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

there shall be substituted for fine, for M.
prisonment, or for both, hard labor, corpord
punishment, solitary confinement and cor.
fuemcnt in trcad-miil or stocks, one or more,
at the discretion of the Judge of the Superior
Court, the District Judge or the Magistrate,
who pronounces the sentence. In this act,
and in respect to all crimes and misdemean-
ors, the term servant shall be uEdersioodto
embrace an apprentice as we'll as servant
under contract
SUPERINTENDENT OF CoSvIcTs.
SIC. XVIII. The District Judge, when
he may think it necessary, shal! have power
to appoint q Superintendent of Conyicts,
whose duty it shall be to superintend as many
as he car of conyicts sentenced to hard labor,
to infict corporal punishmcnts directed upon
all convicts within his reach. and to execute
the orders of the Judge, Sheriff or Iasisttatei
in relation to these matters. The Superln-
tendent shall, at his pleasure, have access to
apartments in the Jail for necessary contine-
mept Of convicts, and may By all necessary
means, enforce his authority over the conylets
Under big supervision, punish their dlsoooedl,
ence, and overcome resistance, or attempted
rescue offered By them, or any other person.
When he shall deem it necessary, he magcaH
upon the posse comitat,ts, with the same effect
and under like penalties to those who disobey
it, as the Sheriff might do. The Superinten.
dent shall receive suitable compensation, to
be 6xed by the District Judge, and paidtrom
the District Court Fund All wages received
from the labor OF conycts shall gointoi that
furd, and from that shall be providedsfood
and other necessaries for the conVlcts: y
ARREST OF OFFENDERS. - 9 fr'i
SEC. xxx. Upon view Of misdeineanor
committed by person of color, or by aFhIte
person toward o person of color Magistrate
may arrest the offender, and, according, to the
nature of the case, punish the rffendcri sum-
marily, or bind him; IN rrcognizance,. with
sufficient sureties, to appear at thef next
monthly sitting of the District Court OF. com.
init him for trial bcfnre the District Court
SEC. XXX. Upon view of misdeIneanor
committed by person of color, any person
present nlay arrest the offender and take him
before Magistrate. to be dealt withias the
case may require. In case Of misdemeanor
committed by white person toward person
of color, any person may complain to u Mag
istrate, who shall cause the offender to be ar
rested, and, according to the nature of the
case, to be brought before himself, or be taken
for trial in the District Court.
Sec. XXXI. Upon view of felony COM
mittcd, or upon certain information that
. felony has been committed, any person may
arrest the felon and take him directlysto the
District Judge or a Magistrate, to be dealt
with according to law. Il. a:-.... l,.s.i.
SEC. .Xy3II. In the night time anyper.
son may be arrested by such efficient means
as tho darkness and the probability of his
escape render necessary even il his life should
be thereby taken, in cases where lie has COM
United felony, or has entered dwelling
house with evil intent, or Las broken, or is
breaking into an out-house, with view to
plundcr, or has in his possession stolen prop
erty, or bel under circumstances which
-aise just Ispicion of his design TO steal or
!. .. ,...t some felony, fees when he is hailed.
In the Senate House, the twentieth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundrcA and sixty.6ve,
W. D. PORTER,
Presidential the Serate.
Cit. SIMoNT0N,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.