The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-01-27
OFFICIAL,
HBApQUARTSRs,
DEPARTMENT or SouTu CAROLINA,
Charleston, january |. 1866

L. 10 the emu that civil rights and immu-
mites may be enjoyed; that kindly rela-
tions among the Inhabitants of the State
may be established; that the rights and du-
ties of tho. employer, and the free laborer
respectively, may be defined; that the soil
may be cultivated and the system of free
labor fairly undertakcn; that the owners
of estates may be securca in the possession
of their lands and tcnemcnts; that persons.
able and willing to work, may have employ
ment; that idleness and vagrancy NAV be
discount cnanced, and encouragement given
to industry and thrift; and that humane
provision may be made for the aged, intirm
and destitute, the following regulations are
established for the government of all con-
cerned in this Department:
IL. All laws shall be applicable alike to
all the inhabitants. No person shall be
held incompetent to sue, make complaint,
or to testify because Of color or caste.
III. All the employmcnts of husbandry
or Of the useful arts, and all lawful trades
or callngs, may be followed by all persons,
irrespective of color or caste: nor shall anv
freedmen be obliged to pay any tax or any
fee for license, nor be amcnnblc to any
municipal or parish ordinance, not imposed
upon nM other persons.
w. The lawful industry of all persons
States, anLowc obedience to its laws, being
useful to the individual, and essential to
the welfare Of society, no person will be re-
strained from seeking employment when not
bound by voluntary agrecmGnt, nor Kindred
from travelling from place TO place, on law
full business. All combinations or agree
ments which are intcndcdtu hinder, or may
so operate rs to hinder, in any way, the
employment OF labor-or to limit compen-
sailon for labor-or TO compel labor TO be
involuntarily performed in certain places or
fur certain persons; as well as all combl-
nations or agreements TO prevent the sale or
hire OF lands or tencmcnts, are declared to
DO misdcmcanors; and any person or per-
sons convicted thereof shall be punished by
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or
by imprisonment, mot TO exceed six months,
or by both such fin and Imprisonment.
V. Agreements for labor or personal SER
vice Of any kind or Tor the use and occupa-
ton OF lands and tcnamcnts, or for any
other lawful purpose, between freedmen and
other persons, when fairly made, will be
mpartally enforced against either party
violating the same.
vi. Freed persons unable to labor, by
reason of age or infrmity, and orphans
children of tender yeacs, shall have allotted
TO them by the owners suiiable quarters OH
the premises where they have been hereto.
fore domicied as slaves, until adequate
provision approved by the General Com
handing, DC made for them by the State or
Local authorities or otherwise; and they
shall not be removed from the premises,
unless for disordcrly behavior, misdcmea.
nor, or other offence committed by the
head of n inmily or II member thereof
VII. Able bodied freedmen, when they
ieavctIhe premises in which they may be dom.
ciled, shall take with them and provide for
such OF their relatives as by the laws of
South Carolina, all citizchs are obliged to
maintain.
VIII. When freed person domiciled on
plantation refuses to work there, after
having been offered employment by the
owncr, or lessee, on fair Terms, approved by
the agent of the Freedmen Bureau. such
freedman or woman, shall remove from the
premises within ten days after such offer,
and due NOTICE to remove by the owner or
occupant.
TX. When able bodied freed persons are
domiled on premises where they have been
hcret oforc held as slaves, and are not en-
ployed thereon or elsewhere, they shall be
permitted TO remain, on showing to the sa-
tisfaction of the Commanding officer of the
Post, that they Lave made diligent and pro-
per efforts 10 obtain employment.
y. Freed persons occupying premises
without 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 Command
ing officer Of the Post, on the complaint Of
the owner, and proof of the refusal Of the
said freed persons to remove after ten days
notice.
N. Any person employed or domiciled Oh
n plantation or elsewhere. who may be
rightfully dismissed by the terms of agree
ment, or. expelled for misbchavior, shall
leave the premises, and shall not return
without tho consent of the owner or tenapti
thereof. sE
XII. Commanding officers Of DISTRICTS
will establish within their commands res
pectively, suitable regulations for hiring
out to labor, for period not to exceed ono
year, all vagrans who cannot be advantage
ously employed on roads, fortiications and
other public works. The proceeds of such
labor shall be paid over TO the Assistant
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. to
nroy;1e for aoel and In Affirm rcfn0eaa in