ry offices, ficers, in all payments for taxes, or other monies and by the due to the state, and the public monics of the state, payable at the lower division of the treasury, shall be constantly deposited for safe keeping, in tax-collec tors. for safe the said bank. And be it further enacted, That not only the Public mo- treasurers, but also the tax-collectors of the paney to be rishes of St. Philip and St. Michael, the sheriff of deposited in the bank Charleston district, the prothonotary of the court of common pleas and general sessions, and the keeping master in equity, shall weekly or monthly, deposit for safe keeping, the public monies which they may respectively receive, in the said State Bank only; and on failure thereof, or on such persons' depositing public monies in any other bank, he or they shall respectively forfeit for each offence, the sum of one thousand dollars, to be recovered as other penalties by this act are directed to be recovered. And be it further enacted, That no bank or bankNo bank to ing company, or other persons, shall be permitted issue bills to issue, or circulate in this state, bank bills or ler deno- notes of a smaller denomination than five dollars, mination under the pain and penalty of one hundred dollars for every bill or note so issued or circulated, to be recovered in manner herein before directed. of a smal than five dollars. the bank, ers to be liable. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, In case of That in case of the failure of the bank, each stockfailure of holder, co-partnership or body politic, having a stockhold. Share or shares therein at the time of such failure, or who may have been interested therein at any time within twelve months previous to such failure or bankruptcy, shall be liable and held bound for any sum not exceeding twice the amount of his, her or their share or subscription; and that no be made to loan shall be made by the said corporation, to or any foreign for the use of any foreign prince, state or goprince. vernment, unless previously authorized by a law No loan to of this state. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hun dissolved dred and twenty-three, the said corporation shall Corporati. be, and the same is hereby dissolved; and that any on to be monies or profits, which, on such, or any other after Janudissolution of the said corporation, may at the time ary 1, 1823. be owned or possessed by them, shall be held by the directors of the said corporation, to and for the use and benefit of all persons holding shares in the said corporation, in average and proportion to the number or amount of said shares. Provided always nevertheless, That at the expiration of every year from and after the commencement of the operation of this act, the legislature shall be free to declare, and may withdraw, by selling out the whole of their stock, or any portion thereof then undisposed of, from all further connexion with said bank, and may receive the dividend as aforesaid, to which the state may be entitled. And provided also, That on the state so withdrawing from said bank, the legislature shall not be entitled to appoint the three directors of said bank, as herçin before directed. on not to give credit And be it further enacted, That the said corpo- Corporatiration shall not, so long as the state is interested therein, give credit to any bank or banks, establish- to banks in ed in any of our sister states, unless thereto au- states. thorized by a law of this state. In the Senate House, the eighteenth Day of December, in JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. An ACT to authorize the drawing of juries for Horry district, and for other purposes therein mentioned. B E it enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for the clerk of lorry dis other trict to require, by a summons under his hand and seal, the attendance of four justices, whereof two shall be of the quorum, to be and appear at the court-house of said district, on the second Monday in February next, and that the clerk and sheriff of the said district shall then and there proceed to draw, in the presence of the justices aforesaid, a lawful number of jurors from the jury box of said district, according to the directions or referenccs contained in an act of assembly of this state, passed on the eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine, entitled, "An act for the establishment of an uniform and more convenient system of judicature;" which jurors so drawn, are hereby declared, to all intents and purposes, law. ful jurors, to sit, try and determine all matters in the said courts for the said district, at the next spring circuit, that may be brought before them respectively; and that no challenge, either to the array, the pannel or the poll, shall be admitted against such jurors, or any of them, on account of their having been drawn in the manner above provided; any act, matter, clause, usage, custom or law to the contrary, notwithstanding. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the said clerk of the court of the district of Horry aforesaid, be, and is hereby authorized and required to issue a writ of venire facias, directed to the sheriff of Horry district, who shall summon the jurors so drawn as aforesaid, to appear and serve at the said court, and that all jurors so to be summoned, and failing to attend agreeably to such summons, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be subject to the penalties prescribed by law against defaulters in like cases. And be it further enacted, That all suits and prosecutions, now depending in Georgetown district, where the defendant or defendants shall reside or may have been arrested within the limits of Horry district, shall be transferred to the saíd Lust mentioned district, for trial and determination. And be it further enacted, That Richard Green, Samuel Foxworth and Henry Durant, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose of taking bond and security from the clerk and sheriff of the said district of Horry, according to law. And be it further enacted, That the office of register of mesne conveyance shall be vested in the clerk of the said district court for the time being. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the district aforesaid, to procure a juny list, agrecably to the act of the legislature prescribing the mode of obtaining jury lists, to be made and completed ten days previously to the time hereby fixed for drawing a jury for the district aforesaid. In the Senate House, the eighteenth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, and in the twenty-seventh Year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. ROBERT STARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. An ACT to confirm the by-laws of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. Philip in Charleston, and to enable the congregation thereof to alter the same, or substitute new by-laws, under cer tain restrictions. WH HEREAS doubts have been entertained by some of the congregation of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. Philip in Charleston, of the validity of the by-laws herein after mentioned; and the vestry, wardens and members of the said church, have petitioned the legislature to pass an act for the purpose of quicting such doubts, and confirming the said by-laws: Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sit ting in general assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the fifteen by-laws, entitled, "The constitutional form of government of the Episcopal church of St. Philip in Charleston," which were approved and agreed to in a congregational meeting of the said church, on the thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, be, and the same are hereby declared good, valid and binding rules or by-laws of the corporation of the said church; any law or usage to the contrary thereof in any wise, notwithstanding. Provided, That such by-law or by-laws, be not repugnant to the laws of the land. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for the vestry, wardens and members of the said church, at any time, to alter or abolish all or any of the said by-laws, and such new by-laws to make in the place of the same as may best conduce to the spiritual and temporal interests of the said church. Provided, That the vestry and wardens shall not be precluded from or abridg ed in their right of regulating as heretofore, the ordinary concerns of the said church, by any alteration of a by-law, or by any new by-law, to be made in pursuance of this act. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporation of the aforesaid church may, and they are hereby empowered to purchase, accept and hold, in addition to what they now own, as much real or personal property as may, in the whole, yield them the annual income of fifteen hundred pounds; any law to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. In the Senate House, the eighteenth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, and in the twenty-seventh Year of the Independence of the United States of America. JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. |