Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-01
Important Order.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. l
I. To the end that civil rights and i'm
muni.ies may be enjoyed; that kindly re-
latious among the Inhabitants of the State
may be established; that the rights and
duties of the employer, and the free labo,
rer respectively, may be defined that the
soil may be cultivated aud the system of
free labor fairly undertaken; and the own
ers of estates may be secure in the posses.
sion of their lands and tenements that per,
sons, able and willing to work, may have
employment; that idleness and vagrancy
may be discountenanced, and encourage
ment given to industry and thrift; and
that humane provision may be made for the
aged, in6rm and destitute, the following
regulations are established for the govern
ment of all concerned in this Department ::
II. All laws shall be applicable to all the
inhabitants. No person shall be held in
competent to sue, make complaint, or to
testify, because of color of caste
III. All the employments of husbaudry
or of the useful arts, and all lawful trades
or callings, may be followed by all persons,
irrespective of color or caste nor shall any
freedman be obliged to pay any tax or any
fee for license, nor be ameuable to any
municipal or parish ordinance, not imposed
upon all other persons.
w. The lawful industry of all persons
who live under the protection of the United
States, and owe obedience to its laws, be-
ing useful to the individual, and essential
to the welfare of society, no person will be
restrained from seeking employment when
not bound by voluntary agreement, nor
hindered from travelling from place to place
on lawful business. All combinations or
agreements which are intended to hinder,
or may so operate as to hinder, in any way,
the employment of labor-or to limit CON-
peusation for labor-or to compel labor to
be involuntsriy performed in certain places,
or for certain persons, as we'll as all combi-
nations or agreements to prevent the sale
or hire of lands or tenements, are declared
to be misdemeanors aud any person or per-
sous convicted thereof shall be punished by
fine not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars, or
by imprisonment not to exceed six months,
or by both such fine and Imprisonment
V. Agreements for labor or personal ser.
vice of any kind, or for the use and occupa-
ton of lands and tenements, or for any 9TH
er lawful purpose, between freedmeo and
other persons, when fairly made, will be
impartially enforced against either party
violating the same.
vi. Freed persons unable to labor, by
reason of age or in6rmity, and orphan chill
dren of tender years, shall have allotted to
them by the owners suitable quarters on the
premises where they have been heretofore
doniciled as slaves, until adequate provis-
ion, approved by the General Commanding,
be made for them by the State or local au,
thorities, or otherwise; and they shall not
be removed from the premises, unless for
disorderly behavior, misdemsanor, OF other
offence committed by the head of family
or member thereof
VII. Able-bodied freedmen, when they
leave the premises in which they may be
domiciled, shall take with them and provide
for such of their relatives as, by the laws of
South Carolina, all citizens are obliged to
maintain.
VIII. When freed person, domiciled
On a plantation, refuses to work there, after
having been offered employment by the ow.
ner or lessee, on fair terms, approved by the
agent of the Freedmen's Bureau, such freed
man or woman shall remove from the prem.
ises within ten days after such offer, and
due notice to remove by the owner or occu.
pant.
TX. When able bodied freed persons are
domiciled on premises where they have been
heretofore held as slaves, and are not en-
ployed thereon or elsewhere, they shall be
permitted to remain, on showing to the
satisfaction of the Commanding officer of
the Post, that they have made diligent and
proper efforts to obtain employment.
K. Freed persons occupying premises
without the authority of the United States,
or the permission of the owner, and who
have not been heretofore held there as
slaves, may be removed by the Command
ing officer of the Post, on the complaint of
the owner, and proof of the refusal of said
freed persons to remove after ten days no.
tice
XI. Any person employed or domiciled
on a plantation or elsewhere, who may be
rigbtfully dismissed by the terms of agree
ment, or expelled for misbehaviour, shall
not return without the consent of the owner
or tenant thereof.
XII. Commanding officers of Districts
will establish within their commands respec-
lively, suitable regulations for hiring out to
labor, for period not to exceed one year,
all vagrants who cannot be advantageously
employed on roads, Notifications and other
public works. The proceeds of such labor
shall be paid over to the Assistant Commis
siouer of the Freedmen's Bureau, to pro.
vide for aged and in6rm refugees, indigen.
freed people, and orphan children.
XII. The vagrant laws of the State of
South Carolina, applicable to free white
persons, will be recognized as the only va
grant laws applicable to the freedmen; uev-
ertheless, such laws shall not be considered
applicable to persons who are without em-
ployment, if they shall prove that they have