may not be impeded, but receive all such encouragement as may be A. D. 1725. thought necessary for the said Mellichamp to prosecute and put the same in practice; we therefore pray your most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, I. And be it enacted by his Excellency Francis Nicholson, Esq. Governour, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's honourable Council, and the Assembly of this Province, and by the authority of the Privilege to W. Mellichamp for same, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said William Melli- fourteen years. champ, his heirs and assigns, and he and they are hereby authorized and impowered, to make Salt in this Province, and to vend, sell, utter and dispose of all such Salt as he shall so make in this Province; and the sole right, power and priviledge of making, vending, selling, uttering and disposing of all such Salt as shall be made in this Province shall be vested in him the said William Mellichamp, his heirs and assigns, for and during the full term and time of fourteen years from the passing of this Act, and until the same be finally and fully determined, compleated and ended: Provided nevertheless, that if the said William Mellichamp, his heirs or assigns, shall refuse or neglect to set up a Salt work and prosecute the said work, so as to make Salt within two years after the passing of this Act that then this Act, and every matter, paragraph and clause herein contained, shall cease, determine and be utterly void, as if no such Act had ever passed. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any other person or persons shall presume to make Salt in this Province, or to Prohibition to vend, sell, utter or dispose of any Salt so made as aforesaid, for and others. during the term and space of fourteen years as aforesaid, unless licenced so to do by the said William Mellichamp, his heirs and assigns, all such person or persons, shall forfeit and pay to the said William Mellichamp, his heirs and assigns, the sum of one thousand pounds current money of this Province, to be sued for and recovered in any court of record in this Province, wherein no essoign, protection, priviledge or wager of law shall be allowed, nor any more than one imparlance. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not take place or be in force until his Majesty's royal will and pleasure shall be known and signified thereon. THO. BROUGHTON, Speaker. Council Chamber, Charlestown, April 17th, 1725. Assented to by FRANCIS NICHOLSON, Governour. AN ACT to impower the Commissioners of the New Brick Church AM ACT for establishing a Ferry from the Plantation of James Wrixam deceased, in Colleton County, across Pon-Pon River, and for appointing a Scout at Pon-Pon, and for exempting the inhabitants of Wassamsaw from working on a Road from William Smith's Plantation to the Chappel at Goose Creek. (Passed April 17, 1725. See last volume.) VOL. III.-32. No. 499. No. 500. A. D. 1725. No. 501. AN ACT TO REVIVE AND CONTINUE THE SEVERAL ACTS THEREIN MENTIONED. WHEREAS, several wholesome and beneficial temporary laws of this Province are expired or near expiring, we humbly pray your most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, I. And be it enacted by his Excellency Francis Nicholson, Esq. Governour, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's honourable Council and the Assembly of this Province, and by the authority of the same, That an Act entituled an Act for the raising a publick store of Powder for the defence of this Province, ratified the twelfth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seven-and one other Act entituled an Act for carrying on the building and for finishing and compleating the Brick Church in Charlestown, ratified the ninth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and twenty, except such part of the said Act as lays a duty on European goods-and one other Act entituled an Act for the better settling and regulating the Militia, ratified the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty-one-and one other Act entituled an Act for ascertaining Publick Officers' Fees, &c. ratified the twenty-first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty-onebe and are hereby declared to be revived and continued, and enacted to be of full force and virtue for and during and unto the full term and time of three years after the passing of this Act, and from thence to the end of the first session of the next General Assembly after, and no longer; except the Militia Act, which shall continue but for one year, and from thence to the end of the next sessions of the General Assembly, and no longer. THOS. BROUGHTON, Speaker. Council Chamber, Charlestown, April 17, 1725. Assented to by FR. NICHOLSON, Governour. Acts No. 424 and Temporary Act No. 2, continued for three years; Temporary Act No. 1, continued for one year. No. 502. AN ACT for the better regulation of the Indian Trade, and for appointing a Commissioner for that purpose, and to survey and supervize the Garrisons. (Passed April 17, 1725. The original too much torn and defaced to be copied.) No. 503. An Act for preventing the Sea's further encroachment upon the Wharf or Street commonly called the Bay, in Charlestown, and for the expeditious repairing and finishing the front wall thereof. (Passed April 17, 1725. See last volume.) AN ACT FOR APPOINTING AN AGENT TO SOLICIT THE AFFAIRS OF THIS WHEREAS, there are many great and important affairs now depending before the General Assembly of this Province, to be solicited and represented in Great Britain, which cannot be effectually done without the appointment of an Agent; and whereas, the General Assembly of this Province have thought the Honourable Francis Yonge, Esq. one of his Majesty's honourable Council, late Agent to this Province, to be the properest person for the present Agent to transact and solicit the affairs of the same; we therefore pray your most sacred Majesty, that it may be enacted, A. D. 1725. No. 504. Preamble. appointed I. And be it enacted by his Excellency Francis Nicholson, Esquire, Governour, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's honourable Council and the Assembly of this Province, and by the authority of the Francis Yonge same, That the Honourable Francis Yonge, Esq. be and he is hereby Agent. nominated and appointed Agent to this Province, to transact and solicit the affairs of the same. Il. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Francis Yonge, Esq. shall, and he is hereby required and commanded to His duty. follow and pursue all such instructions as he shall from time to time receive from the Governour, Council and Assembly, or from the Committee hereafter named, appointed to correspond with the said Francis Yonge, Esq. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Honourable Ralph Izard and William Bull, two of the members of his Committee of correspondence Majesty's honourable Council in this Province, and Col. John Fenwick, appointed. Benjamin Whitaker, Esq., Thomas Hepworth, Esq., Capt. William Dry, and Mr. Eleazer Allen, members of the Commons House of Assembly of the said Province, or any three of them, one of which always to be of the Council, be and they are hereby appointed a committee to correspond with the said Francis Yonge, Esq. and to give him such orders and instructions as they shall judge necessary for the service of this Province-the General Assembly not then sitting. IV. And whereas, it is necessary that the said Agent should have a salary allowed him, the better to enable him to carry on and transact the Agent's salary £200 sterling. affairs of this Province, Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Agent be and he is hereby allowed the sum of two hundred pounds sterling per annum, as a salary, to be paid to the said Agent half yearly, and the Committee of Correspondence are hereby impowered to draw for the same, payable to the said Francis Yonge, Esq. out of the money belonging to the publick of this Province received on account of Fort King George, now in the hands of the Hon. Kingsmill Eyre, Esq. in Great Britain, or in whose hands the said money shall be. V. And whereas, it is necessary that there should be a Clerk allowed to the said Committee of Correspondence, to draw and transcribe all A Clerk to be appointed. letters and papers which may be thought necessary to be sent to the said Agent by the said committee; Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said committee have power, and they are hereby impowered, to nominate and appoint a fit person to be their Clerk, who shall be allowed the sum of fifty pounds per annum current money of this Province, to be paid out of the money appropriated for contingencies, as a A. D. 1725. salary for the services aforementioned, and that the said salary be paid the said Clerk so nominated half yearly, and the said publick Receiver is hereby required to pay the same. In force for one year. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act be and remain in force for and during the term and time of one year from the ratification thereof, and no longer. Provided nevertheless, that it shall and may be lawful for the said Francis Yonge, Esq. Agent, as aforesaid, to return to this Province at any time after he hath executed and received final answers to the several instructions given him by the General Assembly of this Province or the Committee appointed to correspond with him, as aforesaid, any clause or paragraph in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. THO. BROUGHTON, Speaker. Council Chamber, Charlestown, April 17th, 1725. Expired. Assented to by FR. NICHOLSON, Governour. No. 505. AN ACT FOR FOUNDING AND ESTABLISHING A PAROCHIAL CHAPPEL OF EASE AT CHILDsberry, to the PARISH CHURCH IN ST. JOHN'S Parish. WHEREAS, the Rector and Vestry and several others of the inhabitants of St. John's Parish have, heretofore, by their humble petition to the General Assembly of this Province, set forth that the said Parish of St. John's is of very large and wide extent, and the parish church not only situated far from the respective dwellings of a great part of the inhabitants, but also too small to hold them, their children and families; and have further set forth that out of zeal and love to the worship of Almighty God, James Child, deceased, and several other of the said parishioners, have voluntarily and generously subscribed to the building a Chappel of Ease to St. John's Parish, at a place commonly called Childsberry, and have accordingly built the said chappel at their own charge, and have therein prayed that the said Chappel of Ease may be established by a law, together with such priviledges as the General Assembly shall think fit; therefore, that the sacred ordinances of God may be enjoyed with as much ease and conveniency as may be by all the inhabitants of the said parish, and that such generous benefactions and pious works, which tend so much to the promotion of God's glory, may not be frustrated, we pray your most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, L. And be it enacted by the Honourable Arthur Middleton, Esq. President and Commander-in-chief, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's honourable Council and Assembly in South Carolina, and by the authority of the same, That the said Chappel, now built at Childsberry, shall from henceforth continue and remain and be held, reputed, called, known and taken to be a Parochial Chappel of Ease for ever. II. And that the inhabitants of the said parish, for whose convenience and at whose expence the said Chappel has been built, may attend divine worship in the said Chappel, agreeable to the Church of England, as by law established, Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this Act, the Rector or Minister of the said parish and his successors, rectors and ministers of the said parish for the time being, A. D. 1725. are hereby impowered and required every fourth Sunday throughout the year, and not oftener, to repair to the said chappel, and then and there celebrate divine service according to the rubrick and liturgy of the church of England, and at proper times preach and do and perform all such sacred and ministerial offices which by him may be done, exercised and performed. THOS. BROUGHTON, Speaker. Charlestown, Council Chamber, December the 9th, 1725. Assented to by AR. MIDDLETON. AN ACT FOR FOUNDING AND ESTABLISHING TWO PAROCHIAL CHAPPELS No. 506. WHEREAS, the extent of the parish of St. Paul is very large, and many of the inhabitants live at so great a distance from the parish church that by bad weather and the heat in summer, they are prevented from going to the said church, and consequently deprived of the sacred ordinances and publick worship of almighty God: And whereas the inhabitants of the parish of St. Bartholomew have for many years been without a church or proper place wherein to attend divine service, the misfortunes and calamitys of the late unhappy Indian war having prevented the building the parish church, and the same remaining yet unbuilt; to the end therefore that none of the parishioners of either of the parishes aforesaid, may be deprived of the publick_worship of God, or of entering into the communion of the church of England as by law established, and that they may receive all the necessary assistance towards erecting and building the two chappels aforesaid, we pray your most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, I. And be it enacted by the honourable Arthur Middleton, Esq. President and Commander-in-chief of his Majesty's Province of South Carolina, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's honourable Council and the Assembly of this Province, and by the authority of the same, That there shall with all convenient speed be built at Willtown, a chappel for the publick worship of almighty God, which said chappel shall from thenceforth continue and remain, and be held, reputed, called, known, and taken to be a parochial chappel of ease for ever; and there shall also be built and erected at or near Captain Cox's plantation, a chappel for the publick worship of almighty God, which said chappel shall from thenceforth be also held, reputed, called, known and taken to be a parochial chappel of ease for ever. II. And that the inhabitants of both the aforesaid parishes may attend divine worship in the said chappels agreeable to the church of England, as by law established, Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing this Act, the rector or minister of each of the said parishes for the time being, are hereby impowered and required every fourth Sunday throughout the year, and not oftener, to repair to the said chappels, and then and there celebrate divine service, according to the |