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An Act for raising Supplies for the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. 1789 3 (1789.3)

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~HEREAS    re theereenitives of the freb and independnt State of South'.
V V',Carolina in general affembly' inetj have thought it expeient:and. neceffary
-hat a tax for the furns, and in.manner herein mentioned, fhould be affffed, raifed,
ind paid into the public treafiry of this (tate for the ide and fervice thereof;
J. Be it 'i4erefie enaqrd by the h6noiabl tthe eai 'id the honorable the houf of repre-
fentitives  1ethe /ate of South-Carolina, 'niow inet andfttiing engeneralafineby, a;id /y the
aukurity ofth' timi That the hfui of feven thillings and fix-pence ad valorem., fliall Land Tax.
le arid is. hereby impofed'on all lands granted within this (the, -and in the manneri
atd indei the' fe-veral rigidations herein after fet forth and epreffed, that is to fay,.
No i.. Alltiide' lRvaipot generally affe6ted by the faks or fiefhes, of, the firft
quality, fhall fland rated at fix pounds per acre; of the fecond quality, four'poundi
peracre; and of the: ibird lquality, twopounds'per acre.
All pii'e barre 1a Iids'adjoiniTig fuch fwamph, Si cotitigtious thereto, with refpeA
4to the benefit ofwvAtr cairiage, at tch tillitigs'per acre. g
All prime inland fivanip, cultivated and unctitivated, ataii average of thre6
ounds pir acre; fecobd qiuality ditto, two pounds per aere; and third quality dittw,
one pound per acre.
All pinebarred land idjoi iffg, 'or contiguroi thereto,' -at five fhillings per acre'.
Salt marlh or inland fwamp, clearly proved to the affeffbrs to be ineaptabi of ini
1 edate.cultiva'tion,' five fhillings per acre.
N6. . Hi h river fivamp, or low' grounds, cultivated and uncultivated, includin
fuch as ai-e ictninq'nlyo alledfecondldic grouid, lying above the flowing of the tides,
'and as high up the doutr yas Snow Hill, on Savanndh-river, the-fork of Broad and Sa-
luda rivers on the 'Congarees, , GraVtr's forA on the.Wateree; 'or the Boundary line
on Pedee, the firft quality, at three pdunds 'per acre 'the fecond quality, at two
pounds per acrep and the third guiality at one po'uhd per ide; except fuch as lie
'o low,' as' tolb& clearly proved to the affelib's; to be incapble bf iminediath ultiva-
tion, which Thall be afffed at five fhillings 'per acre.
No. 3- All high river fwamp or low grounds, l-rin above Snow Hill te fork.of
-Broad arid' Saffida rivers; G  vis's Ford, or the old Indian Boundary Line, at fifteen
fhillings per acre.
No. 4. All b'ig i6 cns witliot ttelimits oft PhlS'bn   St. 1Michael's prte
bo;9                    Philip  vah4cStl'  belsparifhs
on Johra's-Iflaiid, a.jes-Iffthd, or the Main within twenty inikasof Chiarlefton, at'
one poundPyer icre.'
N. . All hi-nds 6ti th2 Sealflands, 'Slann'slfland included, or lying on or conti-
guous to the ia:S46re, 'uially cultivated, or capable of cultivation in corn or ink
digo, and' not within the limits prefcribed in clafs No. 4, 'at one pound per acre.
'No. 6:'AlIoak'ai'\d'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
i theliinits or 'defcriti' n of the two preceding claffes No. 4 or 5, at fifteen' thil-
kn'g4 per acre.
No. ~.  11pirie barren lahds nt indid'&d in clifes No. i, dr  to be affeffed at
one thilling per acre.
No. 8.' Alloakand hickory highlands lying above Snow Hilt, the fork of Broad
and Saluda rivers, or Graves's Ford; the firft quality, at eight fbillings' .ei- acre;
the fecond quality, at five fhillings per acre; and the third quality, at two fbillings
ptr acre.
No. 9. All oak and hickory high laflds above the Old Indian BoundaryLine, the
firf quality, at fix billings per acre; -the .fecend qualityj at three fhillings peracre;
and the third quality, at one fhilling per abre'.
,That all lands within the parifies of St. Philip and St. Michl,, ball be affefled in
flib'fame manner, and upot the fame prihciplles,' as houfes and. lots in Charlefton,
and in a relative prhportion to the lands in the country. .
II. And be it lurther enaled, That the fum of three fbillings and' fix-pence fihallbe
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I'evied on all flaves; three fhillings and fix-pence per headon 'all free negroes, mu- ax.
lattoes and nuftzoes, between'9reages of i6.and.ao years; three fhillings and fix-
pence 0n, every wheel of all ctrri4    carts, waggons and, dray.s excepted;) feven
llut.gs and fix-pence per centu' offvery one hundr'ed younds valji of g41lots
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