The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-04-21

lie grounds" passed the twenty-secont
day of December, A. d. 1859, as pro
vides that it shall be an irrevocable con
dition of sale that the purchasers shal
erect none other than brick building!
thereon, be, and the same is hereby, re-
pealed..
Approved March 2,1S71.
AN ACT to Test in the Charleston
Land Company the Charter Of q Fer
! ryJrom Hauaiins' Wharf, in the city
Of Charleston, to the Following Points
| ville, Semley's Point, Vcnning's Land.
ing and Daniels Island Landing.
! SETON /. Be it enacted by the Sem
ate and House of Representatives Of the
State of South Carolina, now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same:
That q public ferry be, ahd the same
is hereby, established from Hamlin's
{; following points on the Wando River,
Venning's Landing and Daniels Island
Landing; and that the said ferry shall
be vested in the Charleston Land COM
pany for the term of twenty years.
SEC. 2. That the said Charleston Land
Company shall enjoy the exclusive char
tor of said ferry, with the privilege of
Of charging not more than fifty cents
for each passenger conveyed, and reas-
enable freight on merchandise: Provid-
ed, Said Company shall have sBid ferry
established and In good working order
within two years aftor the passage OF
this Act.
Approved March 2, 1871.
AN ACT to AvtAorize Henry C. Lam
caster, Smith Ho,oe and Henry Il.
7o,Oles, to Collect Wharfage and Ior-
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the au-
thority of the same:
That Henry c. Lancaster, Smith
Howe and Henry A. Towles, their heirs,
executors, successors and assigns, be,
and they are hereby, authorized to col.
lect the usual rates of Wharfage and
storage upon all goods, merchandise and
commodities that may be landed at or
upon their wharf at Enterprise Landing,
OH Wadmalaw Island. ~ ..r. ......
Approved March 7, 1871. ..
AN ACT to Incorporate and Rechdr-
ter Certain Religious Institutions.
SECTION !. Be it enacted by the Sem
ate and Houseof Representatives of the
State of South Carolina, now met and
fv,G Garoro1 hIy a
authority of the same:
. That so much of the Act passed on
the nineteenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
forty-nine, as incorporated the Orange
burg Presbyterian Churh Society, be re-
vived and continued of force for the
period of twenty-one years.
SEC. 2. That Walnut Grove Baptist
Church, in the County of Abbeville, in
South Carolina, be, and the same is
hereby, rechartered for the term Of
twenty-one years, with the same rights,
powers and privilcdges as those hereto
fore allowed by law.
Sec. 8. That all acts done or author
lied to be done by the officers of said
church since the expiration of it's former
charter, be, and the same are hereby,
poets, and to all intents.
C. Finge, Ezekiel Hunnicutt and John
l., Wilson, as trustees of the New Hope
Baptist Church, in Oconee County, lave
prayed to be Incorporated: Therefore,
from, and Immediately after, the pas
sage of this Act, all those persons who
now are, or who hereafter may become,
~ = cI 1,n
aud they are hereby, incorporated, and
are hereby declaaed to be body polite
and corporate, in deed and in law, by
the name and style of the New Hope
Baptist Church, Oconee County, and by
the said name shall have perpetual sue
cession OF officers and members. and 4
common seal, with powar to change,
alter and make new the same as often as
the said corporation shall judge expe-
dent.
SEC. 5. That the said corporation
shall be capable, in law, to purchase:
have, hold, receive, enjoy, possess and
retain to itself, in perpetuity, or for any
term Of years, any lands, tenements or
hereditaments, or other property, OF
what nature soever, not exceeding the
sum of ten thousand dollars, or to sell
or alien the same, as the said corpora
ton shall think fit, and by its said name
to sue and be sued, implead and be i'm
pleaded, answer and be answered unto,
In any Court of law or equity in this
State; and make such rules and bylaws
mot repugnant to the laws Of, the land)
rs for the good governments and manage
ment thereof may be thought necessary
and expediont.
SEC. 6: That Balls Xix, Wiley r. Har
bin, William Isbell, Livingston Isbell,
A. Sloan Stephens, and their successors
in office, de, and they are hereby, con-
stituted a. body corporate and polite,
under the name and style of the Beaver
Dam Baptist Church, of Oconee County,
with a capital stock not exceeding the
SUM OF five thousand dollars, with the
right to sue and be sued, plead and be
implaaded, in any Court of competent
jurisdiction, to have and to hold com.
mon seal, and the same to alter at Will
and pleasure, and with all other rights
aud privileges that are now secured by
law to like incorporated bodies:
SEC. 7. THAT W. J. Parnell, James
Fletcher, Richard H. Humbert, Henry
Washington, Jacob Lindsey, Louis Kel-
lev, Abraham Peterson and Jack Gull
liam, and all persons who now are, or
whe hereafter shall or may become,
members of the said Society, shall be,
and they are hereby, incorporated and
declared abody polite, under the name
and style of the Trinity Baptist Church,
of Florence.
SEC. S. That the said corporation shall
have power to purchase, receive and
possess any real or personal estate for
the purpose of this Act, not exceeding
! in value the sum of twenty-five thous.