The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-10-11

BENJAMIN Cook, his executors, admin
istrators and assigns, to take ana re-
ccive, for the ferry!ng over persons,
their servants, carriages, horses and
cattle, at the said ferry, the follow
/ ing rates and prices, and no more,
that is to say:-for a foot passenger,
the sum of one shilling and three
nence; for man and horse, the sum
| two shiliings and six pence; for a
chair and horse, or cart and horse,
the sum of seven shillings and SIN
pence; for a wagon, or any other four
wheel carriage and five horses, twelve
shillings and six pence; for every
head of black cattle and horses, fer
ried or swan over the said ferry, one
shilling and three pence; and for
every head of sheep or hogs ferrled
one shilling, in the current money of
this state.
'III. And be it. also enacted by
the authority aforesaid. That the said
Benjar,in Cook, his executors, admin
istrators and assigns, shall always,
during the said term of seven years,
keep and maintain a good and suffi-
cient ferry boat, with two able bodied
men to attend the said ferry, as we'll
by night as by day, for the transpor-
ting of passengers, their servants, car
riages, horses and cattle; and if any
person coming to the said ferry to
pass over the same, shall meet with
any unreasonable delay, or be un-
necessarily retarded in passing over
the said ferry, the said BenJam.A
Cook. his executors, administrators
and assigns, shall forfeit and pay to
the persons so delayed, the sum Of
forty shillings, current money; and
in case such delay exceed one hour,
the sum of twenty shillings, like
money, for every hour afterwards, to
be recovered before any justice OF
the peace in the district OF Ninety
Six, if sued for within ten days after
the offence committed.
CIV. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That no per
son or persons shall keep a public
ferry within four miles of the said
ferry on Saluda river, except such
as are now or may be hereafter es-
tablished by law, during the said
term of seven years.
"V. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That the
president and commander-in-chlef OF
this state for the time being, the
vice president for the time being,
all ministers of the gospel, all per-
sons on Sundays going to or return
ing from any place of divine worship,
all persons going to or returning from
muster, at any time appointed for the
muster of militia, and all persons GO.
ing to and returning from the cleo
ton of members Of assembly, or IN
time of alarm, and all troops In the
continental service, all expresses and
messengers sent in the service OF this
state, and also all free Indians, are
hereby exempted from paying any
ferriage at the said ferry, for them
selves, their servants, carriages or
horses; anything herein before con-,
tanned to the contrary notwithstand-
ing"
This statute is interesting from
number of points Of view. The pre-
amble is worthy of more than pass
ing notice. Let US lay it by the SIDE
of the preamble of similar statute
creating ferry just few miles be-
low the crossing at Benjamin Cooks
land, "at the lands of Robert Gun
ningham at what was known as the
Indian Island ford on Saluda river
Both of the roads on which these fer
ries were located led through Ninety
Six and were both in the vicinity OF
that strategic point so valiantly con-
tended for by patriot and royallst'
The preamble petitioning for ferry
within the Cunningham holdings reads
as follows,
"Whereas, the inhabitants living
in the fork of Broad and Saluda rlV-
ers, Ninety-Six, Stephens creek, Long
Canes and parts adjacent, by their
humble petition to the general assem-
bly, have represented many 1ve-
niences which they labor under, Tor
want of a public ferry over Saluda
river. at the lands of Robert Cum
ningham, and also another pubic Ter
nv over Savannah river opposite to
Augusta, in Georgia, and proper
ro.5s established and made public, to