Societies. na and other Whereas, by a petition and memorial from the Passed, Jung Steward and Wardens of the South-Carolina Society, 29th, 1793. it appears that the said Society have never, till lately, been called on for payment of any taxes whatever : South-Caroli1. Be it ordained, That all the taxes, or arrears of Societies extaxes, forwhich the said Society may be liable, so far empt from as respects the City Taxes, be, and the same are for pavements. hereby given up and relinquished. taxes, except drains and sewers, &e. 2. That all and every such Society, be exempted from payment of any City Taxes now due, or to become due. Provided nevertheless, That where pavements, with their appendages, are to be laid, and Proviso. public drains or sewers, sunk or repaired, which may extend along the front of the lands lying within the city, and belonging to any of the said religious and charitable Societies, the expences thereof shall be defrayed by the said Societies respectively; excepting only in cases where the said pavements and public drains, or sewers, shall pass by, or along any lands appropriated for a burial ground, or whereon any church, for religious worship, within the city, is or may be erected; in which case the expence of said pavements, with their appendages, and public drains or sewers, shall be defrayed out of the City Trea sury. Streets. Passed, Aug. Whereas it appears from the report of the Commissioners of Streets, on the petition of William Logan, 19th, 1803. praying permission to open a street, through his land at the west end of Tradd and Broad-streets, &c. that the said street would be of benefit to the city, and convenience to the inhabitants thereof: open a street. 1. Be it ordained, That William Logan be permit- Wm Logan, ted to open a street, forty feet wide, through his permitted to land, at the west end of Tradd and Broad-streets, agreeably to his petition: And that immediately after the passing of this ordinance, the same be looked upon, and esteemed a public Street, and be distinguished by the name of Logan-street. Passed, May 3d, 1786. Naval stores shall not be landed, except at Gadsden's Gibbes's and Blake's wharves Penalty. Passed, May Ordained that shall exercise the Lord's penalty Goods, &c. not Stores, (Naval.) 1. Be it ordained, That from and immediately after the passing of this ordinance, no person or persons, shall land any Naval Stores on any wharf, or wharves within the limits of the city, except such as are now the property of Christopher Gadsden, William Gibbes, and Edward Blake, which wharves are the safest for the reception of Naval Stores. Any person or persons, offending against this ordinance, shall, on conviction thereof, before the Court of Wardens,† forfeit any sum not exceeding four shillings and eight pence per barrel, which forfeiture shall be given to the person making information and prosecuting to conviction. Sundays.* 1. Be it ordained, That from and after the pub2d, 1801. lication of this ordinance, no tradesman, labourer, or other person whatsoever, shall do, or exercise any no tradesman, Worldly labour, business or work, of their ordinary labourer, &c. callings, on the Lord's day, (works of necessity, chaany wordly la- rity, and the necessary occasions of the family exbour, &c. on cepted) and every person of the age of fifteen years day, under and upwards, so offending, shall for every such of fence, forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars. 2. That no person, or persons whatsoever, shall to be sold on publicly expose to sale, or sell, in any shop, warehouse, the Lord's day or otherwise, any goods, wares, or merchandize whatunder penalty. soever, upon the Lord's day, and every person so offending, shall, for every such offence, be liable to be fined, at the discretion of the Court of Wardens,† in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars. No sports, pas- 3. That no sports, pastimes, public exercises, or times, &c. al exhibitions, or games whatsoever, shall be allowed on the Lord's day; and every free person so offending, shall forfeit, for every such offence, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars; and if any slave or slaves, lowed on said day. * See page 171, wherein City Marshal is directed to seize articles offered for sale on Sunday ;-and page 218, wherein a penalty of one hundred dollars is exacted for selling liquors on Sunday. + Now Inferior City Court. shall be found offending herein, such slave or slaves shall forfeit all the stakes which have been betted on Penalty on such game, sport or pastime, and be confined in the free person. Guard House until the following day, when the In- Penalty on tendant or any one of the City Wardens may order slave. such slave or slaves, to be confined in the stocks, for any time not exceeding one hour, and direct that he, she or they, by public or private correction, receive any number of stripes on the bare back, not exceeding twenty. 6. That if any person or persons whatsoever, shall disturb any congregation of people, lawfully as sembled at any church, or public place of worship, to perform divine service, or shall at any time, turbing any Penalty on discause any riot or distusbance, in any of the church-congregation. es, or public places of worship, of any sect of religion within this city, he, she or they shall, for every such offence, be liable to be fined at the discretion of the Court of Wardens,* in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars. Penalty on 7. That if any person or persons, shall employ any slave or slaves, to work or labour on the Lord's day, within this city, (works of absolute necessity, and the necessary occasions of the family excepted) every employing person so offending, shall, for every such offence, on the Lord's forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars. slaves to work day. Wardens for 8. That all fines and penalties hereby imposed, (excepting such stakes as shall have been betted by any slave or slaves, on any game or pastime, wherein Fines, &c. re they may have been engaged, and which by the de-coverable in termination of any one of the City Magistrates, may the Court of be adjudged to the Constables or Guard, by whom the use of the such slave or slaves shall have been apprehended) Corporation. shall be sued for and recovered in the Court of Wardens,* for the use of the Corporation; and any person or persons, refusing to pay such fine after conviction, shall be committed to the common gaol or house of correction, for any time not exceeding five days, unless such fine, and the lawful charges attending the imprisonment, shall be sooner paid. Provided, that Proviso. no person or persons, shall be impeached, prose* Now Inferior City Court. Passed, 21st No persons permitted to ride or drive faster than a walk when passing by any place of wor ship on Sunday, &c. Penalty and punishment. The City Guard to con carriages to the Guard House, &c. 1. Be it ordained, That from and after the passing of this ordinance, it shall not be lawful on Sunday, to or for any person or persons, riding on horse-back, or driving any carriage or carriages whatever, to ride or to drive faster than a walk, when passing by any church or public place of worship, while divine service is performed and kept in the same. And every white person, or free person of colour, riding faster than a walk, as aforesaid, shall for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the city, a sum not exceeding five dollars, with costs; and every white person, or free person of colour, driving faster than a walk as aforesaid, shall for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the city, a sum not exceeding ten dollars, with costs: and every slave, riding or driving faster than a walk as aforesaid, shall for each and every such offence, receive a corporal punishment not exceeding twenty lashes, to be adjudged by any Warden of the City, and to be inflicted by the Master of the Work-House on the following day. 2. That it shall and may be lawful for any white duct offenders person or persons whomsoever, and it shall be the horses and particular duty of the City Guard, and of every member of the said Guard, to stop any horse or horses, and any carriage or carriages, which shall or may be respectively r de or driven faster than a walk, whilst passing by any church or public place of worship, on Sunday during the performance of divine service in the same; and, (if the person or persons, riding or driving faster than a walk, should not immediately desist) to conduct each and every of them to the Guard House, and likewise to detain the horse or horses, and the carriage or carriages. And every white person or free person of colour, so brought to the Guard House, shall again be set at liberty, upon being duly recognized, so as to secure his prosecution before the Inferior City Court, unless such person all previously pay, the aforesaid fine of five dollars or riding faster than a walk, or the aforesaid fine of en dollars for driving faster than a walk, (as the case may be) to the commanding officer of the Guard Penalty and House, who shall on the next day pay over the same punishment. the City Treasurer; and every slave so brought to he Guard-House, shall be there confined until Monday, and then conveyed to the Work House, there to eceive such corporal punishment, as shall be adjudged by any Warden of the City. And all horses and carriages, detained as aforesaid, shall be delivered Horses and up to their respective owners, if applied for within an detained for an hour after their detention; and if not applied for hour and then vithin that time, they shall be sent by the command-stable. ng officer of the Guard House, to the next livery stable, there to be kept, until the expences of their keeping be defrayed by the respective owners. carriages to be sent to a livery centinels be 3. That the Intendant of the city shall have power and authority, to order one or more men of the City City Guard to Guard, to stand in front of any church or public place be placed as of worship during divine service on Sunday, whose fore places of duty it shall be, then and there to prevent, in the worship, &c. manner aforesaid, all riders and drivers of carriages, from passing by the same faster than on a walk; also, to cause all carriages of any description whatever, to be drawn up and arranged in such manner and form, not obstructing the free passage of any street, as shall be regulated by the vestry or elders of every congregation, at whose place of worship such centinel or centinels shall be stationed; and to take up all disturbers of divine service, at or near any such place of worship, to be dealt with as directed in the fourteenth clause of an ordinance for regulating the City Guard in Charleston.* TITLE (W.) Wards and Streets. Whereas, not only certain parts of the same streets, Passed, June have heretofore been distinguished by different names, 31st, 1805. although one name would be fully adequate and suf * See page 115. |