The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-01-03
Tho stock Law
AS IT WAS PAssEDsAT THE LAST SESSION OF TIL
LEGISLATURE.

AN ACT To Protect the Lands and Crops of The
Citizens of Abbeville Union, Newberry and
Laurens Counties from Trespass by Stock.
BE u enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
rescntatives of the State of South Carolina, now
met and sitting in General Assembly, and by
the authority OF the same
SECTION |. That in the Counties of Abbevillc,
Union, Newberry and Laurens it shall not be
| lawful for the owner or manager of any horse,
mule, ass genet, swine, sheep. goat or neat cat
tie of any description to permit the said animals,
| any of them, to run ut large beyond the linn
| its Of their own land
SEC. z. That in said Counties, whenever any
| Of the said stock shall be found upon the lands
| Of any other person than the owner, the owner
| Of such stock shall be liable for all damages
sustained, to be recovered by action of debt in
any Court of competent jurisdiction, and the
stock causing the damage shall be held liable for
the same in pref, renee to all other liens, claims
or encumbrances against the same.
| SEC. 3. ANY person who shall maliciously,
| unlawlully OF negliBently permit any of said
stock to go upon the lands of other parties shall
be deemed guilty of misGemeanor and, upon
| conviction thereof in competent Court shall
be fined in sum not exceeding thirty dollars
| or imprisonment FOR not more than thirty days,
in the discretion of the Court.
SIC. t. That the County Commissioners of
said Countless respectively, are directed TO erect
Il lawful fence OH the limits of said Counties to
cursions of stock or cattle from adjaccn Coun-
ties, and for that purpose enter the lands Of any
person in said Counties and erect fences thereon
without being guilty of any trespass whatever
and the said Commissioners shall have power to
construct fences across any public or private
road and erect gates OH all roads and the Coun-
ty Commissioners are hereby authorized and
empowered to make such arrangements with the
owners of property contiguous on either side Of
said County lines as may accomplish the object
of protecting the Counies from the incursionS . t
cattle and stock.
SEC. D. That any person who shall willfully
and unawfully leave opcr any of the aforesaid
gates or do any willful damage to the gates or
fences erected for the purposes aforesaid shall
bc dccmcl guilty Of II msdcmeanor, and, on
conviction in any Court OF competent iurisdic-
ton, shall be fined in not exceeding
twenty (20) dollars or imprisonment not more
than twenty coy days.
SEc. &. Any person other than the owner or
their agents moving destroying any portion
OF any fence Intended to enclose animals of any
kind shall be deemed guilty of n msdcmennor,
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
) by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the dis.
cretion of the Court.
| SEC. Z. That the County Commissioners of
said Counties, respectively, shall be authorized
nd instructed TO levy and collect n tax upon
the property Of said County to defray the ex-
penses Of erecting and maintaining said fences,
said taxes to be collected at the same time and
i'll the same manner as the State and County
taxes are levied and collected.
SEC. s. This Act take effect Immediately and
the fences required to be completed by the
fourth (4tb) day of March next.
SIC. 9. That all Acts and parts of Acts incen-
sistent with this Act be, and the same are here
by, repealed.
Approved December II, 1878.
IMPORTANT OnpER.-Th, following important
order was issued from the Comptroller Generals
office yesterday. 1t will be mailed to the vari-
Gus County Auditors and Treasurcrs within the
next week:
TO all county .iWdiiors anil TrcdstrcrS:
In pursuance of Legislation upon the suhicc
instruction has been heretofore given you IL
treat all tenders of bills Bank of the State md
coupons for taxes rs utilities, and TO proceed to
distrain or levy and sell in every case unles,
, stopped by injunction of the courts in lh,t par
ticular
In cases Of injunction report the fact to this
office TO the end that the Attorney General may
be called upon to represent the State.
Since this instruction was given an act to fl
ciiitate collection of taxes has been passed, the
third section of which provides, That in all
cases in which any person against whom any
taxes stand charged upon the books of any
County Treasurer Of the State has heretofore
rendered in payment of the same any funds
currency or bank bills other than such as the
sad Treasurer was authorized 10 receive by the
f act of the General Assembly lcvying said
taxes, the said Treasurer shall receive from
such person the said taxes without pcnali
in funds or moneys authorized to he received
by the act of the General Assembly lcvying tn,
same: |rOrdcd, That such taxes shall he 81
+ paid within sixty days from the passage of this
act and any person so paying the same may dc
80 under protest and thereupon shall be cnti
, tied to all the benefits Of the remedy provided
3 in section ] Of this act"
You are instructed to construc the words
"without penalty in the section quoted to in
cludc all charges, whether for costs or penalties
, proper
lon will also postpone the delinquent sales OF
, lands for which bills have been rendered for
sixty days from December -, 1878, the date OF
I the approval Of the said act, giving due notice
l OF the same after which vau will proceed tC
advertise and sell rs first instructed
I JOHNSON IIAGooD,
Comptroller General
MAISISII;D.
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