Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-10
ACTS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE.

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE FEES OF sHERIFFS FOR
DIETING PERSONS CONFINED IN JAIL, AND TO
PROVIDE FOR THE MORE EXPEDITIONS PAYMENT
THEREOF.
I. Bet enacted By the Senate and House Of Rep
resentatyes, moae met and sitting IN GeneraI Assem-
by, and by the authority of the same, That the
Sheriff shall be entitled to charge and receive fol
dieting persons confined in Jail, since the first day
of December, A. D., one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six, the sum of forty cents per diem.
IL That at the end of each month it shall be the
duty of the Sheriff to file in the office of the Comp
troler General, an account setting forth the mum.
Der of persons confined in his jail, the causes Of
their commitment, and the number OF days each
has been confined, sworn to by the Sheriff, and &C,
companied with copy of the warrant or order Of
commitment under which each person has been
committed, certified to by the Clerk Of the Court
of Common Pleas and General Sessions. And
upon the discharge of any person from confne-
ment it shall be the duty of the Sheriff to file in
the office of the Comptroller General the original
warrant or order of commitment under which such
person was confined in jail.
iii. The Comptroller General shall Immediately
upon the filing of such account, so sworn to and
certified in his office, examine the same, and upon
being satisfied of its correctness, shall draw his
draft on the Treasurer of the State for the amount
payable to the Sheriff or his order, which draft
the Treasurer shall pay out Of any moneys in the
Treasury appropriated for that purpose or not
otherwise specially appropriated.
~. The Comptroller General shall, IN his annu'
al report to the General Assembly make a state;
ment of all amounts paid under the provisions OF
this Act, accompanied with proper vouchers.
V. The Sheriff and sureties shall be liable under
his official Bond for any amount fraudulently OF
drawn from the Treasury, under this
Act to be recovered by action of debt at the suit Of
the State, and in addition thereto, the Sheriff shall
be liable to indictment as for official misconduct,
and upon conviction shall be fined and imprisoned,
at the discretion of the Court
vi. The fees for dieting personsconvicted under
an Indictment or other criminal proceedings shall
be taxed against such persons, as now provided for
by law and when the amount so taxed shall'be
collected by the Sheriff. it shall be his duty to pay
the same into the Treasury of the State, within
thirty days from the time of such collection and in
case of the failure of any Sheriff to make such pay
ment within the time prescribed he and his sure
ties shall be liable, under his official bond, to pay
four times the amount so collected with interest on
the same, from the time it is collected to be re-
covered by action of debt at the suit of the State
VII. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff, as soon
as he can, after the first Of October, annually, to
report to the Comptroller General the names Of all
persons convicted under Indictment or other criml-
nal proceedings, and of the amount drawn from the
Treasury for the dieting of such persons, under the
provisions of this Act. The Comptroller General
shall, upon the receipt of such report, charge the
Sheriff upon his books with the amount so drawn,
in the same manner as is now provided by law in
the case of tax executions, and the Sheriff shall
only discharge himself by the repayment Of the a.
mount so advanced or by a return Of nuUa bona
upon the execution issued against the person so
convicted.
VIII. That the Sheriffs of the several Districts,
on being ordered by a Judge to remove prisoner
from one District to another, or to appear before
the Court of Appeals, shall be allowed to make out
their bills for themselves, and one guard for each
prisoner, as now provided for by law, and upon
making oath of the correctness Of the same, and
appending the order of the Judge for such reno
VAL and the official certificate Of the Clerk Of the
Court for the District in which he resides, that the
service has been rendered, the said Sheriff, NAV
present the same to the Comptroller General and
be paid as herein provided in case Of fees for die
ting persons.