The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-06-02


working on buildings lien there
on and y speedy method of en-
forcing payment, upon comp!i
ance with the many provisions ot
the act. It is too long for pub
lication and too minute to admit
of a synopsis.
CONTRACTS ON SHARES OF CROPS.
| Such contracts shall be in wri
ting, clear in it's terms and wit
messed by at least one disinteres
ted party; or at the request ot
either party, shall be duly execu
ted before Magistrate. The
crops are to be divided before any
part is removed from the planta'
tion and at the request of either
party, such division is to be made
by a disinterested party. Debts
are then to be settled. The la
borers working on shares of the
crop arc given a prior lien upon
the crop. Severe penalties are
provided against landlords, labor
ers and arbitors who break the
contract or act improperly in the
division, and are convicted there
of before a magistrate, or in the
| Court Of Sessions.
An enumeration of the inhabi-
tants of this State, and of the pro-
ducts thereof, including statistics
of all kinds, is to be taken this
year.
PURCHASING FROM FARM SERVANTS.
The penalty provided in the
act Of 1866, against purchasing
from persons engaged as servants
in the cultivation Of the soil, has
been repealed.
APPROPRIATIONS
The taxes cannot now be esti-
mated, but the act provides that
the amount raised shall not exceed
one million dollars.
DUELLING,
Principals in a duel shall be de-
prived Of the right of suffrage, dis
qualified from holding office, and
shalt be imprisoned in the peni-
tentiarv for term not exceeding
two years. Seconds, and persons
present giving countenance there
to, are to suffer like punishment;
except as to the right of suffrage.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
This body is authorized to or.
ganize religious societies, and
churches in South Carolina. Five
or more persons associated togeth-
er as trustees, are declared body
polite for religious purposes
Each society or church organized
under this act shall draw up q
statement, setting forth the facts,
signed by the Chairman and Sec
retary, which statement shall be
recorded in the Clerks Office.
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
|. This company is incorporated
to build railroad from the North
Eastern Railroad, through Man
ming and Sumter, to Charlotte, N.
c..
wATEREE AND NORTH CAROLINA R. R.
This road is incorporated to
run from Camden to Charlotte
and from Camden to Goldsbor-
ough.
EXECUTORS, TRUSTEES, GUARDIANS
Probate Judge shall not grant
final discharge to executors, ad
.ministrators, trustees guardians
or committees, until he, she or
they have given public notice in
the county paper for at least one
month, ofthe time and place where
the application will be made.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
County Commissioners shall
not be allowed to charge for more
than two hundred days in a year,
nor after April 1870, for moro than
one hundred days in year; the
accounts when made out must be
sworn to. The County are re-
quired to pay jury tickets, fees of
State witnesses, physicians and
surgeons fees (SlO for testifying
before Coroner's jury or at Court
after post mortem examination,
Solicitors fees, dieting prisoners
in Jail, fees of Coroner and Of Clerk
in criminal cases. The assess
ment necessary to provide for
these payments, is to be made by
the County Commissioners; which
the act limits to thirty cents on
the hundred dollars.
LAND COMMISSIONERS
Is appointed with salary of
two thousand dollars per annum,
TO be assisted by an advisory
board. CONSISTING of the Governor.