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STATE b? VTEGINJ&
AN ACT Conn ritntfc the GlMt Lands
and Churches 'within this Comtnott
' ' wealth.
[Palled January it, iBoz.]
TXT’HKKEAS the general Alkmbly on
*** the twenty.fourth day of January
'one thousand fevert hundred and ninety
nine, by their aft of (hat date repealed
all the laws relative to the late Protellant
Episcopal Church, and declared a true cx
pofttion of the principles of the Bill of
Rights and Con&itution refpefting the
fame, to he contained in the aft intituled
(l An aft for eftablithing religious free
dom," thereby recognizing the principle,
that all property formerly belonging to
the Tuid church, of every defeription,
devolved on the good people of this com
monwealth, on the diifolution of the Bri
tilh government here, in the fame degree
in which the right and intcrefl of the laid
church was derived therein from them.
And although the General Aflfembly pof
feffei the right of authorifmga faleof all
fitch property indiscriminately, yet being
dclirous to reconcile all the good people of
commonwealth, it is deemed inexpe
client at this time to disturb the pofleflion
of tlie present incumbents.
Sec. 2. Re it then fore tuft.tied hy the
General djfrmbly, That the Overfcers of
the Poor and their fucceflbrs, ora majori
ty of them within each county of this com
monwealth, wherein any glebe land is va
cant, or (hall become so, by the death or
’ removal of any incumbent, dial! have full
power and authority, and they or a ma
turity of them are hereby direfted, on
giving .at least thirty days public notice,
at the front door of thecourt-houfe of their
•.ounty, to fell all such lands and appur
tenances, and every other species of pro
perty incident thereto, on the premises,
to the higheil bidder, on twelve months
credit, taking bond with good security
for the amount thereof payable to them
fclvcs and their fucceflbrs; provided that
no Talc of any such property lhall take
place, where any person is in pofleflion
thereof, under a lease from any person or
persons in bcnalf of the said church whe
ther called trullees or not, prior to the
palling of this aft, until the said lease lhall
■expire ; and all funis of money or tobac
co due thereon, or to become due, lhall
be recovered by aftion in the names of the
f.iid Ovcrfeers of the Poor or their fuc
ceflbrs, in any court of record within this
commonwealth ; that the said overfcers
of the Poor or a majority of them conduct
ing every such Tale, or their fucceiTors,
on receiving fatisfaftory security for the
amount therefore, be, and they are here
by authorifed and direfted, to convey all
such property fold by them as aforefaid, to
the p.irchafcr or pirchafcrs thereof, hy
good and fufficicnt deeds lor that purpofc ;
• hat in ail cases where any person or per-
Ibns may have received any sum or Turns
of money or tobacco, for the use of the
Kpifcopal church as established under the
former government, and lhall not have
paid the fame as diiefted by law, the said
Ovcrfeers of the poor and their fucceflbrs,
or a majority of them, lhall be entitled
to receive the fame, and on non-payment
thereof, to recover it by aftion in any
' curt of record within this commonwealth :
That when any person or persons, other
than an incumbent or his tenant, lhall
have had the use of any glebe land or o
thcr property incident thereto, and may
not regularly have accounted for the pro
tits of the fame, they lhall hereafter ac
count to the said Ovcrfeers of the Poor or
a majority of them, of the county in which
such property lies and in case any such per
son or petfons, their executors or admini.
flrntors refute to account accordingly, the
said Overfcers of the Poorer their succes
sors may sue for and recover the fame in
any court of record within this common
• wealth. That in all cases where such
property Is in pofleflion of any incumbent
or his tenant, either or both of them Hull
be reflrained from the commifiion of wafle,
in like manner as other tenants for life or
years may be by the said Ovcrfeers or their
fucceflbrs, in whom the tight of aftion
tor that, and the purpole of carrying this
aft Into effect, is hereby veiled. That in
every case where the Ovcrfeeis of the Poor
or any one or more of them in any eoun.
ty flull have good reason to believe that
the incumbent t lie rein lhall be about to re
move any or the whole of the personal
t lute, which he holds as formerly belong
ing to the Epifeopal church, from such
county, they or any one or more of them
lhall upon application to any magistrate
therein, obtain from him an attachment,
which he is hereby authorifed to grant,
agalnft the ellate so about to be removed,
upon the execution of which and the re
• *-n thereof being made to the next court
of •such county, the laid court may com.
pel th? said incumbent endue proof there
of, £0 give bond with fuffclcrtt ftccrityV
not to remove the fold property or any
part thereof, from the premises, and in
case of refufal, the fold court may or
der the said property to be delivered to
the said overseers of the poor and their
fucceflbrs or a majority of them, to be by
them disposed of as in other cases: That
in all cases where there shall be any just
demand unpaid by any parilh, the said
overseers of the Poor and their fucceflbrs,
or a majority of them, in every county
comprehending such parish or the greater
part thereof, lhall from any of the lunds
aforefaid, before they are otherwise appli
ed, pay the fame ; and (hall then be enti
tled to a credit with the Overseers of the
Poor of the county comprehending the re
ftdue of such parish, for their proportion
thereof: That in case where a glebe (hall
be in, or a parish run into, more counties
than one, the Overseers as aforefaid of
the county wherein the glebe or the great,
er part thereof (hall lie, (hall fell the fame
as aforefaid ; and in all cases the said o
verseers and their fucceflbrs, or a majori
ty of them, (hall appropriate the money
arising therefrom either to the poor of
such parish or to any other objefts, which
a majority of the freeholders and house
keepers therein may direst, by a writing
from under their hands directed to the
said Overseers : And in all other cases the
money arising therefrom as aforefaid, (hall
be by the said Overseers of the poor or a
majority of them in the counties reflec
tively, applied in like manner, unless
directed otherwise as aforefaid ; Provid.
ed, That nothing herein contained shall
authorife an appropriation to any religi
ous purpose whaifoevcr. That the said
overseers of the poor or a majority of
them, or their fucceflbrs, shall meet as
often as they may deem it ncceffary, for
the purpose of carrying this aft into ef
feft : That the Ovcifeers of the Poor,
and their fucceflbrs in each county where
any such property remains, shall perform
all the duties required of them refpeftive
ly by this aft, under the penalty of two
hundred dollars each, to be recovered in
any court of record, by any one who
will sue for the fame. That the foid O
verseers and their fucceflbrs or a majority
of them who shall perform the duties here
by required, shall be en.itled to receive
for advertising, felling, and conveying,
any of the said property, a edmmiflion of
three per cent, and for collecting and ap
propriating any of the funds by them re
ceived, three per cent more; and (hall be
accountable to their fucceflbrs as ip, other
cases. That nothing herein contained shall
authorife a falc of the churches and the
property therein contained, or the church
yards, nor in any manner affeft any pri
vate donation made prior to the firft day
of January, one thousand seven hundred
and seventy seven for church and other
purposes, where there is any person in
being entitled to take the fame under any
private donor ; nor to affeft the property
of any kind which may have been acquir
ed by private donations or fubferiptions
by the foid church, fmee the date last
mentioned.
Sec. 3. This aft shall commence and
be in force from and after the passing
thereof.
Charleston, Souih-Carolina,
July ig, 1802.
'T'HE fubferiber having cllab-
lifhed an near
Charlcfton, which \ill enajife him to
execute any kind of A&st/kgs of about
or undei fifteen imndred/weight, in the
completed manner, npw offers his Ser
vices to the Augufta and the
public at large, f#»x the performance of
any undertakings in chat linek Orders
adclrcffed to him, accompanied with pat
terns, will be flriftly complied w\h, and
the work forwarded by the earliest op
portunity.
JOHN JOHNSON, jun.
No. 3, Gillon-Street .
NOTICE .
NINE months fro|n the date hereof I
(hall apply to j the honorable the
inferior court of Ccflurrbia county, for
an order to fell one hundred acres of
| land, being the whqle of the real estate
j of Charles Atkinfon* dec. lying in Co.
Jumbia county, on the waters of the Eu
chce creek, boundejl by lands of Craw
ford, Sims, Smith,|and lands belonging
to the estate of Da\#fon, for the benefit
of the heirs and Creditors of the said
dcceafcd, /
V. ATKINSON, Adc/x.
| June 28.
Blank Deeds of Conveyance
! for falc at this Office.
* 1
hr -THE SUPERIOR COURT, Rid
mond county, Afrit 22, tBo2i
ON the petition Sarah Fountain
and Peter Fountain, heirs of Peter
Fountain, dec, by and Ma
ry M‘Coy his wile (foe nerly widow of
the dcceafed, and reot ler of the said
Sarah and Peter, infants, under the age
of twcnty.onc years,) 9s their natural
guardian and next friend ; (fating that
their dcceafed father Pc|cr Fountain, di
ed seized and podefied of a certain traft
of land, containing by eftimaiion fix
hundred acres, fuuate in the ci unty of
Richmond at the time of survey, now
Columbia county, on the waters of the
Kioka creek, being a payt of a traft of
eight hundred acres, grimed onto Wil
liam Thompson, fold arid conveyed by
William Thompson and <fife to Richard
Call, and by Richard C|ill to the said
dcceafed Peter Fountain! and that the
deed from Thompson and wife to
Richard Call is loft, a coby whereof, as
near as could be was annex
ed to the said petition, and is now lodg
ed in the clck's office, accompanied with
the usual affidavit, and praying to have
the said copy cftablilhcd iu lieu of thc
original so loft.
It is ordered, That t!je said deed be
eftablifficd as direfted by the aft of the
gcneial affcmbly in foch cases made end
provided, and according so the usual rules
of Jaw and equity, cn giving notice by
publifliing this rule, for the fpacc of fix
months, in one of the public gazettes
of this date, unlcfs cauft (hall be (hewn
to the contrary within the said fix
months, or other matter (half appear to
the court agaioft he fame.
G. Walker, Solicitor for the Heirs ,
Taken from the Minutes,
JOSEPH HUTCHINSON, Clerk
Silver-Bluff Lands.
On the Jecond Monday in January next,
at it o’clock,
WILL BE SOLD,
By PUBLIC AUCTION, if not before
difpc/ed of by Priv xte Conti ad, at Sil
ver- Bluff,
ALL those valu ble LANDS, on
bath Tides of Savannah river, and
lying in Richmond county, Georgia;
Edgefield and Barnwell diftrifts, South-
Caroiina, confiding of about 12,600 a
cres of land, of which zoco acres are
high river swamp, inVGeorgia, and the
remainder of about idbo acres of high
river swamp, and 9600\>f excellent cot
ton or pine land, in Soup Carolina; on
the Carolina fide is one jpf the belt Mill
Seats in this state, on fie How and Iron
creeks united, on which arc a Saw Mill
of four Saws, a Grist Mi 1 and two pair
of Stones, and a Cotton Saw Gin, with
w r atc# for the whole in thfi dried fcafons.
The Lands in Carolina wall, after reserv
ing a fufficicncy for the Saw Mills, be kid
off into small Plantations, to suit purcha
fers and settlers.
Terms, one third Ca(h, and the re
mainder in one and two years, with in
lercft from the date ; bonds, with ap
proved peifonal fecuriiy for the remain
der, with a mortgage of the property,
Purchasers to pay for titles,
Thcfe lands will be immediately re
surveyed, and laid off into small tiafts,
(except the Mill Seat) which, when done,
due notice will be given. For further
particulars, apply to Col. A. Gordon,
Savannah ; Dr. John Ramsav, Charle
ston ; Oswell Eve, Esq. Augusta ; ox
Charles Goodwin, at Silver-Bluff.
Abril 22.
Greene Court of Ordinary, July 7, ISO 2.
ON the petition of Silas Dixon, by
Young Grcfiiam, his attorney, dat
ing, that Thomas (Harkins, late of said
county, dec. did ii| his life time, on the
12th day of January, in the year 1795,
execute his bond under Teal, to Pietce
Nowland, whereby be bound himfelf in
the penal sum of onc/hundred pounds fter-
Ung, conditioned make good and
lawful titles to 200 acres of land in
Wilkes county, on (he wa;crs of Litre
river, and on Ready creek, whereon the
said Harkins then lived, which said bond
has since been afflgncd over to your
petitioner, ard the said Thomas failing
to comply with the condition of said
bond in his life time,
It is ordered by the Court, That the
administrator of said Thomas Harkins
be compelled to make titles to the land
aforefaid to faul Dixon, or (hew fufii i
ent caufc to the contrary within the
term of three rconthsfrom this date,and
that this rule be publilhcd in one of the
public gazettes of this date for the fpacs
of three months.
Taken from the minutes,
• THOs. CARLETON, c. c, o.
Cstiuz Cocxrr, 7 ,
JSoficf is hereby green "
'T'HAT after the expiration 0 *
mne months, japplirarion win h»
made to the hcnoraille the Inferior Co
of Grcf.ie county Jfcr leave to f;J| Wt ,
traft of lard in faidfcounty, j n the sof ot *
of the Oconee andj Appauclrie n vtr ,
on the waters of Eillfon’s creek,
ing Matthews, MoraUnd.aod oth?r>.
so one other trad in raid ccuntv, cn tu«
Beaverdam of Ricfiard creek, adjoint
ing Houghton, andbthers j it b-Jng
the beneht of the hlirs and creditors of
Miles Beavers, decc&fcd,
IT is requeued that all per,
tons who have any demands againlt kid
deceased, will make them known within
the time preferibed by law, and those in
debted will make payment by the firft 0 {
September next, as no longer indulgence
will be given.
Wm. JENKINS, Adm’r,
N O r I C~E.
After the exqiiradar^f-rri 7T? --
months from the d ue hereof, application
will be made to t ie honorable the infe.
tior court of the county of Burke, for
leave to fell the re U effete of John Ma].
lory, jnn. deccafi d* viz.- ijo acres of
land, moreorlefs, in the said county,
adjoining lands of John Stcptoe, for the
benefit of the hcii s and creditors of the
said deceased, agreeable to the flature in
that case made and provided.
WILLIAM MALLORY, Adm’r.
Wy ?»
O TICE.
AFTER the expiration of nine
months from the dati: htreo;, application
will be made to the honorable th* iric.
tior court of the c mnty o'' B»nke for
leave to fell two-hut dren acre* of pir,s
land, in the said county, adjoining lands
of 7cl fair, belonging to the clfetr. of
Pleasant Goodall, rb ceased, for tfe be,
nefit of the heirs o the said deefafed,
agreeable to the ftatt tc in that case made
and provided,
ARTHER WII LIAMS,
Guardian .
• jf»h 7« ..
T O B E S O L\)7~
SEVEN hundred acres qi land, feuate
t ppofite the cify of Auguffe, cna
vannah R>vcr, in the Hate of South Ca
rolina, a great proportion ts which rs
Prime lew Ground, and Fi ft quality
High Land, well timbered.- Fo-: fur
ther particulars, apply to Col. Robert
Watkins at Auguffa, who is authoriied
to dispose of the f4me.
April 28.
N. B. If the above is nor very short
ly fold, it will be leafed, for a term
not exceeding seven years.
"NOT I~C E.
That nine mbnths after date.,
application will be t: iade to the honorable
the inferior court of G cene county, for
leave to fell eighty teres of fend in Arid
county, be the fame more or less, on the
waters of Richlan i creek, adjoining
William Crawford md others, for the
benefit of the heirs ; nd creditors of John
Knight, late of thi? ccuntv defeated,
ELIZ. K: JIGHT, Adm’x.
R. B. KNIGHT, Adm’r.
Greene county , Aupiji 18,
_ ~ 11» t ■ rta
WILLBESOLD,
On the frjl Tuefday in October nexty at
the in ike city oj Avgt>
p ? » . .
,287-5- aGres of pine land iR
Richmond county, on the waters of Epr
rit creek, adjoining lands of Edward and
Chailcs Burch, when surveyed, and va
cant land.
Also, will be rented, to the htghcft
bidder, the House and Lot lately occu
pied by Anthony Blache, for one year,
and immediate pcffeffion will be given*
It is useless to deferibe the fituaticn Oi
the (land, as it is well known in the city
of Augusta to be a valuable (land fer a
public or private Boarding House, Th®
conditions will be made known on the
day of sale, bv
EDWARD PRIMROSE.
WILL BE SQLD,
On Saturday th& thirtieth day cf October
next, at the potation'’ of James Sud
duth, deceased , ik line oh county,
ALL the eftate cf
the said James Saddutfi, Twelve months
credit will be given, purchaser giv
ing bond with /pprovetl fectmty.
NANCY STONE, Adm’x*.
JAMES SMAR'L Adm’r.
September 5.