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- II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds, be, and is hereby, granted for the purpose of repairing the gaol in Georgetown: and that George Heriot, Wil- For Georgeliam Cuttino and John Shackleford, be appointed as commissioners to con- town. tract for and to see the repairs faithfully made; and that a sum not exceeding two hundred pounds to defray the same shall be provided for in the tax bill of the present year.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty pounds, be, and is hereby, granted for repairing the gaol and Court House of Camden district; and that the com- For Camden. missioners for building the Court House of Camden district, be, and they are hereby, empowered to contract for said repairs, and see the same faithfully made; and that a provision of a sum not exceeding the said sum of two hundred and fifty pounds be made in the tax bill for the present year.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That John Blake, Edward North and Timothy Ford, be, and they are hereby ap- For Charlespointed, commissioners to contract for and forthwith cause a good and ton. commodious gaol to be built for Charleston district; provision having been already made by law for that purpose.

In the Senate House, this tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and in the eighteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate.

JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

AN ACT FOR ESTABLISHING THE ANNUAL SALARIES OF THE POWDER No. 1588. INSPECTORS AND ARSENAL KEEPERS FOR CHARLESTON AND NINETY

SIX DISTRICTS, WITHIN THIS STATE, AND FOR LIMITING THE DURATION

OF THEIR OFFICES TO THE TERM OF FOUR YEARS.

WHEREAS, it is right and necessary to ascertain the salaries of the Preamble. powder inspectors and arsenal keepers in Charleston and at Abbeville, in the district of Ninety-six, in future, the same being now vacant;

I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the Salaries of Arauthority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act the an- senal keeper and powder Innual salary of the powder inspector and arsenal keeper in Charleston shall spector. be fifty pounds sterling; and the annual salary of the arsenal keeper at Abbeville, in the district of Ninety-six, shall be thirty pounds sterling; any law, usage or custom to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. II. And in order that the public may be from time to time duly informed of the state of the magazines and stores, to be deposited at Abbeville Court House, in the said district of Ninety-six ; Be it enacted by the authority pointed comaforesaid, That the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, missioners for that shall from time to time represent Abbeville County aforesaid, shall Abbeville disbe commissioners to examine and inspect the state of the magazines, and quality of arms, powder, and other stores that may be deposited in the store and magazines at Abbeville Court House aforesaid; and that they shall from time to time, when required, make report to his Excellency the Gov

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Time of holding office.

ernor of the state and condition of the said arms, powder and stores, and also annually to the Legislature at their November session.

III. And to prevent abuses; Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person who may be appointed to the office of powder inspector and arsenal store keeper, at any magazine of this State, shall be permitted to administer the said office by deputy, unless in case of sick

ness.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person who shall be elected to the office of powder receiver and arsenal store keeper for Charleston or Abbeville, shall continue in office for a longer time than four years, without he shall be re-elected to the same by the Legislature.

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the powder inspector and arsenal keeper for Charleston district, shall, before he enters Security to be on the duties of his office under this Act, give security to the satisfaction given. of the Governor, in the sum of five hundred pounds: And the powder inspector and arsenal keeper for Abbeville, in the district of Ninety-six, shall, in like manner, give security to the satisfaction of a majority of the Judges of the County Court of Abbeville County, in the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, for the faithful performance of the duties of their offices respectively.

In the Senate House, this tenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and in the eighteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate.

JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

No. 1589. AN ACT to incorporate the Medical Society of South Carolina. (Passed May 10, 1794. See last volume.)

No. 1590. AN ACT TO COMPENSATE JAMES SHOOLBRED AND MARY HIS WIFE

Preamble:

FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY THEREIN MENTIONED.

WHEREAS, the commissioners appointed in and by an Act of the Legislature, passed the twenty-second of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, for the parish road of Saint Philip and Saint Michael, were authorized to lay out a road on Charleston neck, to run in a strait line with Meeting-street, continued until it should intersect the high road; and whereas, the said commissioners, in pursuance of the said Act, did lay out a road which took off a large proportion of a lot belonging to James Shoolbred and Mary his wife, for which it is reasonable they should receive an equivalent,

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 Doctor Charles Drayton, John Bull, John

McPherson, Anthony Toomer, Nathaniel Russel, Daniel Cannon, and A. D. 1794. William Johnson, Esquires, be appointed commissioners to ascertain what compensation will be sufficient to indemnify the said James Shoolbred and Commissioners Mary his wife, for the injury aforesaid. And that when the same shall be appointed. ascertained by the commissioners, or a majority of them, it shall be raised

by an assessment to be made on the taxable property in the city of Charleston.

In the Senate House, this seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and in the nineteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate.

JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

AN ADDITIONAL ACT to an Act entitled "An Act for incorpora- No. 1591. ting the Society of Free and Accepted Masons in this State," passed

the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.

(Passed December 17, 1794. See last volume.)

AN ACT TO MAKE SUCH PROVISION FOR THE DEBT OF THE STATE OF No. 1592. SOUTH CAROLINA, AS IS SPECIFIED THEREIN.

WHEREAS, on a settlement of accounts between the United States and the individual States, the State of South Carolina is a creditor to the amount of one million four hundred and forty-seven thousand, one hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty cents; and whereas, Congress have made ample provision for paying the interest on the aforesaid balance, and it is just and reasonable that the same should be appropriated to pay the interest on the debt of the State to the creditors thereof, as far as the same will extend.

Preamble.

Interest appro

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 the interest to grow due upon the balance of priated. the funded debt due to the State of South Carolina, from the Congress of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated and sacredly set apart as a fund to make good the several engagements that shall be entered into in pursuance of this Act.

Books to be

loan.

II. And whereas, it is necessary to make arrangements for the equal distribution of the interest arising as aforesaid, among the creditors of the State; Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a loan be pro- opened for a posed to the amount of one million four hundred and forty-seven thousand, one hundred and seventy-three dollars; and that books for receiving subscriptions to the said loan be opened at Charleston, on the first day of February next, by a commissioner to be appointed for that purpose, to continue open until the last day of September following, inclusively: and

A.D. 1794. that the sums which shall be subscribed thereto, be payable in certificates issued for the said debt, computing the interest upon such as bear interest to the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.

received.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sums which shall be subscribed to the said loan, shall be payable in the Indents, certifi- principal and interest of such certificates as were issued by William Gibbs cates, &c. to be and Edward Blake, late commissioners of loans, reduced to their specie value, according to the laws of this State; in such certificates as were given by the continental loan office, as a surplus upon the subscriptions to the loan of four millions of dollars opened in this State under the law of the United States, distinguishing between the principal and interest which may have been due on the same at the time of the subscription, the principal of which shall be considered as drawing an interest of seven per cent per annum, from the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two; in the receipts given by the respective treasurers, for special indents registered in the offices agreeable to the resolves of the Legislature directing the same, which shall be funded in no other manner than as a claim of interest against the State; and in all the other general indents which have been issued under the authority of the State, with the interest which may have arisen thereon. Provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the commissioner to be appointed under this Act, to receive and fund indents issued to the late Alexander Gillon, Esq. And provided also, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the said commissioner to receive and fund general indents issued to persons whose estates were confiscated and afterwards restored, except at a rate of one for five.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the total amount of the sums which shall be subscribed to the said loan In case of over within the time limited for receiving subscriptions thereto, shall exceed the subscription. sum of one million, four hundred and forty-seven thousand, one hundred and seventy-three dollars, the certificates and credits granted to the respective subscribers shall bear such proportion to the sums by them respectively subscribed, as the total amount of the said sum shall bear to one million four hundred and forty-seven thousand, one hundred and seventy-three dollars; and the amount of the overplus, distinguishing between the principal and interest, together with the name of the subscriber, shall be entered in books to be kept by the commissioner for that purpose, who shall give an indent to each subscriber, stating the amount of the overplus both in principal and interest. And every subscriber to the said loan shall at the time of subscribing deposit with the commissioner the certificate, or indent, to be loaned by him. Provided, in every instance, that the said commissioner shall compare every indent offered for loan with the check books, and shall not issue other certificates for the same, unless the amount of the sums and the names of the parties agree with those written in the margin of the said check book, and shall also indorse on the back of each indent or certificate which shall be admitted to be loaned, that he has examined the same, and finding it right, hath cancelled it; which cancelled indents the said commissioner shall then file.

State stock to be issued.

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the credit of the subscriber or subscribers, being ascertained as aforesaid, that for any sum subscribed to the said loan, which shall be paid in the principal of the debt of the State, the subscriber or subscribers shall be entitled to one or more certificates, at the option of the subscriber, purporting that the State of South Carolina owes to the holder or holders thereof, his, her or their assigns, a sum, to be expressed therein, equal to two-thirds of the sum so

paid, bearing an interest of six per cent per annum, payable quarter-yearÎy; and to another certificate or certificates, purporting that the State of South Carolina owes to the holder or holders thereof, his, her or their assigns, a sum, to be expressed therein, equal to the proportion of thirty-three dollars and one-third of a dollar upon a hundred of the sum so paid; which, after the year one thousand eight hundred and six, shall bear an interest of six per centum per annum, payable quarter-yearly; and the said debts shall be subject to redemption at the will of the State.

VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the credit of the subscriber or subscribers being ascertained as aforesaid, that for any sum subscribed to the said loan, which shall be paid in the interest of the debt of the State, the subscriber or subscribers shall be entitled to a certificate or certificates, purporting that the State of South Carolina owes to the holder or holders thereof, his, her or their assigns, a sum to be specified therein, equal to that by him, her or them so paid, bearing an interest of three per centum per annum, payable quarter-yearly, and subject to redemption at the will of the State.

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VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the interest upon the stock created pursuant to this Act, as the same shall beInterest, how to come due, shall be payable at the office of the commissioner of the treasu- be paid.' ry in Charleston, quarter-yearly; that is to say, one-fourth part thereof, on the last day of March; one other fourth part thereof, on the last day of June; one other fourth part thereof, on the last day of September; and the remaining fourth part thereof, on the last day of December; the first payment to become due on the last day of March, which shall be in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six; and the said stock shall be transferable only on the books of the said commissioner, by the proprietor or proprietors of the said stock, his, her or their attornies.

VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the interest which shall arise on the balance funded to the credit of this State by the United States, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, shall be paid over by the treasurer in Charleston, as it shall be received, to the foreign creditors of this State, in average and proportion to each, if they or their agents make demand of the same, within ten days before the quarter yearly payments of the said interest become due, otherwise in average and proportion amongst such as shall make claim as aforesaid; and if only one should make such claim, then in extinguishment, as far as the said interest will go, of the debt of such claimant: Provided in every case, that the foreign creditors or their agents shall agree to give receipts for the payments made according to the actual amount of the payment here.

IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whoever Punishment for shall counterfeit, or utter, knowing the same to be counterfeited, any of the counterfeiting. receipts or certificates to be issued in pursuance of this Act, shall, on con

viction thereof, suffer death, without benefit of clergy.

X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the final settlement of the accounts of the Former Act reformer commissioners of the treasury and other public departments, and pealed. all other persons having accounts with the State," so far as it relates and may relate to all Acts, accounts and transactions, matters and things, not yet completed and perfected, and so far as to continue in full force and effect all bills, actions and suits, and the proceedings thereon moved, commenced and instituted by the commissioners who were appointed under the said Act, and not yet ended, and also in so far as to continue in office for and during the term of one year, from the first day of January next, John Lewis Gervais, one of the commissioners under the said Act, shall be, VOL. V.-31.