The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-18
AcFS or THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
An ACT TO ESTABLISH AND REGULATE
TIE DOMESTIC RELATIONS OF PERSONS
OF CoboR, AND TO AMEND THE LAW IN
RELATION TO PAUpERs AND VAGRANoY.
Be it enacted By the Senate and House Of
representatives., 1,otp met and sitting IN Gen
eral assembly, and By the authority Of the
same, as follows
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
The relation of husband and wife
amongst persons of color is established.
III. Those who now live as such, are
declared to be husband and wife.
III. In case of one man having two or
more repHted wives, or one woman two
or more reputed husbands, the man shall, }.
by the first of April next, select one of
his reputsd wives, or the woman one Of
her rsputed husbands and the ceremony
ofmarriags, between this man or woman,
andzthe person 30 selected, shall be per-
formed.
s. w. Every eolored child, heretofore
born, is declared to be the Legitimate child
of his mother, and also of his colored
father, If he is Acknowledged by such a
father
Persons of color desiring hereafter
: to become husband and wife, should have
the contract Of marriage duly solemnized.
VI. q clergy yman, the District Judge, a
Magistrate, or any judicial officer, may
solemnize marriages.
II. Gohabitation, with reputation, or
recognition of the parties, shall be evi-
dence: of marriage, in cases criminal and
civil.
VIII One who's pauper, or charge
to tho public, shall not be competent to
contract marriage. Marriage between q
white person and a person of color shall
be illegal and void.
TX. The marriage of an apprentice
shall not, without the consent Of the mas
ter, be lawful.
x. "A husband, shall not, for any cause,
abandon or turn away his wife, nor q wife
a husband. Either of them that abandons
or turns away the other, may be prosecn-
tad for o misdemeanor and upon eonvic-
ton thereof, before a District Judge, may
be punished by fine and corporal punish
ment, duly apportioned to tho circum-
=
stances Of aggravation or mitigation. A
husband not disabled, who has thus been
convicted Of having abandoned or tarned
away his wife, or who has shown to fail
an maintaining his wife and children, may
be bound to service By the District Judge
from year to year, and SO much of the
profits Of bis labor, as may be requisite,
be applied to the maintenance of his wife
and children; the distribution between
them being made according to their res
peotiYe merits and necessities. In like
manner, q wife not disabled, who has been
thns convicted, may be bound, and the
proceeds other labor applied to the main
tenanee of her children. In either case,
any surplus profit shall go to the person
hound At the end of any year for which
he was bound, the husband shall have
therightsto return to, or receive back,
his wife, and thereupo snail be discharged
upon condition of his afterwards main
Eaiiniiing his wife and children. A like
right q wife shall have, at the end of a
year for whichsshe was bound, on condi-
tion of f4her making future exertions to
maintain her family.
XII. Whenever husband shall bo con
ayicted of having abandoned OF turned
away his wife, she shall be competent to
make a contract for service and until he
shall return to her or receive her back,
she shall have all the rights, and be sub
feet to all the liabilities of an unmarried
Moman, except the right to contract mar
riaee. When either husband or wife has
abandoned the other in any District, and
that other remains there, ifupon the war
rant or summons against the one charged
or misd demeanor under the section next
preceding, there be areturn by Sheriff
or Constable, under oath, that the accused
has left the District, OF absconds, SO that
there cannot be personal service, the
prosecution may proceed as if the accused
had been arrested and upon conviction,
all the other consequences shall follow,
except ppnishment.a that shall be re-
served until the accused may be brought
into Court, when an opportunity shall be