Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1861-02-22
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE "N1NETY.s1x
CHURCH.


!. lie enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives., now met and sitting in Gen.
eral Assembly. and by the authority of the
same That the white communiDp member.
for the time being. Of the PRESBYTERIAN Church.
! IN ao"eV"ie District, known US the NINETY.
DIX Nhurch' t"e'ng Presbyterian Congrega.
tIo", holding the Westminster Confession Of
Faith, md connected with the Old School Gen.
"rnl Assembly of the Presbyterian Church Of
the United States of America,) be authorized
! TO elect three Trustees and their successor. Ia
! appointed. MS hereinafter directed. shall he.
and they are hereby, created a body corporate
and polite, by the name and style Of "Ths
Trustees of Ninety Six Church." whose duty It
shall lie take charge and management of tn.
lnnhs. buildings and other temporali,ies md
property of said chuech. in truet, according to
! the tenor Of this Act
ELL That's" long Us the said church Tor any
congregation to be organised in its stead from
lime 10 time, as hereinafter provided for) shall
hold the snme Confession of Faith, and shall not
b' d'sHaIved by the superior judicatories 10
which " is attached and subject, nor become
extinct, every vacancy which may from time
10 t'me occur among. the said Trustees, by
death, resignation or removal from the State.
shall be filled by nm election. to be made by
the white communing me,nbers, in manner
aforesaid.
III. That in case the church (or any congrs.
CATION to he organized in it's stead, as in this
section is hereafter provided) should at any
time cease TO hold the said Confession of Fa. :,
or 6e dissolved, as aforesaid, or become ef-
t'nct, the Trustees shall thence forth hold and
manage the said land, buildings. temperatures
and property in trust for suoh church or con.
gregaliou as may from time t. time he after.
wards duly organized at or near the present
church building, according to the discipline of
the Old School Presbyterian Church in tho
United States Of America. and in the interim
(that is to say. while from cessation to hold
the said Confession, or from dissolution afore-
said. or from extinction, the said church or any
congregation organised in its stead as afore-
said. is not authorized to fill tho same) the H.
ing of vacancies in the members of said Trus.
tees shall belong to such Presbytery of said
denomination as shall include the site of tho
church buildings for the time being within ito
boundaries.
w. That the corporation hereby establish ed
be allowed to hold property. upon the trust
aforesaid, to the value of three thousand dol
lars, exclusive Of the increase, and also the in
creased value of said property after its .cqui-
sltion by them and that this Act remain aud
continues of force for and during the term Of
fourteen years from the ratifcationfhereof
RIFLED CANNON.
If fha
taxed to IFS "t'rost to produce new engines of
war. and almost every day brings accounts OF
some new invention of this description, .tnanv
OF them entirely worthless for practical use,
but almost all possessing individual merits be-
ing, either in the cannon or in the projectile.
improvements on the old style of arm. Tho
Armstrong and Whiteworlh guns III England
nave stood the test Of experiments apparer ~
as well as any arm that has been. tried as ye%,
and of these two the former is considered, by
the English at least. the most effective and tho
most powerful gun that has Yet been experi-
rnented with. Apparently thus far its only
Objection has been the complication md the
expense of its construction, and the object at
present in all new inventions seems 10 be to
combine the most improved style Of proiectile
with cannon that is either an adaptation Of
the nrm now in Use, or a new one more simple
and less expensive in construction than the
English gun.
hoard Of Army Officers had lately had un-
der examination q riAed cannon and preiectils.
the invention of Gen. G. T. James, late u. 8.
e"ator from Rhode Island. and have finally
""l'cu'ed to report favorably upon it. In
regard to it the report says: "that with tho
ord'n ~ six FOUNDER gun much shorter in
length of b"re than the Armstrong gun, and
c"''s' qnently greater to it's disadvantage, com.
par"t'veIy. ball. more than three times the
area "f the Armstrong ball. and and conse-
Inrhtly dispincipg more than three times the
atmospheric air. and meeting more than three
times the resistance. and nearly three times a.
heavy. may be thrown from a gun not twice
as heavy as Armstrong;, and not three times
as much powder, and one degree less of eleva-
ton, twenty yards further.
One of the most important advantages of
the invention, according to the report of tho
Board. is the fact that it is admirably adapted
to the various calibres Of guns now in use,
requiring only that they be rifled, (which can
be readily done without even removing them
from the forts and arsenas where they are
now,) and supplied with proper proportion Of
the rif1ed prcjectis." The pecuiarity of tIs
Prc)ect'le is canvas covering to "a portion Of
it. which is saturated, before it is put on, with
grease and which. by the expansion of tho
projectle at that point by Of a cavity
in the extremity, acted upon by tho gas of tho
explosion, is pressed into the sifing of tho
cannon and acts in the same manner as the
patch fop tho rife bullet By this arrangement
the projsotile is made to take the required ro-
tary motion on its axis, the leading of the
grooves in the gun is obviated. il,e ga.s is pre-
vented from escaping, all windagei is destroyed,
| and the bailoting OF the round bali done away
with. In concluding their report the Board
| state that "tbey have no doubt Of the fitness
and utility Of Gen. Jamess plan Of riAed can.
non and proiectile for the. military ssryiea