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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0196 and id is 1 raw text is: 0pealed, and that all the power and authority aforeaaid, be, Ile..1y
and the same.is hereby vested exclusively in the City Councg-A
of Charleston.
bi the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord, one thoisand eiqht hundred and truenty-seven, and in the f-
Ay-second year of the Independence of the United Statea of America.
JACOB BOND 'ON, President ofthe Senate.
JOI.N 13. O'NEALL, Speaker of the House of
Repr;8entatives.
CHAP. 19.-An ACT to enlarge the recruiting limits ofthe Winnsbq.
ro' Light Infantry Volunteer Company.
Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House of
lepresentatives, now met and sitting in General Jisseibly,
arid by the authority of the same, Thit hereafter it shall and
may be lawfid for any person residing within Fairfield district,
ani liable to do Militia duty, to join atpi become a member
ot the Winnsboro' Light Infantry Volunteer Company, in
the same manner as such person would be entitled to do,
were he a resident of that Regiment ty whiclh said Company
s attached.
I the Senate Ifouoe, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of ouer
lord, one thousand eight hundred and trenty-seven, and in the fif.
ly-second year of the independence of the United States of.inerica.
JACOB BOND I'ON, President of the .enate
JOklN 13. O'NEALL, Speaker of the House of
Riepresentatives.
*gH!AP. 20.-An ACT for the better administration of justice in the trial
of causes small and mean withini the Parishes of St Phillip's and St.
Michael's, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
[Section 1.]. Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and
flouse if liepresentatives, now met and sitting in General .ds- .
sentbl and by the authority of the same, T'at from and after a
the passing of this act, eight Justices of the Quorum shall be ce to he ap-
appointed for the Parishes of St. Philip's and St. Michael's, by
joint resolution of both branches of the Legislature, who shalt
continue in ollice 'Four years, and util a new appointment
shall be made by the Legislature, to whom shall be assigned
exclusive jurisdiction, in all small and mean causes within the
same; Provided, That six of the said magistrates shall always
be residents in the City of Charleston,and the other two, resi
dents of other parts of the said Parislhe.
Sec. 2. .f1nd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That the civil jurisdiction of the said Magistrates shall extend theirjuris
throughout the Vl'arishes of St. Philip and St. Michael, to the diction.
trial of causes small and mean, to all matters of debt or pther
demand arising friom contract, to the amount oftwenty dollars,
to pases. of domestic attachment, and to all the powers, rights
and authority in civil cases now exercised by Justices of the
quorum; under the existing laws of this State. And in crimtj-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactssc0196&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)