Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-02-03


expelled for misbehavior, shall leave the prem
scs and shall not return without the consent
of the owner or tenant thereof.
MI. Commanding officers of Districts will
establish within their commands respectively,
suitable regulations for hiring out to labor, for
period not to exceed one year, all Migrants
who cannot be advantageously employedaon
roads, Notifications and other public works.
The proceeds Of such labor Shall be paid over
to the Assistant Commissioner Of the Breed
mems Bureau, to provide for aged and infrm
refugees, INDECENT freed people, and orphan
children
XIII. The vagrant laws of the State of
South Carolina, applicable to free white per-
sons, will be recognized as the only vagrant
laws applicable to the freedmen; nevertheless
such laws shall not be considered applicable to
persons who are without employment, if they
shall prove that they have been unable to OBJ
tain employment after diligcnt efforts to dc so.
XIV. 1t shall be the duty of Officers com
manding Posts to see that issues of rations to
freedmen are confined to destitute persons,
who arc unable to work because of infrmitcs
arising from old age, or chronic diseases, Or
phan children too young to work, and refugee
freedmen returning to their homes with the
sanction Of the proper authorities and in or
dcring these issues Commanding Officers will
be careful not to encourage idlencss or vagran.
cy. District Commanders will make consoli-
dated reports Of these issues, tri-monthly.
XIV. The proper authorities Of the State Iii
the several municipalities and districts, shall
proceed to make suitable provision for their
poor, without distinction of color; IN default
Of which. the General Commanding will levy
an equitable tax on persons and property suf-
as'ents sfia the sAaport Of the ssoor, aSs 4 ST .s
4 XVI. The constitutional rights Of all loyal
and we'll disposed Inhabitants to bear arms,
will not be infringcd; nevertheless this shall
not be construed to sanction the unlawful
practice of carrying concealed weapons; nor
to authorize any person to enter with arms on
the premises of another against his consent
No one shall bear arms who has borne arms
against the United States, unless he shall have
taken the Amnesty oath prescribed in the
Proclamation of the President of the United
States, dated May 20, 1865, or the Oath Of
Allegiance, prescribed in the Proclamation of
the President, dated Dccember 8, 1868, with
in the time prescribed therein. And no dis
orderly person, vagrant, or disturbcr Of the
peace, shall be allowed to bear arms.
NVII. TO secure the same equal justice
and personal liberty to the freedmen as to 9th
er inhabitants, no penalties or punishmcnts
different from those to which all PERSONS are
alnenablo shall be imposed on freed people !;
and all crimes and offences which arc prohibit
cd under existing laws, shall be understood as
prohibited in the case of freedmen and if COM
mitted by a freedman, shall, upon conviction,
be punished in the same mnnncrhs if commit
ted bv white man.
XVIII. Corporal punishment shall not be
inflicted upon any person other than minor,
and then only by the parent, guardian, teach
or, or one to whom said minor is lawfully
bound by indenturc 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
Nthereot shall DC held in custody.
XIX. All injuries to the person or property
committed by or upon freed persons, shall be
punished in the manner provided by the laws
OF South Carolina, for like injuries to the per-
sons or property Of citizens thereof. If no
provision be made by thc laws of the State,
then the punishment for such offences shall be
according to tho course of the common law !;
and in the case Of any injury to person or prop
erty, not prohibited by the common law, orfor
which the punishment shall not be appropri-
ate, such.sentencc shall be imposed as, in the
discretion Of the Court before which tho trial
is had, shall be deemed proper, subject to tile
approval Of the General Commanding.
XXI. All. arrests, for whatever cause, will
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