Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1894-10-31

gang is not employed, OF when con-
venient and practicable, they shall
be confined in the county jail for
safe keeping under direction of
said Supervisor.
Sec. 81. That the County Board
of Commissioners shall be author
lied and required to employ ply
sician or physicians whenever nee
essary to render medical aid to
sick convicts and to preserve the
health of the chain gang. The
fees and expenses Of the same, as
we'll as for medicines prescribed,
to be paid out of the road fund as
other claims are paid against said
funds.
Sec. %. The County Board of
Commissioners shall have general
supervision over the paupers and
the Poor House and farm of the
county, and the said board shall
provide all necessary buildings for
the accommodation of the poor of
the county, with sufficient tillable
land to give employment to all pau
pers able to work, and said build
ings and lands shall be designated
as the Poor House and farm of the
county.
Sec. %. That said board shall be
empowered to make all necessary
rules and regulations for the gov
er1ment of the county Poor House
and farm, to appoint superin-
tendent, with such assistants as
may be needed, to provide means
for the employment as may be best
suited to the inmates of the Poor
House, to see that every pauper
able to work is employed, and to
appoint one or more physicians to
the Poor House, who shall furnish
medical aid to the INDECENT sick.
Sec. 80. The County Board of
Commissioners shall have power to
demand, sue for, and receive all
such gifts, legacies, fines, forfeit
ures and all other moneys or things
which may be given or coming to
the use of the poor.
Sec. 81. In case any poor child
or children shall be, or become,
chargeable to the county, the
County Board of Commissioners
may bind out any such child or
children as an apprentice to some
| person&of good moral character
until such child, if he be male,
shall arrive al the age Of sixteen
years, and it be female until she
arrives at the age of fourteen years
or shall marry. The said board
shall have power to bind out to
service, under some person of good
moral character, any illegitimate
child or children likely to become
chargeable to the county, or liable
to be demoralized by the immoral
conduct or evil example of their
mother or other persons having
them in charge, in the manner and
for the time prescribed for pauper
children, and they shall have power
to issue all necessary writs to en-
force the provisions OF THIS oectlon.
Secs. 33, "a, SO, and 81 refer to
the Poor House.
Sec. 81 refers to the adoption of
a seal.
Sec. SO. Each county shall pay:
1. The fees of the grand and petit
Jurors while in attendance upon
the circuit court. 2. Witnesses
fees in the State cases for actual
attendance upon the circuit courts
as provided by law. 3. Fees of
physicians and surgeons testifying
as experts before a Coroner's jury
or the circuit court. 4. Fees of
Sheriffs and Clerks Of Court as
provided by law. S. Fees of County
Coroners as allowed by law. 6.
Fees or salaries of Trial Justices
and Constables. 7. The compen-
sation of Auditors, Treasurers, and
County Supervisors as provided by
law.
Sec. SO. That the fees allowed
jurors, constables and witnesses
shall be paid by the Treasurer of
the counties, OH the presentation
to them of certificates signed by
the presiding judge and counter
signed by the Clerk of the Court,
or be received by him in the pay
ment of all county taxes when
duly approved by the County su-
pervisor.
Sec. 40. That tho accounts of the
Coroners and Sheriffs and Super