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An Act to vest the title of the State in certain escheated property in sundry persons therein mentioned. 1857 675 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0417 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

AN ACT TO VEST TiE TITLE OF THE STATE IN CERTAIN ESOKEATED               A. D. 1857.
PROPERTY IN SUNDRY PERSONS THEREIN MENTIONED.
No. 4887.
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 all the
right, title and interest of the State, in that portion of the real estate of
David Moore, (late of Chesterfield District, devised to his widow, Margaret David noore.
Moore,) be and the same is hereby vested in the said Margaret Moore, her
heirs and assigns forever.
II. That all the right, title and interest of the State, in the personal estate
of Paul Stephen Blocker, late of Colleton District, be and the same is hereby  Paul Stephon
vested in Benjamin C. Hudson, Daniel R. Hudson, and Laurence J. Hudson.
III. That the title of the State to the slaves of which Syo Ervin, late of Sys Ervin.
St. John's, Berkeley, died possessed, with their subsequent increase, be
vested in William F. Ervin, upon his accounting with the Escheater for two-
thirds' of the nett value of said slaves, after deducting the costs of the suit
now pending from their gross value, to be ascertained by the appraisement
of three disinterested persons to be appointed by the Ordinary of Charleston
District.
In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and in the eighty-second 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 To DECLARE AND ESTALIsH TnE MILITARY DIVISIONS OP No. 4388.
SUMTER AND CLARENDON DISTRICTS.
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

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