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An Act to authorize the Sheriff of Georgetown District to keep prisoners in a place of custody, to be provided by the Commissioners of Public Buildings, until a new jail shall be completed. 1842 242 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0344 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT-LARGE

A. D. 1842.     thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and in the sixty-seventh year of the Sovereign-
ty and Independence of the United States of America.
ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate.
WV. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
No. 2879. AN ACT TO AlIflIORIZE THE Sueirr or GOnrtTowN      DISTRICT TO KEEF
PRISONERS IN A PLACE OF CUSTODY, TO BE PROVIDED BY THE COMMISSIONERIS
OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, UNTIL A NEW JAIL SHALL BE COMPLETED.
Prisoners     I. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of RCpresentatives, now met
transferred,  and sitting in General Assembly, Tlit until the construction of a new Jail
in Georgetown shall be completed, it shall be lawful for the Sheriff of George.
town District to transfer and keep in custody, during their respective terms
ofconfinement, all Prisoners, in civil and criminal cases, and all Slaves, un-
der levy or otherwise, in his charge, in such building as may be provided for
their temporary accommodation by the Commissioners of Public Buildings
for said District.
In the Senate House, this twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lot, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and in the sixty-seventh year of the Sovereignty
and Independence of the United States t America.
ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate.
W. F. COLCOCK, Speaker of the House of iecyrese-ntatives.
No. 2871. AN ACT TO EXEMPT TH      BEAUFORT VOLUNTERit COMPANY OF ARTILLERY
Rnon REGIMENTAL REVIEWS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Exemption.    I. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the
Beaufort Volunteer Company of Artillery, bd, and the samine is hereby exempted
Prviso.   from attending regimental drills and reviews: Provided, the said Company,
in addition to the days and times now required by law, shall, on. the days and
times when the regiment to which the said Company is now attached, parade
for review and exercise, and also assemble at the usual muster ground of said
Company, for drill, exercise and instruction; and 1ovide'd, also, that the
members of the said Beaufort Volunteer Company of Artillery shall at no
time exceed sixty.four men rank and file.
Each Artillery  II. That each Corps of Artillery, throughout the State, shall be allowed
Corps allowed the sum of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, for each piece of Artillery fully
each ec of  manned and regularly exercised by the said Corps, for the purpose of defray.
Artillery.  ing the expenses of the 'same, to be drawn from the Treasury by order of
the commanding officer of the said Corps, countersigned by the commanding
officer of the Regiment-or Battalion to which the said Corps may be attached,

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