A.D. 1800. be, and the same is hereby, set apart and sacredly pledged for the payment of the two before mentioned debts, whenever such payment can be made consistently with justice and safety to the State, under the direction of the legislature. And that the same may be made productive, so as to meet the growing interest of those debts, the treasurer of the lower division is hereby authorized and directed to lay out the sum aforesaid as speedily as can be done with advantage to the State, under the direction of the comptroller and of the standing committee of the Legislature, in the purchase of the funded debt of this State or of the United States, which shall be preserved and remain pledged and set apart for the payment of the two debts aforesaid. And the ordinance of the thirteenth day of March, one Ordinance of thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Ordinance for fund1789 repealed. ing, and ultimately discharging, the foreign debt of this State," shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Unappropriated money in the treasury. Gaol fund in Lieutenant ing as Govern- the salary. Securities of tax collectors. XXXVI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the treasurers shall forthwith open in their respective books an account in the name of the State of South Carolina, in which account they shall enter the amount of all sums now in the treasury unappropriated: and in like manner shall enter all sums of the same nature that shall hereafter be received by them respectively; which sums are hereby placed under the superintendance of the comptroller, to be applied at such time and in such manner, for the purposes aforesaid, as he and the said standing committee ef the legislature shall in their discretion think fit, by drafts, to be made by the comptroller on the treasury. And the said comptroller is hereby required to render, annually, to the Legislature, a full account of his transactions. XXXVII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the treasurer of Charleston be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to sell so much of the funded debt of the State as has been purchased by the treasurers with the sums heretofore appropriated by law for the building a gaol in Charleston and kept as a gaol fund, for so much as the same will bring, giving the preference to the State as a purchaser in such sale; and that the amount of the money which shall be produced by the sale of such stock shall be paid over to the commissioners for building a gaol in Charleston, who shall proceed to erect and build a suitable gaol for the district of Charleston with the said sum of money, together with the sum of five thousand dollars, part of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars appropriated by the tax Act of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, for the purpose of erecting court houses and gaols in this State. XXXVIII. And whereas, some doubts having been entertained that the Lieutenant Governor and his private secretary were not entitled to the salary appropriated by law for the payment of the Governor and Commander-in-chief of this State and of his private secretary, notwithstanding the administration of the government devolved on the Lieutenant Governor on the death of the late Governor, and the comptroller suspended the payment of such salary till the pleasure of the Legislature could be known; Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the treasurer shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to his Excellency John Drayton the salary allowed by law to the Governor and Commanderin-chief of the State, for such time as he administered the government, as Lieutenant Governor, after the death of the late Governor, out of the provision made by law on this subject; and also to the private secretary of the Governor the salary provided by law for him. XXXIX. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the securities of the several tax collectors, who may be hereafter appointed in this State, shall be approved of by the commissioners who approve of the securities given by the sheriffs of the several districts in which they may be appoint- A.D. 1800. ed respectively. XL. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the several sums hereinafter mentioned shall be, and are hereby, appropriated for the Appropriation. several purposes following, to wit: for defraying the expenses of the civil list, as per estimate (No. 1) number one, hereunto annexed, a sum not exceeding seventy thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars; for defraying the contingent and extraordinary expenses of government, as. per estimate (No. 2) number two, hereunto annexed, a sum not exceeding forty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty-one dollars, eighty-six cents. And that the said several sums shall be paid out of the funds following, namely, the general taxes imposed by this Act, and all arrears of debts, duties and taxes whatsoever, which have been collected or may be collected for the use of the State, and not otherwise appropriated by law. XLI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the balance of interest which now remains or shall hereafter remain to this State Funded debt to on the debt due by the United States, after paying the interest due on the be bought in. funded debt of this State, and the amount of the principal which may be paid on the principal of the debt due to this State by the United States, shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the purchase or redemption of the funded debt of this State, by the treasurer of the lower division, under the direction of the comptroller and standing committee of the Legislature; and all balances of cash which may remain in the treasury of this State after paying the appropriations made by law, shall and may be applied, in the same manner, to the same use and purpose. ESTIMATE Of supplies wanted for the support of Government, for the year 1800, and to discharge demands incurred in the year 1800. STATEMENT NO. I. Salaries, and other annual expenses, as settled by law. Attorney General, for giving advice to the Governor and other public offi Sheriff of Richland, for attending on the Constitutional Court at Columbia, 50 00 of the Solicitors attending the Legislature, 12,000 00 Clerk to the Senate, and Clerk to the House of Representatives, each $1230, 2,460 00 432 00 Treasurer in Charleston, for salary as Treasurer, and for transacting the ditto at Abbeville Court House, Ditto $1,944 00 216 00 50 00 each $50, 150 00 Contingent fund, subject to the Governor's draft, he to submit an annual Extraordinaries and Contingent Accounts. Contingent accounts of the lower division, payable by the Treasurer in Contingent accounts of the upper division of the Treasury, payable by the For the immediate purchase of swords and pistols, to arm the Militia, For Frederick Crider, For the purchase of a Library for the use of the Legislature, For the fitting up desks and places of deposit for the papers of the House of Rev. Mr. Dunlap, for preaching before the Legislature, 5,995 34 3,531 56 86 00 3,000 00 1,000 00 100 00 90 00 Magazine Guard, near Charleston, a captain, sergeant, and six privates, pay 2,200 00 Orangeburgh Gaol and Court House, repairs, 800 00 Beaufort District Court House, repairs, 800 00 William Rowe, Lieutenant of Cavalry, pay roll for guarding Duesto, a prisoner, from Riddlesperger's to Orangeburgh, and at the gaol until his execution, Index to Register's office in Charleston, to be performed under the direction, 1000 00 For expenses for carrying into effect the Quarantine laws, 1000 00 Engineer's department, for amount of accounts in the Engineer's department, Jacob Sass, for certain work in Senate House, agreeably to their order, Le Vacher St. Marie, for repairs to his quarters on Charleston Neck, 26 00 146 00 Andrew Adams, a soldier disabled in the service of the State, 22 00 Arrears of pension to Martha Anderson and her children, James Douglas, agreeably to joint resolution, for balance of his account for repairs to the State House, In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. AN ACT supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to prevent No. 1756. Negro Slaves and persons of Colour from being brought into or entering this State." (Passed December 19, 1801. See last volume.) AN ACT TO PREVENT THE FORGING, AND UTTERING, KNOWING THE SAME No. 1757. TO BE FORGED, CERTAIN INSTRUMENTS IN WRITING, THEREIN MENTIONED. I. Be it enacted, by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority ed felons. of the same, That if any person, from and after the passing of this Act, Persons found shall, within this State, falsely make, forge or counterfeit, or cause or pro- guilty of forgecure to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly act or assist in ry, to be deemthe false making, forging or counterfeiting, of any deed, will, testament, bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note for payment of money or delivery of goods, bank note for payment of money of any incorporated or unincorporated bank or company within this State or any of the United States, or any indorsement or assignment of any bill of exchange or promissory note for payment of money, or of any bank note for payment of money of any incorporated or unincorporated bank or company within this State or any of the United States, or any acquittance or receipt, either of money or goods, or any acceptance of any bill of exchange, or the number or principal sum of any promissory note or bank note, for the payment of money, of any corporated or incorporated bank or company in this State or any of the United States, or the number or principal sum of any accountable receipt for any note, bill or other security for payment of money, or any warrant or order for payment of money or delivery of goods, with intention to defraud any person or persons residing or being within this State or any of the United States, or any bank or company, corporated or unincorporated, within this State or any of the United States, or the president or any other officer of any such bank or company; then every such person, being lawfully thereof convicted A.D. 1801. according to the due course of law, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon, without benefit or clergy. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person, from and after the passing oft his Act, shall, within this State, utter or publish as true, any false, forged or counterfeited deed, will, testament, bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note for payment of Any person found guilty of money or delivery of goods, bank note for payment of money of any inuttering forged deeds, &c. also corporated or unincorporated bank or company within this State or any of deemed a felon. the United States, or any indorsement or assignment of any bill of ex change or promissory note for payment of money, or of any bank note for payment of money of any incorporated or unincorporated bank or company within this State or any of the United States, or any acquittance or receipt, either for money or goods, or any acceptance of any bill of exchange, or the number or principal sum of any accountable receipt for any promissory note or bank note for payment of money, of any incorporated or unincorporated bank or company within this State or any of the United States, or the number or principal sum of any accountable receipt, note, bill, or other security for payment of money, or any warrant or order for payment of money or delivery of goods, with intention to defraud any person or persons residing or being within this State or any of the United States, or any bank or company, corporated or unincorporated, within this State or any of the United States, or the president or any other officer of any such bank or company; the said person so uttering the same as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false, forged or counterfeited, then every such person, being thereof lawfully convicted according to due course of law, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon, without benefit of clergy. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. No. 1758. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF LOCATIONS. 1. 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 a commissioner of locations, in each circuit district, shall be recommended by a majority of the members of the legislature of such district, and shall be commissioned by the Governor for the time being; and in case the members of any district, or a majority of them, shall fail to recommend any fit and proper person as commissioner of locations, the Governor for the time being shall commission any person whom he may think fit. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thou- JOHN WARD, President of the Senate. |