Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-01-17

VdlaDle cOnSluer2tlOn, WITHOUT DOIce.
I'LL. That all Acts and paris of Acts
in relation to Mortgages, repugnanl to this
Act, he aud the same are hereby repealed.
AN ACT to amend the La,O In relation
10 Ac,ions commenced by Wril Of For
eign Attachment.
Belt enacted, by the Senate and House
of Representatives; now met aud sitting in
General Assembly, aud by Tue authority
Of the same, That in all actions at law,
hereafter to be commenced by Writ OF
Foreign Attachment, it shall and may be
lawful for The Defendant, at any Time be-
fore the expiration Of the usual rule to
plead, 10 appear by attorney and plead to
The declaration without putting in bail 10
the action; provided, that warrant of
attorney duly executed by The Defendant.
shall he filed in the Office of the Clerk Of
! the Court from which attachment issued,
before the Defendant shall he allowed to
appear and plead as aforesaid And here
the defendant shall so appear and plead as
aforesaid, TIE judgment, if against the De-
fendant shall be final and conclusive, and
The Plaintiff shall be entitled 10 sue out.
writs of execution thereon, both of capias
ad satislaciendum or feri facas, or either
of them. 10 be levied generally Of all The
csale and effects Of the Defcndent; and
nothing herein contained shall he held 10
impair the lien of the Writ of Attachment
on the properly originally attached, or to
.en,it!e The Defendant to dissolve The al
tachment without putting in bail 10 the
action: Provided, That no judgment
agains, an absent debtor, in an action of
foreign attachment, except where The De-
fendaul appeared by warrant Of attorney,
or bv putting in bail 10 the action. shall
have any operation or effect, except upon
the property originally attached; bul upon
any action of debt upon such judgment,
or any scire facias 10 revise the same, the
Defendant shall be entitled 10 set up any
defence, which might have been made 10
the original action; Prou,ded, further,
That where any judgment, founded on an
attachment, wherein the Defendant has moi
appeared or put in, special bail. shall not
he satisiedby the proceeds Of The property.
therennder attached, The plea of The Stat
ute of Limitations shall not he held to bar
any suit brought on the cause of action on
J which the said judgment is founded, or to
any ac,ionson the said judgment, in such
attachment.
AN ACT TO increase The penalty for con-
cealing or carrying a1ody any Stare ac-
cused ofa Capital Crime.
BE il enacted, by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now mel aud sitting in
General Assembly, and by The authority
of The same, That from aud aIier The pass
ing of this Act, any slave or free person of
color, who shall commit an assault and bat
terry on while woman with inten, to COM
nit rape, on being thereof convicted,
shall suffer death without the benefit of
clergy.
AN ACT TO alter and amend The Patrol
Lao.
Be ii enacted, by The Senate aud House
of Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority
orlhe same, That all fire arms or other
offensive weapons, which may be found
in The possession of slave, contrary to the
provisions of the thirteenth section of San
Acl 10 reduce all Acts and clauses of Acts
| in relation TO The Patrol of this Stale, into
one Act, and to alter and amend The salne,"
ratified The tweuty-first day OF December,
Anuo Damini one thousand eight hundred
aud ,hirly-nipc, shall be subject to he
seized by the Patrol, and 10 condemnation
and forfeiture 10 the use of the Regiment;
but before such fire arms or olher offensive
weapons be condemned, The leader of the
Patrol who shall seize the same, shall
within ten days next after such seizure,
90 before the nearest Magistrate oil the
Parish or District in which such arms or
weapons may have been seized, and make
oath Of the manner, time and place of the
taking: aud if The Magistrate, on such oatl,
or other examination, shall be satisfied that
said aims or weapons have been seized
agrceably TO The provisions Of the thir-
leenth section of the said Act. he shall
summon the owner OF The slave from whom
said arms or weapons have been seized, TO
appear before him within len days after
such summons. and shew cause why said
arms should not be condemned and forfei-
led pursuant to the provisions OF this Act
and in default Of the owner, after such
summons, to appear, or failure to show
sufficient cause, The said arms or weapons
shall, by certificate under the haud of the
Magistrate. be declared condemned, and
may be sold within ten days after such
condemnation aud the proceeds of The
sale, after the payment of the COSTS and
charges of the proceedings, shall be paid
TO the Paymaster of the Regiment.
Meeting Of the Friends of Agriculture
and Munufaetures-We learn from The
National lntellisencef that meeting Of
the friends of Agriculture and Manufac-
lures was held pursuant to public notice
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