Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the A.D.1792. authority of the same, That the sale of the said lands shall be postponed for twelve months, and no longer; and that if any person shall, within that Further time time, pay up the money due for the land, agreeably to the Act for estab- allowed. lishing the mode for granting lands now vacant in the State, and for allowing a commutation to be received for some lands that have been granted, together with the fees due on his grant, and the expenses incurred thereon, he shall be entitled to the said grant and the land thereby granted him; any thing in the said clause of the said Act to tho contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the seventeenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COUNTY COURTS AND COMMISSIONERS OF No. 1549. THE ROADS TO GRANT LICENCES FOR KEEPING BILLIARD TABLES. to be licenced. 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 where county courts are or shall be established, all appli- Billiard tables cations for billiard licences shall be made to the county courts, and where no county courts are established, to the commissioners of the public roads, who shall respectively have the power of granting the same; which licences so granted shall only be of force for one year; and the price for billiard licences (except in Georgetown, the city of Charleston, and the town of Camden) shall be twenty pounds; and the monies so received shall be applied by the persons granting the same as the monies arising from tavern licences have been heretofore applied; and the clerk who makes out the licence as aforesaid shall be allowed for his trouble four shillings and eight pence. unlicenced. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons not duly licenced agreeably to law shall, at any time hereafter, Penalty on presume to keep a billiard table, he, she or they shall forfeit the sum of keeping them fifty pounds sterling money, to be recovered by bill, plaint or information, in, any court of record within this State, by any person who shall inform or sue for the same, one half thereof to be paid to the said informer, and the other half to be applied in the same manner as the money arising from licences granted as aforesaid was intended to be applied by this Act. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the seventeenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. D. 1792. No. 1550. Preamble. tion on lands. AN ACT FOR RAISING SUPPLIES FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO. WHEREAS, we, the representatives of the free and independent State of South Carolina, in General Assembly met, have thought it expedient and necessary that a tax, for the sums and in manner herein mentioned, should be assessed, raised, and paid into the public treasury of this State, for the use and service thereof: I. Be it therefore enacted, by the honorable the Senate and the honorable the House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, Rate of taxa- and by the authority of the same, That the sum of ten shillings per centum ad valorem on every hundred pounds, to be paid in specie or paper medium, shall be, and is hereby, imposed on all lands granted within this State, and in the manner and under the several regulations hereinafter set forth and expressed, that is to say: No. 1. All tide swamp not generally affected by the salts or freshes, of the first quality, shall be rated at six pounds per acre; of the second quality, four pounds per acre; of the third quality, two pounds per acre; all pine barren lands adjoining、 such swamps, or contiguous thereto with respect to the benefit of water carriage, at ten shillings per acre; all prime inland swamp, cultivated and uncultivated, at an average of three pounds per acre; second quality, ditto, two pounds per acre; third quality, ditto, one pound per acre; pine barren lands, adjoining or contiguous thereto, at five shillings per acre; salt marsh or inland swamp, clearly proved to the assessors to be incapable of immediate cultivation, five shillings per acre. 2. High river swamp or low grounds, cultivated and uncultivated, including such as are commonly called second low grounds, lying above the flowing of the tides, and as high up the country as Snow Hill, on Savannah river, the fork of Broad and Saluda rivers, on the Congaree, Graves's Ford on the Wateree, and the boundary line on Pedee; the first quality at three pounds per acre; the second quality at two pounds per acre; the third quality one pound per acre; except such as lie so low as to be clearly proved to the assessors to be incapable of immediate cultivation, which shall be assessed at five shillings per acre. 3. All high river swamp, or low grounds, lying above Snow Hill, the fork of Broad and Saluda rivers, Graves's Ford, and the old Indian boundary line, fifteen shillings per acre. 4. All high lands without the limits of St. Philip's and St. Michael's parishes, on John's island, James island, and on the main, within twenty miles of Charleston, at one pound per acre. 5. All lands on the Sea islands, Slann's island included, or lying on or contiguous to the seashore, usually cultivated, or capable of cultivation, in corn or indigo, and not within the limits prescribed in class number four, one pound per acre. 6. All oak and hickory high lands lying below Snow Hill, the fork of Broad and Saluda rivers, Graves's Ford, or the boundary line on Pedee, and not included in the limits or description of the two preceding classes, numbers four and five, at fifteen shillings per acre. 7. All pine barren lands not included in classes number one, four, and five, to be assessed at one shilling per acre. 8. All oak and hickory high lands lying above Snow Hill, the fork of Broad and Saluda rivers, and Graves's Ford, the first quality, eight shillings per acre; the second quality, five shillings per acre; the third quality, two shillings per acre. All oak and hickory high lands above the old Indian boundary line, the first quality, six shillings per acre; the second quality, three shillings per acre; 9. the third quality, one shilling per acre. of St. Philip and St. Michael shall be That all lands within the parishes A.D. 1792. assessed in the same manner and upon the same principles as houses and lots in Charleston, and in a relative proportion to lands in the country. That the sum of three shillings and six pence per head shall be levied on all slaves; the sum Rate of taxing of two dollars per head on all free negroes, mulattoes, and mustizoes, slaves, &c. between the ages of sixteen and fifty years; four shillings and eight pence on every wheel of all carriages, (carts, wagons, and drays excepted); and ten shillings per centum ad valorem on all lands and lots and buildings within any city, village, or borough, and on every hundred pounds in trade, factorage, employments, faculties and professions, (clergymen, mechanics, schoolmasters and schoolmistresses excepted)—to be ascertained and rated by the assessors and collectors throughout the State, according to the best of their knowledge and information; to be paid in specie or paper medium of this State. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all negroes and other slaves who are employed on any lands leased by any person or Slaves employ. ed on Indian persons of the Catawba Indians, shall be and they are made liable to the lands. payment of this tax. of enquirers, assessors, &c. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the enquirers, assessors and collectors, appointed by law, shall, for their services Compenation in the discharge of their duties, receive, on closing their accounts with the commissioners of the treasury, five per centum, except the parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael, who are to receive 2 per centum, on the amount of the taxes by them collected, to be allowed and paid to the said collectors. former taxes IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the enquirers, assessors and collectors shall begin their enquiry on the sixth day Returns of of February next; and that where all the collectors who were appointed to be made. for any parish or county are dead, and the tax returns not closed with the commissioners of the treasury, the collector who shall be thereafter appointed is hereby directed and ordered to demand receipts or to administer an oath, or to procure other satisfactory proof from the persons of the county or parish, that he or they had paid their taxes for the preceding years, in order to discover their taxes still due, and to enable the public to ascertain what sums of money are due by the estates of the deceased collectors; and should the executors or administrators of the deceased collec tors refuse to produce the accounts of the deceased, or give information on the subject, the commissioners of the treasury are hereby ordered to put the law in force against the estates of the deceased collectors. assessors and V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said assessors and collectors appointed by law shall do and perform all and Duty of the singular the duties appertaining to their office, as described in an Act collectors. entitled "An Act for declaring the powers and duties of the enquirers, assessors and collectors of the taxes, and other persons concerned there in." VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners of the treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to furnish Treasurers to furnish copies copies of this Act to each of the assessors and collectors appointed by law, of this Act. throughout this State, within one month after the passing of this Act, and their reasonable expenses incurred thereby shall be reimbursed. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all sons any wise liable to pay the taxes hereby imposed, shall, on the sixth Time of payday of February, give in a true and just return of the quality and quantity of the lands, slaves and carriages, as are directed to be taxed by law, either VOL. V.-27. per ment of taxes. A. D. 1792. in his, her or their own right, or in the right of any other person or persons whatsoever, as guardian, executor, administrator, attorney, agent or trustee, or in any other manner whatever; and shall, on or before the sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, pay in their taxes to the assessors and collectors by law appointed for the parish, county or district where the party making such return, either by himself or family, resides the greatest part of the year. And that the said assessors and collectors shall pay the same, and settle their accounts with the treasury, on or before the sixth day of June, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninetythree; any law, usage or custom to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. VIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the interest Appropriation. of the paper medium issued by virtue of an Act passed the twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eightyfive, now due, or to grow due on or before the first Wednesday in March next, is hereby appropriated to make up any deficiencies of the money proposed to be raised by this Act, so far as conjointly to constitute an adequate fund for discharging all arrearages due in specie, together with the expences of the current year. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the seventeenth year of the Independence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1551. AN ACT TO ASCERTAIN THE NAMES BY WHICH THE VILLAGES WHEREIN THE DISTRICT COURTS ARE HELD IN PINCKNEY AND WASHINGTON DISTRICTS, SHALL BE KNOWN IN LAW; AND TO PROVIDE UNIFORM SEALS FOR THE SEVERAL DISTRICT COURTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE; AND TO EXEMPT THE PERSONS THEREIN SPECIFIED FROM TOLL and FERRIAGE. Preamble. Names of villages. WHEREAS, it is necessary that the places where the District Courts are held in Pinckney and Washington Districts, should be known in law by certain names. I. Be it therefore 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 the place or village on the south-west side of Broad River, a little below, and within one mile of the mouth of Pacolet River, being the situation whereon the goal and court house of the said District have been built, by the direction of the commissioners appointed for that purpose, shall be called Pinckneyville, and by that name shall always be known in law; and that the place or village in Pendleton County in this State, where the gaol and court house of Washington District have been built by the direction of the commissioners appointed for that purpose, being upon land lately conveyed to the said commissioners by the Honorable Brigadier General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, shall be called Pickensville, and by that name shall always be known in law. Seals. II. And whereas, it is proper that the seals of the several District A. D.1792. Courts in this State should be uniform; Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That immediately after the passing of this Act the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas shall, at the expense of the State, cause eight seals to be made, one for each of the Districts, of an impression similar to that of the Court of Common Pleas in Charleston District, and as nearly uniform with that seal as they in their judgment shall think proper; except that each seal shall in the legend have the name of the Court in which it is used. One of which said eight seals shall be delivered by the said Judges, or one of them, to the Clerk of each of the District Courts of Georgetown, Cheraw, Camden, Pinckney, Washington, Ninety-six, Orangeburgh, and Beaufort Districts, for the use of the said Court, at or before the next meeting of the said several Courts; after which time the said seals shall always be affixed to such proceedings of the said respective Courts as may require the seal of the said Courts respectively. age. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person going to or from divine service on Sunday, and every person going to or from musters and elections, and every member going to or from the Persons exLegislature of the State, and all commissioners of the roads going to and empted from toll and ferrifrom their stated meetings in their own parish or district, together with their servants and attendants, and all persons in time of alarm in such parts of the State where the alarm is, and every person who shall have to attend any District Court or County Court as a grand juryman, a petit juryman, a juror of the Court of Common Pleas, or a witness in behalf of the State, or a prosecutor in the Court of Sessions, or a constable travelling and employed on the business of the State, shall, free of expense, pass every road, bridge, causeway and ferry, which may lie in his way going to, or about, or returning from either of the said Courts, or the business of the State as aforesaid: and that every person having the care, management or direction, or owning any ferry, toll-bridge or causeway, now or hereafter to be established in this State, shall be bound and obliged to give the same attendance to every such person as aforesaid, without fee or reward, as by law now is or hereafter may be required to be given to any person who is chargeable with toll or ferriage; and in default thereof, shall incur the same penalties as he would incur if a like default had been made with respect to any person who is chargeable with toll or ferriage. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and in the seventeenth year of the Indepen dence of the United States of America. DAVID RAMSAY, President of the Senate. JACOB READ, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT FOR VESTING IN THE TOWN COUNCIL OF CAMDEN THE EX- No. 1552. Preamble. |