Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-02-03
oFFICIAL.
Headq'rs. Dep't'ment of South Carolina, /
CHARLESTON, Jnnunry l, 1866.

among the Inhabitants of the State may be cs-
tablshed that the rights and duties of the
| employer, and the free laborcr respectively
may be defined that the soil may be cultiva-,
ted and the system of free labor fairly under
taken; that the owners Of estates may be Sc
cure in the possession Of their lands and tene-
ments that persons, able and willing to work,
may have employment; that idleness and va
grancy may be discountenanccd, and cncour
agement given to industry and thrift; and
that humane provision may be made for the
aged, nfirm and destitute the following reg
ulations arc established for the government of
all concerned in this Department:
III. All laws shall be applicable alike to all
the inhabitants. No person shall be held in
competent to sue, make complaint, or to testi
| fly, because of color or caste.
| III. All the employme,its Of husbandry or
of the useful arts, and all lawful trades or call
ings, may he followed by all persons, irrcspcc
| tive of color or caste; nor shall any freedman
be obliged to pay any tax or any fec for II
.cense, nor be amcnable to any municipal or
fparish ordinance, not imposed upon all other
| persons.
w. The lawful industry of all persons who
| live under the protection Of the United States,
and owe obedience to it's laws, being useful to
the individual, and essential to the welfare Of
society,", no person will be restrained from seek
ing employment when not bound by voluntary
| agreement, nor hindered from travelling from
place to place an lawful businesss~a eG5bist
nations or agreements which arc intended to
hinder, or may so operate as to hinder. i'll any
way, the employment of labor-or to limit
compensation for labor-or to compel labor to
be nvoluntarly performed in certain places,
or for certain persons, as we'll as combinations
or agreements to prevent the sale or hire Of
lands or tcncmcnts, are declared to be msde-
mcano's; and any person or persons convicted
thereof shall be punished by fine not exceed
ing five hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment
not to exceed six months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment
V. Agreements for labor or personal ser
vice of any kind, or for the uso and occupation
of lands and tcnements, or for any other lawful
rurrose, between freedmen and other persons,
when fairly made, will be impartially enforced
against either party violating the same.
| VII Freed persons unable to '.bor, by rca,
son of age or infrnity, and orphan children
the owners suitable quarters on the premises
slaves, until adequate provision, approved by
| o'IS NCHolai NC ilIiuC iol 'photl
by the State or local authorities, or otherwise;
and they shall not be removed from the prem
ises, unless for disorderly behavior, misde-
meanor, or other offence committed by the
head of a family or member thereof
VII Able bodied freedmen, when they
leave the premises in which they may be dom
icilcd shall take with them and provide for
such of their relatives as by the laws of South
Carolina, all citizens are obliged to maintain.
VIII. When freed person, domiciled on
y plantation, refuses to work there, after hay
ing been offered employment by the owner or
lessee, on fair terms, approved by the agent of
the Freedmcn's Bureau, such freedman or
woman shall remove from the premises within
ten days after such offer, and due notice to re-
move by the owner or occupant.
lX. When abcb bodied freed persons are
domicied on premises where they have been
heretofore held rs slaves, and are not employed
thereon or elsewhere, they shall be permitted
to remain, on showing to the satisfaction of
the Commanding officer Of the Post, that they
have made diigent and proper efforts to OBJ
tain employment
\: Freed persons occupying premises with
out the authority of the United States, or the
permission Of the owner, and who have not
been heretofore held there as slaves, may be
removed by the Commanding officer of the
Post, on the complaint of the owner md proof
of the refusal of said freed persons to remove
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