Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-04-08

make the affidavit hereinbefore required,
shall be paid for according to the schedule
of prices fixed by the commissioners as
aforesaid. But if the officer impressing or
taking for the public use, said'property,
and the owner shall differ as to the quality
Of the article or property impressed or taken
as aforesaid, thereby making it fall within
a higher or lower price namedin the sched-.
ule, then the owner or agent and the officer
impressing or taking, as aforesaid, may Sc.
lect each, loyal and disinterested citizen
Of the qualifications, as aforesaid, to deter
mine the quality Of said article or property,
who shall, 10 case of disagreement, appoint
an umpire of like qualifications, and his
decision, if approved by the officer impress
sing, shall be final. But, if not approved,
the impressing officer shall send the award
to the commissioners of the State where the
property is impressed, with his reasons for
Disappearing the sane, and said commits.
sioners may hear such proofs as the parties
may respectively adduce, and their decis.
ion shall be final: Boutded, That the own.
er may receive the price offered by the i'm.
pressing officer, without prejudice to his
claim to receive the higher compensation.
SEC. Z. That the property necessary for
thesuppors Of the owner and his family,
and to carry on his ordinary agricultural
and mechanical business, to be ascertained
by the appraisers, to be appointed as pro-
vided in the first section of this act, under
oath, shall not be taken or impressed for
the public use; and when the impressing
officer and the owner cannot agree as to the
quantity of property necessary, as afore.
said, then the decisions of the said apprai-
sers shall be binding on the officer and all
other persons. ~
SEC. 8. Where the property has been
impressed for temporary use, and is lost or
destroyed, without the default of the own
er, the government of the Confederate States
shall pay just compensation therefor, to
be ascertained by appraisers appointed and
qualified as provided in the third section Of
this act. If such property when returned
has, in the opinion of the owner, been in.
jured whilst in the public use, the amount
of damage thereby sustained shall be deter.
mined in the manner described in the third
section of this act, the officer returning the
property being authorized to act on behalf
r
of the government; and upon such inquiry,
the certificate Of the value of the property
when originally impressed shall be received
tacie evidence ofthe value thereof.
Sec. 8. Where slaves are impressed by
the Confederate Government to labor on
Notifications or other public works, the i'm
.pressment shall be made by said govern
ment according to the rules and regulations
prescTbed in the laws Of the State wherein,
they are impressed; and, in the absence Of
such law, 10 accordance with such rules aud
regulations not inconsistent with the pro.
visions ofthis act, as the Secretary Of War
shall from time to time prescribe: Proui-
detl, That no impressment of slaves shall
bemade when they can be hired or produ-
ced by the consent Of the owner or agent.
Sec. 10. That previous to the first day
of December next, no slave laboring on
farm or plantation exclusively devoted to
tie production of grain and provisions shall
be taken for the public use, without the
consent of the owner, except in case of ur.
gent necessity.
Sec. IL. That any commissioned or non
commissioned officer or private who shall
violate the provisions Of this act, shall be
tried before the military court of the corps
to which he is attached, on complaint made
ythe owner or other person, and on con.
viotion, if an officer, he shall be cashiered
and put into the ranks as private, and !.
non-commissioDed officer or private, he
shall suffer such punishment, not inconsis.
tent with military law, the court may direct