William Clements reminds the legislature that it passed a law in 1801 that required "the Commissioners of Roads in St. Thomas and St. Dennis Parish to assess a Tax upon the Male Slaves between Sixteen and Fifty years of age in the said Parishes, for the purpose of putting and keeping in repair the causeway leading to the ferry of William Clement." The petitioner charges that said act has not "in any respect [been] complied with" and that the "causeway (owing to that circumstance) remains in ... [an] almost impassable condition." Of the opinion that "it will not require more than half a dollar per head on the said Slaves to carry the same into execution," Clement "hopes that the above, or some other certain mode will be adapted to effect the intention aforesaid."
Result: Referred to committee on roads.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
