State, and to have and enjoy every right, power and privilege incident to 4 D. 1858. such incorporations; and the said society is hereby authorized and empow ered to hold, retain, possess and enjoy all such property, real and personal, as the said society or German Colonization Society of Charleston have and possess, or which shall hereafter be purchased by or given, bequeathed or devised to the said. Gerinan Settlement Society of Charleston, and all the property, real and personal, now held in the name of the Trustees of the German Colonization Society of Charleston, is hereby vested in the said Ger man Settlement Society of Charleston, hereby incorporated; Provided at Proviso, ways, That the amount so held by the said society shall at no time exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; and the said property, real and personal, however acquired, to sell, alien and transfer, in whole or in parts and parcels, at the discretion of the Board of Direction of the said society hereafter provided for VII. That the said German Settlement Society hereby incorporated, shall eleet, annually, from among their members, at such time and place as may be fixed by their by-laws, a President, a Secretary, a Treasurer and four Directors, who shall constitute a Board of Direction for the management of all the business and affairs of the said society, as may be authorized and pre scribed by the by-laws of the said society, to import stock from other States or foreign countries, to erect dwelling houses, warehouses and work shops, and from time to time to account to the members of the said society for their management of their said affairs, to ascertain and declare and apportion the profits among the members according to their by-laws; and all conveyances of real estate, bills of sale and transfers of other property sold by the said Board of Direction shall be signed by the President and Secretary, and sealed with the seal of the said society. VIII That William Herwig, William B. Heriot, Edward L. Kerrison, Hermann E. Vaas, Lingard A. Frampton, Frederick C. Matthiessen, John P. Cazal and their associates, at present members of the Charleston Philharmonic Society, (an association formed for the promotion of a cultivated taste for music in Charleston, and for affording an opportunity for the de velopment of native musical talent,) and their successors, be and they are" hereby incorporated and declared a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of The Charleston Philharmonie Society. The said society, according to its by-laws, shall have succession of officers and members, and shall have power to make by-laws not repugnant to the laws of the land, and to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter at will, to sue and be sued in any court of this State, and to have and enjoy every right Officers. Charleston Philharmonic Society: A. D. 1853, power and privilege incident to such incorporations, and may hold, possess and enjoy all such property, real and personal, as it may now possess or be entitled to, or which shall hereafter be given, bequeathed or devised to it. or in any manner acquired by it, and to sell, alien and transfer the same or any part thereof; Provided, The amount of said property shall not exceed in value the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Proviso, <LX. That the charter of the Mount Pleasant Ferry. Company be so Mt. Pleasant amended as to permit the said company to reduce the shares in the capital Ferry Com stock of the said company from one thousand dollars to one hundred dollars each, and to call in the old certificates, and to issue new scrip or certificates for the said reduced shares, chartered. X. That the Phoenix Fire Engine Company of Charleston; the Marion Societies re- Fire Engine Company, the South Carolina Mechanics' Association; the Charleston Ancient Artillery Society; and, the German Fire Company of Charleston, be and the same are hereby re-chartered, with all the rights, powers and privileges heretofore granted to them respectively. XI. That the Charleston Fire Company of Axemen are hereby re-chartered, with all their present privileges as a body corporate, except that the said Company shall not have the right to elect any new members until their number shall have been reduced to less than thirty; after which time it shall not be lawful for the said Company to have more than thirty members. XIL That this Act shall be taken and deemed a public Act, and shall Public Act. continue in force for fourteen years, XIII. That the Charleston Gas Light Company shall have authority to Charleston increase their capital to the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, with the Light same rights and privileges, and subject to the same obligations, liabilities and restrictions, as are now, provided for in relation to their present capital. XIV, That the Sumterville Gas Company. Sumterville Academical Socioarter of the Trustees and members of the Academical be, and the same is hereby, revived and extended for the term of fourteen years, by the name of the Sumterville Academical Society, with power to possess and hold, subject to former grants, property heretofore or hereafter escheated or liable to escheat within the county of Claremont, to an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, and with all the other powers heretofore conferred upon it. XV. That J. J. O'Connell, L. P. O'Connell, Julius Posey, M. J. Ryan, Joseph O'Connell, and their successors, be, and hereby are incorporated. St. Mary's under the name and style of "The St. Mary's College," for literary pur College. poses, and that the said J. J. O'Connell and others, and their successors, be, and hereby are vested with full power and authority, from time to time, to make, constitute and establish such and so many by-laws, rules and orders A. D. 1853. as to them shall seem necessary and convenient, (which said by-laws, rules and orders so made shall be binding on all persons in anywise connected with the said College,) with full power and authority also to have and use a corporate seal, and to do and perform all other acts that corporate bodies may of right do, and also with full power and authority to hold, use and alienate property, real, personal or mixed, to any amount not exceeding the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Carolina Gas Company. XVI. That W. C. Dukes, A. R. Taft, Edward Sebring, Robert W. Hare, W. C. Gatewood, and their associates and successors, shall be and they are hereby incorporated and made and declared a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name and style of the "Carolina Gas Company," with all the rights, powers and privileges, and subject to the same conditions as have been conferred and imposed on the Charleston Gas Light Companysubscriptions to be taken in the same manner as is directed in the Act incorporating the said Company; and the said parties herein first named are hereby authorized to appoint Commissioners to take subscriptions; Provided, Proviso. That the assent of the City Council of Charleston be first had and obtained before the said Company shall proceed to open the streets of the city for the laying of their pipes. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord ROBT. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE So- No. 4130. 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 all free white persons who now are, or hereafter may become, members of Religious & the following religious Societies, and Societies for the advancement of education, to wit: the Cedar Spring and Lower Long Cane churches, (Asso other societies: incorporated. A. D. 1853. ciate Reformed Presbyterian,) in Abbeville District; the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Walhalla; the Steep Bottom Baptist Church of Saint Peter's Parish; the Bethlehem Church in Edgefield District, with the camp ground adjacent thereto; the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Newberry, by the name of Luther's Chapel; the Independent or Congregational Church of Wappetaw, with power to establish a Branch Church at Mount Pleasant, Christ Church Parish; the Baptist Church at Broadmouth, Abbeville District; the Methodist Society at Union Camp Ground, in Abbeville District; the Fairview Methodist Protestant Church in Anderson District; the Washington Street Presbyterian Church in Greenville; the Townville Baptist Church in Anderson; the Hartville Baptist Church in Darlington; the Covington Seminary in Edgefield; the Cokesbury Masonic Female Institute; be, and the same are hereby declared and constituted bodies politic and corporate, by the name and style to each hereinbefore respectively assigned. II. That the said Churches, Societies and Associations, shall have sucRights and cession of Trustees, Vestry and Wardens, officers and members, according privileges. to their respective by-laws, and shall have power respectively to make bylaws, not repugnant to the laws of the land, and to have, use and keep a common seal, and the same to alter at will; to sue and be sued in any Court in this State, and to have and enjoy every right, power and privilege incident to such corporations; and they are hereby empowered to hold, retain, possess and enjoy all such property, real and personal, as they may now severally have and possess, or be entitled to, or which shall hereafter be given, bequeathed or devised to them respectively, or in any manner acquired by them, and to sell, alien or transfer the same, or any part thereof; Provided, That the amount so held shall in no case exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Proviso. III. That the Charters of the Black Swamp Baptist Church, in Beaufort Charters re- District; the Goose Creek Baptist Church, in the Parish of St. James, newed. Goose Creek; the Protestant Episcopal Church in Greenville; the Pendleton Academy, be, and the same are hereby renewed, with all the rights, powers and privileges, heretofore granted to them respectively. IV. That this Act is hereby declared to be a public Act. Public Act. 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 INCORPORATE THE CENTRAL BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A. D. 1853. No. 4131. receive sub 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 in order to establish the Bank hereinafter named, the following persons be, and they are hereby, appointed Commissioners to receive subscriptions at Comm❜rs to the City of Charleston: Charles McBeth, Henry T. Street, W. A. Wardlaw, scriptions. J. S. Chambers, Robert W. Hare, and the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall, on the first Monday and Tuesday in April next, open subscriptions from the hour of 10 A. M. until 2 P. M., for the purpose of raising the sum of one million of dollars, whereof six weeks public notice shall be given in all the daily papers of the City of Charleston; and such said subscribers paying their subscription moneys respectively, and all persons who may thereafter become stockholders in the said company shall be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a corporation and body politic, by the name and style of the Central Bank of South Carolina, and so shall continue until the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. Name. II. That the said corporation, by its said name and style, shall be, and is hereby, made capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and Rights and privileges. retain, to it and its successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, promissory notes, bills of exchange, and all other choses in action, money and effects of what kind, nature, or quality soever, to an amount not exceeding, on the whole, three times the amount of the capital stock of said corporation, and the same to sell, alien, or dispose of, and also to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended in Courts of Record or any other place whatsoever, and also to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, or renew at pleasure, and to discount promissory notes at a rate of interest not exceeding one per cent. for every sixty days, and to deal and trade in bills of exchange; and also ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, and regulations as shall seem necessary and convenient for the government of the said corporation, not being contrary to the laws of this State and of the United States, and generally to do and execute all and singular such acts, matters and things which may be deemed necessary and proper for the good management and government of said corporation, subject, nevertheless, to such regulations, restrictions, limitations and provisos as shall hereafter be prescribed and declared. |