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An Act for raising supplies for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. 1793 1 (1793)

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For ra/in         f plies for the year one thoufand even hun.
dred   and    ninety-three.
HEREAS, we          e reprefentatives of the free and independant flate of South-  Preamble.
Carolina, in ge  ral affembly met, have thought it expedient and neceffary
ihat a tax, for the fums and in the manner herein mentioned, thould be affeffed,
raiiled, and paid into the p\blic treafury of this flate, for the ufe and fervice thereof;
Be it there/ore ena~led bY the\ onourable the Senate, and the houfe 1 reprefeaities now
iet and fitting in general afemb4\ and by the authority of the fame,. that the Ium of ten  Tenhitting.
Ihillings per centurn ad valorem, on every hundred pounds to be paid in fpecie or    cuu ad
paper-medium. fhall be and is hereby irnpofed on all lands granted within. the flate,
and in the manner, and under the feveral regulation  herein after fet forth and ex-
prfFed, that is to fay :                                                            Rates of tide
No. 1. All tide ficamp, not gen rally affeled by the falts or frefhes, of the firfl fwampandpine
quality, thall be rated at fix pounds per cre; of the fecond quality at four pounds barrenadjacent.
per acre; of the third quality at'two .ouiids per acre.  All pine barren land adjoin-
ing fiich fwamps, or contiguous theret\ vith refpea  to the benefit of water car- Inland (wamp
riage, at ten [hillings per acre: all prirn inland fIvamp, cultivated and uncultivatedand ine barrea
adjo11Ing.
at an avarage of three pounds per acre: Ncor qualiy ditto two pounds per acre;
third qitality do. One pouna per acre :-Pinq barignjand adjoining or contiguous there-  s temartin
to, at five [hillings per acre: Salt marfh or inland frainp, clearly proved to the affeffors capable of cut-
tobeincapable of immediate cultivation, filv thillings per acre.                  tivaton.
No. 2.   High river fwamps or low groun s, cultivated and uncultivated, includ- fn    i
ing fuch as are commonly called Tecond low grjunds; lying above the flowing of the certain bounda.
tides and as high up. the country as Snow-hill op Savapnah river, the fork of Broad ties.
and Salada rivers on the Congaree, Grave's ford on the Wateree, and the boundary
line on Pedee-The firft quality at three pounds per acre; the fecond quality at two
pounds per acre; the third quality at one pound p acre, except fuch as lie fo low as Exception,
to be clearly proved.to the alreffors to be incapable f immediate cultivation, which
ihall be affeffed it five Ihillings per acre.
No. 3.  All high river, liwamp, or lo4 grounds, I ing ab ve Snow-hill, the fork   I'I river
of Broad and Saluda rivers, Grave's ford, and'the old ndian oundary line, fifteen sman  nabove
(hillings per acre.                                                               Snow-hill.
-                Hi'A land on
No. 4.  All high lands without the limits of St. PhiliI's and S  Michael's parifhes the  miad: .met
on Joha's ifland, James's ifland, and on the main, within wenty piles of Charlellon.  o ha s
at one pound per acre.
Lands. on the
No. 5.  All lands on the fea iflands, Slann's ifland inclu ed, or lying on or con- Sea iflands.
figuous to the fea Ihore, ufually cultivated, or capable of culti ation in corn or indigo,
not within the limit's preferibed in clafs No. 4, one pound p r acre.              Oak & Hicko
No. 6.  All oak and hickory high lands lying below Snow    ill, the fork of Broad ry land belo~w
'nd Saluda rivers, Grave's Ford, or the boundaiy line on Pe ee, and not included snow hill.
in the limits of the two preceding claffes No. 4iand 5, at fifteen  sillings per acre.  P
No. . All pine barren lands not included iin Nos. I,4 and 5, to be affeffed at five
fbillings per acre.                                                                Oak & hicko-
No. 8. All oaks hickory high lands, lying above Snow hill, th fork of Broad and y high lads.a-
Saluda rivers, and Grave'sford, the fi 41 quality at eight [hillings p  acre; th4 fecond bove Snow hill.
quality at five fhillings per acre; the third quality at two [hillingsp, r acre,   Oak above
No. 9. All oak and hickory high lands, above the old Indian b undary lie, the old'Indian boun
firfi quality at fix thillings per acre; the fecond quality at three thi ings per acre; dary.
the third quality at one fhilling per acre.                                         Lands within
That all lands within the parifhes of St. Philip and St. Michael thal be a ffeffeo in the parilhes of
the fame manner, and upon the Gime principles, as houles and lots i   Charleftn, St.
and in a relative proportion to lands in the country.                          \    Mac on all
That the fum of three f[illings and fix pence per head fhall be levied o  all flaves, negroes niula-
the fum of nine [billings.and four pence per head on all free negroes, mu  ttoes and os and nufli-
mulizoes between the ages of fixteen and fifty years. Four [hillings and ei ht pence
on every wheel of all carriages (carts, waggons and drays excepted) and ten thillings  Do. wheels,
tercentun ad valorem on all lands and lots, and buildings within any city, 'llage or car excepted.
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