shall once in every year, or oftener if required, transmit a just and true account upon oath to the public treasurer in Charleston, to be laid before the General Assembly, of all such sum and sums of money as shall be by them received and expended in virtue of this Act.

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VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Mr. Charles Purry shall be, and he is hereby appointed controller of the coun- Receiver under try dutys for the said port of Beaufort; and that Mr. Samuel Hurst shall this Act to acbe receiver of the said dutys for the said port, subject always nevertheless count with the public treasuto be displaced at pleasure of the General Assembly; and the said re-rer. ceiver, and the receiver of the said dutys for the time being, shall be, aud he is hereby obliged, enjoined, and required, on the twenty-fifth day of March and twenty-ninth day of September, yearly, and in every year during the continuance of this Act, to pay all such moneys as shall be by him received, on account of the dutys appropriated by this Act, to the said commissioners, for the uses hereinbefore mentioned; and the said receiver shall be, and he is hereby obliged, enjoined, and required to transmit a just and true account of all moneys by him received and paid in the execution of his office, to the public treasurer in Charlestown, once in every year, or oftener if required, to be laid before the General Assembly.

VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all ships and other vessels which shall go to the port of Beaufort from any port (except Powder duty to such as shall have paid the said duty in Charlestown or Georgetown,) shall be paid. be liable to pay the same powder duty as ships and other vessels that come to Charlestown, which shall be paid to such person as the powder receiver in Charlestown shall depute and appoint to receive the same; and the said powder receiver in Charlestown shall be, and is hereby fully authorized and impowered to depute and appoint a person for that purpose.

VIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said receiver of the country dutys, before he enter upon the execution of the said Receiver to office, shall give bond to his Majesty with one sufficient surety in the sum give bond in of two hundred pounds sterling, for the due execution of the same, to be £200. lodged in the hands of the public treasurer of this Province.

IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall be of force for and during the term of five years, and from thence to the end of the next session of the General Assembly after, and no longer.

ANDREW RUTLEDGE Speaker,

Assented to: JAMES GLEN,

In the Council Chamber, the 16th day of May, 1752.

Limitation five

years.

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No. 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 GEORGETOWN TO PAY POWDER DUTY.

Preamble.

nominated.

WHEREAS, several of the inhabitants of the parishes of Prince George, Winyaw, and Prince Frederick, by their petition to the General Assembly, have set forth the necessity of laying buoys and erecting beacons or land marks, and maintaining pilot boats to attend the bar of the harbor of Georgetown, Winyaw, and divers other necessary regulations for the safety and encouragement of such vessels as shall use the said port; and that they were desirous and willing to contribute towards the same; we therefore humbly pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted,

I. And be it enacted, by his Excellency James Glen, Esquire, Governor in chief and Captain General in and over the Province of South Carolina, with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council, and the House of Assembly of the said Province, now met in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the persons hereinafter named Commissioners be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to put in execution the several matters in this Act directed, viz: George Gabriel Powell and Thomas Lynch, Esqrs., Mr. James Somers, Mr. George Pawley, and Mr. James McRee, which said commissioners, or any three or more of them, shall be, and they are hereby authorized, impowered, and required To lay buoys, to lay buoys and to erect beacons or land marks on such place or places near the bar of the said harbor of Georgetown, Winyaw, as they shall judge most proper for that purpose; and also shall build or puror two pilot boat or boats as they shall think necessary to attend the said bar, and keep the said boat or boats, beacons, and buoys in good order and condition; which said boat or boats shall be vested in the said commissioners and their successors, and shall be delivered into the custody and care of the pilot or pilots for the said harbor, who shall obtain branches or licences in the manner hereinafter directed.

&c. and build or purchase pilot boat or

boats.

£1000 per an

years.

Of one-third on

chase one

II. And the better to raise a fund for the purposes aforesaid, Be it Assessment of further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said commissioners, or any three or more of them, shall be, and they are hereby fully authornum, for three ized, impowered, and required to rate and assess a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds current money per annum, for and during the term of three years from the time of passing this Act, in the manner hereinafter directed; (that is to say) one-third part of the said sum on the stock in trade of merchants and storekeepers in Georgetown, and on the owners and proprietors of lots of land, buildings, and slaves, in the said town, equally and proportionably according to the value of the same; and the other two-third parts of the said sum on the lands and slaves held, owned or possessed by any person or persons whosoever in Prince George's parish, without the limits of Georgetown, and in the parish of Prince Frederick, rateably and proportionably according to the quantity of lands

stock in trade and two-thirds

on land and slaves.

and number of slaves held, owned, or claimed in either of the said parishes.

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ment.

III. And forasmuch as the collecting the said assessment by the said commissioners would be attended with great difficulty, Be it therefore further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said commissioners shall annually make out an assessment in the manner hereinbefore di- Commissioners rected, and shall deliver the same to the enquirers and collectors of to make out an the general tax for the several districts in the said parishes of Prince annual assessGeorge and Prince Frederick, which said enquirers and collectors respectively shall collect and levy the moneys so rated and assessed, of and upon the several persons in their respective districts, at the same time when they receive the general taxes for the support of this government; and the said enquirers and collectors shall have the same powers and authoritys, and proceed in the same manner against all persons who shall neglect or refuse to pay their proportion of the assessments to be made in pursuance of the directions of this Act, as they are or shall from time to time be invested with, to proceed against persons who shall neglect or refuse to pay their proportions of the general tax; and the said enquiEnquirers and rers and collectors respectively as soon as they have collected the mocollectors may neys to be assessed by virtue of this Act, shall forthwith pay the same to enforce the the commissioners for putting this Act in execution, deducting thereout same. five per centum as commissions for their trouble in collecting, receiving, and paying the same.

this assessment.

IV. Provided always nevertheless, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be con- Inhabitants strued to extend to give the said commissioners any power or authority that are exto rate or assess any persons living or residing within ten miles of the empted from Wateree river, or any of the inhabitants of the north side of Santee river living upon the said river or within five miles of the same, to be computed from the nearest part of the said river in the said parishes of Prince George Winyaw and Prince Frederick, for any part of the charge of laying buoys and erecting the said beacons or land marks, for paying the pilots, or for building, purchasing, or repairing the said pilot boat or boats; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

V. And for easing the inhabitants of the said parishes hereafter of the burthen of the tax imposed by this Act, Be it further enacted by the au- Surplus of a thority aforesaid, That from and immediately after the expiration of the former approAct entitled an Act for appropriating the dutys imposed by law on goods, appropriated to priation now wares, and merchandize imported into and exported out of the port of the purposes of Georgetown, Winyaw, for the term therein mentioned, toward finishing the this Act. church erected in the said town, the dutys appropriated by the said Act shall be, and are hereby appropriated toward defraying the expence of laying buoys, erecting the said beacons or land marks, for the use of the pilot boat or boats, and the maintenance of a pilot for the said bar and harbor of Georgetown, Winyaw; and the receiver of the said dutys for the time being shall be, and he is hereby obliged and required to pay the same to the said commissioners for the purposes aforesaid, on every twenty-fifth day of March and twenty-ninth day of September, yearly.

VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said commissioners, or any three or more of them, shall be, and they are The commishereby authorized and impowered to nominate and appoint such fit and sioners may ap point pilots. competent person and persons to act as pilot and pilots for the conducting vessels inward to or outward from the said port of Georgetown, Winyaw, as they shall judge proper; and every master or skipper of any ship or other vessel, for the consideration of the pilotage of such ship or other vessel VOL. III.-96.

Fees of pilotage.

A. D. 1752. inward to or outward from the said port, shall pay unto the licenced pilot or pilots who shall take charge of the same, the following rates and prices, viz: for six feet of water, or under, inward or outward, three pounds and fifteen shillings; for seven feet, five pounds; for eight feet, six pounds and five shillings; for nine feet, seven pounds and ten shillings; for ten feet, eight pounds and fifteen shillings; for eleven feet, ten pounds; for twelve feet, eleven pounds and five shillings; for twelve feet and an half, twelve pounds and ten shillings; for thirteen feet, thirteen pounds and fifteen shillings; for thirteen feet and an half, fifteen pounds; for fourteen feet, sixteen pounds and fifteen shillings; for fourteen feet and an half, seventeen pounds and ten shillings; for fifteen feet, twenty pounds and ten shillings; for fifteen feet and an half, twenty-five pounds; for sixteen feet, thirty pounds; for sixteen feet and an half, thirty-five pounds; for seventeen feet, forty pounds, current money of this Province.

VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons whosoever, shall remove or take away any of the said buoys so to be placed, he or they shall forfeit for every such offence the Penalty for re- sum of five hundred pounds current money, to be recovered by action of moving buoys. debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any court of record in this Province, wherein no essoign, privilege, or protection, shall be allowed or admitted, the one-half to his Majesty to be applied by the said commissioners to the replacing of such buoys, and in ease of the rates imposed by this Act, and the other half to him or them who will sue for the same.

ving, or refusing to Act.

VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case any of the said commissioners shall happen to dye, refuse to act, or depart this Province, then any three of the remaining commissioners shall Commissioners have power to nominate and appoint another commissioner in the room dying or remo- of him who shall so dye, refuse to act, or depart this Province; and such commissioner so to be appointed, shall have the same powers and authoritys in all respects whatsoever, as those have who are particularly named in this Act, until the Governor or Commander-in-Chief for the time being, shall signify his disapprobation of the said appointment, and no longer, provided nevertheless that the said disapprobation be signified Governor may to the commissioners within the space of three months next after such disapprove an appointment. appointment; and the said commissioners shall once in every year, or oftener if thereunto required, transmit a true and faithful account upon oath to the General Assembly of this Province then being, of all the moneys by them received and laid out, in pursuance of the directions of this Act.

General issue may be plead ed, and this Act

given in evidence.

IX And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any of the said commissioners, enquirers, and collectors, or any other person or persons whosoever, shall be sued or prosecuted for any matter, cause, or thing, done or to be done in pursuance of or under the authority of this Act, then the said commissioners, enquirers, and collectors, or other person or persons, shall and may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence, in the court or courts where such suit or prosecution shall be brought or commenced.

X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all ships and other vessels that shall go to the port of Georgetown from any place (except Charlestown or Beaufort) shall be liable to pay the same powder duty as ships and other vessels that come to Charlestown are liable to pay, Powder duty to which shall be paid to such person as the powder receiver in Charlestown for the time being, shall depute and appoint to receive the same; and the said powder receiver is hereby authorized to appoint a person for that purpose.

be paid.

XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act. A. D. 1752. shall continue, remain, and be in force for and during the term of eight years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of the General Assembly, and no longer.

Limitation 8 years.

ANDREW RUTLEDGE, Speaker.

In the Council Chamber, the 16th day of May, 1752.

Assented to: JAMES GLEN.

AN ACT FOR

PRESERVING PEACE AND FOR CONTINUING A GOOD CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE INDIANS WHO ARE IN FRIENDSHIP WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND FOR REGULATING THE TRADE WITH THE SAID INDIANS.

No. 802.

WHEREAS, his Majesty's subjects, the inhabitants of this Province, have for many years past carried on a very considerable and beneficial trade with divers nations of Indians who inhabit and possess the countrys which surround his Majesty's dominions on this part of the main conti. Preamble. nent of North America, and with which Indians his Majesty's subjects in this Province, by his Majesty's direction and permission, have entered into several treatys of friendship and commerce; and whereas, the peace and safety of his Majesty's subjects who live in this Province in a great measure depend on preserving a good correspondence with the said Indians, and it having been found by long experience that nothing can so effectually secure the friendship of the Indians as furnishing them with a constant supply of woolen and other manufactures, which are the produce of his Majesty's dominions, and as by such a commerce the Indians are by their interest more firmly attached to his Majesty's subjects, so his Majesty's subjects are enabled to make large and valuable returns to Great Britain in exchange for the British commoditys with which the Indians are supplied; and whereas, it hath been the care of this Government to pass laws to regulate the trade with the Indians, and to prevent any undue intercourse with them, the last of which laws, passed on the eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirtynine, is now expired; we therefore humbly pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted.

not to visit the

I. And be it enacted, by his Excellency James Glen, Esq., Governor-inchief and Captain General in and over the Province of South Carolina, with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council and the Assembly of the said Province, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act no person whosoever, residing or inhabiting Residents of in this Province, shall resort to or visit any Indian or Indians on the main South Carolina continent of North America, except the Chickasaw Indians, near New Indians on the Windsor, the Euchees, the Catawbas, and other small tribes of Indians main continent, called the neighbouring Indians, living in the settlements, and other with certain exIndians incorporated with them, without a permission in writing from the out permission, commissioner hereinafter appointed; nor shall any person or persons them without living and residing in this Province, other than such as shall duly obtain licence. licence in the manner hereinafter mentioned and directed, directly or in

nor trade with