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An Act to raise supplies for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. 1835 3 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0273 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS OF THE tENERAL ASSEMBLY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, PASSED IN DECEMBER, 1835. CHAPTERI. AN ACT TO RAISE SUPPLIES vOR THE YEAR ONE TIIOUSAn Eroir DEC. 18. HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Honorable, the Senate and House Ta to be rot of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by ed. the authority of the same, That a tax for the sums and in the man- nor hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised and paid into the public Treasury of this State, for the use and service thereof, that is to say: Thirty cents ad valorem on every hundred dollars, of the value of all lands granted in this State; the sum of sixty cents per head on all slaves of every description, and the sum of two dollars on all free no- groes, mulattoes, and mustizoes, between the ages of fifteen and fifty, except such as shall be clearly proved to the satisfaction of the collec. tors, to be incapable, from maims or otherwise, of providing a liveli- hood ; thirty cents ad valorem, on every hundred dollars of the value Onlands,slaves of all lots, lands, and buildings, within any city, town, village or bo. city lots, &c. rough, including all lots, or portions of land, on which buildings may be erected in the immediate vicinity of any city, town, village or bo. rough, which may have been, or shall hereafter be made, with it view to a city, town, village, or borough settlement, or as shall ordina- rily be regarded as forming a part of any city, town, village or borough in this State; and sixty cents per hundred dollars, on factorage em. ployment, faculties, and professions, (whether in the profession of the law, the profits be derived from costs of suit, fees, or other servicesof professional income,) and on the amount of commissions received by vendue masters and commission merchants, (clergymen, school mal- ters, school mistresses, and mechanics excepted,) to be ascertained and rated'by the assessors and collectors throughout this State, ac- cording to the best of their knowledge and information, to be paid ilt specie, paper medium, or the notes of the specie paying banks in this State. SEC. 2. The tax collectors of this State are authorized and requir- Executeons to ed to issue their executions against all such free negroes, mulattoes, be issued, and mustizoes, as shall neglect or refuse to pay the tax imposed by this act, directed to the sheriffs of the said State, requiring them to sell, for a term not exceeding one year, the service of said free ne- groes, mulattoes, and mustizoes, to meet the payment of the tax im-

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