or mental reservation whatsoever, so help me God:" and upon every sum or sums of money at interest over and above what such person pays interest for, except where such interest money is received by any widow or orphan having no other means of livelihood, and shall not exceed one thousand dollars, the said enquirer, assessor or collector, or enquirers, assessors or collectors, to whom the same shall be returned, shall assess the sum of twenty-five cents per cent. on every hundred dollars, to be recovered in like manner in case of default as the collectors are authorized by law heretofore to do on the return of lands and slaves. XXVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case any person or persons shall refuse or neglect to make the return of his, her or their monies producing interest as aforesaid, they shall be liable to suffer the same forfeitures and pay the same penalties as are authorized by law in case of their refusing or neglecting to make his, her, or their return of lands and slaves. A. D. 1799. Tax on money at interest. Penalty. Sheriffs to collect tax execu XXVII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the several and respective tax collectors in this State shall place their warrants against any person or persons who shall make default of payment of their taxes, for collection in the hands of the sheriff of the districts respectively, tions. and in the hands of no other person or persons whomsoever; and the sheriffs shall be entitled on the service of such warrants to the usual mileage on the service of executions. XXVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That John S. Cripps, Esq. foreign agent, be authorized and required, in the name of the State, within thirty days after the passing of this Act, to draw bills at sight for the money appropriated for the payment of the debt due to Stuckhuyser, and now lying in the hands of Simpson & Davidson of London; and that the said money be lodged in the treasury of this State; and also for the sum of forty thousand dollars granted in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, remitted to England for the purchase of arms; and that the said sum of forty thousand dollars be deposited in the treasury subject to the governor's orders, for the purchase of arms; provided the said sum shall not have been already applied to that purpose on behalf of the State. A. D. 1799. ESTIMATE NO. I. The Governor, Secretary to the Governor, Six Judges of the Superior Court of Law, each $2,572, Attorney General, for giving advice to the Governor and other public offi cers, in matters of public concern, in addition to his other duties, Three Circuit Solicitors, $500 each, $2,572 00 430 00 15,432 00 6,432 00 860 00 1,500 00 Treasurer in Charleston, for salary as Treasurer, and for transacting the 2,058 00 Treasurer in Columbia, for his salary, 1,290 00 Clerk to the Treasurer in Columbia, 400 00 Clerk to the Senate, and Clerk to the House of Representatives, each $1230, 2,460 00 432 00 Two Doorkeepers, each $216, 432 00 Keeper of the State House, &c. at Columbia, his salary, fixed at $130, Arsenal keepers and powder receivers for Camden, Georgetown and Beaufort, each $50, 150 00 Sheriff of Richland, for attending on the Court at Columbia, 60 00 ESTIMATE NO 2. Contingent accounts of the lower division of the Treasury, payable by the Contingent accounts of the upper division of the Treasury, payable by the 6,788 27 For building Court Houses and Goals in twenty districts, each $5,000, Daniel Evans, $12 86 cents, Peter S. Arthur, $11 50 cents, Geo. and R. Heriot, Magazine Guard for Charleston in 1798, For Martha Fleming, administratrix of John Fleming, for damages recovered 4,500 00 100,000 00 1,500 00 800 00 500 00 1,490 00 2,000 00 2,000 00 122 45 49 36 2,700 00 111 50 22 00 For James Douglass, for work done to the representatives room, 365 08 For John Langton, for preparing an Index to the Register's book in Georgetown, For Beaufort Society, $2100-with interest, agreeably to law of 21st December 1792, in regard thereof. 200 00 10,300 00 $318 40 400 00 122 40 122 45 XXIX. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the several sums hereinafter mentioned shall be appropriated for the several purposes following, to wit: for defraying the expenses of the civil list, as per Estimate No. 1 herein before mentioned, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand two hundred dollars; for defraying the contingent and extraordinary expenses of government, as per Estimate No. 2, herein before mentioned, a sum not exceeding one hundred and forty thousand dollars; and that the said several sums shall be paid out of the funds following, namely: the general taxes of the State, such balance of interest as shall remain to this State on the debt due by the United State, after paying the interest due on the funded debt of this State, and the amount that may be paid on the principal of the debt due to this State by the United States, and all arrears of debts, duties and taxes whatsoever payable to this State, and not otherwise appropriated. XXX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whatever balance may remain in the treasury of this State, after paying the appropriations above mentioned, shall be applied as hereinafter directed, to the purchase or redemption of the funded debt of this State. In the Senate House, the twenty first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and in the twenty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. WM. JOHNSON, Jr. Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. D. 1799. Appropriation. AN ACT to establish certain Roads and Ferries; and for other purpo- No. 1739. ses therein mentioned. (Passed December 20, 1800. See last volume.) AN ACT further to revive and extend an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the importation of Negroes until the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and one," to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and three. No. 1740. VOL. V.-48. A. D. 1800. No. 1741. AN ACT to incorporate the Georgetown Library Society. No. 1742. AN ACT FOR ALTERING AND AMENDING AN ACT PASSED THE 16th DAY OF DECEMBER, 1797, ENTITLED "An Act for opening the Navigation of Saluda River." Preamble. Commissioners appointed for clearing the Saludariver. to be filled. WHEREAS, the death and removal of several of the commissioners named in the said Act, have rendered it almost impracticable to form boards or meetings to carry the purposes of the same into effect; and whereas, the confining of the commissioners to distinct limits on the said river, in clearing the same, as far as relates to that space from the mouth of the said river to the old Indian boundary line, will impede the progress of this very beneficial measure: 1. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That Samuel Mays, Thomas Anderson, Major William Moore, Joseph Kennedy, Alexander Boling Stark, Luke Smith, Francis Huggins, Elisha Brooks, John Dyser, William Calk, Julius Nichols, Jr., Elihu Creswell, John Cunningham, Joel Lepscomb, James Dysen, Robert Creswell, John Hunter, John Merriwether, sen. James Goudy, James M'Cracken, Thomas Willoughby Waters, James Caldwell and William Caldwell, be, and they are hereby appointed, commissioners for the purpose of clearing out and making navigable Saluda river, from the mouth thereof as far up as the old Indian boundary line. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case Vacancies, how of the death, removal or resignation of any one or more of the said commissioners, that it shall and may be lawful for the remainder of the said commissioners, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to fill up any such vacancy or vacancies, at any one of their boards or meetings. Provided, that there be at such board or meeting thirteen commissioners present. Seven to be a quorum. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That seven commissioners shall constitute a quorum to effect the purposes of the said Act. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Part of former first clause of the said Act, as far as relates to clearing and making navigaAct repealed. ble Saluda river, from the mouth thereof to the old Indian boundary line, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. |