Commissioners dying or A.D. 1754. itants of both parishes. And the said commissioners, for the said parishes respectively, shall have the same powers and authoritys for laying out, making and keeping in repair the roads in the said parishes, and shall be subject and liable to the like penaltys and forfeitures, as the commissioners for the high roads in the other parts of this Province have or are subject and liable unto, by the laws of this Province; and in case any of the commissioners appointed by this Act shall happen to die, depart this Province, or refuse to act, it shall and may be lawful for the remaining commissioners to nominate and appoint another commissioner or commissioners in the room of him or them so dying, departing this Province, or refusing to act; and the commissioner or commissioners so nominated and appointed shall have the same powers and authoritys, and be subject to the same penaltys and forforfeitures, as the commissioners appointed by this Act. removing. JAMES MICHIE, Speaker. In the Council Chamber, the 11th day of May, 1754. Assented to: JAMES GLEN. No. 825. AN ACT appointing Commissioners for repairing and keeping in repair the bridge over Combee river, from the causey to the town of Radnor, and Commissioners for rebuilding and keeping in repair the bridge over Wappoo creek in the parish of St. Andrew, and declaring the said bridge and Hooper's bridge, in the said parish of St. Andrew, to be parish bridges, and for appointing Commissioners for the said bridge. (Passed May 11, 1754. See last volume.) No. 826. AN ACT FOR APPLYING THAT FIFTH PART OF THE TAX IMPOSED BY THE GENERAL DUTY LAW ON THE FIRST PURCHASERS OF NEGROES AND OTHER SLAVES IMPORTED, WHICH WAS APPLIED AS A BOUNTY ΤΟ BE GIVEN FOR THE BUILDING OF SHIPS AND AS AN ENCOURAGEMENT ΤΟ SHIP-WRIGHTS AND CAULKERS TO BECOME SETTLERS IN THIS PROVINCE, TO THE USES THEREIN MENTIONED; AND FOR BUILDING A PEST HOUSE AND ERECTING A BEACON; AND FOR APPOINTING AND IMPOWERING COMMISSIONERS TO EXECUTE THE SAME, AND TO PURCHASE A PIECE OF LAND CONVENIENT FOR THOSE PURPOSES, AND FOR PURCHASING A PIECE OF LAND IN CHARLESTOWN, AND FOR BUILDING ANOTHER POWDER MAGAZINE THEREON. Preamble, WHEREAS, in and by an Act of the General Assembly of this Province, passed the fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one, entitled "an Act for the better strengthening of this Province, by granting to his Majesty certain taxes and impositions on the purchasers of negroes and other slaves imported, and for appropriating the same to the uses therein mentioned; and for granting to his Majesty a duty on liquors and other goods and merchandize for the uses therein mentioned; and for exempting the purchasers of negroes and other slaves imported, from payment of the tax, and the liquors and other goods and merchandize, from the dutys imposed by any A. D. 1754. former Act or Acts of the General Assembly of this Province," it is, among other things, enacted, that one-fifth part of the tax imposed by the said Act on the first purchasers of negroes and other slaves imported, shall be applied as a bounty to be given for the building of ships in this Province, and as an encouragement to ship-wrights and caulkers to become settlers in this Province, to be paid in such manner and proportion as should be directed and appointed by resolution or order of the General Assembly, or otherwise: And forasmuch as the appointing such bounty hath not answered the intention of the Legislature, as it hath not proved any encouragement, either to the building of ships, or for shipwrights and caulkers to become settlers in this Province, no application having ever been made to the General Assembly for any part of the same; and as the applying of the said fifth part of the said tax to the uses hereinafter mentioned will be more beneficial to this Province, we humbly pray his most sacred Majesty that that it may be enacted, the benefit of I. And be it enacted, by his Excellency James Glen, Esquire, Governorin-chief and Captain General in and over the Province of South Carolina, Appropriation by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council, and the of £4,722 8s. Assembly of the said Province, and by the authority of the same, That 2d. now in the public treasury, the sum of four thousand seven hundred and twenty-two pounds eight to the expence shillings and two pence, now in the public treasury, being part of the said of surveys for fifth part of the said tax, shall be and is hereby appropriated and applied the poor Protoward the payment of the expence of surveying and running out lands, testant settlers. and the passing of grants to such poor Protestants as have settled in this Province since the time of passing the above recited Act; and that the sum of one thousand and sixty-four pounds eleven shillings and eleven pence, being the residue of the said fifth part of the said tax which was in the public treasury on the twenty-ninth day of September last, shall be £1064 11s. 11d. and is hereby appropriated and applied toward defraying the charges of appropriated to this Government, from the twenty-fifth day of March, in the the expences of of our year the governLord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three, to the twenty-fifth day ment. of March, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four; any thing contained in the said recited Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. The residue, II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the annual income of the said fifth part of the said tax, to be computed from the said The annual intwenty-ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and fifty- come hereafter of the said fifth three, shall hereafter be, and is hereby, appropriated and applied for the part of the tax building of a pest house, and erecting a beacon or land mark, in the man- to be applied to ner hereinafter directed and appointed, and for purchasing a piece of land building a pest convenient for those purposes, and to and for no other use, intent or ting a beacon. purpose whatsoever; any thing in the said recited Act contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. house and erec above III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners for regulating the pilotage in the port and harbor of Charlestown, Commissioners of pilotage for the time being, or a majority of them, shall be and they are hereby made commis nominated and appointed commissioners for building the said pest house, sioners for the and erecting the said beacon or land mark, and purchasing a piece of land purposes convenient for those purposes as aforesaid; and the said commissioners shall have power, and they are hereby fully impowered and authorized, to purchase any piece of land properly situated for the purposes aforesaid, which shall be conveyed to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, for the use of the said pest house and beacon, and for such other public uses as may or shall at any time hereafter be appointed by the Legislature of this Province. A. D. 1754. The same. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said commissioners shall also have power and authority, and they are hereby fully authorized and impowered, to build the said pest house, and erect the said beacon or land mark, upon such land, in such manner, of such dimensions, and with such materials, as they shall think most expedient. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all such Monies hereby moneys as shall come into the treasurer's hands, which are to be applied appropriated to to the purchasing land, and erecting a pest house and beacon as aforesaid, be paid to the shall be paid every six months into the hands of the aforesaid commisevery 6 months. sioners, or a majority of them, for the uses aforesaid; which moneys the said public treasurer is hereby directed, enjoined and required to pay out of the moneys arising from the said fifth part of the said tax; any law, usage or custom, to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. commissioners VI. And whereas, the present powder magazine in Charlestown is not Commissioners sufficient to contain the public store of gun powder, and the powder of fortifications belonging to private persons, which, for the safety of the said town, is by to build another law enjoined to be stored in the magazine, Be it therefore further enacted magazine. Appropriations made for that purpose. by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners for building and repairing the fortifications in this Province, or a majority of them, shall have power, and they are hereby fully impowered, to purchase a piece of land near the work house in Charlestown, within the line at the north end of the said town, and to build another magazine upon the said land, which shall be made with bricks, and of such dimensions and in such manner as they the said commissioners shall think convenient. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of two thousand five hundred and thirteen pounds and fourteen shillings, now in the hands of the powder receiver of this Province, arising from the sale of gun powder out of the public store, and such other moneys as may hereafter be raised by the sale of gun powder out of the public store, by resolution or order of the General Assembly of this Province, shall be and is hereby applied toward defraying the expence of purchasing the said piece of land and building the said magazine; and the said powder receiver is hereby directed and required to pay the same to the said commissioners for that service; and the remaining part of the said expence shall be defrayed out of the fund appropriated for building and repairing the fortifications in this Province; and the public treasurer of this Province shall be, and he is hereby obliged and required to pay the said commissioners so much money out of the said fund as will be sufficient to defray the remaining part of the expence of purchasing the said piece of land, and building and finishing the said magazine. JAMES MICHIE, Speaker. In the Council Chamber, the 11th day of May, 1754. Assented to: JAMES GLEN. A. D. 1754. AN ACT for vesting the Ferry over Savanna river, at the Garrison No. 827. of Fort Moore, in New Windsor, in John Stewart of New Windsor, his executors, administrators and assigns, for the term therein mentioned; and for establishing a Ferry over Santee river, in the township of Saxe-Gotha, from the land of Martin Fridig, on the South side, to the opposite landing on the North side, of the said river, and for vesting the same in the said Martin Fridig, his executors, administrators and assigns, for the term therein mentioned. (Passed May 11, 1754. See last volume.) AN ACT TO REVIVE AND CONTINUE THE SEVERAL ACTS OF THE GENE- No. 828. RAL ASSEMBLY OF THIS PROVINCE THEREIN MENTIONED. WHEREAS, several wholesome and beneficial temporary laws of this Province are expired or near expiring, we humbly pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, I. And be it enacted by his Excellency James Glen, Esq., Governor-inchief and Captain General in and over the Province of South Carolina, with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council and the House of Assembly of the said Province, now met in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That an Act of the General Assembly of this Province entitled "An Act for declaring Dorchester bridge, Bacon's bridge, McCollum's bridge, and Waring's bridge, in the parish of St. George, Dorchester, to be parish bridges, and appointing the manner in which the same shall hereafter be kept in repair, and for reviving and continuing an Act of the General Assembly of this Province entitled 'An Additional and explanatory Act to an Act entitled an Act to impower the several commissioners of the high roads, private paths, bridges, creeks, causeys, and cleansing of water passages in this Province of South Carolina, to alter and lay out the same, for the more direct and better convenience of the inhabitants,' passed the twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-four: And also one other Act entitled "An Act to nominate and appoint commissioners of the highways in the upper settlements on Pedee, Waccamaw and Black rivers, with power to establish ferrys at such convenient places within the several districts therein mentioned as the majority of the commissioners of the said districts shall direct, and to appoint highway and bridge commissioners for Saxe-Gotha township," passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven-be, and are hereby declared to be, revived, continued, and enacted to be of full force and virtue for and during and unto the full end and term of seven years from and after the passing of this Act, and from thence to the end of the then next session of the General Assembly, and no longer. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an Act of the General Assembly of this Province entitled "An Act for keeping the Streets in Charlestown clean, and establishing such other regulations for the security, health and convenience of the inhabitants of the said town, as are therein mentioned, and for establishing a new market in the said town," passed the thirty-first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and fifty: And also one other Act entitled "An Additional A.D.1754. and Explanatory Act to an Act of the General Assembly of this Province entitled an Act for keeping the Streets in Charlestown clean, and for establishing such other regulations for the security, health and convenience of the inhabitants of the said town, as are therein mentioned, and for establishing a new market in the said town," passed the fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one-be, and are hereby declared to be, revived, continued, and enacted to be of full force and virtue, for and during and unto the full end and term of two years, from and after the passing of this Act, and from thence to the end of the then next session of the General Assembly, and no longer. JAMES MICHIE, Speaker. In the Council Chamber, the 11th day of May, 1754. Assented to: JAMES GLEN. No. 829. AN ACT for raising and granting to his Majesty the sum of Thirtyseven thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight pounds one shilling and six pence three farthings, and for applying the sum of four thousand two hundred and fifty-six pounds and eleven shillings, being the balances of several funds in the public treasury of this Province, making together forty-two thousand one hundred and fifty-four pounds twelve shillings and six pence three farthings, for defraying the charges of this Government for one year, commencing the twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three, inclusive, and ending the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four, exclusive. (Passed May 11, 1754. Omitted.) No. 830. AN ORDINANCE APPOINTING A COMPTROLLER OF THE COUNTRY WHEREAS, it is necessary that a comptroller of the country duties, and a country waiter, for the port of Charlestown, and a comptroller and a receiver of the country duties for the port of Beaufort, Port Royal, should be appointed, I. Be it therefore ordained, by his Excellency James Glen, Esq., Governor-in-chief and Captain General in and over the Province of South Carolina, with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council and the Commons House of Assembly of the said Province, now met in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That Mr. Samuel Bowman shall be and is hereby appointed comptroller of the country duties for the port of Charlestown, and that Mr. Henry Kennan shall be country waiter for the said port; and that Mr. John Chapman shall be comptroller of the country duties for the port of Beaufort, Port Royal; and that Mr. William Harvey shall be, and is hereby appointed, receiver of the said duties for the said port. And the said comptrollers and receivers, respectively, shall have the same powers and authorities, and shall be entitled unto, |