A. D. 1806. tise in all the courts of law and equity of this State; and shall, upon application, be admitted to the bar, and be enrolled in the usual form. Who shall be admitted to the bar in this stale. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in future every person, being a citizen of the United States, and residing in this State, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and who shall have diligently read law in the office and under the directions of any regular practising attorney, or in the office and under the directions of any judge of the superior courts of law or equity in this State, or any one of the United States, or partly in this State and partly in any other state, for the period of three years, if he shall have graduated in any regular college or university in this State, or of the United States, or in any regular foreign university, and if he shall not have so graduated, then for the period of four years, upon undergoing an examination to the satisfaction of the judges, in the manner provided by the Act of the General Assembly aforesaid entitled "An Act for regulating the admission of attornies, counsellors and solicitors, to practise in the courts of law and equity in this State," shall be, and he is hereby declared fit and competent to be, admitted to plead and practise as an attorney, counsellor or solicitor, in all the courts of law and equity in this State; and shall, upon application, be admitted to the bar, and be enrolled in the usual form. Provided nevertheless, that no person shall be admitted as aforesaid unless he shall have served a regular and diligent clerkship in the office of a practising attorney in this State, for and during the period of one year immediately preceding his application to be admitted as aforesaid: And provided also, that nothing herein contained shall repeal, or be construed to repeal, the last section of the Act of Assembly aforesaid, entitled "An Act for regulating the admission of attornies, counsellors and solicitors, to practise in the courts of law and equity in this State." III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all Acts, Former Acts, and parts of Acts, of the General Assembly, heretofore passed, which are repugnant to this Act, shall be, and they are hereby, repealed. repugnant to this Act, re. pealed. Enoch Hanford admitted to the bar. IV. And whereas, it appears that Enoch Hanford, Esq. has complied with the terms of this Act in every respect, excepting that the clerkship which he has served in this State was not immediately preceding the present time; but that after having served such clerkship, being unable to obtain admission to plead and practise as an attorney and solicitor in the courts of law and equity of this State, under the then existing laws of the State, he became a professor in the college of South Carolina, and has so continued for the two years last past: And whereas, it would be a hardship to require him to serve an additional clerkship of one year before his admission as aforesaid; Be it therefore enacted, That the said Enoch Hanford shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act, upon his passing the examination prescribed by law. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six, and in the thirty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America. WM. SMITH, President of the Senate. JOSEPH ALSTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. D. 1806. AN ACT TO LEGALIZE THE TITLES AND GRANTS OF CERTAIN ALIENS, No. 1879. WHO HAVE SINCE BECOME CITIZENS OR DENIZENS. WHEREAS, John George, James Todd, Peter Keys, John M'Fall, William Richards, and James Kennedy, have, by their petitions, represented to the Legislature of this State, that they were aliens born, and that since they have come into the limits of this State they have obtained grants of several tracts of land, or become purchasers thereof from citizens or denizens of this State, or aliens, without having become themselves citizens of the United States, or denizens of this State, by which the titles to their lands are illegal and void, although they have since become citizens of the United States, or denizens of this State : I. Be it therefore enacted by the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, That the said grants and titles to lands so obtained by the above mentioned petitioners, be deemed and taken to be legal and valid in. law, and to vest such estate in said petitioners as they would have acquired under the tenor and effect of said grants and said deeds, had they been citizens of the United States at the time of obtaining such grant or grants, or at the time such deed or deeds of conveyance were executed to them: Provided nevertheless, That this Act shall not be construed to give any of the rights of citizens or denizens to the above mentioned petitioners, before the respective times of their admission as such, by taking the oath of allegiance to the United States, or the oath of allegiance to this State as citizens thereof. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand sand eight hundred and six, and in the thirty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America. WM. SMITH, President of the Senate. JOSEPH ALSTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT TO ENABLE THE TOWN COUNCIL OF GEORGETOWN TO COMPEL No. 1880. Town Council 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 it shall and may be lawful for the town council of George- of Georgetown town to issue a summons, directed to any person or persons, being within may summon the limits of Georgetown, whose testimony may be necessary to carry into effect any of the ordinances of the said town council; which said summons shall be signed by the intendant of the said town, or any one of the wardens who may preside in his absence. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the constables of the said town are hereby authorized and required duly to execute all summonses and other precepts whatsoever, to them, or either of them, witnesses. A.D.1806. Constables to execute pre cepts. Land for the directed by the town council aforesaid; and any person who shall, at any time or times hereafter, be duly summoned to attend and give evidence before the said town council, and shall neglect and refuse so to do, such person shall be subject to the same penalties, and liable to be proceeded against in the same manner, by process from the said town council, signed as aforesaid, as if such person had refused to give evidence when thereunto lawfully required in any district court of this State. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the town council of Georgetown are hereby authorized and empowered to convey, use of the gaol. for the use of the gaol of the said town, so much of the street on which the said gaol is bounded, as they shall deem sufficient to enlarge the yard thereof. In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six, and in the thirty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America. WILLIAM SMITH, President of the Senate. JOSEPH ALSTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1881. AN ACT TO REQUIRE PERSONS WHO PURCHASED LOTS FROM THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF COLUMBIA TO REGISTER THEIR TITLES; Preamble Titles to be registered. AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES THEREIN MENTIONED. WHEREAS, by an Act entitled "An Act to appoint commissioners to purchase land for the purpose of building a town, and for removing the seat of government thereto," it is enacted that there shall be five commissioners elected by the joint ballot of the Senate and House of Representatives. And whereas, when vacancies happened in the said board of commissioners, the Governor, from time to time, issued his commissions to certain other persons, appointing such persons commissioners for carrying the said Act into execution. And whereas, the number of commissioners is not defined in the printed copies of the said Act, by reason of which inaccuracy three persons did sometimes take upon themselves (being commissioned by the Governor as aforesaid) to put into execution the said recited Act. And whereas, many sales of the public lots and squares in the town of Columbia have been made by three or more of the persons so commissioned by the Governor as aforesaid, and the consideration money received by them; to secure, therefore, all persons who have made purchases of any of the lots or squares in the town of Columbia, and who have paid for the same, and to prevent the great damage which may accrue to persons who have so purchased of the commissioners aforesaid: 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 persons having or claiming any right, title or interest, to or in any lot or lots, square or squares, of land in the said town of Columbia, under the title or titles of the commissioners aforesaid, shall, within twelve months from the passing of this Act, produce to the commissioners hereafter to be appointed for carrying into full and complete effect the above recited Act, such title or titles as they may have received from the A. D. 1806. aforesaid commissioners, to be registered in the office of the mesne conveyances of this district, except such as have already been registered; to the intent that such commissioners may certainly know, as well what lands have been sold, as what persons intend to avail themselves of the provisions of this Act. II. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person who shall refuse or neglect to produce his or her titles for the purpose of being registered as aforesaid, shall not be entitled to any benefit or advantage of the provisions of this Act. Penalty. valid. III. And whereas, the first commission was issued by the Governor ou or about the eleventh of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety- Former bonds, one; Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all bonds, notes and &c. declared specialties, which shall have been given for the purchase of any lot or lots, square or squares, bought of the commissioners so appointed by the Governor as aforesaid, shall be held and deemed binding and valid, in law and equity, and shall be delivered into the possession of the commissioners hereafter to be appointed, and be sued for and recovered in any court of law or equity, if default have failed in the payment thereof. former com IV. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no title or titles to any lot or lots, square or squares, of land in the said town of Columbia, Titles made by registered as aforesaid, shall be impeached or held to be void for or by missioners dereason of the said commissioners not having been elected by the joint ballot clared good. of the Senate and House of Representatives, or because a less number than five of the said commissioners may have signed the title or titles; but in every case where the said title or titles have been registered as aforesaid, such title or titles shall be held, deemed and taken as firm and effectual, both at law and in equity, as if the same had been signed by commissioners appointed by the joint ballot of the Senate and House of Representatives, as by the said recited Act is required. Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to weaken or impair, in any degree, titles which have been heretofore duly executed by the first commissioners first appointed under and by virtue of the said Act. V. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passing of this Act, his Excellency the Governor shall be, Governor to and he is hereby, authorized and required to commission five fit and appoint five prop- commissioners. er persons, and at all times to fill up such vacancies as may happen, who shall be commissioners for the purpose of carrying into effect the said Act; which said commissioners, before entering upon the execution of their duties, shall comply with all the other requisites of the said Act. examine into commissioners. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the comptroller general for the time being to examine into Comptroller to the accounts and proceedings of the said commissioners, and to report, and report the annually, to the legislature, a true statement thereof; and to cause all the proceedings of bonds, notes and specialties due and owing, or as the same may become due or owing, for the purchase of any lot or lots, square or squares, of land in the town of Columbia, to be placed in the hands of the attorney general and solicitors of the circuits respectively where the persons due or owing the same may reside, for the recovery thereof; and also in like manner to cause suits to be commenced for all such balance or balances as may be in the hands of the respective commissioners, arising from the sales of any lot or lots, square or squares, of land in the said town of Columbia, and for which the said commissioners have not respectively accounted. VII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said com A. D. 1806. missioners shall, annually, report to the comptroller general the amount of sales, and also their receipts and expenditures. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six, and in the thirty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America. WILLIAM SMITH, President of the Senate. JOSEPH ALSTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. No. 1882. AN ACT to incorporate the several Societies therein mentioned; and for other purposes therein mentioned. (Passed December 20, 1806. See last volume.) No. 1883. AN ACT TO COMPEL CERTAIN OFFICERS OF THE STATE TO DEPOSIT, FOR SAFE-KEEPING, IN THE STATE BANK, THE MONIES THEY HAVE RECEIVED, OR MAY HERTAFTER RECEIVE, IN THEIR receive. CHARACTERS. RESPECTIVE OFFICIAL 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 the sheriff of Charleston district, the prothonotary of the Certain public court of common pleas and general sessions, and the master in equity, shall, officers to de- weekly or monthly, deposit, for safe-keeping, the monies which they may posit in the State Bank the receive in their respective official characters, whether the same shall bemonies which long to the public or to an individual or individuals, in the State Bank they may only; and it shall be, and is hereby declared to be, the duty of the officer depositing monies as aforesaid to express, to the proper officer of the bank, for whom and on whose account the said monies are deposited: and after depositing such monies in the said bank, it shall not be lawful for the said officers, or either of them, to draw the same, or any part thereof, out of the said bank, except by order of court, or by checks expressing in favor of whom, for whom, and on what account, the said monies are drawn; nor shall it be lawful for the said officers, or either of them, to draw out of the said bank the monies deposited as aforesaid, or any part thereof, except for the purpose of immediately applying the same to the payment of him, her or them, who may be entitled to receive the same. Also the mon II. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the officers aforesaid, and each and every of them, shall deposit in the said State Bank, within ies which they one month after passing this Act, the monies which they have received have received. in their said respective official characters, and which have not been paid by them to the persons entitled to receive the same; and the deposits of monies received by the said officers shall be made in like manner as deposits are required to be made in the preceding clause; and the said monies, received and required to be deposited, shall not be drawn out of the said bank, except in the manner and for the purpose declared in the said preceding clause. |