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An Act to raise supplies for the year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. 1864-1865 231 (1864)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0457 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH OAROLINA.

same, That the Clerk of the Court of Comon Pleas. and Ceneral Ses- A  D.  .
nions for Marlboro District be, and ho is hereby, authorised, together    -
with the Sheriff of said District, to draw, during vacation, the necessary
Juries for the next regular term of said Court, in the manner now pro-
vided by law for drawing such Juries in open Court, in cases where the
Judge fails to attend during the teri.
Tn the Senate House, the seventeouth day of December, in the year
6f our Lord one thousand oight hundred and sixty-three, andl in
the eighty-eighth year of the sovereignty and indepentdence of the
State of South Carolina.
W. D. PORTER, President of' Ihe Senate.
A. P. ATDITCH, Speaker Hobuse of Representiiae.
AN ACT ro RusL SUPPLIES FOR TH114 YEAR COMMENCING IN Oa'roERl, No. 4699,
ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIxTY-FOUR.
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 a tax for
the sums, and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised and
paid into the Treasury of this State, for the use and service thereof,
that is to say: Six dollars ad valoreni on overy hundred dollars of the
value of all lands granted in this State, according to -the existing classifi-
cation, as heretofore established; four dollars per head on all slaves: Pro- Lands.
vided, That all lands or slaves in this State now in possession or under the
control of the enemy, and also such slaves as may have come into the posses-
sion of the enemy before the first day of April next, or such lands ns shall
have been abandoned by the owners, in consequence of the action of the
military authorities, before the first day of April next, shall be oxempted
from taxation; ten dollars on each free negro, mulatto, or mestizo, between
the ages of fifteen and fifty years, except such as shall clearly be proved to
the satisfaction of the Collector to be incapable, from wounds or otherwise,
of procuring a livelihood, and except those who now are, or have at any
time since the first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, been in the service of the army of this
State or of the Confederate States, as laborers or otherwise, in the existing
war; one dollar and fifty cents ad valoenL on every hundred dollars of the
value of all lots, lands and buildings within any city, town, village o1' Lots, lande,
borough of this State: Provided, That no tax shall be levied on lots, and buildings.
lands and buildings within any city, town, village or borough in the State
which have passed into the possession or.under the control of the enemy,
nor upon the property in the city of Charleston to the southward and east-
ward of the following lines, to wit: From Cooper River through the centre Property in
Charleston ex-
of the following streets, to wit: Chapel and John Streets to Meeting Street, omptedn
through Meeting to Hudson, through Hudson to King, through King to
Calhoun, through Calhoun to St. Philip, through St. Philip to Green,
through Coming to Bull, through Bull to Pitt, through Pitt to Montague,
through Montague to Rutledge, through Rutledge to Broad, and through
Broad to channel of Ashley River: Provided, That all property in the
city of Charleston purchased since the first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, shall pay full tax; nor upon any of those
lots, lands or buildings within any city, town, village or borough, the
buildings on which have been damaged by the shot or shell of the enemy,
or which may pass into the possession or under the control of the enemy
before the first of April next; nine dollars per hundred dollars on fac- Factor a g o,
torage, employments, including persons engaged in inland navigation by employments.
steam and sail boats, steam saw mills, hotel-keepers, keepers of boarding-
houses and restaurants, and other eating-house keepers, keepers of bar-
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