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An Act to amend An act for the better ordering and governing negroes and other slaves in this province 1856 593 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0411 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. member of any one of the incorporated Fire Engine Companies, or an A.D. 1856. officer or member of any one of the incorporated Axe Companies of the -r, State of South Carolina, and shall perform, for fourteen consecutive years, duty as a member of the Board of Fire Masters, or as officer or member of any one or more of the incorporated Fire Engine Companies, or as officer or member of any one or more of the incorporated Axe Companies of the State of South Carolina, shall, at the expiration of said fourteen years duty in any one or more of said capacities, be exempted from ordinary militia duty: Provided, however, That there shall not be more than thirteen Proviso. Companies in the city of Charleston at any one time to which the said exemption shall apply, and that none of the said Companies shall have more than seventy-five members at any one time. In the Senate House, 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 CHESNfJT, JR., President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives. AN ACT TO AmEND AN ACT FOR THE RETITER ORDERING AND No. 4331. GOVERNING NEGROES AND OTHER SLAVES IN THIS PROVINCE) PASSED THE TENTH DAY OF MAY, SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY. 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 Act amended. the thirty-eighth section of an Act entitled An Act for the better ordering and governing negroes and other slaves in this province, passed on the tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty, be and the same is hereby so altered and amended, that the proceeding therein provided against persons who violate the provisions of said section, shall be had and conducted by indictment in the Court of Sessions, with the right of appeal, as in other cases of indictment for misdemeanors, and that all the other provisions of said section be and remain the same as now provided, except that the fine or sentence im- 593

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