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

eXcepC l0r reasons stated ABOVE, the laDOref
shall forfeit fifty cents. IF absent more than
three days without leave, unless it be on ac-
count of sickness or other unavoidable cause,
to be subject to dismissal from the plantation,
and forfeiture of his or her share of the crop,
such forfeiture to inure to the benefit of the
employer and employees, inproportion to their
relative shares of the crop. The employer
however, shall, in all such cases, pay The party
dismissed, five dollars per mouth for full hands,
and others in proportion, for such time as said
party may have worked on the plantation, de-
ducting therefrom any advance that may have
been made by the employer, either in money,
or provisions which were to have been ac-
counted for. If the party SO dismissed have
family on the same plantation, the wages
due him or her shall be paid by the employer
to the family.
". Said freedmen agree to take good care
of all utensils, tools and implements used on
the plantation also, to be kind and gentle to
all work animals used for raising the crop;
also, to pay for any injury donet either the
animals or farming tools w lie in their hands,
and by reason of their own carelessness or
neglect.
V. They agree to keep their houses and
garden plats in neat and orderly manner,
and subject to the inspection of the employer
or his agent at any time.
vi. In case of sickness among any of the
families of the employees, nurse shall be
furnished from their own number; also,
stock-ulindcr, If necessary, for the working
animals; and no labors SO performed shall i'm
pair their interest in the crop.
VII, The employees agree to furnish, from
their ann number, q foreman to be selected
ny tfe Sufployer or his agent, who shall direct
their labors, and shall make report to the en-
ployer or his agent, of all absences, refusal to
work. or disorderly conduct of the employees.
The report of the foreman shall be read over,
at the end of each week, in the hearing Of the
people.
VIII. The employer agrees to furnish each
laborer and his family. if he have one, with
comfortable quarters on the plantation also
half an acre of ground to each head of fami-
ly, and quarter of an acre to all others, for
their own use, and the privilege of getting
fire. .wood and animals to haul the same, from
some portion of the premises to be indicated
by the employer or his sagcnt; and each labor
cr shall be permitted to raise such an amount
of poultryand hogs as he can keep upon the
premises assigned to him, without injury or
annoyance to others.
TX. The employer agrees to furnish suf-
ficent number Of working animals, and to feed
them at bis own expense, and all necessary
wagons, carts, ploughs and such other farming
implements as cannot be made by the laborers.
X. Neither party shall sell or use any por-
tlon of the crop until after the division of the
same, without the consent of the other party.
XII. The crops shall be divided as follows |:
10 the employees, onc-third of the corn, pota-
toes, peas, rice, and all other produces gath
cred and prepared for market; also, third
Of the cotton when ginned, and seed from the
same.
XII. The employees shall not be compelled
to work upon, nor shall there be any deduction
Of wages made for the following holidays -
Fourth Of July, Christmas, New Years, Ma
tiolnl and State Thanksgiving and Fast Days,
unless the work desired to be done is work
of necessity or mercy. Only half day g work
on Saturdays will be required of female en-
ployecs who arc heads Of families.
XIII. The employer or his agent will keep
a book, in which he shall enter all advances
in money made by him to the laborers, and all
forfeitures of lost time, which book shall be
received as evidence the same manner as
merchants books are now received in courts
Of justice. Each employee shall be entitled
to pass-book, in which the employer, or his
agent, shall make an entry Of all advances of
money or rations, and all absences or dclin-
nuoncies