The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-12-30

Richland District, one thousand dollars
Sumter District, seven hundred dollars
Union Districr, FIVE hundred dollars;
York District, five hundred dollars !;
Williamsburg District, five hundred dol
lars; Berkeley Election District, one
thousand dollars; Charleston Election
District, one thousand dollars Beaufort
District, one thousand dollars; Kershaw
District, five hundred dollars; and for
the District Judge of each Of the other
judicial Districts ofths State, the sum of
five hundred dollars: Provided, ho,o.
epcr, That i'll case the District Court
Fund in any District shall prove INSULT.
cient for the purpose for such additional
compensation as is herein provided. no
claim for the whole, or any part, OF such
additional compensation upon the Treas
ury OF the State shall arise bv reason #
such deficiency An1 Provided, also,
That the time when the salaries herein
provided for shall commence, shall be
when the Court is organized, and the
Judge empowered to execute this Act
III. For each District. Court, the,
Clerk and Sheriff of the District shall
respectively be Clerk and Sheriff. and
may act i'll person, or by deputy, when
ever, in tins Act. or other Acts passed
at this session, one of these officers is
mentioned,seithrr he, or his deputy. is
meant, unless tho context shows that he
himself is intended.
w. The Judge, Clerk and Sheriff of a
District Court shall each. before enter.
ing on the duties of his Office, take the
official oath prescribed in solen,nly
swear, (or affirm that as Judge, Clerk
or Sheriff, as the case may be, Of the
District Court for the District of
| will earnestly cndeavor to do
what is required of me by law, and
without prejudice for or against race or
color, 10 conduct myself as becomes an
upright and faithful officer" These
oaths shall be endorsed ON the commits.
sion or certificate of appointment Of the
Office. and with it be entered on the
Journal of the District Court
V. The Office "of every Magistrate
now i'll Office shall continue according 10
The terms of the appointment undar
which it is held with the power aud
rights now by law attaching aud Incl.
dent TO suc, office. The Magistrates
who.arc appointed to exercise the pow
ers and duties, and TO have the rights
imposed by this Act and the Act ent.
tied AN Act 10 establish and regulate
the. domestic relations Of Persons cf
Color, and Ia amend the law in relation
to Paupess and Vagrancy, Shall be ap.
pointed in every District by the Dis.
trict Judge thereof, by and with the
advice and consent of majority OF The
Delegation of such District n the Gen.
eral Assembly, in such manner and so
located as the condition of the District
may, from time to time require and
such Magistrates shall have all the pow.
ers and rights and may exercise all
the duties OF Magistrates, bv law con.
ferred on Magistrates. Each Magis.
trate so appointed shall, before entering
on the duties Of his Office, take before
the Clerk of the District the oarhs here,
tofore prescribed for the District Judge.
and also the oath prescribed in the Sc
cond section of the "'Act concerning the
Office and duties of Magistrates" pass.
ed A. D 1889, and shall. sign roll as
required in that section. The term Of
hls Office shall be four years from the
day he signed tie roll. J..
WI. The sum which limits the pro
ceedings by summary process is enlarged
to one hundred dollars, exclusive of
costs. In every case under that pro.
ceeding, either party may be witness
in his own behalf or may be required by
the adverse party to testify, either by
being served with a subpoena, or by
being called up un Ter commission, in
like manner as in like circumstances an.
other witness in the case could be !; the
practice now preya ling in reference to
interrogatorIes propounded to an ad
verse party not being hereby interfered
with. And in every snch case, no per.
son shall be held incompetent as wit.