Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-04-23

othcr valuable consideration, upon proof to
conviction, such offender or offenders shall
forfeit and pay a fine not less than fifty (50)
dollars, nor moro than Eve hundred (500)
dollars or if it be a disintcrostcd party cho-
scu to mako a division or divisions Of crops
herein before provided, ho, she or they shall
30 liable to action of trcspass, and shall be
tried in any Court of competent jurisdiction,
and on proof to conviction, DO fncd in sum
not less than fifty nor moro than five hundred
dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not less
than ono month, nor more than one year, at
the discretion of the Court. If the offend.
ing party DO a laboror or laborors, and tho Of.
fence consist either in failing wilfully and
without just cause to give the labor reasona-
bly, required of him, her or them by the terms
OF such contract, or in other respects shall re.
fuse to comply with tho conditions Of suoh
contract or contracts, or shall fraudulcntly
make use Of or carry away from tho plaoo
whore tho crop or crops he, sho or they may
DO working arc planted, any portion Of said
crop or crops, or anything connected there
with or belonging thereto, such person or por-
sons so offending shall be liable to fine or i'm.
prisonment, according to tho gravity of tho
offence, and upon proof to conviction before
a Justice of the Peace, or a Court Of compe.
tent jurisdiction.
Sec. s. Any Justice Of the Peace, Magis.
tratc, or other officer, before whom complaint
is made, and whose duty it is to try such ca Q.
as is hcreinbefore provided, who shall oAond
against.tho true intent and meaning Of this
Act, or shall refuse to hear and determine i'm.
partially all cases that may be brought before
him under the provisions of this Act, and all
peace officers whose duty it is to apprehcnd all
offenders against this Act, shall be liable to
charge of malfcasance in Office, and uponproof
to conviction, shall be forthwith removed from
Office and Gucd in q sum not less than fifty nor
moro than one hundred dollars.
Sec. All Acts and part Of Acts in any way
conflicting with the provisions of this Act are
hereby roponlcd. Ratified 18th day Of March,
1860. :
an act to amend an Act Entitled "An Act
to Regulate the Manner Of Drawtpg Ju-
rors."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
aud House of Representatives of the State Of
South Carolina, now met and by the au.hori-
ty Of the same, That section five of tho act
entitled can act to regulate the manner Of
drawing %jurics," ratified the 25th day Of Sep
tember, Ammo Domini 1868, be, and the same
is hereby, amended by the addition of the fol-
lowing at the end Of the section "Proyided,
always, That the list, whom completed, shall
be suoh that the number of names Of whito
voters hcreon shall bear to the number Of
names of oolorcd voters, as near as may DO,
tho same proportion as the whole number of
white voters bears to tho whole number of
colored voters in the township, city or county,
as the case may be-"
Sec. 2. Section nineteen Of said act is bore
by amended by striking out tho word "~oities,"
and inserting in lieu thereof the words "the
City of Charleston"
}Sec. 8. That the following be substituted
for section twenty, to wit "The Mayor aud
Aldermen and Clerk of tho said CITY shall
havo and exercise all the powers and duties
with regard to drawing, and all other matters
relating to jurors therein, which arc in this
act required to be performed by the solootmcn
and town clerks of their respective towns,
and all venires for jurors to be returned from
said city shall DO served on the Mayor and
Aldermen.
Sec. 4. That the proviso to section seventy
five be stricken out.
Sec. 5. That section forty-two DO stricken
out, and tho following substituted, to wit
"This act shall take effect from it's PASSAGE"
Soc. 6. That Immediately after the passage
Of shis act, If any ono or all of tho townships
Of any county shall not havo been duly or.
gained md ajury list made therefor accord
ing to law, the Sheriff and Clerk of tho Court
of Common Pleas for the county shall, in
connection with the County Commissioners,
or a majority of those in Office, make up a
jury list for the county, according to the pro.
visions Of this act exercising for this pur.
pose all tho powers conferred upon seleotmen
Of towns; tho list, when prepared, shall be
posted up at or near tho court house door by
the said olerk and commissioners for ton days
after which they shall have power 70
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