OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 637 For repairing court house and gaol in Lexington district, five hundred A. D. 1810. and twenty-five dollars. Repairing gaol in district of Abbeville, two hundred and fifty dollars. Repairing gaol and court house in district of Orange, one thousand dollars. Repairing court house in Richland district, thirteen hundred dollars. cents. Alexander Kincaid, do. do. eleven dollars. Yates & Phillips, repairing house adjoining State house, eleven hundred and thirty-seven dollars, sixty-three cents. James Johnson, for carrying managers return of election of sheriff of Union to the Governor, thirty dollars. James R. Irvin, for a negro executed, if he produce letters of administration, one hundred and twenty-two dollars, forty cents. Joseph Birch, for a negro executed, one hundred and twenty-two dollars, forty cents. Andrew Young, for arrearages of pension, one hundred dollars. John Henderson, for revolutionary services, four hundred and forty-one dollars. C. J. Steedman, for attending court of appeals in Charleston, last year, one hundred dollars. Attornies employed by commissioners of Saxegotha, six hundred dollars. Edward Collier, purchase money refunded in expenses that accrued in prosecuting title to land, two thousand six hundred and twelve dollars, ninety-eight and an half cents. Corporation of Columbia, for buying an engine, seventeen hundred dollars. P. H. Peraut, for services as astronomer, four hundred dollars. John Moffatt, for confiscated land purchased of State, sixteen hundred and eighteen dollars, fifty-seven cents. Edward McDonald, for wounds received during Revolution, three hundred dollars. Rev. Mr. Reid, for performing divine service during session, one hundred dollars. Estate of John Grayham, for indents lost, two hundred and eighty dollars, twenty-three cents. Estate George Grayham, do. do. ninety-nine dollars, twenty-six cents. For Thomas Taylor, Captain of Richland troop, for payment of guard conveying Rochell and Fley from Columbia to Camden, sixty dollars. Corporation of Charleston, in aid of their funds and in consequence of the late fire, four thousand dollars. Robert Chisholm, for a negro executed, one hundred and twenty-two dollars, forty cents. Hugh Knox, balance of an account reported by comptroller-general, thirteen dollars, ninety-three cents. Moses Landus, for arrearages of pension since eighteen hundred and four, forty-three dollars. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said sum of money heretofore appropriated for the repairing or building the gaol and court house of Barnwell district, shall be, and the same is ordered to be, paid by the comptroller-general to the draft of the commissioners appointed to superintend the repairing or building the same, or to the order of a majority of them. Court house at A. D. 1810. For the purpose of carrying into effect any measures which may be required on the part of this State for ascertaining and fixing the boundary between North and South Carolina, in conformity to and in compliance with a resolution adopted at the last session of the legislature, three thousand dollars. For William Nicks, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For William Dorsay, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For Thomas Nichols, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For Absalom Wafford, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For Isaac Robertson, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. That a sum not exceeding fifty dollars be appropriated to enlarge or make new the grand jury box at Spartanburgh court house; and that Abner Benson, James Brennon and Thomas Allison, be appointed commissioners to superintend the same. For John Leving, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For Samuel Stegal, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For Daniel Stewart, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For Absalom Hooper, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For Martin Martin, for his pay as a soldier during the Revolutionary War, one hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For erecting a flight of stone steps to the State house, fifteen hundred dollars. For other repairs to the State house, not particularly enumerated, fifteen hundred dollars. To William Pauling, administrator of Thomas Tatum and Jesse Duesto, for services rendered by said Tatum and Duesto during the Revolutionary War, as private soldiers in Captain Isaac Ross's company of State troops, belonging to the regiment commanded by Col. Charles S. Middleton, one thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars, seventy-eight cents. For John Duteille and George Redevault, for payment as subordinate officers on board the South Carolina frigate, one hundred and thirty dollars, thirty cents. To Peter Oliver, administrator on the several estates of Thomas Short, Jacob Shen, David Zhal and John Renney, one thousand one hundred dollars, or such part of said sum as will pay the interest of six per cent on the sums appearing to have been due them on the portage bill book of the frigate South Carolina, to be ascertained and settled by the comptrollergeneral. In the Senate House, the twentieth of December, in the year of our Lord one thou. sand eight hundred and ten, and in the thirty-fifth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. SAMUEL WARREN, President of the Senate. JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH FREE SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. A. D. 1811. No. 1980. established. I. Be 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, Free schools That immediately after the passing of this Act there shall be established in each election district within this State, a number of free schools, equal to the number of members which such district is entitled to send to the House of Representatives in the Legislature of this State. said schools. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in each What shall be of these schools the primary elements of learning, reading, writing and taught in the arithmetic, shall always be taught, and such other branches of education as the commissioners to be hereinafter appointed may from time to time direct. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every citizen of this State shall be entitled to send his or her child or children, ward or wards, to any free school in the district where he or she may re- Who may go to side, free from any expense whatsoever on account of tuition; and where more children shall apply for admission at any one school than can be conveniently educated therein, a preference shall always be given to poor orphans and the children of indigent and necessitous parents. said schools. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the Money approsupport and maintenance of the said free schools, the sum of three hundred priated to supdollars per annum for each school, is hereby and for ever appropriated, to port the said be paid out of the treasury of this State, in the manner hereinafter directed, until other sufficient funds may by law be provided. schools. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the Commissioners purpose of carrying this Act into effect, there shall be appointed a number of to be appointed by the legislacommissioners in each election district, which number shall not be less ture. than three nor more than thirteen. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said To continue in commissioners shall be appointed by the legislature, by nomination, and office 3 years. shall continue in office for three years from the time of their appointment, and until a new appointment shall be made. commissioners. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners of the free schools shall have power to determine the situa- Powers of said tion of the schools in each district, to appoint masters for each school, and to remove them at pleasure, to arrange the system of instruction until some general system be organized, to decide on the admission of scholars, and the preference to be given in all cases of doubt or difficulty, and to superintend generally the management of schools in their respective districts, and shall have power to draw on the comptroller for the sums appropriated for the schools in their respective districts. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever the commissioners, or a majority of them, in any district, shall be of Number of schools may opinion that the objects of this Act would be better promoted by in- be increased or creasing or diminishing the number of schools allowed to such district, the diminished. said commissioners shall be, and they are hereby, empowered to increase or diminish the number of schools in such district, and to draw for and apply the whole amount allowed by this Act to such districts, to the support of the schools so increased or diminished in number. Commissioners IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners in each district shall meet together annually, on the fourth to meet annualMonday of January in each year, and quarterly on the fourth Mondays of ly and quarterApril, July and October; and at their anniversary meetings shall annually chairman and ly, and elect a elect a chairman and secretary, and shall fill up the vacancies which may secretary. A. D. 1811. have happened in their board. And on the death, resignation or absence from the State of the chairman or secretary of any board of commissioners, the members at the next quarterly meeting, provided a majority be present, shall appoint a successor. X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the secretary of each board of commissioners shall keep a regular journal of the Secretary to keep a journal. transactions of the said board, which shall be always open to the inspection of the legislature. How to proceed when the fund is insufficient. Returns to be made to the legislature. number or by name. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all cases where the sum of money allotted by this Act for the support of each school shall be found insufficient to maintain a master for the whole year, that then the commissioners shall be authorized to employ a master for the greatest length of time for which sum a competent person can be engaged. XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every board of commissioners throughout the State shall, at their quarterly meeting, on the fourth Monday of October in each year, make a regular return to the legislature, or to any person whom the legislature may appoint, of the number of months during the year preceding their said meeting which each school in their respective districts has been open for the reception of scholars; of the number of scholars that during each quarter attended the respective schools; of the sums drawn for, on account of each school, with the date of the drafts; and may transmit any observations on the state or regulations of the schools, which may appear to them necessary or important. XIII. And in order to regulate and check the expenditure of the money Schools to be which by this Act is appropriated for the support of the free schools; Be designated by it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as the commissioners in each district shall have located the schools in their respective districts, they shall designate each school by number or by name, and give notice thereof to the comptroller of the treasury of the State; and every order drawn on the comptroller, for the money appropriated by this Act, for the support of each school, shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the board of commissioners for the district in which the said school may be situated; shall express by name the school on account of which the order is drawn, and shall not be for a smaller sum than seventy-five dollars, unless on the death, resignation or removal of an instructor, the sum so drawn for shall be the whole amount which may be due. Schools may be removed annually. Public and XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That until the number of schools established by the State shall be sufficient to educate the children in every part of each district, the commissioners shall be authorized and required, if they think it expedient or necessary, to remove the schools, annually, into different parts of their respective districts. Provided nevertheless, that no school shall be established in any part of any district, unless the inhabitants shall, at their own expense, provide a sufficient school house for the accommodation of the scholars. XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all districts where a school or schools are already or may hereafter be estabprivate funds lished by private funds or individual subscription, it shall be lawful for the may be united. commissioners of the free schools, at their discretion, to unite such part or parts of the funds provided by this Act for such districts with such school or schools, in such manner as may appear to them best calculated to promote the objects of this Act. XVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the number of commissioners of free schools, in each election district throughout the State, shall be as follows, viz: For St. Philip's and St. Michael's, thirteen; for St. John's, Colleton, five; for Prince William's, five; for A. D. 1811. Winyaw, nine; for All Saints, three; for St. James, Goose-creek, three; for St. Paul's, five; for Williamsburgh, five; for Kingston, three; for St. Apportionment Helena, five; for St. Luke's, five; for Barnwell, seven; for Clarendon, of school comfive; for Chesterfield, three; for Edgefield, thirteen; for Greenville, nine; missioners. for Saxegotha, five; for Lewisburg, three; for Marlborough, five; for Orange, five; for Richland, five; for Union, seven; for St. Andrew's, three; for St. Peter's, five; for St. Stephen's, three; for Liberty, five; for St. James, Santee, five; for St. John's, Berkley, seven; for St. George, Dorchester, three; for St. Bartholomew's, nine; for St. Thomas and St. Dennis, three; for Christ Church, three; for Abbeville, eleven; for Chester, seven; for Claremont, seven; for Darlington, five; for Fairfield, nine; for Kershaw, five; for Lancaster, five; for Laurens, nine; for Newberry, nine; for Pendleton, thirteen; for Spartanburgh, nine; for York, seven. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in the thirty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America. SAMUEL WARREN, President of the Senate. JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT TO REPEAL ALL ACTS AND CLAUSES OF ACTS REQUIRING THE NO. 1981. I. Be 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 all Acts and clauses of Acts requiring the owners of mills on Tyger river to make and keep open a slope or sluice in the dams of the said mills, for the passage of fish up the said river, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, so far as they relate to Tyger river. Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent sufficient slopes, sluices or locks from being made for the passage of boats up and down the said river, when provision shall be made by law for rendering the said river navigable. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and in the thirty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America. SAMUEL WARREN, President of the Senate. JOHN GEDDES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT to incorporate the Charleston Fire Insurance Company. No. 1982. (Passed December 21, 1811. See last volume.) VOL. V.-S1. |
