continuing on with Chapter three.... At the second term of court held at Ninety Six on April 15, 1773, the grand jury presented as grievances the lack of a law for securing mill dams and regulating grist-mills; the "want of a law to encourage the destroying of wolves and other destructive animals which have been very prejudicial to the Inhabitants of the Frontiers, by killing their sheep, Hogs and calves"; the want of a sufficient number of roads in this district; and the failure to consider the grievances set forth in the presentment of the previous grand jury. John Caldwell was listed as deputy clerk of court. These presentments appeared in the Gazette for May 17, 1773. There were only three offices in the district during the early years, the justices of the peace, the tax collectors, and the deputy surveyors. The former were the most important men in the district and were much more highly regarded in South carolina during the colonial period than afterwards. In 1774 justices of the peace for that portion of Ninety Six District which later became Newberry County included the following: William Anderson, James Lindlay, John Johnston, jr., Joseph Brown of Broad River, John Caldwell, John Ford, Thomas Waters, David Anderson, Robert Cunningham, and Michael Dickert. The inquirers, assessors, and tax collectors were named by the Assembly in the annual appropriation acts in certain years and were charged with the responsibilities which their title implied with reference to real estate. The deputy surveyors were important in mapping the interior of the colony, in surveying land grants, and in selecting lands for the early settlers who in many cases relied upon the knowledge and experience of the surveyors. Among those who surveyed lands in the Fork between the Broad and Saluda were John Pearson, Enoch Pearson, John Fairchild, John Purves, John Caldwell, Samuel Young, and John Hamelton. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com