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WHEREAS nothing will more to the Advantage of this Province, than employing industrious Labouring Men in the several Plantations, and will be a great Encouragement to such Persons to transport themselves from Great Britain, and other Parts, when they are sure of Employment upon their Arrival, We therefore pray your most sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, and Be it Enacted by the Honourable Arthur Middleton Esq; President and Commander in Chief of the Province of South-Carolina, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Majesty’s honourable Council, and the Assembly of this Province, and by the Authority of the same, That every Owner of a Plantation or Cow-pen, who is possessed of any Negroes or other Slaves, shall be obliged to keep and maintain on his Plantation two white Men, and for every Ten Negro Men any Person shall be possessed of over and above Twenty Negro Men as aforesaid, such Person shall be obliged to keep and maintain one white Man, and that the Master or Manager of every such Plantation that he or they shall actually reside on, shall be reckoned and allowed as one of the white Men hereby directed to be provided.
TH: BROUGHTON, Speaker.
Charles-Town, Council-Chamber,
March 11, 1726.
Assented to by AR: MIDDLETON.