vernment, and for appointing and impowering commissioners to execute 797. An Ordinance for impowering the Governor of this Province for the time being, with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Honorable Council, and the other persons therein named (being members of the resent General As- sembly) to make such by laws, ordinances, rules and orders for p:eserving peace and continuing a good correspondence with the Indians in amity with this Government, and for regulating the trade with the said Indians, as they shall think necessary, for the term therein mentioned...... 798. An Ordinance for appointing a Controller and a Receiver of the Country Dutys for the Port of Georgetown, Winyaw. 799. An Act for appropriating the Dutys imposed by Law on Goods, Wares and Mer- chandizes imported into and exported out of the Port of Georgetown, Winyaw, for the term therein mentioned, toward finishing the Church 800. An Act for appropriating the dutys imposed by law on Goods, Wares and Mer- chandize imported into and exported out of the Port of Beaufort, Port Royal, for the term therein mentioned, toward building and keeping in repair a Pilot Boat or Boats, to attend the Far of the Harbour of the said Port, and for the better settling and regulating the Pilotage of the said Harbour, and for appointing a Controller and a Receiver of the Country Dutys for the said Port, and for obliging all Ships and other Vessels tra- ding to the said Port to pay Powder Duty.. 801. An Act for laying Buoys and erecting and supporting Beacons or Land Marks near the Bar of the Harbor of Georgetown, Winyaw, and for building and repairing one or more Pilot Boat or Boats to attend the Bar of the said Harbor, and for the better settling and regulating the Pilotage of the said Harbor, and for obliging such Vessels as go to the said Port of 802. An Act for preserving peace and for continuing a good correspondence with the Indians who are in friendship with the Government of South Caro- lina, and for regulating the trade with the said Indians... 803. An additional Act to an Act of the General Assembly of this Province, intitled an Act for preventing as much as may be the spreading of contagious dis- 805. An Act for appointing Commissioners to stamp and sign the sum of twenty thou- sand pounds in paper bills of credit, to be exchanged for such of the Bills of Credit as were lately stamped upon bad paper, and are become 806. An Ordinance for appointing another Country Waiter for the Port of Charles- town, and for appointing a Country Waiter for the Port of Beaufort, Port Royal, and a Country Waiter for the Port of Georgetown, Winyaw... 807. An Act for the better preventing of excessive and deceitful Gaming.. 808. An Act for prohibiting and preventing the exportatian of Corn, Pease and Small Rice from this Province, for the term therein mentioned.... 809. An Act for altering and amending the sixth and seventh paragraphs of the Act entitled "an Act for the better strengthening of this Province by granting to his Majesty certain taxes and impositions on the purchasers of Negroes and other Slaves imported, and for appropriating the same to the uses there- in mentioned; and for granting to his Majesty a duty on Liquors and other Goods and Merchandize, for the uses therein mentioned; and for exempt- ing the purchasers of Negroes and other Slaves imported, from payment of the tax, and the Liquors and other Goods and Merchandize from the dutys imposed by any former Act or Acts of the General Assembly of STATUTES AT LARGE. AN ACT FOR THE BETTER SETTLING AND REGULATING THE MILITIA. (Ratified June 30, 1716. Marked T. A. No. 18. I cannot find its numerical place among the Acts of this session. See last volume.). A. D. 1717. No. 371. No. 372. AN ACT FOR ENLARGING THE SALARY OF THE PUBLICK RECEIVER. WHEREAS, by one Act of Assembly of this Province, intituled an Act for settling a Salary on the Publick Receiver, ratified in open Assembly the first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ten, amongst other things therein enacted, it is enacted that Preamble. the person nominated by a vote of the House of Commons to be Publick Receiver, for his pains, care and trouble in executing and performing the office of Publick Receiver, shall yearly and every year be allowed and paid out of the publick treasury the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds current money, as by the said Act, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear: Now whereas, at this time the intrinsick value of the currant money of this Province is very much depreciated, and the publick revenue and the charge and attendance on the same is very greatly increased since the ratification of the said Act; and to give suitable encouragement to the Publick Receiver to undertake the collecting and paying the publick revenue of this Province with cheerfulness, I. Be it enacted, by his Excellency John Lord Carteret, Palatine, and the rest of the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors of this Province, by and with the advice and consent of the rest of the members of the General Assembly, now met at Charlestown for the South and West part of this Province, and by the authority of the same, That Colonel Alexander Parris, the present Publick Receiver of this Province, or the Salary 2501. Publick Receiver for the time being, shall be allowed and paid out of the per annum. publick treasury the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, over and above and 150l. the said sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, yearly, and every year, to be paid at the end of every three months in the year, by even and quarterly payments, in lieu of all commissions, dues and perquisites whatsoever, arising from the said office, as the said Act directs, other than such as at this time he may or ought lawfully to claim and demand. II. And whereas, by the said Act, there is no provision made for the Publick Receiver to appoint a deputy in case of his sickness, or any other May appoint a deputy. unavoidable impediment or unforeseen accident, whereby the publick business of this Province might be retarded and delayed, to the great loss and damage of the same, Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for Colonel Alexander Parris, the present Publick Receiver, or for the Receiver for the time being, to nominate and appoint such person as he or they shall think fit, to be his or their deputy, in receiving and collecting all dues, duties, taxes, impositions, penalties and forVOL. III.-1. A. D. 1717. feitures, arising or growing due by virtue of any Act now or hereafter to be in force in this Province. Provided always, that the said Colonel Alexander Parris, the present Publick Receiver, or the Publick Receiver for the time being, shall be liable to all fines, forfeitures of bond, or other penalties, incurrable by any law which now is or hereafter shall be in force in this Province, on any failure of duty, crime or other neglect com mitted by any such deputy, by them appointed, as if the same was perpetrated by the said Colonel Alexander Parris, present Publick Receiver, or the Receiver for the time being, in the execution of the said office of Publick Reteiver; and the bond given for their faithful execution of the sand office, may, for such misdemeanours, committed by such deputy, be put in suit against the said Publick Receiver. III. And be it further enacted, That this Act and every thing therein To continue in contained, shall continue in force for the full space or term of two years, force 2 years. and from thence to the-end of the next sessions of the General Assembly, and no longer. Read three times and ratified in open Assembly, the 16th day of February, A. D. 1716-7. ROBERT DANIELL, THOMAS SMITH, CHARLES HART, GEORGE LOGAN, FRANCIS YONGE, SAMUEL EVELEIGH. *No. 372. AN ACT to enable the Honourable the Deputy Governour, with the consent of the Council, to carry on the present Expedition against our Indian Enemies. (Ratified January 26, 1716-7, for six months. Expired. The original Act not now extant. I am unable to assign its proper number.) **No. 372. AN ACT to grant several Privileges, Exemptions and Encouragements, to such of his Majesty's Protestant Subjects as are desirous to come into and settle in this Province. (Ratified February 16, 1716-7. Repealed by the Lords Proprietors, July 22, 1718. I cannot assign the proper number to this Act, which is not now extant.) No. 373. AN ADDITIONAL AND EXPLANATORY ACT TO AN ACT ENTITULED, AN ACT TO KEEP INVIOLATE AND PRESERVE THE FREEDOM OF ELECTIONS, AND APPOINT WHO SHALL BE DEEMED AND ADJUDGED CAPABLE OF CHOOSING OR BEING CHOSEN MEMBERS OF THE COMMONS HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY: Duely ratified in open Assembly the fifteenth day of December, 1716. WHEREAS, several disputes have arisen about the qualifications of such persons who shall be deemed capable to vote for or elect members of the Commons House of Assembly, and of the qualifications of such who shall be elected to serve as representatives in the said Commons House of Assembly, whereby the true intent and meaning of the above recited Act hath been wrongfully wrested and perverted; therefore, for the preventing of the same for the future, of voters. I. Be it enacted by his Excellency John Lord Cartaret, Palatine, and the rest of the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors of this Province, by and with the advice and consent of the rest of the members of the General Assembly, now met at Charlestown for the south and west part of this Province, and by the authority of the same, That every white man Qualifications (and no other) professing the Christian religion, who has attained to the age of one and twenty years, and hath been a resident and an inhabitant of the parish for which he votes for a representative for the space of six months before the date of the writs for the election that he offers to give in his vote at, and hath a freehold of at least fifty acres of land, or shall be lyable to pay taxes to the support of this government, for the sum of fifty pounds currant money, shall be deemed a person qualified to vote for, and may be capable of electing a representative or representatives to serve as a member or members of the Commons House of Assembly for the parish or precinct wherein he actually is a resident. vote. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no No servant, apprentice or other covenanted servant for term of years, whether by apprentice, or indenture or by custom of the country, nor any seafaring or other transient seafaring, tranman, who has neither freehold nor is liable to pay tax for a stock of fifty sient man, may pounds currant money towards the publick charge of this Province, within the parish he offers to give his vote for a representative or representatives as above directed, shall be deemed capable of voting, or electing a representative; any thing in the afore recited Aet contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Qualification III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person who shall be elected and returned by the persons to whom any of a represenwrit or writs are directed, according to the above recited Act, to serve as tative. a member of the Commons House of Assembly, shall be qualified as followeth, that is to say, he shall be a free-born subject of the Kingdom of Great Britain, or of the dominions thereunto belonging, or a foreign person naturalized by Act of Parliament in Great Britain or Ireland, that hath` attained to the age of one and twenty years, and hath been twelve months in this Province, and is resident in the parish he is chosen for, and hath a freehold of five hundred acres of land in the said parish wherein he resides, or has in his own proper person, and in his own right, to the value of one thousand pounds, in houses, buildings, town lots or other lands, in any part of this Province, or that hath one thousand pounds in cash or stock. Provided always, that nothing in this Act do extend or be construed to extend to alter or abridge the liberty given by the above recited Act to Not to extend the inhabitants that resided, before the war, in the deserted parishes of St. to the inhabitBartholomews and St. Helena, or of any other parish that hereafter shall be deserted, to vote for and elect persons to represent them in the Commons House of Assembly that were likewise residents in the said parishes before this Indian war, (and are otherwise qualified as by this Act is directed,) according to the true intent and meaning of the above recited Act, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. ants of deserted parishes. Proviso as to IV. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That any qualifications of person whatsoever who shall have in his own right, and not in trust for a representa any other person, a settled plantation of five hundred acres of land, or tive. |