AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING IN OCTOBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE. A. D. 1853. No. 4126. Slaves and free negroes. Lots and I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That a tax for the sums, and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised and paid into the public treasury of this State, for the use and service thereof, that is to say: Fifty cents ad valorem on every hundred dollars of the Tax on lands. value of all the lands granted in this State, according to the existing classification as heretofore established; one-half cent per acre on all lands lying within the Catawba Indian boundary, to be paid by each grantee or lessee of said Indian lands, until otherwise directed by law; sixty cents per head on all slaves; two dollars on each free negro, mulatto or mestizo between the ages of fifteen and fifty years, except such as shall be clearly proved, to the satisfaction of the collectors, to be incapable, from maims or otherwise, of procuring a livelihood; twenty-five cents ad valorem on every hundred dollars of the value of all lots, lands and buildings within any city, town, village or borough in this State; sixty cents per hundred dol- buildings. lars on factorage, employments, faculties and professions, including the pro- Faculties & fession of dentistry, (whether, in the profession of the law, the profits be professions. derived from the costs of suit, fees or other sources of professional income,) excepting clergymen, school-masters, school-mistresses and mechanics, and on the amount of commissions received by vendue masters and commission merchants; thirty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock paid in on the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, of all banks which for their present charters have not paid a bonus to the State; thirty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated insurance companies; thirty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated gas-light companies; fifteen cents per hundred dollars on all premiums taken in this State by the agencies of insurance companies and underwriters without the limits of this State ; twenty cents upon every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, companies. wares and merchandise, embracing all the articles of trade for sale, barter Merchandise.. or exchange (the products of this State and the unmanufactured products of any of the United States or territories thereof excepted,) which any person shall have made from the first day of January of the present year, to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, either on his, her or their capital, or borrowed capi Banks and 'incorporated companies. Insurance bitions. A. D. 1853. tal, or on account of any person or persons as agent, attorney or consignee ; twenty cents upon every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares and merchandise whatever, which any transient person, not resident Public exhi- in this State, shall make in any house, stall or public place; ten dollars per day for representing publicly, for gain and reward, any play, comedy, tragedy, interlude or farce, or other employment of the stage or any part therein, or for exhibiting wax figures or other shows of any kind whatsoever, to be paid into the hands of the clerks of the court respectively, who shall be bound to pay the same into the public treasury, except in cases where the same is now required by law to be paid to corporations or otherwise. II. That all taxes levied on property as prescribed in the first section of Payment. this Act, shall be paid to the tax collector for the district or parish in which said property is located. III. In making assessments for taxes on the value of taxable property Manufacto- used in manufacturing or for rail road purposes within this State, the value ries and rail- of the machinery used therein shall not be included, but only the value of the lots and buildings as property merely. roads. IV. That the tax-collectors in the several districts and parishes in this State, in their returns hereafter to be made, be and they are hereby required and enjoined to state the precise amount of taxes collected by them for Taxes for the purpose of supporting the police of the said several districts and support of po- parishes aforesaid, stating the rates per centum on the amounts of the State tax collected for said district and parish police purposes; and the Comptroller General shall return the same in his report. lice. V. That free negroes, mulattoes, mustizoes be, and they hereby are Returns of required to make their returns, and pay their taxes, during the month of free negroes. March. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and in the seventy eighth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. ROBT. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate. AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING IN OC- I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated for the payment of the various officers and expenses of the State Government, that is to say: In the Executive Department: For the salary of the Governor, three thousand five hundred dollars; for the Private Secretary of the Governor, five hundred dollars; for the Messenger of the Governor, two hundred and fifty dollars; for contingent fund of the Executive Department, twenty thousand dollars, to be subject to the draft of the Governor, and to be accounted for annually by him to the Legislature; for the rent of the Governor's house in Columbia, three hundred dollars. A. D. 1853. No. 4127. Executive Department. II. In the Legislative Department: For the pay of the members of the Legislative Department. Legislature, and the Attorney General and Solicitors during the present session, twenty-one thousand dollars, if so much be necessary; for the salaries of the Clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, one thousand dollars each, and to the said Clerks for the services of two Assistant Clerks, two hundred and fifty dollars for the Clerk of the House, and two hundred and fifty dollars for the Clerk of the Senate, to be paid at the adjournment of the Legislature; for the salaries of two Messengers and two Door-keepers, each two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid at the adjournment of the Legislature; for the salary of the Keeper of the State House, and Librarian, seven hundred dollars; for the salaries of the Reading Clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, each two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid at the end of the session; for the services of Engrossing Clerks, to be paid under the direction of the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate, four hundred dollars; for the Printers of the Senate and House of Representatives, in pursuance of the contracts made by the Committees of both Houses, nine thousand dollars, if so much be necessary, for the printing executed by the said Printers during the present session of the Legislature, the same to be paid to them as soon as the amount of the said contracts shall be ascertained by the Treasurer of the Upper Division; for the Printer, for printing in pamphlet form the Acts and Journals of both Houses, Reports and Resolutions agreed to, the Governor's Messages, Reports of the President of the Bank and Comptroller General, with the accompanying documents, three thousand seven A. D. 1853. hundred and fifty dollars, if so much be necessary; Provided, That the number of copies specified in the proposals of the Printers, as accepted by the Legislature, shall be printed and deposited in the office of the Treasurer of the Upper Division at Columbia, before the twentieth day of February next, and the amount to be paid according to the proposals, which shall be ascertained by the Treasurer aforesaid; and further provided, That the Printer of the Acts and Journals do publish in his newspaper at Columbia all the public Acts which may be passed at the present session, within three weeks after the adjournment of the Legislature; for William F. Arthur, for contingent expenses during the present session of the Legislature, twelve hundred dollars, if so much be necessary, to be accounted for by him at the Treasury, and reported by the Treasurer to the General Assembly; for stationery, fuel, distributing Acts, expenses of the election returns, fourteen hundred dollars, if so much be necessary; for the purchase of books for the library of the Legislature, five hundred dollars. III. In the Judiciary Department: For the salaries of ten Judges, three Judiciary thousand dollars each; for the salary of the Attorney General, eleven Department. hundred dollars; for the salaries of five Solicitors,, nine hundred dollars each; for the Clerk of the Court of Appeals in Columbia, six hundred dollars; for the salary of the Messenger of the said Court at Columbia, two hundred and fifty dollars; Provided, It shall be the duty of the said Messenger to summon all members of the bar who are members of the Legislature when their cases may be called for trial; for the salary of the Librarian of the Court of Appeals in Columbia, two hundred dollars, the same to include the expenses of fuel; for the purchase of books for the library of the Court of Appeals at Columbia, five hundred dollars; for fire-wood and fuel for the Court of Appeals at Columbia, fifty dollars, if so much be necessary; for the salary of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals in Charleston, six hundred dollars; for the salary of the Messenger of the same Court in Charleston, two hundred and fifty dollars; for the salary of the Librarian of the Court of Appeals in Charleston, two hundred dollars, to include the expense of fuel; for fire-wood and fuel for the Court of Appeals at Charleston, fifty dollars, if so much be necessary; for the purchase of books for the Library of the Court of Appeals at Charleston, five hundred dollars; for the salary of the State Reporter, fifteen hundred dollars; and the several appropriations aforesaid, for the Clerks, Librarians, Messengers, Reporter, and for the incidental expenses of the Courts of Appeals, shall be paid by the Treasurer, only upon warrants to be drawn by the presiding Judges of the Courts of Appeals, at such times and for such portions as |