Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-01-17

cultural product, although property to the
ya1ue of ten dollars may not thereby be de.
stroyed for a servant to assault his master
or employer, or any member of his masters
or EN- ployer's family, or any person autho-
rized to direct and control hin.
SEC. VI All simple larcenies aud thefts,
where the value of the goods aud chattles,
moneys and valuable securities is stolen, is
less than ten dollars, shall be misdemeanors,
punishable by whippingj corporal. punish
ment, hard labor and tue necessary impris-
onment, at the discretion Of the Court.
Sec. VII. OF chattles, moneys and valua-
BILE securities, which were delivered by the
owners thereof to any other person to be
kept, carried or otherwise dealt with for the
srer, or which were in the custody OF any
other person, under any trust reposed in such
other person by the owner, the feionious
carrying away by such other persen shall be
larceny.
/ SEC. VIII. IF any clerk, servant or other
employee, shall receive or take into his pos
session any chattle, money or valuable secu-
rity, for or in the name of, or on the account
of his employer or master, ard shall fraudu-
| lently embezzle the same, or any part thereof,
| such clork, servant or employee shall, upon
conviction thereof, be punished in the same
way as If he had been convicted of having
feloniously stolen from the employer or mas
| ter, chattels, moneys or valuable securities
of the same amount in value. In any such
case, except when the offence shall relate to
chattel it shall be sufficient to allege the
embezzlement to be Of money, without speci-
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and to provo the embeZziement of any amount
of moneys or valuable securities. If in any
such case, upon the trial the proof shall
show a larceny, the Jury shall be atliberty
to return verdict that the offender is not
guilty of embezzlement, but is guilty of aim
pie larceny, or of larceny as a servant. as
the case may be; and upon the trial OF
clerk, servant or employee for larceny, if the
proof shall show an embezzlement, the Jury
shall be at liberty to return verdict thai the
offender is not guilty oflarceny, bat is guilty
of embezzlement, and thcrcupon. ia either
case, the effect shall be the ssD.s as If the:
offence whereof the offender is ssssd guilty
had been specially alleged; the ssoust in
value being taken to be that which Is alleged,
unless the verdict .shall fix leus amount.
No person .riea for embezzlement or larceny
rs aforesaid, shall be liable to be afterwards
prosecuted fer larceny or embczzhnent upon
The same facts.
SEC. TX. If any person shall incite, pro.
cure, hire or counsel servant to commit
larceny or embezzle;aent Of any chattcls,
| money or valuable security of his master
such offender shall be guilty of an cftehce,
and according to the event, may be nisde-
meanor or felony. If the said larceny or
embezzlement should not be committed by
such servant the offender shall be guilty Of
misdeme.nor, and upon conviction be pun
ished as if be had been Convicted cl simple
larceny of goods below the value Of ten D.
lars If the said larceny or embezzlement
should he committed by the servant and be
itself onl: msdemeanor, the offender afore
said shall be deemed principal in that mis-,
lemeanor. and upon conviction be punished
accordingly. If the said larceny OR embz'
element committed by the servant should be
felony, the offender aforesaid shall be an
accessory before the fact, may be tried and
convicted, whether his principal be or hc not
previously congieted, ard upon conviction
shall be punished according to the nature oi
his crime under tia law
SEC. Y. A person of aoior who is in the
employment of maS.t,r engaged III hpsban-;
dry, shall not have the right to sellrny corn,
rice, y ms, wheat or other grain, any Hour
cottun, fodder, by. bacon, fresh meat of any
kiud. poultry of any kind. animal ofany kind,
or any other product Of farm, without hay
ing written eviienrc from such master or
some person authorized by him, or from the
District Judge or & Magistrate, that he has
the right to sell such products and if any
person shall directly or indirectly purchase
any such product from such person Of color.
Without such written evidence, tue purchaser
and seller SHALL each be guilty. Of q misde-
meanor The purchaser. upon cong cbon of
any such offence, shall be liable t6'a Cine not
exec. din: five hundred dollars, and TO suffer
Imprisonment not exceeding twelve mnnths,
The seller shall be liable to. fine Of at least
five dollars, and at least equal to twice the
value of the product sold, and if that be not
Immediately paid, shall suffer corporal pun
ishment.
Ssc. XT. It shall be misdemeauor, for
any person not authorized, to write or give
to o person Of color writing which processes
to show evidence of tie right of that person
by the section last preceding, he is forbidden
to sell wthon. written evidence; and any
person convicted OF this misdemeaaor shall
be liable to the same extent as the purchaser,
in the sectiou last preceding, is made liablej
aud It shall be inisdemeanoF for s. person Of
color to exhibit, as evidence of his right to
sell any product, a writing which he knows
to be false or counterieited, or 10 have been
written or given by any person not authorized /;
| and. on conviction of this misdemeanor be-
fore District Court or a Magistrate, such
person, of color shall be liable, as in section
last preceding, the seller is made liable.
These provisions shall mutatis nsu!andis cx-
tend to cases where the writing processes to
be, a permit of absence, or permit Of any 9TH
er kind; The fines in any of these cases be-
ing at the discretion Of the Judge or Mag
istrate.
SEC. XII. Where no special punishment is
provided for misdeneanor, it ehall, accord
ing to it's nature and degree, be puaished at
the discretion of tie Court, by one or more
of the modes of punishment which, in the
fourth section of thI Act, have been cnume'
rated for felony with benefit Of clergy, e1.
cept transportation.
SEC XIII. Persops of color constitute no
part Of the Militia of the State, and no one
Of them shall, without permission in writing
from the District Judge or Magistrate, be al-
lowed to keep Gre-arm, sword o.. ether mil
itary weapon; except that one A. them, who
is the owner of farm, may keep a,.hotgun
or rifle, such as is ordinarily used in hunting,
but not pistol, mu.ket or otbsr 6rc arm OF
weapon appropriate for purposes Of war
The District Judge or u Magistrate may give
an order, undor which any weapon unlawful
ly kspt may be seized and sold, thcsproceeds
of sale to 80 iino the District Court Fund
The possession. Of weapon ie violation OF