A.D. 1770. duct, and give bond to the public treasurer with sufficient security in the penal sum of ten thousand pounds currency for his and their faithful execution of the said offices; and that the said deputy powder receivers shall reside at or near the magazine for which they are respectively appointed. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as the said magazines at Hobcaw and Charlestown Neck are finished, the powder receiver, for the time being, shall be allowed from the public of this Province, a salary of four hundred pounds current money, per annum, besides the present emoluments of his office. Salary of powder receiver. Powder to be removed from IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as the said magazines at Hobcaw and Charlestown Neck are finished, the old magazine. powder receiver shall cause the powder in the magazine at Charlestown to be removed thither and kept there, and that from thenceforth the said magazine at Charlestown shall no longer be occupied as such. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That persons Powder owned living in Charlestown shall store their gunpowder, except the quantity in Charlestown which by law they are allowed to keep in their houses, in one or other to be stored in of the said magazines hereby directed to be built, and that the powder receiver shall be entitled to the same fees for the care thereof, as he is for powder now kept by them in the magazine in Charlestown. the magazines. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever there shall be ten thousand pounds weight of public powder in the said magazines, the powder receiver for the time being shall receive from vessels money in lieu of powder, at the rate of six shillings currency for every pound of powder which they may be liable to pay; and that provision for the expence of purchasing the said land and building the said magazines at Hobcaw and Charlestown Neck, shall be defrayed by the public of this Province; and the commissioners, or the majority of them, herein appointed for building of the said magazines, are hereby authorized and impowered to draw on the public treasurer for the expence of purchasing lands and building the two magazines aforesaid, and the said public treasurer is hereby required to pay the same out of any monies in the public treasury not exceeding the sum of twelve thousand pounds curmoney of the said Province. rent P. MANIGAULT, Speaker. Assented to: WM. BULL. In the Council Chamber, the 7th day of April, 1770. No. 998. AN ACT for vesting a ferry from Charlestown to Hobcaw and Scott's ferries, in Andrew Hibben, for the term therein mentioned. , (Passed April 7, 1770. See last volume.) A. D. 1770. AN ACT FOR REVIVING AND CONTINUING THE SEVERAL ACTS THEREIN No. 999. WHEREAS, several beneficial laws are expired, or near expiring, and it is found necessary to revive and continue the same, we therefore humbly pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, Preamble. Former Acts I. And be it enacted, by the Honorable William Bull, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over his Majesty's Province of South Carolina, by and with the advice and consent of his revived and Majesty's Council and the Commons House of Assembly of the said continued. Province, and by the authority of the same, That an Act entitled "An Act for taxing transient persons," passed the seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine; and also an Act entitled "An Act for reviving and continuing part of an Act of the General Assembly of this Province, entitled an Act for laying buoys and erecting and supporting beacons or land marks near the bar of the harbor of Georgetown Winyaw, and for building and repairing one or more boat or boats to attend the bar of the said harbor, and for the better settling and regulating the pilotage of the said harbor, and for obliging such vessels as go to the said port of Georgetown, to pay powder duty, and for appropriating the duties on all goods, wares and merchandizes imported and exported into or out of the port of Georgetown Winyaw, since the expiration of the said Act, to and for the purposes therein mentioned," passed the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one; and an Act entitled "An Act for the better preventing of excessive and deceitful gaming, and to prevent occupiers of licenced public houses and other houses wherein liquors are sold, from suffering apprentices, overseers, journeymen, laborers and servants from gaming therein," passed the, nineteenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two; and an Act entitled "An Act for vesting the ferry over Santee river, in the way leading from Charlestown to Williamsburgh, commonly called Murray's ferry, in James Hunter, executor of the last will and testament of Joseph Murray, late of Craven county, planter, deceased, in trust for and to the only use and behoof of James Murray, an infant, only son and heir at law of the said Joseph Murray, his executors, administrators and assigns, for a term of years therein mentioned," passed the seventh day of April, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine-be, and the said before recited Acts 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, but with this variation, that instead of the last recited Act entitled "An Act for vesting the ferry over Santee river, in the way leading from Charlestown to Williamsburgh, commonly called Murray's ferry, in James Hunter, executor of the last will and testament of Joseph Murray, late of Craven county, planter, deceased, in trust for, and to the only use and behoof of James Murry, an infant, only son and heir at law of the said Joseph Murray, his executors, administrators and assigns, for a term of years therein mentioned," being vested in James Hunter, it shall be, VOL. IV.-41. A. D. 1770. and the said ferry is hereby, vested in James Murray, his executors, administrators and assigns, for and during the aforesaid term. II. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That that part of the seventeenth clause of the Act 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 use 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 duties imposed by any former Act or Acts of the General Assembly of this Province," passed the fourteenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one, which imposes a duty of five pence per gallon on all molasses imported into this Provincebe, and the same is hereby declared to be, repealed and made null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. P. MANIGAULT, Speaker. In the Council Chamber, the 7th day of April, 1770. No. 1000. AN ACT for repealing an Act entitled "An Act for appointing Commissioners to build a Bridge over the Pond in the Four Hole Swamp, commonly called Gibbes' Pond, and to lay out and make and keep in repair a road to and from the said bridge, as convenient as may be, into the Orangeburgh old road, from the head of the said path leading from Dorchester to Izard's Cow-pen;" and for authorizing and empowering the Board of Commissioners of the Roads for the parish of St. George Dorchester, to lay out and make and keep in repair the road mentioned in the said Act. (Passed April 7, 1770. See last volume.) No. 1001. AN ACT for establishing a Ferry over Broad river, at the lands of Martin Scheurer; also a Ferry over Saludy river, at the lands of Charles Carsan, and appointing Commissioners to lay out, make and keep in repair several Roads therein mentioned. (Passed April 7, 1770. See last volume.) No. 1002. AN ACT for vesting a Ferry over Sampit river, from Georgetown to the Road on the opposite shore, leading towards Charlestown, in William Allston, his executors, administrators and assigns, for a term of years. (Passed April 7, 1770. See last volume.) A. D. 1770. AN ORDINANCE TO APPOINT. MR. JACOB DEVEAUX COUNTRY No. 1003. WAITER FOR THE PORT OF BEAUFORT, PORT ROYAL. WHEREAS, Mr. Joseph Jenkins, late country waiter for the said port of Beaufort, has resigned; I. Be it therefore ordained, by the Honorable William Bull, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over his Majesty's Country waiter In the Council Chamber, the 7th day of April, 1770. Assented to: WM. BULL. AN ACT FOR STAMPING AND ISSUING THE SUM OF SEVENTY THOUSAND No. 1004. MENTIONED. WHEREAS, by an Act entitled " An Act for establishing courts, building goals, and appointing sheriffs and other officers, for the more Preamble. convenient administration of justice in this Province," commissioners are therein appointed to agree for and superintend the building of goals and court houses, in the respective districts and precincts where the courts are therein appointed to be holden, and for the purchase of lands in such places, for the erecting the said buildings, as the majority of the respective commissioners shall see fit and most convenient in each respective district and precinct, where the place is not particularly appointed by the said Act; and whereas, it is become absolutely necessary for the carrying on the said buildings as aforesaid, that a sum of money sufficient for the purposes of building the said court houses and goals, and purchasing lands as aforesaid, in order that the said Act may be put into execution, and also for the building a goal in Charlestown, should be immediately issued, we therefore pray his most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, Commissioners I. And be it enacted, by the Honorable William Bull, Esq., Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over his Majesty's Province of South Carolina, by and with the advice and consent of his Majesty's Council appointed. and the Commons House of Assembly of the said Province, and by the authority of the same, That Thomas Smith, Benjamin Elliott, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Philip Porcher, Isaac Hayne, James Parsons and John Poaug, Esquires, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners; and they or any five of them are hereby required to procure public orders to be stamped, equal to the sum of seventy thousand pounds current money of this Province, and no more, (that is to say,) seven thousand orders of the denomination of ten pounds; which orders shall be signed A. D. 1770. by the said commissioners, or any five of them, and shall have such signatures and devices as the said commissioners or a majority of them shall think fit; and shall be in the words following, (that is to say,) Form of the Orders stamp treasurer, SOUTH CAROLINA, No. "This order intitles the bearer to a credit equal to ten pounds in the current money of this Province, and shall be received by the public treasurer in payment of all duties and taxes whatsoever, until the twentyfifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and no longer, according to the Act of the General Assembly, dated the day of one thousand seven hundred and seventy year of his Majesty's reign." in the II. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when the said orders shall be so stamped and prepared, they shall be regularly numbered ed to be deliver- and signed by the said commissioners, or a majority of them, and then ed to the public delivered into the hands of the public treasurer for the time being, in such sums and proportions, until the whole seventy thousand pounds is delivered, as will answer the draughts or orders in favor of any person or persons, that the commissioners, or a majority of them respectively, who are appointed by the before recited Act for building the court houses and goals, and purchasing lands for erecting the said buildings thereon in the several districts and precincts, and also the draughts or orders of the commissioners hereby nominated and appointed for building the goal in Charlestown, shall draw on the said public treasurer for, relative to the matters aforesaid; and the said treasurer shall accordingly pay the said orders or draughts according to their tenor; and the said stamped orders as aforesaid shall pass in payment of all duties and taxes to the public treasurer, for the value therein expressed, until the said twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and no longer. III. And whereas, it is judged necessary to sink the said sum of sevenSaid Orders to ty thousand pounds in five years, Be it therefore enacted by the authority be cancelled in aforesaid, That the public treasurer of this Province for the time being. five years. Penalty for counterfeiting Orders. shall be and he is hereby required to call in fourteen thousand pounds of the said orders every year, and cancel the same, until the whole be cancelled; and the money levied and payable into the treasury by virtue of an Act 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 duties imposed by any former Act or Acts of the General Assembly of this Province," is hereby appointed and declared to be a fund for that purpose; and the said public treasurer shall carefully retain the said orders so cancelled in his hands, to be burnt and destroyed in the presence of a committee to be appointed for that purpose by the Council and Assembly. IV. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall counterfeit, raze or alter any of the public stamped orders issued by virtue of this Act, or shall offer them in payment, knowing the same to be counterfeited, razed or altered, and every person and persons who shall assist, abet, or procure the counterfeiting, razing or altering such orders, being thereof duly convicted, are hereby declared and deemed guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon, without the benefit of the clergy. |