Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-03

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III. With respect to the crimes of burglary and
arson, and to all criminal offence which are constl-
tuted or aggravated by being committed in dwell
ng:houseS, any house clubhouse, apartment, build
ing, erection, shed or box, in which there sleeps a
proprietor, tenant watchman, clerk aborer, or per-
son who lodges there with view to the protection
of property, shall be deemed 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 establish
ment Of which it is appurtenance shall be deemed
parcels.
". Stealing from the field any grain or cotton
not vet severed from the freehold is hereby made a
felony with benefit of clergy.
V. For any person to put any obstruction upon
railroad or to remove disarTange any part there
Of or to njure the machinery cars used thereon,
or to mslead any person employed thereon by false
statements signals or in any way to Interfere with
any part or appurtenance thereof or any schedule,
operation or use thereof with wanton indifference
to consequences, or with malicious intent to DO
harm to person property, or to plunder or to de-
lay train for dishonest purpose, shall be felony
without benefit Of clergy.
vi. 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 breach OF
trust with fraudulent intention.
VII. Every entry on the enclosed or unenclosed
land of another after notice from the owner ten
ant prohibiting the same, shall be deemed misde-
meanor.
VIII. If any person shall directly or indirectly
purchase any product Of farm from any person
who is in the employment of another, engaged In
to sell, the purchaser shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor and upon conviction of any such offence,
shall be liable to fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars, and to suffer imprisonment not exceeding
twelve months and the seller 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 Imprisonment in the pententiary at the dis
cretion of the Court.
TX. The punishment of felony with benefit Of
clergy, for the first offence, shall at the discretion
of the Court be by one or more of the following
modes, to-wit: confinement in penltentlary, 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 ;
confinement in tread mill or stocks; solitary confne
ment hard labor corporal punishment; impris-
onment not less than three months nor more than
two years ; fine not less than one hundred dollars
nor more than five thousand dollars.
X Where no special punishment is provided
for misdemeanor, it shall according to its nature
and degree be punished at the discretion OF the
Court BY one or more of the modes prescribed in
the section last preceding for felony with benefit
clergy.
M. Upon view of felony committed, or upon
certain information that felony has been commit
ted, any person may arrest the felOn and take HIM
to Judge or magistrate, to be dealt with according
to law.
XII 1t shall be lawful for any citizen to arrest
any person in the night time, by such efficient
means as the darkness and the probability of his
escape render necessary, even if his life should be
thereby taken, in cases where he has committed a
felony, or has entered dwelling house with evil
intent, or has broken or is breaking into an out
house, with view to plunder, or has in his posses
sion stolen property, or being under circumstances
which raise just suspicion of his design to steal or
to commit some felony, fees when he is hailed. =.
XIII, Whensoever hereafter, any person shall
migrate into this State, and reside here or exhibit
an intention so to reside his bad character or his
inability to support himself and family, shall be
made to appear to the Judge of the District Court,
the said Judge shall, by written warrant, require
him to enter, within twenty days thereafter, into
bond, payable to the State with two freeholders as
sureties, whose sufhciency shall be approved by the
Clerk of the Court in penalty Of one thousand
dollars conditioned for his good behavior, and for
his continued support of himself and family. And
in cse such person shall fail to give the bond as so
required the District Judge is hereby authorized
and required, upon complaint and due proof there
Of to issue warrant commanding such person
to leave the State within ten days thereafter And
if any such person so ordered to leave the State,
shall not do so within the time prescribed in such
warrant, he shall be guilty of misdemeanor,. and,
upon conviction thereof, be liable to fine, imprison
ment, corporeal punishment and hard labor, at the
discretion of the Court. If the bond aforesaid
should be given, it shall be kept by the Clerk and
suit thereon may be ordered by the District Judge:
In such suit any fine imposed upon the principal
obligo. and not paid by him, and any sums expend-
ed for the support of himself or his family, under
public authority, shall be assessed as damages, to
be collected under the judgment for the penalty Of
the bond, which shall be recovered upon proof OF
any breach of the condition If any person, who
shall have been convicted of any infamous offence
in any other State or country, shall come or be
brought into this State such person, on conviction
thereof, shall be sentenced to hard labor, with oc-
casonal solitary confinement for any period not ex-
ceedng fifteen years.
XIV. Any simple larceny or any articles OF
goods chooses in action, bank bills bills receivable
chattels or any article of personally, which, now
by law larceny may be committed, OF all domestlca-
ted animals, and animals tertp nature which have
in any degree been subjected to the control OF any
owner, of all growing crops or parts thereof Of all
annual products of the soil, whether severed from
the soil or not and of all such fixtures and parts
of the soil as were severed from the soil by an un
lawful act below the value Of twenty dollars, shall
be misdemeanor and considered petit larceny.
AN ACT FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PRoTEC-
TIoN OF EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION, AND FOR THE
APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSIONER AND AGENTS.
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES THEREIN EXPRESSED.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
Sentatires of the State of South Carolina, an Gene
raj Assembly, and by the Authority Of the same :.
SECTION l. That for the purpose of encouraging
promoting and protecting European Immigration
to and in this State, the sum of ten thousand dol
lars be appropriated from the contingent fund, to
be expended under the direction of the Governor,
for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter pro-
vided
SECTION > That the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a
Commissioner of Immigration, who shall open an
office in the fire proof building in Charleston. to
perform such duties as may appertain to his office,
and shall be paid for his services the salary of fit
teen hundred dollars per annum, out Of the fund
aforesaid, in quarterly payments.
SECTION g. That it shall be the duty Of said Com
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