The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-02-01
I'D. Qrs. Department S. Carolina
CHARLESTON, Jan. l, 1866.

i. IO Jne emu LnaC CIVIL rights suu I'LL
munities may be enjoyed that kindly
relations among the inhabitants cf the
State may be established; that the rights
and duties of the employer and the free
laborer respectively, may be defneds;
that the soil may be- cultivated and the
system of free labor fairly undertaken !;
that the owners of estates may be secure
in the possession of their lands and tene-
mcntsj that persons, able and willing to
work, may have employment; that idle
ness and vagrancy may be discontinued,
and encouragement given to industry and
thrift and that humane provision may
be made for the aged, inirm and desti-
tuto, the following regulations are estab-
lished for the government of all concern
ed in this Department
II. All laws shall be applicable to all
the inhabitants, No person shall be held
incompetent to sue, make complaint, or
to testify, because of color OF caste.
III. All the employments of husband
ry. or of the useful arts, and all lawful
trades or callings, may bc followed by all
persons, irrespective of color or caste; (;
nor shall any freedman be obliged to pay
any tax or any fee for o license, nor be
amenable to any municipal or parish or
dinance, not imposed upon all other per-
sons.
". The lawful industry Of all persons
who live under the protection of the
United States, and owe obedience to its
laws, being usefa! to the individual, and
essential to the welfare of society, no
person will be restrained from seeking
employment when not bound by volun-
tary agreement, nor hindered from trav-
! elling from place to place on lawful busi..
| ness. All combinations or agreements
which are intended to hinder, or may so
operateas to hinder, in any way, the en-
ploymcnts of labor-er to limit compen-
sation for labor-or to compel labor to be
involuntarily performed in certain places,
or for certain persons, rs we'll as all COM
binations or agreements to prevent the
sale OF hire of lands or tenements, are
declared to bo misdemeanors; and any
person or persons convicted thereof shall
be punished by fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment not
to exceed six months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
/ V. Agreements for labor or personal
service of any kind, dp for the use and
occupation of lands and tenements, or for
any other lawful purpose, between freed
mon and other persons, when fairly made,
will be impartially enforced against Ell
ther party violating the same.
! VI. Freed persons unable to labor by
reason of age or infrmity, and orphan
children of tender years, shall have al
lotted to them by the owners suitable
quarters on the premises where they have
been heretofore domiciled as slaves, until
adequate provision, approved by the Gen.
eral Commanding be made for them by
the State or local authorities, or other
wise; and they shall not be removed from
the premises, unless for disorderly bcha
vior, misdemeanor, or other offence, com
mitted by the head of family or mem
Der thereof.
VII Able-bodied freedmen, when they
leave the premises in which they may be
domicilcd, shall take with them and pro
vide for such of their relatives as, by the
Jaws of South Carolina, all citizens arc
obliged to maintain.
VIII. When freed person, doiniciled
on plantation, refuses to work there
after having been offered employment by
the owner or lessee, on fair terms, ap
proved by the agent of the Freedmen'i
Bureau, such freedman or woman shall
remove from the premises within ter
days after such offer, and due notice te
remove by the owner or occupant
TX. When able-bodied freed persons
are domieiled on premises whore they
have have been heretofore hold as slaves
and are not employed thereon or else
where, they shall be permitted to remain
); on showing to the satisfaction of the
Commanding officer of the Post, thai
they have made diligent and proper eff