The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-10
Farm Regulations.

relation to the employment of freed
men, adopted by the Bureau at Clarks
vile, Tennessee:
1. One-haf of the wages of the
employee will be retained by the EN-.
ployer until the end of the contract,
for its faithful performance.
2. The employees will be required
to rise at day-break, each one to feed
and take care of the stock allotted to
him, or perform any other business
that may be assigned him; to eat
their breakfast and be ready for work
at the signal, which will be given
when the sun is up. All time lost
after the signal is given will be de-
Quoted
3. No general conversation will pe
allowed during work hours.
4. Bad work will be assessed at it's
proper value.
S. For disobedience, one dollar will
be deducted.
6. Neglect of duty and leaving
without permission will be considered
disobedience.
Z. No live stock will be permitted
to he raised by the employees with
out special contract.
8. Apples, peaches and melons, or
any product of the farm taken by the
employee, without permission of the
employer, will be charged for.
9. The employee shall receive no
visitors during work hours.
10. Three-quarters of an hour will
be allowed during the winter months
for dinner, and an hour and a half
during the months of June, July and
August.
IL. Impudencc, swearing or inde-
cent and unseemly language to or in
the presence of the employer or his
family or agent, or quarrelling or
lighting, SO as to disturb the peace of
the farm, will be fined one dollar for
the Erst offence, and, if repeated, will
be followed by dismissal and loss of
such pay as shall be adjudged against
HIM by proper authority.
IL. All difficulties that may arise
between the employees shall be adj
justed by the employer, and, if not
satisfactory, an appeal may be taken
to an agent of the United States Go
NCA AuuSuC VI d uQdS1SUTaCe.
ID. All abuse of stock, or willful
breaking of tools, or throwing away
gear, &c. will be charged against the
employee.
IA. Good and sufficient rations will
be furnished by the employer, not,
however, to exceed three pounds of
bacon and onc peck of meal per week,
for each adult
Is. House rent and fuel will be
furnished, free, by the employer.
l6. No night work will be required
of the employee but such as the
necessities of the farm absolutely
demand-such as tying up fodder,
firing tobacco, setting plant beds
atire, securing crop from the frost,
&c
II. A cheerful and willing perform
ance of duty will be required of the
employee.
IS. Stock must be fed and attended
to on Sunday.
10. The women will be required to
do the cooking in rotation on Sunday.
20. The employee will be expected
to look after and study the interest of
his employer; to inform Of anything
that is goiug amiss; to be peaceable,
orderly and pleasant; to discourage
theft, and endeavor by his conduct to
establish q character for honesty, in
dustry and thrift.
21. In case of any controversy in
regard to the contract or it's regula-
tions between the employer and the
employee, the agent of the Bureau
for the County shall be the common
arbiter to whom the difficulty shall be
referred.
The NEWSPAPER APPRECIATED
Without my newspaper, life would
narrow itself to the small limits of
my personal experience, and human
ity be compressed into the ten or
fifteen people I mix with. Now /
refuse to accept this I have not a
sixpence in consols but I want to
know how they stand. 1 was never
4 never in all likelihood shall be
in Japan /; but I have an intense
curiosity to know what our troops
did at Yokohama. I deplore the
people who suffered by that railroad
smash and I sympathize with the
newly-married couple so beautifully
depicted in the illustrated, as they
drove off in u chaise, and our old gent
at the hall door waving them last
adieu. l like the letters of CORES
pondents, with their little grievances