South Carolina: Resources and Population. Institutions and IndustriesTables document meteorological records, 1782-1880; statistics re agricultural regions of S.C. at large and for each township; debt and taxation compared across U.S.; etc. |
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... greater elevation , ranging from nine hundred feet to three thousand four hundred and thirty feet at Mount Pinnacle , near Pickens C. H. , the highest point in the State . AGRICULTURAL RETROSPECT . The first permanent settlers ...
... greater elevation , ranging from nine hundred feet to three thousand four hundred and thirty feet at Mount Pinnacle , near Pickens C. H. , the highest point in the State . AGRICULTURAL RETROSPECT . The first permanent settlers ...
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... greater diversity of agricultural industries , and the small grain crop of 1850 ex- ceeded four million bushels . Since then cereal crops have declined , and seem likely to do so , unless the promise held out by the recent introduc ...
... greater diversity of agricultural industries , and the small grain crop of 1850 ex- ceeded four million bushels . Since then cereal crops have declined , and seem likely to do so , unless the promise held out by the recent introduc ...
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... greater or less width and depth , and surround islands varying from a few acres to many square miles in area . These islands attain a height of ten to fifteen feet - rarely of twenty - five or thirty - above high tide . The mean rise ...
... greater or less width and depth , and surround islands varying from a few acres to many square miles in area . These islands attain a height of ten to fifteen feet - rarely of twenty - five or thirty - above high tide . The mean rise ...
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... greater or less intervals of time it has since visited the city during the summer months . After 1748 it did not make its appearance during a period of forty - four years . John Drayton writes , in 1801 , " to the natives and long ...
... greater or less intervals of time it has since visited the city during the summer months . After 1748 it did not make its appearance during a period of forty - four years . John Drayton writes , in 1801 , " to the natives and long ...
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... greater on the coast than elsewhere . This is not the case with the ratio of farms to population , which here reaches a minimum of eight - hundredths of a farm per capita , or twelve and one - half people to the farm , while in the sand ...
... greater on the coast than elsewhere . This is not the case with the ratio of farms to population , which here reaches a minimum of eight - hundredths of a farm per capita , or twelve and one - half people to the farm , while in the sand ...
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Abbeville acre amount annual average Baird bales of cotton bushels bushels corn capital census Charleston Cheraw churches coast colored Columbia cost cotton seed creek crop cultivation dollars an acre Edgefield eight estimated FAMILY farm feet females fifty cents five four furnished gneiss granite GRASS gray Greenville growth Hentz hickory hundred pounds seed inches increase land Lea N. C. Linné loam manufactures manure marl mills negroes North one-half Orangeburg county ORDER Pee Dee performed by whites Piedmont pine belt planted population pounds seed cotton railroad red clay RED HILL REGION region rent river rock Saluda Saluda river sand hills sandy loam Santee Santee Canal Santee river Savannah Savannah river sea islands Shoal soil South Carolina Spartanburg species square mile subsoil swamps thirty tion Total town Township E. D. twelve twenty United uplands Wages Winyaw yellow
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Page 430 - The real and personal property of a woman, held at the time of her marriage, or that which she may thereafter acquire, either by gift, grant, inheritance, devise, or otherwise, shall not be subject to levy and sale for her husband's debts; but shall be held as her separate property, and may be bequeathed, devised, or alienated by her the same as if she were unmarried...
Page 419 - No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed; and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.
Page 416 - That no freeman ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the law of the land.
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Page 434 - AN ACT FOR THE FOUNDING AND ERECTING OF A FREE SCHOOL, FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF SoUTH CAROLINA, 1710 WHEREAS, it is necessary that a Free School be erected, for the instruction of the youth of this Province in grammar and other arts and sciences and useful learning, and also in the principles of the christian religion...
Page 422 - Every male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, not laboring under the disabilities named in this constitution, without distinction of race, color, or former condition, who shall be a resident of this State at the time of the adoption of this constitution, or who shall thereafter reside in this State one year, and in the county in which he offers to vote sixty days next preceding any election...
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