Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-10-03

| Ueueldi A6oeupiy3 oo As' enouio6 Ao6N-N>
session.
In Act to Declare the rights of persons late
IN knouon as Slares and as Free Persons OF
Color.
I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority OF
the same, That all persons hitherto known in
law in this State as slaves, or as free persons
Of color, shall have the right to make and en-
/ force contracts to sue, be sued, to be atlantis,
and give evidence, to inherit, to purchase,
lease, sell, hold, convey and assign real and
personal property, make wills and testameuts,
and to have full and equal benefit Of the
rights Of personal security, personal liberty
and private property, and of all remedies and
proceedings and for the enforcement and pro-
lection of the same. as white persons now
have, and shall not be subjected to any other
or different punishment, pain or penalty for
the commission of-any act or offence than
such as are prescribed for white persons COM
hitting ike acts or offences.
II. That all Acts and parts of Acts special.
ly relating to persons lately slaves and free
persons Of color contrary to the provisions OF
this Act, or inconsistent with any of its pro-
visions, be, and the same are hereby, repealed:
Provided, That nothing herein contained shall
be construed to repeal so much of the eighth
section of an Act entitled An Act to estab-
lish and regulate the domestic relations OF
persons of color and to amend the low in re-
iation to paupers and vagrancy," ratified the
twenty-frst day Of December, in the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-Gve, as enacts that marriage between
a white person and person of color shall be
illegal and void."
An Act to Alter and Fla the times for hold.
ing the Courts Of Common Pleas in this
State.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives now met and sitting, and
by by authority of the same, That from and
after the ratification of this Act, the Judg-
es of Superior Courts of Law in this
this State shall hold the first and next sitting
of the Court of Common Pleas, for the trial
of civil cases arising er contractu in the sew
eral cir tits now established by law in this
State, in the ensuing Spring, at the times
and places in each. District already established
by law. -
II. That all writs and other process of the
said Courts, mesne. and final, now made re-
turnable to the, Fail Terms heretofore cstab-
lished, except mesne process in cases of tort
shall be returDabIe to the Spring Terms Of
the Court, in the year of our Lord ono thou
sand eight hundred and sixty seven, the same
as if already so'directed aud that the same
rules of Importance and the same order of
proceedings now existing shall apply to the
Courts established by the first section Of thia
Act.
III. That all writs in cases Of tort shall be
returnable, as heretofore provided by law, to
the regular terms of the Courts as now es-
tablisbed and it shall be the duty Of the
Clerks of the Court of Common Pleas to
prepare dockets of all cases of tort for the
regular terms of their respective Courts.
IV. That no Court of Equity shall be held
in this State before the first day Of February,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven: Provided, That
nothing herein contained shall be so construed
as to prevent the hearing of motions and cases
at Chambers as now provided by law.
V. That nothing in this Act contained
shall prevent Judges Of the Court CT Com
mon Pleas and General Sessions from hearing
and determining applications for the substitu-
ton of judgments and DEGREES destroyed or
lost during the late war, as heretofore.
". That all Acts and parts of Acts of the
General Assembly of this State in conflict
with the provisions of This Act, be, and the
same are hereby, repealed.
An Act 10 amend an Act entitled "An Act TO
make appropriations for the year commen-
cine in October, one thousand eight hundred
| aid sirty:fre.'
! BE it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives, now met and sitting in Gen.
eral Assembly, and by the authority of the
same, That the fourth section of an Act en-
titled San Act 10 make appropriations for
the year commencing in October, one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-fve," ratified
the twenty first day of December, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty.fve, wherein is appropriated the sum Of
six thousand dollars I" for the Assessor Of St.
Philips and St. Michacl's, for making out
and affixing assessments Of his annual return" "
be so amended as to read six hundred dollars,
instead of the sum of six thousand dollars
therein expressed and that so much of the
said Act as appropriates one hundred dollars
for the library of the Court Of Appeals be SO
amended as to read one thousand dollars.
HAVE TO CARRY GUss TO CHURCH Rev.
Mr.. Alexander, Methodist preacher at Fen.