G-20 TRANSPORTATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



1785. To clear the navigation of several rivers, by voluntary subscrip- 

 tions and by assessments upon the lands in the vicinity, and upon 

 the male inhabitants between sixteen and fifty. (Another weak 

 and vain innovation.) 



178G. To establish a company for the inland navigation from Santee to 

 Cooper river. (Santee Canal Company.) 



1786. To make, inter alias, a road from Friday's ferry, on Congaree, to 

 Augusta. 



(N. B. On the same day, 22d March, was passed the Act to es- 

 tablish the seat of government at a place near Friday's ferry — to 

 lay out a town there and to call it Columbia.) 



1 787. To establish a company to improve the navigation of Edisto and 

 Ashley rivers, and to make a. canal between the two rivers. 



1787. To establish a company to open the navigation of the Catawba and 

 AVateree rivers, from the North Carolina line to Camden. 



Among the corporators were John Rutledge, Thomas Sumter, 

 •John Gaillard, Benjamin Waring and Joseph Atkinson. 



The company was to construct canals, dams and locks, or otherwise 

 to render the river navigable ; whereupon it was to acquire perpetual 

 control of the stream, with power to levy upon the traffic whatever tolls 

 the directors thought proper, not exceeding, in any annual aggregate, 

 twenty-five per cent, of the whole outlay of the company down to that 

 date. The company had also the power to open roads through any 

 private lands, so as to connect the rivev landings with the existing high- 

 ways ; it might take up and acquire title to any land, not already granted, 

 within two miles of the river bank on either side. The shares were to 

 be forever exempt from taxation, &c. The company might import 

 negroes, not exceeding three hundred, and have credit for five years for 

 the duty on such as they should import. 



1787. Lynches creek, Clarke's creek and Black creek to be opened by 

 labor of inhabitants in the neighborhood of each respectively. 



1788. A general road law. Term of commissioners, three years ; limit 

 of road duty, twelve days in the year : penalty for non-attendance, 

 two dollars for each white man, and one dollar for each slave per 

 diem. Bridges may be built by contract, and cost assessed on 

 male inhabitants between sixteen and fifty years of age. 



1788, To establish a company for opening the navigation of Broad 

 and Pacolet rivers. This charter was almost the same as that 

 given for oj)ening the Wateree and Catawba. 



