The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-06-22

fice. The following rates are fixed as
the compensation to be given laborers:
FIELD HANDS.
Male hands, 81 perNmonth.
Halfhands, $50 4"
Female hands, 6
HalEhands, 3
HOUSE SERVANTS.
Male servants, lst class $40 per mo.
Male servants, I'd class s,
Male servants, Sd class 6
Female servants, lst class 8 -
Female servants. I'd class 6 =" I"
Female servants, Sd class 5
These classes will be determined by
merit, and on agreement between the
employer and employee. Mechanics
aud persons having trades, will be al.
lowed and encouraged to make their own
| contracts.
The money wages for field hands will
be paid on the lst day of October and
24th day of December; for house ser.
wants, at the end of each month for
mechanics persons following trades,
and laporers who work by the day, as
often as is agreed upon between the
parties. All contracts for field hands,
will be for the balance of the year. For
field hands, house servants, and all la
borers, excepting mechanics and persons
following trades, there must be secured
to the laborer in addition to the pay,
Just treatment, Wholesome food. quarters
fuel, and medical attendance. The freed.
men are reminded, that their freedom
imposes upon them burdens and duties
They must labor and support themselves,
their wives and children; and, if they
desire TO become the o,pners of lands
they must buy them, as other freedmen
are required to do. They must fulfil all
equitable contracts; and if any contracts
IS broken by them, without just cause,
they will lose all that may be due them.
They are free in all parts of the State
OF Georgia and South Carolina, and their
rights as freemen will be protected, by
the whole military force of the United
States Government, Unnecessary. Every
act OF injustice or cruelty done to them,
will sooner or later be investigated, and
the wrong-doer severely punished. Idle.
ness and vagrancy will not be tolerated !;
and the Government will support none,
able and yetmwilling to work.
Wages for time lost on account of
sickness, unless protracted, will not be
dcdcted from the field hands or house
servants; nor for any time lost from any
faults Of tie employer, or on account Of
inciement weather. But both wages
and rations will be deducted, when the
sickness Is feigned for the purpose Of
idleness refusal to work, when able to
do So. the offender may be discharged
| by the employer. Whenever any freed.
man Is discharged by the employer or
his agent. and think himself wroaged, or
whenever they are maltrcated, or de.
lpriyed of any right. due freedmen, they
should report the case at this Office, and
the complaint will be promptly attended
| to- ~
But, if the freedman, so discharged,
refuse to leave, or prowls about the pre-.
misses to the injury Of any person or,
IN case any freedman commits an offence
tor which he should be punished, or Is
considered dangerous person, he may
be arrested by competent authority, and
brought to trial before the Provost Mar.
shat. Whenever a military force cannot
be obiansd areanestmay be made at this
,ethcr, where it viii r ceiye prompt at.
teptlon.
House servants are informed thatthey
VIII be expected to remain one.half Of
each Sabbath with their employers; s.and
Held hands, that they are expected to-
work each day 10 the week except the;
Sabbath, III ll,is Sc q
Complaints have been made at this
Office thet certain parties seflse toallow
wives 70 leave ,heir premises with tlleiirl
husbands, or parents to take charge of.
thelr children. Such persons are noii.
ned that freedmen 10 this regard have
The same rights that white sitizeas have,
and IT theys interfere with these rights
ih they g. are guilty &C grave afFeses ,sbiel,