The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

828INDEXActs:53. Act for appropriating the duties imposedby law on goods, wares andmerchandize imported into andexported out of the port of BeaufortPort Royal, for the term thereinmentioned, toward building andkeeping in repair a pilot boat orboats to attend the bar of theharbour of the said port, and forthe better settling and regulatingthe pilotage of the said harbour,and for appointing a controllerand a receiver of the country dutiesfor the said port, and for obligingall ships and other vesselsgoing to the said port to pay powderduty (1752), 246, 25754. Act to encourage the making of flaxand hemp in the province ofSouth Carolina (1756), 246, 37455. Act for amending an act intitled “anadditional and explanatory act toan act intitled ‘an act to impowerthe several commissioners of thehigh roads, private paths, bridges,creeks, causeys and cleansing ofwater passages in this province ofSouth Carolina to alter and lay outthe same for the more direct andbetter convenience of the inhabitantsthereof’” (1751), 247, 25756. Act for enlarging the qualifications ofthe electors, as well as of the personsto be elected to serve as membersof the General Assembly ofthis province (1745), 247–4857. Additional act to an act of the GeneralAssembly of this provinceintitled “an act for enlarging thequalifications of the electors aswell as of the persons to be electedto serve as members of the GeneralAssembly of this province”(1748), 248–4958. Act for laying out, making and keepingin repair a road fromPurrysburgh to Bees Creek inGranville County; and for discontinuingsuch part of the presenthigh road as leads from DaysCreek to Purrysburgh (1755), 266Acts:59. Act to restrain the exportation of provisionsand warlike stores from thisprovince for the time therein limited(1755), 26760. Act for the encouragement of AdamPedington in his projection of a newmachine for cleaning of rice (1756),26861. Act to appoint and establish new listsof jurymen to be drawn by ballotin this province (1757), 268, 28862. Act for incorporating the WinyahIndico Society (1757), 268, 28863. Act for settling the titles of the inhabitantsof this province to their possessionsin their estates within thesame, and for limitations of actionsand for avoiding suits in law (1712),31564. Act against bastardy (1703), 318, 322–2365. Act for making more effectual willsand testaments, and for makingvalid all former wills in this provinceaccording to the tenor of thesame, and for putting in force severaluseful matters herein comprised(1734), 318, 322–23, 32666. Act appointing James Wright, Esquire,agent to sollicit the affairs ofthe inhabitants of this province inGreat Britain (1756), 34267. Act for continuing part of an actintitled “an act for the erectingand supporting of a beacon nearthe bar and harbour of CharlesTown; and for placing buoys on ornear the said bar, for the use ofships and other vessels coming tothe port of Charles Town,” and forcontinuing and amending anotheract, commonly called thegeneral duty law, for the termtherein mentioned; and for supplyingthe defects in the executionof another act, intitled “an act formaking more effectual an act ofthe General Assembly of this provinceintitled ‘an act for foundingand erecting, governing, orderingand visiting a free school at thetown of Dorchester in the parish of