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or refuse to act, the remaining commissioners shall from time to time choose one or more commissioner or commissioners in the room of him or them so dying or refusing to act; and he or they so chosen shall have the same powers and authority as the said other commissioners.

P. MANIGAULT, Speaker.

In the Council Chamber, the 12th day of April, 1768.

Assented to: C. G. MONTAGU.

No. 972. AN ACT FOR ESTABLISHING A PARISH IN CRAVEN COUNTY, BY THE NAME OF ST. DAVID, AND FOR APPOINTING COMMISSIONERS FOR THE HIGH-ROADS IN THE SAID PARISH.

Preamble.

A parish to be

laid out in

Craven county

Church,

WHEREAS, the inhabitants residing on Pedee river, in the parishes of St. Mark and Prince George, in Craven county, have represented many inconveniences which they are under for want of having a parish laid out and established in the said county, and prayed that a law may be passed for that purpose, we therefore pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted,

I. And be it enacted, by his Excellency the Right Honorable Lord Charles Greville Montagu, Captain General, Governor and Commanderin-chief in and over his Majesty's Province of South Carolina, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council and the Commons House of Assembly of the said Province, and by the authority of the same, That immediately from and after the passing of this Act, a parish shall be laid out and established in Craven county aforesaid, bounded in the following manner, (that is to say,) by a North-west line to be run from the northward-most corner of Williamsburgh township to Lynch's creek, and from thence by that creek to the provincial line, and that the line dividing St. Mark's from Prince Frederick's parish be carried on in the same course from Great Pedee, where it now ends, to the provincial line aforesaid, by which, together with lines aforesaid and Lynch's creek, the new parish shall be bounded, and that the said parish shall hereafter be called and known by the name of St. David.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a church, chapel, &c. to chapel and parsonage house shall be built at such places, within the bounds be built in said of the said parish, as the major part of the commissioners hereafter named parish. shall order and direct.

Duties, &c. of the Rector.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the rector or minister of the said parish for the time being, shall officiate in the said church and chapel alternately, and shall be elected and chosen in the same manner as the rectors or ministers of the several other parishes in this Province are elected and chosen, and shall have yearly paid to him and his successors forever, the same salary as is appointed for the rector or minister of any other parish in this Province, (the parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael excepted,) out of the fund appropriated or to be appropriated for payment of the salaries of the clergy of this Province; and the public treasurer for the time being is hereby authorized and required to pay the same, under the like penalties and forfeitures as for not paying the salaries due to the other rectors or ministers of the several other parishes in this Province; and the said rector or minister of the said parish shall have and enjoy all and every such privileges and advantages,

and be under such rules, laws and restrictions, as the rectors or ministers A.D.1768. of the other parishes in this Province have and enjoy, or are subject and liable unto.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Claudius Pegues, Philip Pledger, Alexander McKintosh, George Hicks, Commissioners Thomas Ellerbee, Robert Allison, Thomas Lide, Charles Bedingfield, appointed. James James, Robert Weaver, Thomas Crawford, James Tompson, Thomas Port and Benjamin Rogers, be, and they are hereby appointed, commissioners or supervisors for the building of the new church and chapel and parsonage house in the parish of St. David, and they or a major part of them are fully authorized and impowered to purchase a glebe for the said parish, and to take subscriptions, and to receive and gather, collect and sue for all such sum or sums of money as any pious and well disposed person or persons shall give and contribute for the purposes aforesaid; and in case of the death, absence or refusing to act of any of the said commissioners, the church-wardens and vestry of the said parish of St. David for the time being shall and may nominate and appoint another person or persons to be commissioner or commissioners in the room or place of such so dead, absent or refusing to act, as to the said church-wardens and vestry shall seem meet, which commissioner or commissioners, so to be nominated and appointed, shall have the same powers and authorities for putting this Act in execution, to all intents and purposes, as the commissioners herein named.

Officers to be chosen for

V. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passing of this Act, the commissioners herein appointed for building the church, chapel and parsonage house in the said parish of St. parish, do call the inhabitants thereof together, to choose parish officers, David. and fix on the most proper places for building the church and chapel. VI. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the dissolution of the present General Assembly, the inhabitants Number of of the parish of St. Mark, (which heretofore chose two members of AsRepresentatives to be sembly,) and the inhabitants of the parish of St. David, qualified by law chosen for the for that purpose, shall choose and elect one member each, and no more, parishes of St. to represent the said parishes respectively, in General Assembly; any David. law, usage or custom, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding; and that writs for electing members to serve in General Assembly for the said parishes, shall be issued at the same times and in the same manner as for the several other parishes in this Province, according to the directions of the Act of the General Assembly in that case made and previded.

Mark and St.

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VII. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Claudius Pegues, Philip Pledger, Alexander McKintosh, George Hicks, Thomas Commissioners Ellerbee, Robert Allison, Thomas Lide, Charles Bedingfield, James James, pointed. Robert Weaver, Thomas Crawford, James Tompson, Thomas Port and Benjamin Rogers, shall be, and they are hereby appointed, commissioners for the high-roads in the said parish of St. David; and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have the same powers and authorities for laying out and making and keeping in repair the roads in the said parish, and shall be subject and liable to the like penalties and forfeitures as the commissioners for the high-roads in 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 the province, or refuse to act, it shall and may be lawful for the remainder of the commissioners, or a major part of them, to nominate and appoint another commissioner or commissioners, in the room of him or them so dying, departing the Province or refusing to act; and the

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A. D. 1768. commissioner or commissioners so nominated and appointed shall have the same powers and authorities, and be subject to the same penalties and forfeitures as the commissioners appointed by this Act.

P. MANIGAULT, Speaker.

In the Council Chamber, the 12th day of April, 1768.

Assented to: C. G, MONTAGU.

No. 973. AN ACT for establishing and making public a road to lead from Orangeburgh to Saludy, and from thence to Bush and Rayburn's Creeks, and for appointing Commissioners for the same; and also for establishing and making public a Ferry over Saludy river, and vesting the same in Samuel Kelly and John Millhouse, their Executors, Administrators and Assignees, for the term therein mentioned.

(Passed April 12, 1768. See last volume.)

No. 974. AN ACT for establishing a Ferry at the lands of James James, in the Welch tract, in the Parish of Prince George, opposite Cedar Creek, in the parish of St. Mark; and also for establishing and making public a road to lead from the North-east side of the said ferry down the country, into the public road; and likewise a road to lead from the upper side of Cedar Creek, and also a road to lead from the lower side of the said creek into the public road leading down the country.

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No. 975. AN ACT for altering a private path or road, formerly laid out by the Board of Commissioners, in the parish of St. Thomas and St. Dennis, through the plantation of the Rev. Alexander Garden, to the plantation of Thomas Akin, and for establishing one other private path or road to the plantation of the said Thomas Akin, and for vesting the lands and effects lately belonging to the French church in the said parish, in the church-wardens and vestry of the said parish.

(Passed April 12, 1768. See last volume.)

No. 976.

Preamble.

AN ORDINANCE TO APPOINT MR. JOSEPH JENKINS, JR. COUNTRY
WAITER FOR THE PORT OF BEAUFORT, PORT ROYAL.

WHEREAS, Mr. William Toseland, late Country Waiter for the said port of Beaufort, is dead, and it is necessary that some proper person should be appointed to execute the said office,

I. Be it therefore ordained, by his Excellency the Right Honorable Lord A. D. 1768. Charles Greville Montagu, Captain General, Governor and Commanderin-chief in and over his Majesty's Province of South Carolina, by and A country with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council and the Commons waiter appointed. House of Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That Mr. Joseph Jenkins, Jr. be, and he is hereby appointed and declared, Country Waiter for the Port of Beaufort, Port Royal, aforesaid, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

P. MANIGAULT, Speaker.

In the Council Chamber, the 12th day of April, 1768.

Assented to: C. G. MONTAGU.

AN ACT FOR GRANTING a loan of one thousand five hundred pounds
TO THE VESTRY OF ST. MICHAEL'S PARISH, CHARLESTOWN, for the
TERM OF THREE YEARS, WITHOUT INTEREST, TO PAY PARISH CHARGES,

AND FOR PROVIDING A SECURITY FOR THE RE-PAYMENT OF THE SAME TO
THE PUBLIC, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES HEREIN MENTIONED.

No. 977.

WHEREAS, the vestry of St. Michael's Parish in Charlestown have necessarily contracted several debts with many persons for the building a parsonage house and convenient out-houses, on the glebe lands in the said parish, and for altering the galleries of the parish church and building sundry new pews therein, and thereby have expended all the monies in their hands belonging to the said parish, and are now reduced to difficulties in making full compensation to the several workmen and other Preamble. persons still having demands against them for the said services, wherefore they have made application by petition for the loan of a sum of money out of the public treasury, for the term of three years, to enable them to make immediate payment of such demands, which said sum of money is purposed to be returned by them or their successors in office, at the end of the said three years, out of the rents hereafter to become due for the hire of the said new pews; we therefore humbly pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted,

I. And be it enacted, by his Excellency the Right Honorable Lord Charles Greville Montagu, Captain General, Governor and Commanderin-chief in and over his Majesty's Province of South Carolina, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council and the Commons House of Assembly of the said Province, and by the authority of the same, That Loan of 15001. the public treasurer of this Province do immediately advance out of any to church warmonies now in the treasury, unto the church wardens and vestry of the said dens of St. Michael's parish. parish, the sum of fifteen hundred pounds currency, free of interest, for the term of three years, to be appropriated by them towards payment of the said demands against the said parish.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case the whole or any part of the said sum of money so lent, shall not be returned In case of failby them or their successors in office into the public treasury at the end of ure to pay up the loan, &c. the said three years, or within six months thereafter, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the public treasurer of the said Province, and he is hereby authorized and required, to expose to sale, and sell to the highest bidder, first giving one month's public notice of such sale, as many of

A.D. 1768. the said new pews made and erected by the said vestry as aforesaid, as will be sufficient for repaying to the public the whole or any part of the said sum of money so lent as aforesaid for the purposes above said, and to make good and sufficient titles in fee simple to the purchasers thereof.

Church war-
dens
may lease

&c.

full

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after payment and satisfaction of the said sum of fifteen hundred pounds or rent pews, currency, all and every of the said pews then unsold or undisposed of, shall be, and they are hereby, declared to be vested in the church wardens and vestry of the said parish, for the time being, who are hereby authorized to lease and rent out the same, and receive and recover the rents thereof, and to pay and appropriate the rents arising therefrom, from time to time, towards the defraying the expence of finishing and keeping in repair the said church, or to such other parochial charges as they shall think requisite and necessary.

P. MANIGAULT, Speaker.

In the Council Chamber, the 12th day of April, 1768.

Assented to: C. G. MONTAGU.

No. 978. AN ACT FOR BUILDING A NEW CHURCH IN THE PARISH OF ST. JAMES SANTEE, AND FOR CONVERTING THE PRESENT CHURCH IN THE SAID PARISH INTO A CHAPEL OF EASE; AND FOR BUILDING ANOTHER CHAPEL OF EASE AT OR NEAR THE SEVEN MILE POST, ON THE ROAD LEADING FROM COCHRAN'S FERRY TO CHARLESTOWN, AND FOR SELLING the preSENT AND PURCHASING A NEW GLEBE IN THE SAID PARISH.

Preamble.

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WHEREAS, the present parish church and the glebe land of St. James Santee are situate in a corner of the said parish, to the great inconvenience of the parishioners, and it is necessary to build another church in a more central part of the parish, where the inhabitants may more conveniently resort to do the duty required therein, and to convert the present parish church into a chapel of ease; and also to build another chapel of ease in the said parish, and to sell the present glebe and to purchase another that will be more convenient for the rector or minister of the said parish; we therefore pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted,

I. And be it enacted, by his Excellency the Right Honorable Lord Charles Greville Montagu, Captain General, Governor and Commanderin-chief in and over his Majesty's Province of South Carolina, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council and the Commons House Parish church of Assembly of the said Province, and by the authority of the same, That to be built near a church shall be built at or near Wambaw Bridge, in the said parish of Wambaw

bridge.

Old church converted into a

St. James, which church when finished shall be, and is hereby, declared to be the parish church of St. James Santee, to all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever; any law, usage or custom to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as the said new church shall be built and finished, the present church in the chapel of ease. said parish shall be, and is hereby, declared to be a chapel of ease, and the rector or minister of the said parish shall perform divine service therein on every fourth Sunday; provided, it happen not upon Easter Sunday, Whit

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