The Statutes at Large of South Carolina, Vol. 2

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Statutes at Large of South Carolina, Vol. 2: Containing the Acts From 1682 to 1716, Inclusive, Arranged Chronologically The present edition of the statutes AT large, will doubtless contain _many Acts that have been repealed, which have expired, or become obsolete, and therefore in a great measure useless. Yet this be determined by the only competent authority, the Legislature. To the history of our legislation, a collection like the present is absolutely necessary. Nor ought any compiler to exercise without authority a legislative function, however plain the case may be. The original manuscript Acts have no marginal summaries to the sections; where these are wanting, I have supplied them. An Ordinance of the Assembly, of September 21, 1721, numbered 455 in this edition, directed a committee to be appointed to revise the laws and contemplated the possibility of the work not being completed within one year. It appears from Trott's collection, p. 382, that the whole number of Acts that had ethen been passed, was Of the proceedings of this committee, if any took place, no record remains. One hundred and sixteen years have now passed since that committee was raised. It was appointed to act on the legislation of thirty-eight years, when the infancy of the Colony, under the English laws, required but few additions. The public laws to the period of the Constitution in 1790, amount to sixteen hundred. The number of public Acts from 1790 to 1836, are about one thousand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."