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regulators of South Carolina


Subject History

Place Northern America » United States of America

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781577180999.1997.x


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In 1767 the S.C. backcountry experienced the peak of a crime wave by vicious gangs of thieves, which the legal system could not control. By October, posses of regulators began to form in order to run down the outlaws. After suppressing or driving out the criminals, the regulators petitioned the assembly to establish circuit courts on the frontier, to enact a vagrancy statute and stiffer penalties for crime, to appoint more sheriffs and build more jails, and to increase the backcountry's legislative representation. The assembly enacted laws implementing all these requests, except increased representation, by June 1769. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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A Dictionary of American History



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