Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-01-03

entitled TO social or political equality with
white psrsona, they sbsll have the righ. to
acquire, own and dispose of property to
sSks contracts; to enjoy the fruits of their
labor to sue and be sued; and TO receive
protection under the law in their psrsons and
property,
SEC. v. All rights and remedies respecting
persons aud property, and al duties and lia-
biGties under laws, civil and CRIMINAL, which
apply to white persons, are extended to per-
sons Of color, subject to the notifications
made By this Act and the other Acts herein
before mentioned,
In the Senate House, the twentieth day OF
December, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-fiye.
W. D. PORTER,
President Of the Senate.
G. II. SIMONTON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
AN ACT TO EsrALLIsH AND REGULATE THE
DOMESTIC RELATIONS OF PERsoNsoF CoLoR,
AND TO AMEND THE Law IN RELATION To
PAUPERs AND VAGRAScY.
Be II enacted dy the Scaate and House Of
Represeptatires, no,c met and sitting IN Cen
erGl Assembly. and by the authority Of The
SANG, as follows:
s--,5> HUSBAND AND WIPE.
+ The relation Of husband aud wife amongst
persons of COLOR is established.
. II. Those who now live aS such, are de-
ciared to be hu.bsnd aud wife.
LII. In case of one man having two or
more reputed wives. or one woman two Or
more reputcd husbands, the man shall, by the
first of April next, select one of his reputed
wives, or the woman ono of her reputed hus-
bands and the ceremony of marriage, be-
tween this man or woman, and the person So
selected, shall be performed.
w. Every colored child, heretofore born,
issleclared to be the legitimate child Of his
mother, and also of his colored father, if he
is acknowledged by such father.
V. Persons Of color, desirous hereafter to
become husband and wife, should have the
contract of marriage duly solemnized.
VI. A clergyman, the District Judge, a
Magistrate, or any Judicial officer, may 'oem.
,nizc marriages.
! VII. Capitalization, with reputation, or re.
eognitien of the parties, shall be evidence of
: marriage, in cases criminal and civil.
/ VIII One who is a pauper, or charge to
the public shall not be competent to contract
marriage. Marriage between white person
and q person of color, shall be illegal and
void. .t..
TX. The marriage of an apprentice shall
at!, without the consent of the master, be
lawful.
TX. d husband shall not, fpr any cause,
abandon OF turn away his wife, nor wife
hdr husband. Either of them tuat abandons
Ut turns away the other, may be prosecuted
for q misdemeanor; and upon conviction
thereof. before a District Judge, may be
panished by 6ne and corporal punishment,
anIY apportioned to the circumstances of az
grn7stion Or mitigation. A husband not
disabled, who has been thus convicted of
6syiLg abandoned or turned away his vile,
or WHO has sbown to fail In maintaining his
wife and children, may be bound to service
by the District Judge from year to year, and
30 much of the profits of his labor, as may
be rcsu,site, be applied to the maintenance
Of his vie and children; the distribution be-
tween them being made according to their
respective merits and necessities. In like
manner, avifs not disabled, who has been
thus copviced. may Be bound, and The pro-
eseds. of herlob,r applied to the maintenance
of her children. In either case, any surplus
profit shall goto the person bound. Atthe
end of any yesr for which be was bornd, the
husband shail h,ve the right to return to, or
receive back, his wife, and thcreupon shall be
discharged upon condition Of his after~ards
maintaining his wife and children. A like
right wife shall hve at the end of year
for which she was bqund, on condition Of her
making future exeitions to maiutain her
family.
XII, Whenever husbaad shall be convict
ed of having abandoned OF turned awav his
wife, abe shall.bs compsteE. to make con-
tract for service; and until he shall return
TO her OF receive her back, sts shall have all
the rights, and be subject to sa the liabilities
of anfunrnarried woman, exceft the right to
contract msrriage. When either husband or
wife has abandoned the other in shy District,
and that other remains there, if upon the
warrant or summons againat ths one charged
of misdemeanor under the sesGon neat pre-
ceiling, there be return byS a Sheriff or
Constable, under oath, that the accused has
left the District or absconds, so Mat there
csnnor be personal service, the prosecution
may proceed as if the accused had been ar
rested, and upon conviction, all the other
consequences shall follow, except puuhll alent,
and tiat shsll be reserved until the accused
may M brought into Court, when an ippor-
tunityshsn be given for disproving. the suth
of the return aad setting aside the ooneicson.
PARENT AND CHILD.
XII. The relation of parent and chill,
amonnsspersons, Of color, is recognized, cor.
fers aii the rights and .reIuedies, civil .ara
crimisal, aud imposes al! the duties, that al,
incident thereto by law, unless the same ar,
modified BY this Act, or, some legislatios
conneGtsd herewith "a E
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