Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-16
Acts of tho Legislature.

AN Act to provide for the further AIainte-
nance of the Peace of thi5 State in re.
lotion to Duelling
l. Be enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That whenever any magistrate, or
any person who has been, or may hereafter
be, constituted a magistrate, CO oMcjo, shall
receive information in writing, and under
oath, that any person or persons are about
to leave this State for the purpose of send
ing or receiving challenge to fight duel,
or for the purpose of fighting duel after
sf.tn challenge shall have been sent or re-
ceNed, it shall be the duty of such macis-
tiate, or magistrate cn-o6icio, forthwith to
issue his warrant for the arrest of such per
sons, to be carried before some magistrate,
who shall require such person or persons to
enter into recognizance in such sum as to
such magistrate may seem meet, conditions
ed that such person or persous, shall keep
the peace within this State, and shall not
leave the State for the purpose of sending
ilor receiving challenge to fight duel, or
for the purpose of fighting a duel after such
lchallcngc has been sent or received
An act to make Malicious Trcspasses in
h dctable.
/ J. Beitcnoctcd by the Scnatcond House
Ipf Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That any person who shall viii,
fully, unlawfullyand malciously cut, shoot,
fmoin,, wound or destroy, any horse, mule,
meat IcNttlc, hog, sheep or cont. thc ,,,T,,,l
>crty ofonother, shall be guilty of misdc-
meanor, and, upon conviction thereof shall
Z be fined and imprisoned at J~o dissertation
lot the q udgc bofnre whom the case sn.u I,o
tried.
/ III. That any person who shall wilfully,
Imlowfully and maliciously cut, mutilate,
bdctacc, or otherwise injurc, the trees, hous-
les, out-houscs, fences or fixtures of anoth-
cr, or commit any other trcspass upon real
property in the possession of another, shall
be guilty of misdemcanpr, and upon con-
| yiction thereof, shall be fined and impris-
oncd at the discretion of the Judge before
whom the case shall be tried
Ill, That whenever any person shall be
prosecuted for any of the misdemeanors
hereby created, the owner of the property
injured shall not have the right to main
tain a civil action for the same injury.
An Act to amend an Act, entitled " An
Act to alter the law in relation to the
Action of Trovcr, and for other purposes.
|. BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That an Act entitled An Act
to alter the law in relation to the Action of
Irovcr, and for other purposes" ratified
the 10Th day of December A. ID. 1927, be
so altered and amended as to require every
Sheriff who shall take the Bond of Il De-
fendant or Defendants, in any action of
TrOver, or any successor of such Shcrih, at
the request and cost of the Plaintiff in such
action, or his or her agent or attorney, to
assign to such Plaintiff the said Bond, by
indorsing the samo and attcsting it under
his hand and seal, ". the presence of two or
more credible witnesses
An Act to alter and amend the law IL re-
lation to the Qualification OF Jurors.
SEC. i. Boit enacted by the Honora-
BILE the Senate and House of Represents
tivcs, now met and sitting in General As
| sembly, and by the authority of the same
That every person who may be entitled by
the Constitution of this State to vote for
members of the State Legislature, and who
siall have paid the year preceding the sit
ting of the Court, at which a new jury list
shall be made, a tax of any amount what
ever, for property held in his own right,
shall be liable to serve as Petit and Com
mon Pleas Juror.
SEC. 2. That all clauses of Acts hereto
fore passed repugnant to the provisions of
this Act, be and the same are hereby repeal
cd
An Act to exempt Manageas of Election
from the performance of Ordinary Mill
tia duty
SEC. /. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House OF Representatives now met and sit
ting in General Assembly, and by the au-
thority of the same, That Managers of Elcc-
ton in this State be, and they are hereby
exempted from the performance of Ordina-
ry Militia duty, for and during their term
of service.
GEN. WALKER, it is said, estimates the
losses sustained by him from the seizure Of
his property by Captain Davis and Com,
Paulding, at S140,000. II is said that the
flhbusters brought home in the Saratoga,
and now lying in Norfolk harbor, refuse to
leave the vessel, unless fofcedto do so.--
They say they are pcnniless and homeless,
and demand TO be carried back To- Nicar.
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