Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-12-06
JURISDICTION RENTED BY THE MILITARY
TO THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES.

III IuC VI LII
The Acts passed at the late extra session
we're transmitted to the Military Comman-
dsnt of the Department of the Carolinas, at
Charleston, and ou the first day of October
last, by General Orders, he remitted all
cases in which the inhabitants of this State
we're concerned, civil and criminal, to the
civil authorities. If equal and exact justice
is meted out to all the Inhabitants of the
State by courts and juries-if the freedmen
receive that protection Of person and prop,
erty which the laws now guarantee them,
We will not again be adjudged by Provost
Courts and Military Commissions, and we
will viudioate before tho world, our high
sense of moral right, by enforcing impartial
justice, whether the suitor be humble or
exalted.
Experience will demonstrate the wisdom
of your enactment authorizing negroes to
testify in all cases. 1t takes away the i'm
punity which bad men have long enjoyed,
in tempting these ignorant people to perpe.
trate crime for the benefit of the temptors.
The result of the experiment at the late
Eall Term of the Courts has been entirely
satisfactory, and most of the freedmen who
have been called to the witness stand, have
manifested highly creditable desire to tell
the truth The extension of the privilege
has had salutary influence iu encouraging
and elevating their moral senses Many of
them appreciate their obligations to society,
and readily assist in bringing to punishment
evil-doers of their own color They are in.
valuable to the productive resources of the
State, and if their labor be lost by removal
to other sections, it will convert thousands
OF acres of productive land into dreary
wilderness. For this reason, have felt it
to be my duty to discourage their migration
The short crops of the present year should
stimulate the planter and farmer to renewed
energy and enterprise. He will, however,
find his lands of little value, if he cannot
command labor to cultivate them. If the
negro remain here, bis labor must be made
sufficiently remunerative to subsst and
olothe him comfortably. Schools must be
established to educate his children, and
churches built for his moral training.
The experiment of free labor, whilst it
has not been satisfactory, is far from prov
ing failure Where the blacks lave been
adequately compensated and kindly treated /,
they have generally labored faithfully. Sud
denly relieved from the controlling will Of
others, and exempted from the compulsory
labor which had, through life, been exacted
from them, they have performed during the
present year, an amount of voluntary labor
which may we'll excite surprise. The indo
lence of some, and the improvidenoe of
many, will doubtless cause them to undergo
much suffering before they are educated
fully to the necessity of constant and unit
ring labor, and to proper thrift and econ
omy.
Humanity and sound policy unite in de
manding that we should provide for the
aged, the infrm and the helpless, and I
therefore, respectfully recommend the pas
sage of an Act making it Incumbent on the
Commissioners of the Poor to provide suit.
able buildings at the various District Poor
Houses for their accommodation and to sub
sist them.
The Regents of the Lunatic Asylum have
wisely and humanely made provision for the
reception and treatment of insane colored
patients, and the Commissioners Of the Poor
in the several Districts should be required
to make the same provision for their sup
port -zkvyfuu Us now extsrs rof Whits
pauper patients in that Institution. The
idiotic and epileptio may be we'll taken care
of at the District Poor House
THE FINANCES OF THE STATE, TAXES AND
THE BANK OF THE STATE.
The taxes levied under the Act of De.
cember, 1865, amount to four hundred and
nineteen thousand six hundred and sixty.
eight dollars and seventy-one cents (S4l9,.
668.71) There has been paid into the
Treasury, three hundred and twenty seven
thousand seven hundred and thirty. seven
dollars and twenty FIVE cents, (S327, ,737.25)
Collectors Commissions, ........ 32,e69 SO
Freedmen's returns unpaid,
principally capitation tax,).. 2l,3l9 O7
Jury tickets deposited by Tax.
Collectors, ..................... 1862 II
Tax executions issued and in
hand of Sheriffs aud balances
due 10 hands of Collectors. $3.50 80
Total, l,....................S S4l9, 1858 II
This estimate does not include executions
issued by the Tax Collectors, against per-
sons who have failed to make returns, and
who have been double taxed. The state.
ment of the ComptrolIer-G General is here.
with transmitted for your information.
The entire revenue received into the
Treasury from Taxes, Bills Receivable reg
/ istered and carried to cash and other minor
sources ..................S4|i, ifo ~
There has been paid out by the
Treasurer, on appropriations, 3O4, 1888 "a
Leaving in the Treasury bal
ance, on 9lst October last of 1906 O3
Subject to draft, of which sum
there was in National cur'cy, 73,245 35
The Treasurer has, in obedience to the
Act of the 2lst of September last, "to pro-
vide for the redemption of Bills Receivable
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