The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-24
LAWS OF THE STATE.
Acts and Joint Resolutions, Passed
by the General Assembly OF South
Carolina, Session Of 1s70-'71.
[oF OFFICIAL.

AN ACT TO amend an acC eutltleu aCl W uc-
fine the criminal Jurisdiction of trial JUS
tices." approved March l, 1870.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House OF Representatives of the State of South
| Carolina, now met and sitting in General As
sembly, and by the authority ofthe same:
Whenever trial justice or justice Of the
peace shall issue warrant for the arrest oil
any person charged with offence above the
grade of a misdemeanor, such trial justice or
Justice of The peace shall be authorized to Sc
lect any citizen or citizens of the county to
execute the same, upon his endorsement upon
| the said warrant that, in his judgment, the
selection OF such person or persons will be
conducive to the certain and speedy execu-
ton of the said warrant; and the person or
persons so selected shall have all the powers
now, or hereafter, conferred by law upon any
constable within this State.
SEC. 2. Any person OF persons selected In
the manner provided for in Section of this
act shall be required forthwith to proceed to
execute the said warrant, and upon his viii.
fully. negllgently or carelessly falling to make
the ARE at, or permitting the party to escape
after arrest, ne Or they shall be punished, upon
conviction, on Indictment, by fine and i'm
prisonment in the county JAIL in the discretion
of the Judge before whom the indictment may
be tried, said Imprisonment not to be less than
six months.
Approved the 9th day Of March, A. D. 1871.
AN ACT TO regulate the disposition of fines and
penalties imposed and collected in GRIM
inal causes by the Circuit Court Of General
Sessions and trial justices.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting In General AS
sembly, and by the authority of the same:
That all fines and penalties imposed and col
lected by the Circuit Court of General Sessions
In criminal causes shall be forthwith turned
over by the clerk of said court to the county
treasurer of the county wherein the same are
imposed; and all fines and penalties imposed
and collected by trial justices in criminal
cause. shall be forthwith turned over by them
to the county treasurer of their respective
counties for county purposes: Prouided, That
where, by law, any person or persons enti-
tied, az informer or informers. to any portion
of the fine or penalty imposed and collected,
the same shall be Immediately paid over to him
or them.
Sec. 2. No account Of the circuit solicitor,
the clerk of the Circuit Court of General Ses-
sions, the county sheriff, or trial justices, for
fees in any criminal cause heard or prosecuted
in the Circuit Court, or before trial Justice,
shall be paid, unless they, severally, shall de-
clare, on oath, that the costs in the said cause
have not been recovered OF the defendant, and
that he, the defendant, was unable to pay the
same; and, further, that all fines and penalties
heretofore collected by them have been faith
fully and fully paid over 10 the county treasurer
OF the county.
SEC 3. If any clerk of the Circuit Court of
General Sessions, county sheriff or trial Justice,
shall neglect or refuse to Immediately pay
over, as required by the first section of this
act, any and all fines and penalties collected by
them In any criminal cause or proceeding, he
shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject TO
fine of not less than one hundred, nor more
tnaQ one LuOusduU duu
not less than three, nor more than six months,
and shall be dismissed from office, and dis
qualified from holding any office of trust and
profit under the State Of South Carolina.
Approved the 9th day, OF March, a. D. 1871.
JOINT RESOLUTION directing that funds known
as Candy School Fund, remaining in hands
OF county treasurers, be appropriated to the
free school fund.
Be it resotved BY the Senate and House OF
Representatives Of the State Of South Carroll
ma, now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority of the same:
That such sums of the appropriation OF s2S,-
600 for the support Of free schools for the year
commencing October 3lst, 1867, and ending
October 3lst, 1868, and known as the Candy
fund, now remaining in the hands OF the sew
eral county treasurers, be, and the same Is
hereby, appropriated for the payment of teach
ers claims in the several counties for the
fiscal year commencing November lst, 1860;
and any unexpended balance of the same
shall be applied to the free school fund of said
counties.
Approved The lst day Of March, a. D. 1871.