Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-10-27
THE GENERAL STOCK LAW.

THE GENERAL STOCK LAW.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by the Senate
and House of representatives of the State of
South Carolina, now met and sitting in Cen
eral Assembly, and by the authority of the
same, That it shall not be lawful for the
owner or manager of any horse, mule, ass,
genet, swine, sheep, goat, or neat cattle OF
any description, or for any other person, to
permit the said animals or any of them or
any other domestic animal to run at large
beyond the limits of his own land or the
lands leased, occupied or controlled by him.
SEC. 2. That whenever any of said stock
or animals shall be found upon the lands of
any other person than the owner or mana
ger of the same, the owner of such trespass-
ing stock shall be liable for all damages sus-
tanned, and for the expenses of seizure and
maintenance, the said damages and eXpen-
ses to be recovered, when necessary, by ac-
ton in any Court of competent jurisdiction;
and the said trespassinr stock shall be held
liable for the same in l.eference to all 9th
er liens, claims, or encumbrances upon 1t.
SEC. 3. That any freehOlder or tenant OF
land, his agent or representative, may seize
and hold possession of any of the foregoing
animalswhich may be trespassing upon his
premises, and as compensation for such seiz-
ure, may demand of the owner for every
horse, mule, ass, genet, bull, OK, cow, calf,
or swine, the sum of fifty cents, and for ev-
cry sheep, goat, or other animal not herein
named, the sum of twenty-five cents, to-
gether with just damages for injuries sus-
| tanned, which reclamation shall, when pos
sible be laid before the owner Of the tres
passing stock within forty-eight hours after
seizure.
SEC. 4. That in case the claim shall not
be amicably or legally adjusted, and the
trespassing animals recovered by the owner
within twelve hours after the receipt OF
such notification, the owner shall further
become liable in sum sufficient to cover
the maintenance and care of his stock up to
the time of its removal; but the owner shall
be entitled to recover immediate possession
of his stock on due execution of such bond
to cover expenses and claimed damages as
any Trial Justice shall decide to be good
and sufficient.
SEC. 5. When the owner Of trespasslng
stock is unknown, said stock may be de-
tanned for the space of one week awaiting
the owners action. 1t shall then be report
ed to and become subject to the orders of
any Trial Justice in the county where the
stock is taken up, who shall take such action
in the premises as will effectuate the pur-
poses of this Act, by advertising the said
stock upon the Court House door and in
two other public places in the said county,
giving full description of the same and
the causes of seizure, together with the dam
amages, costs, and other allowances indi-
Gated by this Act, for the space of ten days;
and at the expiration of that time, should
the owner of the stock not have appeared
and paid all the expenses, damages and
costs properly adjusted as in this Act re-
quired, then the said Trial Justice shall
order his Constable to make public sale Of
the same to the highest bidder for cash. and
out of the proceeds of such sale he shall pay
the costs, damages, expenses, and adjusted
plus, if any there be, shall be turned over
by said Constable to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for the said county to be by him paid
to the owner of such stock upon proper
proof of such ownership; and should the
proper owner of such stock or animal, not
appear and obtain such surplus within one
year from the time the same was turned
over to the said Clerk of the Court, then
said Clerk shall return and pay oyer the
same to the County Treasurer of the said
county to be by him disbursed as general
county funds.
SEC. 6. In cases where known owners
shall, after notification, neglect, for the Pc
riod of three days, to adjust the legal de-
mands against them provided in this Act,
according to plan of adjustment in Section
4, all further proceedings shall be taken un-
der Section of this Act, as though the
the owners were unknown.
SEC. 7. Any person, other than owner,
who shall remove or destroy, or leave down
any portion of any fence in this State in
tended to inclose animals of any kind, or
who shall leaye open any gate or leave
down any bars or other structure Intended.
for like purpose, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor; and any person who shall
wilfully or negligently violate the first Sec
tion of this Act, shall also be guilty OF a
misdemeanor, and both classes OF offenders
shall be punishable by fine of not less than
five nor more than thirty dollars or be i'm
prisoned in the county Jail not less than
five nor more than thirty days.
Sec 8. That whenever any animal shall
be taken up under the provisions OF this
rescue the same or deliver it from the custo-
dy of the person impounding it; and who
ever shall violate this provision shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and be
punished as provided in Section of this
Act.
SEC. 10. That in all criminal prosecutions
for violations Of the provisions of this Act,
the defendant may plead, as a matter OF
defence, the full satisfaction of all reasonable
demands of party or parties aggrieved by
such violation; and upon said plea being
legally eSldDllSlleu, anu .uPOh PetJ Va
ali costs accrued up to the time of such plea,
he shall be discharged from further penalty.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Charles Pinckney Wofford, conceded the
leading young lawyer at the Spartanbufg
bar, and a prominent member of his church,
died in Spartanburg on the goth instant,
after long and painful illness.
A Boston dispatch says that j. Hendrix
McLane, the Independent candidate. for
Governor of South Carolina in 1880, is to
enter Tufts Divinity School in few weeks
to take special course in preparation 1or
the ministry. 49,,
- Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell, who lives
near Tiller's Ferry, Chesterfield county, is
1O1 years old, in good health and remark
ably active One day last week she was
seen in a field picking cotton.
On Friday night last Robert Bruce, the
sixteen-year-o son of ThornWell Bruce, OF
| Tonooctar oountv was kicked bV a horse,