[10] Cooper, Statutes at Large of S. Carolina, II. 153.

[11] The text of the first act is not extant: cf. Cooper, Statutes, III. 56. For the second, see Cooper, VII. 365, 367.

[12] Cf. Grimké, Public Laws of S. Carolina, p. xvi, No. 362; Cooper, Statutes, II. 649. Cf. also Governor Johnson to the Board of Trade, Jan. 12, 1719–20; reprinted in Rivers, Early History of S. Carolina (1874), App., xii.

[13] Cooper, Statutes, VII. 368.

[14] Ibid., III. 56.

[15] From a memorial signed by the governor, President of the Council, and Speaker of the House, dated April 9, 1734, printed in Hewatt, Historical Account of S. Carolina and Georgia (1779), II. 39; reprinted in S.C. Hist. Coll. (1836), I. 305–6. Cf. N.C. Col. Rec., II. 421.

[16] Cooper, Statutes, III. 556; Grimké, Public Laws, p. xxxi, No. 694. Cf. Ramsay, History of S. Carolina, I. 110.

[17] Cooper, Statutes, III. 739.

[18] The text of this law has not been found. Cf. Burge, Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws, I. 737, note; Stevens, History of Georgia, I. 286. See instructions of the governor of New Hampshire, June 30, 1761, in Gordon, History of the American Revolution, I. letter 2.

[19] Cooper, Statutes, IV. 187.