The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-01-10

away or impair any remedy given against
any such corporation, its stockholders or
officers, for any liability which shall have
been previously incurred.
Ratified December 80, 1866.
AN ACT TO ALTER THE ACT ENTITLED IAN
ACT TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL LAW"
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted By the Senate
and House of Representatives, noo met and
sitting in General Assembly, and By the au-
thority of the same, That the Act entitled
can Act to amend the Criminal Law"
which was ratified on the nineteenth day
of December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-fve,
be and the same is hereby repealed in so
far as it is not hereinafter reinacted.
2. An assault to commit a rape is here
by declared to be felony without bene-
fit of clergy.
8. With respect to the crimes of bur
glary and arson, and to all criminal Of
fences which are constituted or aggrava-
ted by being committed in dwelling
house, any house, clubhouse, apartment,
building, erection, shed or box, in which
there sleeps proprietor, tenant, watch
man, clerk, laborer, or other persons who
lodges there with view to the protection
of property, shall be deemed a dwelling
house; and of such dwelling house, or
of any other dwelling house, all houses,
out-houses, buildings sheds and erections,
which are within two hundred yards of
it, and are appurtenant to it, or to the
same establishment of which it is an ap-
purtcnance, shall be deemed parcels.
4. Stealing from the field any grain or
cotton not yet severed from the freehold
is hereby made felony with benefit OF
clergy.
S. For any person to put any obstruc-
ton upon railroad, or to remove or dis
arrange any part thereof, or to injure tho
machinery or cars used thereon, or to
mislead any person employed thereon by
false statements or signals, or in any way
to interfere with any part or appurte-
nance thereof, or with any schedule, op-
Grafton or use thereof, with wanton indif-
ference TO consequences, or with q mali
cious intent to do harm to person or
property, or to plumber, or to delay q
train for dishonest purpose, shall be a
felony without benefit OF clergy.
6. Any person committing breach of
trust with fraudulent intention, shall be
held guilty of larceny and SO shall any
person who shall hire or counsel any
other person to commit q breach OF trust
with fraudulent intention.
7. Every entry on the enclosed or un-
enclosed land Of another, after notice from
the owner or tenant prohibiting the same,
shall be deemed q misdemeanor
s. If any person shall, directly or in
directly, purchase any product OF farm
from any person who is in the employ
ment of another engaged in husbandry,
without sufficient evidence Of his right to
sell, the purchaser and seller shall each
be guilty of q misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction of any such offence, shall be
liable to q fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars, and to suffer imprisonment not
exceeding twelve months, and shall be
liable to fine at least equal to twice the
value of the product sold; and if that be
not Immediately paid, shall suffer impris-
onment in the pententiary at the dlscrc-
ton of Court.
9. The punishment of felony with bene-
fit of clergy, for the first offence, shall, at
the discretion of the Court, be by one or
moro cf the following modes, to wit: con-
incmcnt in penitentiary, work-house
or penal farm (when such institution shall
exist,) for period not less than three
months nor more than ten years, with
such imposition OF hard labor and solitary
confinement as may be directed confine-
ment in tread-mill or stocks solitary con-
tinement, hard labor, corporcal punish
ment ; imprisonment not less than three
months nor more than two years; fine
not less than one hundred dollars, nor
more than FIVE thousand dollars.
10. Where no special punishment is
provided fora misdemeanor, it shall, &C
cording to its nature and degree, be pun
ished, at the discretion of the Court, by
one or more of the modes prescribed in
the section last preceding for felony
with benefit of clergy.
IL. Upon view Of felony committed,
or upon certain information that felony
has been committed, any person may ar
rest the felon and take him to judge OF
magistrate, to be dealt with according to
law.
12. 1t shall be lawful for any citizen to
arrest any person in the night time, by