By an act of 1866, South Carolina was located in the fourth judicial circuit; it is divided into two judicial districts, called the Eastern and Western.

There are three collection districts in this State, and four ports of entry, to-wit: Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort and Port Royal; but no ports of delivery.

The capital is Columbia. The State elections are held on the fourth Monday in November. The Legislature meets on the third Wednesday in October.

The enacting clause of the laws is as follows: “Be it enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by authority of the same.”

UNITED STATES SENATORS.
Pierce Butler,from{1790to1796.
1802”1804.
Ralph Izard,”1789”1795.
Jacob Read,”1795”1801.
John Hunter,”1796”1798.
Charles Pinckney,”1798”1801.
Thomas Sumpter,”1801”1810.
John E. Calhoun,”1801”1802.
John Gaillard,”1804”1826.
John Taylor,”1810”1816.
William Smith,”{1816”1823.
1826”1831.
William Harper,”1826”1826.
Robert J. Hane,”1823”1832.
Stephen D. Miller,”1831”1833.
John C. Calhoun,”{1832”1842.
1845”1850.
William C. Preston,”1833”1842.
Daniel E. Huger,”1842”1845.
George McDuffie,”1842”1846.
Andrew P. Butler,”1846”1857.
Franklin H. Elmore,”1850”1850.
Robert W. Barnwell,”1850”1852.
William Desaussure,”1852”1852.
Josiah Evans,”1852”1858.
James H. Hammond,”1857”1860.
James Chestnut,”1858”1861.
Arthur P. Hayne,”1858.
Thomas J. Robertson,”1868”1877.
Frederick A. Sawyer,”1868”1873.
John J. Patterson,”1873”1879.
MARYLAND.

This territory at first was included in the patent to the Virginia colony; but was, in 1632, re-patented to Lord Baltimore, an English nobleman, who had embraced the catholic faith, and sought, in the American wilderness, an asylum where he and his co-religionists might enjoy the freedom from persecution denied them in England. It was called Maryland from the queen of Charles I., King of England. A part of this patent was covered by that subsequently made to William Penn, and produced much trouble between the descendants of these men, and their respective colonies. A settlement was commenced, mainly by catholic gentlemen, in 1634, and called St. Mary’s, on a branch of the Potomac.

The wise liberality that distinguished the settlement of Pennsylvania marked all the earlier history of Maryland. They cultivated friendly relations with the natives and with their neighbors. Lord Baltimore was liberal in his expenditures for the growing colony, and gave them a liberal government. When the civil war commenced in England, resulting in the death of Charles I. and the rise of Cromwell to power, the first troubles of the colonists of Maryland began, and continued until 1716, when the heirs of the original proprietor resumed their rights and maintained them until the Revolution.