The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-18
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words Ito berated as full hand, three
fourths hand, half hand, or one-fourth
hand,o as the case may be.
MEoHANros, ARTISANS AND sHop-KEEpERs.
LxxII. No person of color shall pursue
or practice she art, trade.or business of
an artisan, mechanic OF shop-keeper or
any other trade, empIoyment1or business
(besides.t that of husbandry, or that of a
servant under q contract for services or
labor) on his own account and for his own
.beneft, or in partnership with white
person, or as agent or:seryant of any per
son, unit! he shall have obtaineda a license
therefor from the Judge of the District
Court-which license shall be good for
one year only. This license the Judge
may grant upon petition ofthe applicant,
and upon being satisfied of his skill and
fitness, andsof his good moral character,
and upon payment, by the applicant, to
the Clerk Of the District Court Of one
hundred dollars, if a shop-keeper or ped
lar, to be paid annually, and ten dollars,
ifa mechanic, artisan, or-to engage in any
other trade, also to be paid annually (:
Provided, howersr, That upon complaint
being made and proved to the District
Judgeof an abuse of such license, he shall
reveke the same, and: Prouided, also,
That noperson of color shall practice any
mechanical art or trade, unless ho5 shows
that he has served an apprenticeship in
such trade or art, or is now practicing
such trade or art
LxxlII For violation of the prohibition
contained in the section next preceding,
theofender upon conviction thereof before
the Judge of the District Court, shall pay,
for each offence, a fine of double the
amount of such license; one-half whereof
shall goto the informer, who shall be q
competent witness.
Lxx1v. The sums paid to the Clerk for
these licenses shall be aids, and go into
the District Court fund; and the Clerk
shall keep record of all licenses issued
under the order Of the Judge of tho Dis
trfet Court
EVICTION OF PERSONS OF COLOR.
LXXF. Where, upon any farm or lands
there now are persons of color, who were
formerly tho slaves of the owner, lessee
or occupant of the said farm or lands,
who may have been there on the tenth
day of November, eighteen hundred and
>siixty-fve, and hayebeen on said lands for
/ six months previous; and who are help
less, either from old age, infancy, disease
or other cause; and who are unable, of
themselves, and have no parent Or other
relation able to maintain them, and to
provide other homes or quarters, it shall
not be lawful for the present, or any sub
seouent, owner, lessee or occupant, before
che first day of January, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to
eyict or drive from, the houses which now
are.or hereafter shall be, lawfully occu-
p;ed by such helpless persons of color,
such helpless persons, or any Of them, by
rendering such houses uninhabitable, or
by any. other means and upon conyic-
ton ofhaying done SO, every such owner,
lessee, occupant, agent or other person,
shan be fined not exceeding fifty dollars,
NOR less than five dollars, for each such
person of color.so evieted, and may be
,iimprisoned, at the discretion of the Judge
ofthe District Court, not exceeding one
month.
LXXVI. But the owner, lessee, or occu-
spant of such farm or lands shall, never
theiess, have authority to preserve order
and good conduct in the houses SO occu-
pied as aforesaid, and topreyent visitors
and other persons from sojourning therein;
and for iinsolenee to himself OF his family,
for theft or trcspass committed by such
persons of color, or any one of them, upon
the premises, or for violations by them of
his regulations for the preservation of
order and good conduct, the prevention
of visitors and sojourners therein, the
owner, lessee, on occupant, may complain
to the Judge Of the District Court, or g
Magistrate, who, upon finding. the com
plant well founded, may, according to the
case, cause the immediate eviction Of
some or all such persons of color, and
their removal from the premises. After