The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-04

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ingly and wilfully pretend, or falsely as
sort in writing, that any servant was dis
charged, or left his service, at any other
time than that at which he was discharged
or actually left such service, or that any
such servant had not been hired or en-
ployed in any persons service, contrary
to truth, then, in either of these cases,
such person shall be guilty of misde-
meanor.
Sec. XVIII. If any person shall offer
himself as servant, asserting or pre-
tending that ne hath served in any SER
vice in which he shall not actually have
served, or with false, forged or counter
felt certificate of his character, or shall,
in anywise, add to, or alter, etface or
erase any date, matter or thing contained
in, or referred to, in any certificate given
to him by his last or former actual mas
ter or employer, or by any other person
duly authorized by such master or en-
ployer to give the same, then, in either of
these cases, such person SO offending shall
be guilty of misdemeanor.
Sec. XIX. Ifany person, having before
been in service, shall, when offering to
hire himself as servant in any service
whatsoever, falsely and wilfu!ly pretend
not to have been hired or retained in any
previous service as servant, such person
SO offending shall be guilty of misde-
meanor.
SEC. Xxx. In case of conviction of either
of the lnisdemeanors specified in the five
sections last preceding, the punishment
shall be fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars; and in case the fine shall not be
Immediately paid, there shall be substitu-
tion of other punishments.
Sec. XXI. Every wilful trespass is here
by declared to be misdemeanor, and any
person guilty thereof may be either sued
for damages, or prosecuted for the misde
meanor, at the option of the party in
iured; and, in case of conviction of the
misdeneanor the punishment shall be
fine apportioned to the damage done, and
the circumstances of enormity attending
the trespass, with substitution of other
punishment, as hereinafter provided, if
the fine be not Immediately paid,
SEC. XXI. No person OF color shall
migrate into and reside in this State, un-
less within twenty days after his arrival
within the same, he shall enter into a
bond with two frecholders as sureties, to
bo approved by the Judge of the District
Court or Magistrate, in a penalty of one
thousand dollars, conditioned for his good
behavior, and for his support, ifhe should
become unable to support himself And
in case any such person should fail to ex-
ecute the bond as aforesaid, the District
Judge or any Magistrate is hereby au-
thorised and required, upon complaint
and due proof thereof, to issue his war
rant commanding such person of color to
leave the State within ten days thereaf-
ter. And if any such person, SO ordered
to leave tho State, shall not leave the
State within the time prescribed in such
warrant, he shall, upon conviction there
of, be liable to such corporal punishment
as the Court in its discretion shall think
fit to order. And if any such person so
convicted and punished, shall still remain
within the State more than fifteen days
after the punishment shall have been in
ficted, or having left the State, shall re-
turn to the same, he shall, upon convic-
ton thereof, be transported beyond the
limits of this State for life, or be kept to
hard labor, with occasional solitary con-
fnement, for period not exceeding five
years. And if any person of color, who
shall have been convicted ofany infamous
offence in any other State or country,
shall come OF be brought into this State,
such person of color, on conviction there
of, shall be transported beyond the limits
of this State for life, or be kept to hard
labor, with occasional solitary confne-
ment, for any period not exceeding fifteen
years
PROVISIONS EXTENDING TO ALL GLASSES OF
OFFENCES AND ALL CoURTs-soME PRO-
VISIONS UNDER OTHER HEADS EXTENDING
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Sec. XIII. On the trial of any per-
son for felony, when the crime charged
shall include an assault against the per-
son, it shall be lawful for the Jury to ac-
quit of the felony, and to find against the
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