The seven members of the Commission for Public Buildings, Charleston District, seek to collect a fine. In 1848, John W. Andrews was convicted of multiple offenses, including: "selling spirits to a slave;" "retailing spirits without a license;" "purchasing corn from a slave;" and "trading with a slave." These acts have "done great injury to the slave population of the neighborhood" and for such, Andrews was sentenced to several months in jail and various fines. By right of an act of 1827, "all fines and forfeitures" imposed by the circuit courts should be paid over to the commissioners. Andrews, having served his jail sentence, has yet to pay his fines, because he "alleges and pretends that he has no personal property" in the district with which to pay them. The commissioners assert that Andrews, "by traffic carries on a considerable business," and thereby holds considerable property. Further, they believe that Andrews and several confederates are concealing his ownership of multiple tracts of land in the district. The commissioners pray that Andrews and his confederates be forced to account for any property that he may own and that the same be sold to pay his fines. They further pray for an injunction preventing Andrews from leaving the state.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
