The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-02-01
forts to obtain employment.


and who have not been heretofore held
there as slaves, may be removed by the
Commanding officer of the Post, on the
complaint of the owner and proof ofsthe
refusal of said freed person to remove af-
tersten days notice..
xI. Any person employed or domiciled
on plantation or elsewhere, who may be
rightfully dismissed by theterms ofagree-
ment, or expelled for misbehayior, shall
leave the premises, and shall not return
without the consent of the owner or ten
ant thereof
XII. Commanding officers of Districts
will establish within their commands re-
spsctively, suitable regulations for hiring
out to labor, for a period not to exceed
one year, all vagrants who cannot be ad-1
vantageously employed on roads, fortif-
cations and other public works. The
proceeds of such labor shall be paid over
to the Assistant Commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau, to provide for aged
and infrm refugees, indigentfreed people,
and orphan children.
XIII. The vagrant laws of the State
of South. Carolina, applicable to free white
persons, will be recognized as the only
vagrant laws applicable to the freedmen;
nevertheless, snch laws shall not be con-
sidered applicable to persons who are
without employment, if they shall prove
that they have been unable to obtain en-
ployment, after diligont efforts to do SO.
XIV. 1t shall be the duty of Officers
commanding Posts to see that the issues
of rations to freedmen are confined to
destitute persons, who are unable to work
because of infrmities arising from old
age or chronic diseases, orphan children
too young to work, and refugee freedmen
returning to their homes with the sane.
ton of the proper authorities land in or
dering these issues Commanding Officers
will be careful not to encourage idleness
or vagrancy. District Commanders will
make consolidated reports Of these issues,
tri-monthiy.
XIV. The proper authorities Of the State
in the several municipalities and districts,
shall proceed to make suitable provisions
forstheir poor, without. ut.distinction of col
OF; in default of which, the General
Commanding will levy an equitable tax
on persons and property sufficient for
| the support of the poor.
XVI. The constitutional rights of all
loyal and we'll disposed inhabitants to
bear arms, will not be infringed; never
theless this shall not be construed to sane
ton the unlawful practice of carrying
concealed weapons; nor to authorize any
person to enter with arms on the premi-
ses of another against his consent. No.
one shall bear arms who has borne arms
against tho United States, unless he shall
have taken the Amnesty oath prescribed
in the Proclamation of the President of
the United States, dated May 29, 1865, or
the Oath of Allegiance, prescribed in the
Proclamation of the President, dated De-
cember 8, 1868, within the time pre-
scribed therein. And no disorderly per-
son, vagrant, or disturber of the peace,
shall be allowed to bear arms.
XVII To secure the samo equal justice
and personal liberty to the freedmen as
to other inhabitants, no penalties or pun
llishments different from those to which
all persons are amenablc shall be imposed
on freed people and all-crimes and Of
fences which are prohibited under exist
ing laws, shall be understood as prohib-
tied in the case of freedmen; and if
committed by freedman, shall, upon
conviction, be punished in the same man
ner as if committed by white man.
XVIII. Corporal punishment shall not
be inflicted upon any person other than
a minor, and then only by tho parent,
guardian, teacher, OF one to whom said
minor is lawfully bound by indcn.ure of
apprenticeship.
XIX. Persons whose conduct tends to
breach of the peace may be required to
give security for their good behavior, and
in default thereof shall be held in custody.
! Xxx. All injuries to the person or prop
erty committed by or upon freed persons,
shall be punished in the manner provided
by the laws of South Carolina, for like in
jiuries to the persons or property Of citi-
zens thereof. If no provision be made by
tho laws Of the State, then the punish
ment for such offences shall be according