Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-01-18

omissions. Having asosrtainsd The amount
Of the District aFnnd WHICH Is on hand, in-
oluding what hehimself may have, be shall
BY orders entered on the Jonrnal of his
Court, direct payments to be made by the
officers respectively, in such sums as he
may designate, tothe following purposes,
namely l. The annual additional compeu-.
sation Of. the, Judge, of which one fourth
shall be taken each quarter. 2. Jurors GER
ti6cates. 8. Expenses Of the Court, inclu.
ding fees payable out Of the District Court
Fund. 4. Pay Of Superintendent and 9TH
er expenses of contracts IS Balance to be
paid to the Chairman of the Board Of Re.
lief Of INDECENT Persons Of Color, for the
uses Of that Board. For their services in
respect to the collection and disbursement
Of the District Court Fund, the several off,
GERS shall, in;the settlement of their ac-
counts, be allowed commissions as follows
Tie Sheriff and Magistrate shall each have
|, Eve per centumsupo ell sums collected by
him, to be in addition to commissions,
which, With other fees, & Sheriff or Con.
stable may exact from persons against whom
he executes process and the Sheriff and
Magistrate shall each be further allowed
two and.a.haf per centum upon the proper
disbursement. made by him. The Clerk,
superintendent of Consiots, Jailor and 9th,
er persons who msy have had supervision
of consicts, or received wages belonging TO
the District Court Fund, shall each have
two.and a.half per centum upon ali sums
collected by him, and. two-and.s.balf per
centum upon all sums disbursed by him
In no case shall sums collected be UNDER
stood to include sums received from some
other Of Che officers who are required to
make reports as hereinafter required, nor
disbursements to include sums. turned over
to another of those officers. It shall be the;
duty of the District Judge to guard the
fund against duplicated commissions, as
we'll IS against other improper charges
Tie Chairman Of the Board of Relief of In.
digent Persons of Color shall be allowed
commissions, upon his own collections and
disbursement as another Magistrate is, and
10 addition shall, for each semi-annual re.
port to his Board, and each quarterly re.
port to the Court, be allowed, out of the
District Court Fund, a sum not less than
Eve dollars, nor more. than twenty dollars,
which the DISTRICT Judge shall fix accord.
ing to the quantity Of business done by him,
and the manner in which it was done. The
Clerk shall, under the supervision of the
Judge of the District Court, annually, at
some early day: between the quarterly sit
ting of the Court, which next precedes the
regular session of the General Assembly,
and that regular session prepare and trans.
NIT to the Treasurer report from his Dis.
trict Court, issued by the Clerk aud certif-
ed by the Judge. This report shall con-
tain condensed statement compiled from
the reports which are made to the Court,
and from the Journals of the Court, show
ing, for the year preceding the whole. sum
which went into the District Court Fund,
how much from each source the commits
sions for collection, the whole disburss-
ments, and how much for each general pur-
| puSe, vhv- -uuuasniesiya- upon disbursements,
other expenses, the balance on hand, and
the liabilities unpaid. The Treasurer shall
aggregate the reports Of the Clerks so as 70
show results for the whole: State, and shall
lay before the General Assembly a tabular
statement of these aggregates, together with
the reports of the Clerk, noting Particular
ly any District Court from which reports
had not been received.
xxx. An Indictment against a white
person for the homicide Of a person Of color
shall be tried nthe Superior Court of Law,
and so shall all other indictments in. which
white person accused of capital felony,
affecting the person or propery of a person
of color.
xxx. Id every case, civil or criminal,
in whicha person Of color is party, or
which affects the person or property of
person of color, persons of color shall be
competent witnesses. The accused, in such
criminal case, and the parties, in every
such civil case, may be Witnesses, and so
may every other person who is compe-
tent witness and in every such case, either
party may offer testimony as to bis own char
acter, or that of bis adversary, or Of -the
prosecutor, OF Of the third person mentioned
in an Indictment =.
XXX. A Magistrate shall have juris.
diction over small disputes, controversies
and complaints that may arise in his neigh
borhood between persons ofeolor or between
persons of color and white person, and Of
petty misdemeanors committed by or toward
person of color, between master and servant,
between master and apprentice, and between
employer and laborer, and civil suits, in.
volvipg not more than twenty dollars, in
which person of color is party-his pow.
er in no case going beyond judgement,
fine or forfeiture of twenty dollars He shall
be specially charged with the supervision
of persons Of colorin his neighborhood, their
protection, the prevention of their miscon.
duct and deprsdations and cautious re-
gard to the peace, health and safety Of his
neighborhood. ....
XXXII. Persons of color shall be liable
to suits commenced by attachment, foreign
and domestic, as white persons are in like
cases. Besides this, there may be, in the
case Of person of color, a proceeding to
be called a special attachment Of the follow
inc nature. namelq: By any tax, person