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1 South Carolina: in a congress, begun and holden at Charles-Town, on Wednesday the first day of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, and continued, by divers adjournments, to Tuesday the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six : a constitution, or form of government, agreed to, and resolved upon, by the representatives of South Carolina 1 (1776)

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