An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1Hewatt, Alexander
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An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1
Hewatt, Alexander
Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
XLIX. In all the proprietors courts, the proprietor, and any three of his
counsellors, shall make a quorum; provided always, that, for the better
dispatch of business, it shall be in the power of the Palatine's court,
to direct what sort of causes shall be heard and determined by a quorum
of any three.
L. The grand council shall consist of the Palatine and seven proprietors,
and the forty-two counsellors of the several proprietors courts, who
shall have power to determine any controversies that may arise between
any of the proprietors courts, about their respective jurisdictions, or
between the members of the same court, about their manner and methods of
proceeding; to make peace and war, leagues, treaties, &c. with any of the
neighbour Indians; to issue out their general orders to the constable's
and admiral's courts, for the raising, disposing, or disbanding the
forces, by land or by sea.
LI. The grand council shall prepare all matters to be proposed in
parliament. Nor shall any matter whatsoever be proposed in parliament,
but what hath first passed the grand council; which, after having been
read three several days in the parliament, shall by majority of votes be
passed or rejected.
LII. The grand council shall always be judges of all causes and appeals
that concern the Palatine, or any of the Lords Proprietors, or any
counsellor of any proprietor's court, in any cause, which otherwise
should have been tried in the court in which the said counsellor is judge
himself.
LIII. The grand council, by their warrants to the treasurer's court,
shall dispose of all the money given by the parliament and by them
directed to any particular public use.
LIV. The quorum of the grand council shall be thirteen, whereof a
proprietor or his deputy shall be always one.
LV. The grand council shall meet the first Tuesday in every month, and as
much oftener as either they shall think fit, or they shall be convocated
by the chamberlain's court.
LVI. The Palatine, or any of the Lords Proprietors, shall have power
under hand and seal, to be registered in the grand council, to make a
deputy, who shall have the same power to all intents and purposes as he
himself who deputes him; except in confirming acts of parliament, as in
Paragraph LXXVI, and except also in nominating and chusing landgraves and
cassiques, as in Paragraph X. All such deputations shall cease and
determine at the end of four years, and at any time shall be revocable at
the pleasure of the deputator.
LVII. No deputy of any proprietor shall have any power whilst the
deputator is in any part of CAROLINA, except the proprietor, whose deputy
he is, be a minor.
LVIII. During the minority of any proprietor his guardian shall have
power to constitute and appoint his deputy.
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