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a lawful surveyor to make a just and accurate survey of the number of A. D.1778. acres contained in the survey already made by the aforesaid William Woffard, and ascertain the exact number of acres contained in such survey, and also to parcel off from the said number of acres, so surveyed, the quantity of six hundred acres, in a distinct parcel or body, contiguous to the fifty acres conveyed to Joseph Buffington by James Macilroy, as aforesaid, so as to include the iron works of the said Joseph Buffington; such survey to be returned, duly certified on oath, into the treasury of this State, within four months thereafter.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the parcel of six hundred acres of land, so to be surveyed as aforesaid, together Land vested in the public treawith all the buildings and improvements thereon, shall, immediately after surers, for cerand from the time of such survey, become and is hereby declared to be tain uses and vested in the commissioners of the treasury of the State aforesaid, and purposes. their successors in the said office of treasurers, for the following uses and purposes, (that is to say,) in trust that if the said Joseph Buffington shall, within four years next ensuing, from the eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, pay into the public treasury of this State, for the use of the same, the aforesaid sum of six thousand three hundred and eighty-one pounds eight shillings and ten pence, without interest, that then and in such case the said six hundred acres of land, with the buildings thereon, as aforesaid, shall become vested in and remain the property of the said Joseph Buffington, his heirs and assigns, for ever; but if in case the said Joseph Buffington shall not pay the said sum of six thousand three hundred and eighty-one pounds eight shillings and ten pence, within the time limited as aforesaid, that then and in such case the said commissioners of the treasury of the State aforesaid, or their successors, shall sell and dispose of the same for the payment of the said sum of six thousand three hundred and eighty-one pounds eight shillings and ten pence; and the balance of the money arising from such sale, after deducting the usual commissions, shall be paid by the said commissioners of the treasury to the said Joseph Buffington, his heirs or assigns.

Disposal of

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after parcelling and allotting the aforesaid tract of six hundred acres, in manner overplus of as aforesaid, the remainder of the number of acres found by the survey to land, after the be made and returned into the treasury of this State as aforesaid, shall be- survey. come, and is hereby declared to be, vested in the commissioners of the treasury of the State aforesaid, in trust, and to and for the uses of the said State.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any Grants of the grant which shall hereafter be made of any of the lands before mentioned, said land, hereafter made, deand to be so surveyed as directed by this Act, by any person hereafter im- clared null and powered to grant any of the lands of this State, shall be null and void, and void. of no force or effect whatever.

HUGH RUTLEDGE, Speaker of the Legislative Council.

THOMAS BEE, Speaker of the General Assembly.

In the Council Chamber, the 5th day of March, 1778.

Assented to: J. RUTLEDGE.

A. D. 1778.

No. 1066. AN ACT for incorporating a Society commonly called the Catholic

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No. 1067. AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT THE OPERATION OF THE LIMITATION ACT UNTIL THE 15th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1779, IN MANNER THEREIN

MENTIONED.

WHEREAS, in and by an ordinance passed the thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, it was ordained, that the Act of limitation shall not bar any suits for debt but such as were by that Act barred on or before the elevPreamble. enth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, nor shall the limitation Act be construed to bar any other suit, until the expiration of twelve months after the passing the said ordinance; and whereas, the ends of that provision, for such stay of the operation of the said limitation Act, have not been attained, and further provision is therefore necessary; I. Be it ordained, by his Excellency John Rutledge, Esquire, President and Commander-in-chief in and over the State of South Carolina, by the honLimitation Act orable the Legislative Council and General Assembly, and by the authority force till 15th of the same, That the Act of limitations shall not, before the fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, bar any cause of action, but such as were barred by the said Act on or before the said eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

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Feb. 1779.

HUGH RUTLEDGE, Speaker of the Legislative Council.
THOMAS BEE, Speaker of the General Assembly.

In the Council Chamber, the 5th day of March, 1778.

Assented to: J. RUTLEDGE.

No. 1068. AN ACT for clearing and making navigable Tulifiny Creek, from the Bridge known by the name of Tulifiny Bridge, to the Mill Dam of Barnard Elliott, Esq.

(Passed March 5, 1778. See last volume.)

No. 1069. AN ACT for opening the navigation of Lynch's and Clark's Creeks, and for appointing commissioners for superintending the same.

(Passed March 5, 1778. See last volume.)

A. D. 1778.

AN ACT FOR INCORPORATING THE SALEM SOCIETY.
(Passed March 16, 1778. See last volume.)

No. 1070.

AN ACT FOR ESTABLISHING

A PARISH IN CRAVEN COUNTY, BY THE No. 1071. NAME OF ALL SAINTS.

WHEREAS, sundry inhabitants on Waccamaw Neck, in the Parish of Prince George, by their petition to the General Assembly, have repre- Preamble. sented many inconveniences which they are under for want of having the said parish divided, and that part thereof known by the name of Waccamaw, established into a separate parish,

established in

I. Be it therefore enacted, by his Excellency Rawlins Lowndes, Esq., President and Commander-in-chief in and over the State of South Carolina, and by the honorable the Legislative Council and General Assembly of the said State, and by the authority of the same, That immediately from and A Parish to be after the passing of this Act, a parish shall be laid out and established in Craven county, Craven county, in the following manner, (that is to say,) all the lands which by the name of lie between the sea and Waccamaw River, as far as the boundary line of All Saints. North Carolina, and that the said parish shall hereafter be called and known by the name of All Saints; and the inhabitants thereof shall and may use, exercise and enjoy all the rights, privileges and immunities that the inhabitants of any other Parish do or can use, exercise or enjoy, by the laws of this State.

a new causey.

II. And whereas, the commissioners of the public roads in the Parish of Prince George, are by law impowered to build a new causey instead of that commonly called Lynch's causey, and to assess all the male persons Parishioners to between sixteen and sixty years of age, residing in the said Parish of All be assessed for Saints, for making the said causey; Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the inhabitants of the Parish of All Saints shall be subject to the said assessment, notwithstanding the passing of this Act, after payment of which assessment they shall not be liable to any other charge for or concerning the said causey.

both Parishes.

III. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the expense of maintaining the poor at present upon the said Parish of Prince George, Poor to be shall be borne and defrayed by the inhabitants of both the Parishes of maintained by Prince George and All Saints; and that all such moneys as have been received by the church-wardens and vestry of the Parish of Prince George, and have not yet been expended, shall be equally divided between the said Parishes of Prince George and All Saints.

tives for Par

IV. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the dissolution of the present General Assembly, the inhabitants of the Parish of Prince George, qualified by law for that purpose, shall Representahereafter choose and elect four members, and no more, to represent them ishes of Prince in General Assembly; and that the inhabitants of the Parish of All George and All Saints, qualified by law for that purpose, shall hereafter choose and elect two members to represent them in General Assembly; and that the election of the said members to serve in the General Assembly for each of the said Parishes, shall be conducted according to the directions of the election Acts.

Saints.

A. D. 1778.

V. And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Percival Pawley, Joseph Allston and Thomas Butler be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners or supervisors for the building a church, chapel and parsonage house in the said Parish of All Saints; and they, or the 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 Commissioners and well disposed person or persons shall give and contribute for the purappointed for building a poses aforesaid; and in case of the death, absence or refusing to act of any Church, Chap- of the said commissioners, the church wardens and vestry of the said el, &c. Parish of All Saints for the time being, shall 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 authority for the putting this Act in execution, to all intents and purposes, as the commissioners herein named.

Commissioners of roads ap

pointed.

VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Benjamin Trapier, Thomas Butler, Anthony Pawley, Joseph Allston, Percival Pawley, Francis Allston, John Allston, Jr., William Verreen and William Spears, be, and they are hereby appointed, commissioners of public roads in the said Parish of All Saints, and shall have the same powers and authority as any commissioners of the high roads in this State have heretofore had.

HUGH RUTLEDGE, Speaker of the Legislative Council.
THOMAS BEE, Speaker of the General Assembly.
In the Council Chamber, the 16th day of March, 1778.

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No. 1072. AN ACT FOR DIVIDING THE TOWNSHIP OF ORANGEBURGH FROM THE PARISH OF ST. MATTHEWS, INTO A SEPARATE PARISH, BY THE NAME OF ORANGE PARISH, AND FOR THE OTHER PURPOSES THEREIN MENTIONED.

Preamble.

Boundary lines.

WHEREAS, the inhabitants of Orangeburgh Township were, by an Act of the General Assembly passed on the twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight, included in the Parish of St. Matthew, whereby the said inhabitants have sustained many inconveniencies, which still subsist; for remedy whereof,

I. Be it enacted by his Excellency Rawlins Lowndes, Esq., President and Commander-in-chief in and over the State of South Carolina, by the honorable the Legislative Council and General Assembly of the said State, and by the authority of the same, That the dividing line between the district of Charlestown and Orangeburgh shall henceforth be the dividing line between the Township of Orangeburgh and the parishes of St. Matthew, St. John's Berkley county, St. James Goose Creek and St. George Dorchester; and from the said Charlestown district line the Four Hole Creek, as far as the line that divides Amelia Township and Orangeburgh District, following the said line to the north-west boundary line of the said Township, shall be the dividing line between St. Matthew's parish and the township of Orangeburgh; and that the inhabitants residing on and between the said Charlestown district line and the north-west bounding of

Amelia township, and on and between the said district line and Santee A. D. 1778. River, be hereafter deemed and known in law to be the inhabitants of St. Matthew's Parish; and the inhabitants being and residing on and between the said Charlestown district line, and the north-west bounding line of Orangeburgh township, and between the Four Hole Creek and the line that divides the townships of Orangeburgh and Amelia, and Pon Pon River, be hereafter deemed and known in law to be the inhabitants of Orange Parish.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the inhabitants of St. Matthew's Parish, being qualified as by law directed, shall choose three members to represent them in General Assembly; and the inhabitants of Orange Parish, qualified as aforesaid, shall choose three members to represent them in General Assembly; and that writs for the election of members for the General Assembly shall be issued in the same manner and at the same time as writs have been and shall be issued for the other parishes and districts in this State.

Members of
Assembly.

Commissioners

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Thomas Wild, John Robinson, Henry Rickinbacker, James Carmichael, Jacob Woolf, Jr., Henry Felder, Jr., Andrew Frederick, John Clayton and of Roads. Peter Moorer, Sr. be, and they are hereby appointed, commissioners for keeping in repair the Public Road from the above said north-west boundary line of Orangeburgh township to the place where the said road crosses Charlestown district line, and that they shall have the same powers and authorities as any other commissioners of the high roads in this State may or can exercise and enjoy; and in case any of the said commissioners shall die 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 power and authority as the other commissioners have; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

HUGH RUTLEDGE, Speaker of the Legislative Council.

THOMAS BEE, Speaker of the General Assembly.

In the Council Chamber, the 16th day of March, 1778.

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AN ACT for establishing a Ferry over the Wateree River, at the No. 1073. plantation of Joseph Mickle, and vesting the same in the said Joseph Mickle and his Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns, for the term of fourteen years; and also for dividing the great Road on the north-east side of the said River, beginning at Rafton Creek and running to the boundary line between this State and North Carolina, and appointing Commissioners for the same; and also for appointing a Board of Commissioners for clearing the Wateree River and keeping the same navigable, by an assessment on the inhabitants and lands uninhabited within the district herein mentioned, in lieu of personal labour.

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