The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-01-08
A PROPOSED BILL.
To Provide for Rural Policeman
for Clarendon County.

A PROPOSED BILL.
To Provide for Rural Policeman
for Clarendon County.
| BE it Enacted by the General AS
sembly of the State Of South
Carolina !.
SECTION I. That it shall be
the duty of the Governor to ap
point, upon the recommendation
of the County Board of Commis-
sioners for Clarendon. RU,r !
Township Policemen for Claren-
don county, as provided for in
this Act. 80,
|. SEC. II. The County Board of
Commissioners for Clar end on
county shall recommend the ap-
point of Rural Policemen by the
Governor only upon the petition
of at least one-third of the resi-
dent free-holders of the town
ship desiring the Rural Police
men.
SEC III. Whenever the resi-,
dent free-holders of any town
ship in Clarendon county desire
a Rural Policeman or Rural Po:
|licemen to be appointed under
the provisions Of this Act, a pc.
tition signed by atleast one third
of the resident free-holders in
said township shall be presented
to the County Board of Commis-
sioners of Clarendon county ask
ing for a Rural Policeman; and
upon such petition being present
ed to and fled with said Board of
Commissioners. it shall be the
duty of said County Board of
Commissioners, and they are
hereby required to recommend to
the Governor, One or more able
bodied men Of said county, who
shall. be registered electors OF
Clarendon county, of good hab-
it's, courage, GOODNESS and dis.
cretion, known as men who are
not addicted to the use Of alco-
holic liquors or of drugs, for ap-
pointment as Rural Township Po-
iiceman for the township so pc.
titioning, for period of one
year, subject to removal as here
matter provided for in this Act.
Provided, however, that no po-
liceman shall be appointed who
is related by blood or marriage
within the sixth degree to any
one of said County Board; OF
Commissioners. ''<
SEC. ". That it shall be the
duty of said policemen. under the
direction Of the sheriff Of said
county, to patrol and police the
township to which he or they are
appointed, and to prevent, de
tect, and prosecute before the
nearest Magistrate, all violations
of the criminal law of every kind,
make arrests for all ofenses COM
mitted in view or hearing of such
officers and to report their acts
and all known or. suspected Vlo'
lations of the criminal law, to
the sheriff once a week or often
er. and to secure from the near
est Magistrate Warrants Of Ar
rest, if directed to do so. by said
sheriff. and they shall at each
term of the court of general ses
s1ons appear before the solicitor
in his room, and before the grand
| Jury, to be each advised, instruct
ed and:charged in respect to their
duties and questioned with refer
ence to conditions of lawlessness
and disorder in the county.
SEC. V. That the said police
man shall patrol his entire town:
ship, remaining on duty at night,
when occasions or circumstances
suggest the propriety thereof,
to prevent or detect crime, or to
make arrest, and they shall al
ways be- on duty not less than
eight hours a day. except when
granted occasional indulgences
or leaves of absence by the
sheriff: they shall frequent rail-
road depots, stores, and other
public places where people con
gregate or disorder is probable
or Migrants may be loafing, or
alcoholic liquors may be sold or
drunk, and they shall: as often as
possible ride by homes that are
of from the public highway and
IN lonely parts of the county, and
they shall use every means to
prevent or detect and arrest aud
prosecute for breaches Of the
peace. drunkenness. obscene or
or profane language, or bolster.
Gus conduct, or discharge Of fire
arms on public highway or at a
public place or gathering, carry
ing weapons contrary to- law,
gambling, vagrancy, carrying
fire on lands OF another, setting
out fire, violations of fish and
game laws, cruelty to animals or
to children, miscegenation, lvn-
ching and also any ~na every
violation of the criminal laws.
Sec. VI. That said policemen
shall have the authority to arrest
without warrant for any freshly
committed crime, com mite d
within view or hearing of said
policemen. but upon reliable IN
| formation that a crime has been