Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-01-05
THE STOCK Law.
A BILL TO PROVIDE A GENERAL
STOCK LAW AND REGULATE
THE OPERATIONS OF THE SAME.

THE OPERATIONS OF THE SAME.
Bo it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State Of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by tho authority of the
same:
SECTION l. That it shall not bo lawful
for tho owner or mauuger of any horse,
mule, ass, genet, swine, sheep, goat or neat
cattle of any description, or any other per-
son, to permit said animals, or any of them
or any other domestic animal, to run at
large beyond the limits of his own land
occupied or controlled by him; Provided,
That several counties hereinafter excepted
shall erect good aud sufficient liue fences
and necessary gates between them aud the
counties not so excepted; and for the pur-
pose of carrying out tho requirement. Of
this proviso, tho County Commissioners Of
the several counties hereinafter excepted,
be, and they are hereby authorized and
required to arrange for, aud have tho
necessary limo fences erected, as heroiu
provided, by the fifteenth day of April,
A. D, 1888 The counties so expected
hcreinunder are Georgetown, Horny and
Williamsburg: Provided, That where
stream of water which 10 law is sufficient
fenoo is boundary lne, no additional
fence shall be required along suoh line:
An1 provided further, Thnt Little Peo
Dee River and Lumber River shall be
deemed and uro hereby declared to DO
sufficient boundary fence for Horny county
go far US those rivers extend.
SEQ 2. That whenever any of said
stock or animals shaIl be found upon the
lands OF uny other person than the owner
or manoger of the saue, the owner Of suoh
stock shall bo Liable for all damages sus-
tained, aud for tho expenses Of the seizure
and maintenance, the said damages and
expenses to DO recovered, When necessary
by action in any court of competent juris
dic,ion; end tho said trcsspass ng stock
shall DO held liuhle for the samo in prefer
enco to all other lieus, cluims, or encum"
brunces upon it.
SEQ. 8. Thut any freeholder or tcnaut
OF land, his ageut or representative, may
seize and hold possession Of any of the
foregoing animals which may be tresspass-
ing upon his premises, aud Us compensation
IN. sn..'. .,i~n.,. ..SA A.....i .f tha ,Uwsioi
for every horse, mule, ass, geuet, bull, OK,
COW, calf or swine, tho sum of fifty cents,
aud for every sheep. goat, or other animal
not herein named, the snm of twenty cents,
together with just damages for injuries
sustained, which reclamation shall, when
possible, be laid before the owner of the
lresspassing stock wi,hil forty eight hours
utter seizure.
SEc That in oasc the claim shall not
beauoably or legally adjusted, and the tresss
passing sniWals recovered by the owner
| within twelve hours after tho receipt of
such notification, the owner shalt further
become liable in sum sufficient to cover
the maintenance uud care Of his stock up
10 time OF its removal, but the owner shall
be entitled 10 recover immediate possession
of his stock on duo execution of such bond
to recover expenses and claim damages as
my Trial Justice shall decide to be good
and sufficient.
SEC. 5. When tho owner Of tresspassing
stock is unknown, said stock may be de-
tuned for the space of one week awaiting
tho owners action. 1t shall then be re-
ported to and become subject to the orders of
any Trial Justice in the county where the
stock ID tuken up, who shall take such
action in the premises as will effcctuate the
purposes Of this Act, by advertising the
said stock upon tho Court House door end
in two other public places in the said
county, giving full description of the
snme and the causes of seizure, together
with the damages, costs aud other allow
ances indicated by this Act, for tho space
of ten days, and at the expiration Of that
timc should tho owner of tho stock not
have appeared a>d paid all tho expenses,
damages and costs properly adjusted, as in
this Act required, then tho said Trial j u.s.
tiee shall order his Constable to make
public sale Of tho same to the highest
bidder for cash, and out of the proceedings
Of suoh sale he shall pay the costs, damages,
expenses and adjusted elaine as in this
Act allowed mud the surplus. if any there
be, shull be turocd over BY tho suid Cons
stable to the Clerk Of tho Circuit Court for
the said county, TO bo by him paid to tho
owner of such stock upon proper proof of
suoh ownership; and should tho proper
owner of such stock or animal not appear and
obtain such surplus within ono year from
the time tho sume wos turned over to tho
said Clerk of tho Court, then the said
Clerk shall return and pay ovor the same
to the County Treasurer Of the said county
to DO by him disbursed as general county
funds.
SEC. 6. In cases where known owners
shall, after notification, neglect for the
period of three days, to adjust the legal
demands against them provided in this
Act, according to tho plan of adjustment
in Section 4, all further proceedings shall
be taken under Section s Of this Act, as