Handbook of South Carolina: Resources, Institutions and Industries of the State; a Summary of the Statistics of Agriculture , Manufactures, Geography, Climate, Geology and Physiography, Minerals and Mining, Education, Transportation, Commerce, Government, Etc, EtcState department of agriculture, commerce and immigration ... The State Company, 1908 - South Carolina - 615 pages |
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... cent .; Baptists , 10 per cent .; Quakers , 3 per cent . A free public library was established in Charles Town in 1700 , and a free school in 1710 . In 1712 a digest of the English and colonial laws was prepared by Chief Justice Trott ...
... cent .; Baptists , 10 per cent .; Quakers , 3 per cent . A free public library was established in Charles Town in 1700 , and a free school in 1710 . In 1712 a digest of the English and colonial laws was prepared by Chief Justice Trott ...
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... cent . on imports , with an export duty of 3d . on hides . Four years later the tariff was raised to 10 and 20 per cent . Ten years after , duties were increased 21⁄2 per cent . in aid of the Mediterranean Fund against the Barbary ...
... cent . on imports , with an export duty of 3d . on hides . Four years later the tariff was raised to 10 and 20 per cent . Ten years after , duties were increased 21⁄2 per cent . in aid of the Mediterranean Fund against the Barbary ...
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... cent . of the white population . Of these 60 per cent . , belonging chiefly to the mercantile and professional classes , owned each only a few slaves . They frequently freed their domestics , which accounts for the fact that the free ...
... cent . of the white population . Of these 60 per cent . , belonging chiefly to the mercantile and professional classes , owned each only a few slaves . They frequently freed their domestics , which accounts for the fact that the free ...
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... cent . ) Confederate prisoners in Federal prisons 220,000 Confederates died in Federal prisons . 26,436 ( or 12 per cent . , despite the blockade making hospital supplies contraband of war . ) - Losses . Poorly armed , poorly clad ...
... cent . ) Confederate prisoners in Federal prisons 220,000 Confederates died in Federal prisons . 26,436 ( or 12 per cent . , despite the blockade making hospital supplies contraband of war . ) - Losses . Poorly armed , poorly clad ...
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... cent . of the assessed value of all the taxable property therein , the value being that determined for the purposes of State taxation . The credit of the State cannot be loaned or pledged for the beenfit of any individual , company ...
... cent . of the assessed value of all the taxable property therein , the value being that determined for the purposes of State taxation . The credit of the State cannot be loaned or pledged for the beenfit of any individual , company ...
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