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An Act for the better establishment of a general system of registration of births, marriages and deaths in the state of South Carolina. 1856 491 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0406 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

William W. Harrison, Robert H. Gardiner, William H. Farrar, Holman, A. D.1856.
Curtis &  Company, Charles J. Jenkins, and such other persons as may
hereafter be associated with them, and their successors, be and they are
hereby declared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the
 Southern Porcelain Manufacturing Company, with power to have, use, Southern Por-
and alter at their pleasure, a common seal; to make all needful rules, by- ceitin ginn.
laws and regulations for their government; and to excavate, sell, and pany.
manufacture porcelain clay, in the district of Edgefield, in the said State.
II. That said corporation may purchase, hold and enjoy such real estate Powers and
as may be necessary and proper for the procurement of porcelain clay, and privileges.
other earths and minerals used in the manufacture thereof, and for the
convenient and certain supply of firewood; and that their capital stock shall
not exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars.
Ill. That this Act shall be and continue of force for twenty-one years.  Extent of act.
In the Senate lIouse, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and in the eighty-first year of
the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America.
JAMES CHESNUT, JR., President of the Senate.
JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives.
AN   ACT FOR THE BTETTER EsTABLiSIIMENT OF A GENERAL SYSTEM OF          No. 4264.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTH1S MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN THE STA= or
SOUTH CAROLINA.
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 Tax collectors
from and after the passing of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Tax Cal to P11rn cer-
tain duties.
lectors of the different districts and parishes of this State to require of the
inhabitants of the said districts and parishes, at the time of making their
general tax returns, a separate return, stating the number of whites, male'
and female, who have been born, married, or who have died during the
year, in their respective households, and the number of blacks who have
been born or who have died during the same period, and return the same to
the Comptroller General; and in each case in which the Tax Collector

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