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Penalty for not offering services to the first nearest vessel, except when a more distant vessel is discovered in distress,

Trustees of the orphan house-intendant, treasurer and chairman of page

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Trustees to render annual statements to council; names of benevo

Duty of the commissioners,

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Persons obtaining a branch, to give bond and security,

Commissioners of pilotage to direct pilots to receive their licences,

Pilots bonds to be submitted to council, first week in december, in

every year,

Commissioners of pilotage to deprive pilots of their branch,
Pilots not to absent themselves, or hire out their boats,

Penalty for doing it,

Not to bring in an enemy's vessel in time of war,

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Pilots to bring vessels to, at quarantine ground,

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Pilots bringing in a vessel, has a right to take her out again,

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Pilots that bring in vessels, may demand their fees before she departs,

To receive additional fees, for boarding a vessel to the leeward of the bar; fee for extra services,

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White persons or free persons of colour entitled to compensation for giving instructions to masters of vessels,

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Pilots must have a licence

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Masters of vessels refusing to take a licenced pilot on board, liable to pay the fees of pilotage,

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Masters to have their vessels in readiness at the time appointed for departure, in case of detention to pay $4 per day,

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Masters of vessels, carrying off pilots, to allow $2 per day and provisions, provided the vessel has laid to 16 hours after crossing the bar,

Harbour-master's duty, to keep a register of all pilots, to be posted up in his office,

Commissioners to examine applicants to become branch pilots, and grant certificates of appointment,

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Five port-wardens to be appointed,

To keep a book of record of all surveys

Chairman, to appoint three wardens to survey vessels put into port in distress,

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Penalty for any but a port-warden surveying vessels,

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Liable to removal for neglect of duty; oath required,

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Fees; fifty per cent on the rates allowed on all foreign vessels,

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To appoint a chairman and treasurer to keep account of fees and to

divide them,

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Retailers of Spirituous Liquors,

Time of granting licences; application to be made to council,
Description of licences; to be numbered; their privileges,

Bond to be given,

Retailers name to be placed over his door,

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Penalties, for non-payment of licence-for not entering into bond-or

for neglecting to put up painted boards,

Penalty for transgressing terms of licence,

For retailing without licence,

For not observing the regulations as regards retailing spirituous and malt liquors,

Form of licence,

Tavern keepers, or licenced retailers, not to suffer a free person of colour to treat slaves under certain penalties

Not to sell liquor to slaves;

Penalty on licenced retailers trafficing &c. on sunday,

Names of applicants and securities to be published by clerk of council
Clerk's fee, $1, if licence is granted,

City Marshal and city treasurer to attend council when licences are to
be granted,

City Treasurer to publish the names of person to whom licences are granted,

Duty of city marshal-to cause licenced boards to be put up

Fine for neglect of duty,

Licence borads to be removed after quitting the house,

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Licenced retailers, compelled to receive in their houses, persons apparently dead by drowning,

To be compensated for receiving them,

For refusing to receive them, they forfeit their licence,

Licenced retailers to have directions for restoring drowned persons

to life,

Reward for attempting to restore drowned persons,

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Screening and winnowing,

Unlawful to screen or winnow rice or other grain in the months of july, august, sept. & oct. on any wharf, or other public place; penalty

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Scavengers and Lamplighters

Streets and Lamps, Salaries, &c.

Office of clerk to the commissioners of streets and lamps; his duty,

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Commissioners refusing to accept their appointment, or resigning, the
wardens of the city or a committee to perform their functions,
Fees, of the treasurer, clerk of council, marshal, city sheriff and
harbour master,

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Mr. Logan permitted to open a street,

Receiving fees unlawfully, officers to be discharged,

Rations to be allowed to persons employed in the orphan-house,

poor-house and marine hospital,

Council alter their salaries,

may

Commissioners may prescribe additional regulations,

Salaries

Duty of the physician of the marine hospital,

Salary of the master and matron of the poor-house,

Salaries of harbour master city sheriff, keeper of St. Michael's clock,
Master, washer and cook of the marine hospital

Societies

South-Carolina Society, and other religious and charitable societies, exempt from taxes, except for pavements, drains and sewers,

Streets

Stores, (Naval)

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Not to be landed except at Gadsden's, Gibb's and Blakes wharves,

penalty,

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Sundays

No worldly labour to be exercised on the Lord's day; penalty, $20
Goods, wares and merchandize not to be sold, on sunday,
No games, public exhibitions or sports allowed on sunday,

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Penalty for disturbing, or committing a riot at any congregation,
Penalty for employing slaves to work on the Lord's day,

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Persons riding or driving, to pass places of public worship on a walk,
Offenders, how to proceeded against,

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City Guard to be placed as centinels, before places of public worship,

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Wardens,

Discretionary power in remitting entirely or in part, fines and penalties, Wards and Streets

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Weights adjusted; of dry measure; of wine measure,

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Commissioners of weights and measures, city marshal and other pub

lic officers, to carry into effect the ordinances,

Duty of the clerk; clerk may employ deputies, by consent of com❜rs,

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His power and oath; clerk liable to be discharged,
In case of default, bond to be sued,

Office for weights and measures established,

Standard measures to be deposited therein,
Brass weights to be procured for said office,
Fees fixed hy the commissioners,

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Weights and measures, to be examined every three months,
Measures of extension, to have the office stamp; penalty,
Wine and other measures, to be stamped; penalty,
Weights to be agreeable to avoirdupois standard,

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Weights and measures, of the lawful standard only to be used; penalty,
Measures of unlawful standard, to be forfeited,

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Scales or balances, so to be constructed, as to have just equipoise,
Penalty,

False measures or weights, in possession of slaves, to be seized,
Owner to be informed thereof; penalty,

Weighers at wharves, or public scale houses, to make oath,

Hay or fodder, how to be weighed-steelyards not to be used,
Marshal and constable, to assist in the execution of duties,
Marshal's neglect to be reported to council,
Constables to be fined, for neglect of duty,

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Penalty for obstructing officers in the execution of their duty,
Fines recoverable in the inferior city court,

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Quarterly accounts, to be rendered by commissioners to the city. treasurer, for the inspection of council,

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Commissioners of markets, hereafter to have no controul over weights and measures,

Standard of dry measure, under the controul of the board of com'rs.

Ordinance regulating weights and measures to be posted in commissioners office,

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Brass weights to be stamped, and iron when practicable,

Weights not agreeable to standard, or not stamped or certified, to be considered as false weights, and liable to seizure,

Penalty for obstructing officers in the execution of their duties,

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To regulate the internal affairs of the work-house,

Master of the work-house elected annually; his oath,

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Applicants for the office, to give in the names of two freeholders to be
his sureties,

Master of the work-house to confine slaves delivered to his charge,
Answerable for escapes,

To detain persons and inflict punishment; penalty for refusing,
Owners of slaves may send them to the work-house, for correction,
No slave to receive more than twenty stripes at one time,
Master of the work-house to keep it clean,
To give notice when a slave is unwell,

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Physician of the poor-house to attend, and charge for advice and page

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Fees and charges,

Master of the work-house to receive from the owners of slaves, payment of all expences due, at the end of three months,

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Penalty for receiving unlawful fees,

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Slaves detained until expences are paid,

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ing, if not paid, and of runaway slaves not claimed in time, Duty of master of the work-house to keep a book for entering all commitments and charges

City-Hall

Master of the work-house, to admit and confine fugitive slaves,
Sheriff to advertise and sell slaves, to pay the expences of their keep-

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Persons injuring city-hall to be fined,

Rioting and quarreling therein, to be prosecuted,

Persons of colour and slaves offending, how to be treated,

Keeper of the city-hall to keep it open from sun-rise to sun-set,

Keeper or deputy's duty, to attend,

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Persons pulling down the trees or carrying off the stones on east-bay street, to be fined and punished,

Digest

An ordinance declaring a digest, entitled a
of the city council of charleston," to be of force,

City Officers

All elected annually (excepting the city recorder ;) their salaries,

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digest of the ordinances.

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Summary of the Extracts of the Acts of the Legisgislature, contained in the Appendix.

Persons, citizens of the united states, and residing one year in town, page or having had a freehold one year therein, shall be a body politic, and the town to be called the city of charleston.

Intendant to summon wardens to meet in city council. 9 to be a quo-
rum, (seven now a quorum, exccept to impose taxes and appropriate
money)

City Council to have a common seal, and to purchase lands, &c.
To sue and be sued,

To make by-laws respecting the harbour for the security of the city,
City council vested with the power of commissioners of the streets, &c.
may make assessments on the inhabitants, levy fines and appoint
officers-recorder, &c. appointed-fee simple of the lands appro-
priated for the exchange, and vested in the city council,
Fines to be sued for by the recorder, in case of riot, the intendant to
summon wardens-fines for city officers or other inhabitants-war-
den's power within their respective wards

Their duty and authority in the city--time of their election-before
whom to qualify-no person eligible as intendant, more than three
in five years,

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