The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-11

centum upon oil sums dlSDurseu ny Aiiin'
Tn No case shall sums collected be under
stood TO include sums received from some
other of the officers who are required to
make reports as ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
nor disbursements to include sums turned
over to another of those officers. 1t shall
be the duty of the District Judge to
guard the fund against duplicated COM
missions, as well as against other I'M
proper charges. The Chairman of the
Board of Relief of INDECENT Persons of
Color shall be allowed commissions upon
his own collections and disbursement as
another Magistrate is, and in addition
shall, for each semi-annual report to his
Board, and each quarterly report to the
Court, be allowed out of the District
Court Fund, a sum not less than five dol
lars. nor more than twenty dollars, which
the District Judge shall fix according to
the quantity of business done by him, and
the manner in which it was done. The
Clerk shall under the supervision OF the
Judge of the District Court, annually, at
some early day, between the quarterly
sitting of the Court, which next preccdes
the regular session of the General Assem-
bly,, and thst regular session prepare and
transmit to the Treasurer q report from
his District Court, issued by the Clerk
and certified by the Judge. This report
shall contain condensed statement COM
piled from the reports which are made to
the Court, and from the Journals Of the
Court, showing, for the year proceeding
the whole sum which went into the Dis
trict Court Fund, how much from each
source the commissions for collection, the
whole disbursements, and how much for
each general purpose, the commission
upon disbursements, ether expenses, the
balance on hand, and the liabilities un-
paid. The Treasurer shall aggregate the
reports of the Clerks SO as to show results
for the whole State, and shall lay before
the General Assembly tabular state
ment of these aggregates, together with
the reports Of the Clerk, noting particu.
larly any District Court from which re-
ports had not been received.
xxx. An Indictment against white
person for the homicide Of % person of
color shall be tried in the Superior Court
of Law, and so shall all other indictments
in which white person is accused Of q
capital felony, affecting the person or
property Of a person of color.
Xxx. In every case, civil and criminal,
In which person of color is party, or
which affects the person or property Of
person of color, persons Of color shall be
competent witnesses. The accused, in
such criminal case, and the parties, in
every such civil case, may be witnesses,
and so may every other person who is a
competent witness; and in every such
case, either party may offer testimony as
to his own character, OF that of his adj
versary, OF of the prosecutor, or of the
third person mentioned in an Indictment.
XXI. A Magistrate shall have juris-
diction over small disputes, controversies
and complaints that may arise in his
neighborhood between persons of color,
or between persons of color and white
person, and of petty misdemeanors COM
mltted by or toward person of color,
between master and servant, between
master and apprentice, and between en-
ployer and laborer and civil suits, involv-
ing not more than twenty dollars, in
which pcrson of color is a party-his
power in no case going beyond a judg-
,nent, fine OF forfeiture of twenty dollars.
lie shall be specially charged with the
supervision of persons Of color in his
neighbcrhood, their protection, the pre-
vention of their misconduct and depreda-
tions and cautious regard to the peace,
health and safety of his neighborhood.
XXXII. Persons of color shall be liable
TO suits commenced by attachments, for
eign and domestic, as white persons are
in like cases. Besides this, there may be,
in the case of a person of color, pro-
ceeding to be called a special attachment
of the following nature, namely: By any
tax, person of color is made liable for a
sum certain, tax collector, OF other per-
son who has right to collect the sum
certain, and who desires to obtain from
garnishoe what Is supposed to be in his
hands belonging to such person of color,