The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-04
COLUMBIA.
Saturday Morning, Nov, 4. 1865.
The Proposed New Code.

The Proposed New Code. .
We continue, this morning, our synopsis
of the Report Of the Committee on the
Code.
MASTER AND SERvASr.-The Code pro-
vides, that when the servant shall depart
from tho service OF the master, without
good cause, he shall forfeit the wages due
him. The servant shall obey all lawful
orders of the master OF. his agent, and
shall be honest, truthful, sober, civil and
dihgent in lIis business. The master may
moderately correct servants under eighteen
years OF age, and he may discharge SER
want for wilful disobodience o. his or his
agents lawful orders; or for habitual ne
sHgence or Incidence, and for other causes
named. The master shall not be liable for
voluntary trespasses, torts or misdc,nca-
nors OF his servant. The masters right of
self-dofence shall embrace his servant, and
it shall De his duty to protect him from
violence by others in his presence, and to
render him moral aid and assistance in OBJ
tanning redress for injury to his rights Of
person os property.
The master may command his servant to
aid him in defence of his own person.
family, premises or property, or the person
or property OF any servant On the pre-
misses Of his master.
Ne extract the following sections entire,
As they are Of great Importance to all par
tics Interested:
The servant may depart from the masters
service for an insufficient sJ1.ply of whole
some food, for an unauthorized battery
upon his own person, or one Of his family,
not committed in defence Of the person.
family, guests OF agents Of the master, or
10 prevent crime OF aggravated misdG-
mcanor; for habituai drunkenness of the
master; invasion of the conjugal rights OF
The servant; violent and menacinS conduct
OF the llaster: or his failure to pay wages
whcn due; and may recover wages due for
services rendered to the time Of his de-
parture.
The contract for service shall not be ter
minated by the death Of the master, with
out the assent OF the servant. Wages due
to servants shall be preferred to all other
debts or demands, except funeral expenses,
IL case OF the insuficiency of the masters
property to pay all debts and demands
against him. When wrongfllly discharged
from service, the servant shall recover
wages for the whole period OF service, &C.
cordInS to the contract, whether or not his
wages have been paid to the period Of his
discharge If his wages have not been
paid to the day of his discharge, he may
regard his contract rescinded by the dis
charge, and recover wages up to that time.
The master shall receive into his employ
ment the servant with whom he has made
contract; but any of the causes which
may justify him in discharging servant,
shall Justify him in refusing to receive
him.
The master shall, at the expiration of his
term Of service, at the request Of the ser
want, give him certificate of character
The servant shall not be liable for con
tracts made by the express authority OF his
master.
servant shall not be liable, civiIly or
crimlnally, for any act done on the premises
OF the master, by the command OF his
master in defence Of the masters person,
family, guests, agents, servant, premises,
Or property. He shall not he liable for any
master, by his express command.
HOUSE SERvANTs.-Thc rules and regula-
tlons prescribed for master and servant ap-
ply to persons in service as household ser
wants.. comforting the same rights, and
imposing the same duties, with the follow
ing notifications
servants, in the various duties OF the
household, and in all the domestic duties OF
The family, shall, ut all hours OF the day or
night, and on all days Of the week, prompt
~ answer all calls and obey and execute all
tawfu! orders and commands of the family
III whose service they are employed
Masters and their families shall, after ten
a o'clock at night, and on Sundays, make no
caAs ON their servants, nor exact any
service Of them, which exgencies Of the
household or family do not make necessary
or unavoidable
The wages OF household servants shall,
II the absence Of any agreement, be fixed
by the Judge of the District Court or a
magistrate, and be payable at the end Of
each month.
1t is the duty Of this class Of servants to
DC especially civil and polite to their mas.
terss, their families and guests, and they
shall receive gentle and kind treatment.
In all contracts between master and SER
want for service, the foregoing regulations
shall be stipulations, unless it shall be
otherwise provided in the contract and
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