The loyal Georgian., 1866-02-03

showing to the satisfaction of the COM
manding officer of the post, that they have
made diligent and proper efforts to obs
tain employment.
x Free persons occupying premises
without the authority of the United
States, or tho 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, and proof of the
refusal of said freed persons to remove
after ten days notice. Y
XII. Any person employed or domi>
ciled on plantation or elsewhere, who
may be rigbtfully dismissed by the terms
of agreement, or expelled for misbehavior
shall leave the premises, and shall not
return without the consent of the owner
or tenant thereof. - t..t.
XII. Commanding officers Of districts
will establish within their commands,
respectively, suitable regulations for
hiring out to labor, for period not to exS
ceed one year, all vagrants who cannot
be advantageously employed on roads,
f"rti6cations and other public works
The proceeds f such labor shall be paid
over to the Assistant Commissioner of
the Frecdmen's Bureau, to provide for
aged and infrm refugees, INDECENT freed
people and orphan children.
XIII. The vagraut laws of the State
of South Carolina, applicable to free
white persons, will be recognized as the
only vagrant laws applicable 70 the freed
men, nevertheless such laws shall not be
considered applicable to persons who are
without employment, if they shall prove
that they have been unable to obtain
employment after diligent efforts to do so.
XIV. 1t shall be the duty of officers
comma Dding posts to see that issues of
rations to freedmen are corfned to desti>
| tute persous who are u1able to work, be-
cause of infirmities arising from old age,
or chronic diseases, orphan children too
young to work, and refugee freedmen res
turning to their homes with the sanction
! of the proper authoritie>; and in order
ing these issues, commanding officers will
be careful not to encourage idleness or
vagrancy. District commanders will
make consolidated reports of these issues
tri>monthly. '"
XIV. The proper authorities of the
St"te in the several municipalities and
dist lets shall proceed to make suitable
provision for their poor, without distipcS
tion of color; in default of which, the
gene,a al commanding will levy an equitable
tax on person and property sufficient for
the support IF the poor. 7
XVI. The constitutional rights of all
loyal and well disposed inha itants to
| ear arms will not be. infriDged; nevers
theless, this shall not be construed 70
sanction the unlawful practice of carry
ing concealed weapons, nor to authorize
any person to enter with arms on th'
emises of another against bis consent.
No one shall bear arms VIII has borue
arms against the United States unless be
shall have taken the Amnesty oath pre-
scribed in the Proclamation of the Presi'
dent of the United States, dated May
9th, 1865 or The Oath Of Allegiance, pre-
scribed in the Proclamation of the Presi-
dent, dated December 9th, 1868, within
the time prescribed therein. Aud no
disorderly person, va rant, or dlstu' Der
of the peace, shall be allowed to bear
arms. ...
XVII. To secure the same equal JUS
tice aud personal liberty to the freedmen
as to other inhabitants, no penalties or
punishments different fron. those to which
all persons are amendable shall be inn
posed on freeo people; and all crimes
and offenses which are prohibited under
xisting laws shall be understood as pro-
b bited in the case of freedmen; aud IT
committed by freedmen, shall, upon
conviction, be punished liz the same man.
ner as if committed by white man.
XVII. Corporal punishment shall not
be inflicted upon any person other than a
minor, and then only by the parent, guar
dian, teacher, or the one to whom the
said minor is lawfully bound by indenture
of apprenticeship.
XIX. Persons whose conduct tends to
q breach of the peace may be required to
give security for their good behavior, and
1 in iefault thereof shall be held in custody
Xxx. All injuries to the person OF
property committed by or upon freed per
sons, shall be punished in the same man
| ner provided by the laws of South Carolina
for ike injuries to the persons or pro-
nerty of citizens thereof. If NJ provision
be made by the laws of the State, then
the punishnent for such ofenses shall be
according to the course of the common
law and in the case Of any injury to
person or property, not prohibited BY
the common law, or for which the pun
ishment shall not be appropriate, such
sentence shall be imposed as in the dis'
/ .rak;or &c tho eorrt before which the