The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . visional administra-tion confirmed. Treaties were made with theIndians, who had hitherto stood as independentneighbors and were now constituted allies orsubjects. Parishes were laid out, and wheneversettled by 100 families, they were allowed repre-sentation in the Assembly. To relieve the bur-den on the country people of repairing for thetrial of all causes to the General Court atCharlestown, county and precinct courts wereestablished. School
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . visional administra-tion confirmed. Treaties were made with theIndians, who had hitherto stood as independentneighbors and were now constituted allies orsubjects. Parishes were laid out, and wheneversettled by 100 families, they were allowed repre-sentation in the Assembly. To relieve the bur-den on the country people of repairing for thetrial of all causes to the General Court atCharlestown, county and precinct courts wereestablished. Schools were established in eachprecinct and £25 levied by the justices toassist in the yearly support of the teachers, whowere required to teach 10 poor children free ofcharge. Between 1733 and 1774, over 200 tutors,schoolmasters, or schoolmistresses, were engagedin the province. The king having bought out theProprietors for £17,500 purchased also the quit-rents due them by the colonists, and remittedthem. Charlestown was the extreme southwesternoutpost of the British in America. As late as1741, when the Spanish possessions lay embos- SOUTH 1. Ilie Capitol Building at 2. The 1-irsl Cluircli Columljia, where tlic Ordiiiaiuc of Secession was passed. SOUTH CAROLINA omed on the Gulf of Mexico, will Saint Augus-tine, the uldest fortified place in America, theFrench claimed all the territory lying west of aline starting from a point north of Charlestovvn,reachuig the Appalachian Mountains, runninground llic headwaters of the Potomac, across theMohawk and Hudson, down Lake Champlain, andby the Sorrel River to the Saint Lawrence. Withlittle aid from the mother country, the colonistshad stood the advance guard against the war-ring Europeans and held them, the Americansavages, the African savages imposed upon them,and the pirates in check. The first settlers hadconfined themselves to the neighborhood ofCharlestovvn. Now the settlement of Georgia,1732-4, prot
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