LXXXVII. In time of alarm occasioned by any insurrection, rebellion, or invasion, all field officers, and captains of companies, shall have power, by themselves, or their warrants, to any inferior officer, or soldier, to impress any arms, ammunition, provisions, horses, waggons, carts, boats, canoes, periauguas, and vessels, with their furniture, or whatever other thing they shall want, or have need of, for the service of the state: Provided, that all such things so impressed, be, by the said officers, brought before three, or more, indifferent persons, being freeholders, to be appraised and valued before they are disposed of for the public service; and such appraisement being made, the officer shall give a receipt for the same, if he conveniently can; and the said officer shall cause his clerk to enter the same in a book to be kept for that purpose; and the said appraisers shall ascertain any loss, or damage, that may happen to the things so impressed, or allow a competent hire for the same, when returned to the owner, as the case shall require, and shall give such appraisement, under their hands, to the owner: And the captain, or commanding officer of each company, after such alarm shall be over, and before such company shall be discharged, shall order so many men, as he shall think fit, to carry the several things by him impressed, to the respective owners, who, upon the delivery of the same shall give a receipt.--(a.)--Ibid. p. 327 [Pg. 307]
[A DIGEST OF THE Laws of South Carolina CONTAINING THE PUBLIC STATUTE LAW OP THE STATE,DOWN TO THE YEAR 1822; A COMPENDIOUS SYSTEM OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND DOCTRINES OF THE COMMON LAW, THE LAW OF COURTS MARTIAL, AND A GREAT VARIETY OF FORMS: THE WHOLE BEING DESIGNED, CHIEFLY, FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND USE OF THE PRIVATE CITIZEN AND INFERIOR MAGISTRATE. BY BENJAMIN JAMES. "Misera est servitus, ubi jus est vagum, aut incognitum." COPY RIGHT SECURED ACCORDING TO LAW. COLUMBIA: PRINTED AT THE TELESCOPE PPESS. 1822.]
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