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-flLXXO t ?033L Sales. By F. Lane? & Son. WILL be sold, TO-MORROW, (Friday,) 22d inst-, at lOi o'clock, at thc residence in Senate street, nearly opposite i>r. Shand's Church, A very ftne 7-octavc Piano. 1 handsome Book-case. Rosewood What-Not, and several other articles. Otc 21 2?_ \Sale Postponed on Account of Weather.] Furniture. Bedding, Crockery, <S:c. By JAMES G. GIBBES C F. HARRISON, ArenoxKi- a. WILL be sold, THIS MORNING, 21st, at 10 o'clock, at the residence of the late Capt. . Matthews, opposite Arsenal Acadewiv, Household and Kitchen FURNITURE, consisting in part of : Bureaus, Wardrobes. Washstand.!. Tables, Chairs, Marble-top Tables. Mattresses, Bedsteads. Carpets. Mantel Ornament*, Secretary. Choice Pictures. Glassware, China Dishes and other Crockery. Extension Dining Table. 1 Cooking Stove, complete. And numerous other articles essential to house-keeping. Dec 21 1 Ladies are invited to attend this sale. Furniture, Males, Wagons, Harness, Coirs. By Francis Lance & Son. WILL be ?old, on FRIDAY. December 22. at 10^ o'clock, at the residence in Senat? street, nearly opposito Dr. *.Shand'a Churoh, A variety of well-kept Household and Kitchen FURNITURE, consisting of : Bureaus, Mahoganv ?nd Cane-scat Chairs, Sofas, Lounges, Marble-top Wash? stands and Tables, Mirrors, Brussels Car? pets, Dish Covers, Lead Pipe, Cooking UtensUs and numerous other articles. ALSO, A very handsome set of Parlor Furni? ture, ALSO; 2 good Milch Cows. . ALSO, Wagons, Mules, Harness and a variety of other thiugs. Unlimited articles received up to 10 o"clock on day of sale. Dec 10 4* CHEATEST AND SAFEST PORTABLE LIGHT kow IN USE! Burns fire hours at Cost of one Cent! IN use al all the principal Hotels and Ferries in the United States, on account of its cleanliness and economy. DIRECTIONS rou ITS VSE. Fill thc Lamp, then pour off al! that will run out. and turn thc Lamp bottom vp, to drain; then screw the top in, and trim the wick nearly close to the tube. If the Hame smokes, the wick is too high. The Lamp is lined inside with a prepared material to absorb sufficient Lig-ro-nie to burn from three to eighteen hours, accord? ing to the size and purpose of thc Lamp, The object of pouring out thc surplus fluid is to economize it to tho greatest possible extent, and to prevent spilling in the most careless hand. No. 1 Safety Lamp-For Hotels and Boarding Houses. No. 2 Safety Lamp-For family usc. No. 3 Safety Lamp-For general use, with one, two or three burners; lined to burn from 9 to 27 hours. Having secured the right for the sale of these Lamps for this District from tho principal agents in Charleston, Messrs. G. Davis A Co., we will be always prepared to lill all orders. The public are invited to call and examine these Ramps. SHELTON, CALVO <fc WALSH, Sole agents for Richland District. Dec 21 MARSHALL BOM AND HACK LINE TO WASHINGTON, ?A, HAVING taken charge of the above HOTEL, and having thoroughly re? fitted and refurnished it, I pledge myself, after many years' experience in this busi? ness, to furnish my guests with clean, com? fortable rooms, and a table Bupplicd at all times with the very best thc markets afford. I am determined to spare no pubis to please mv patrons. My HACKS from Abbeville to Washing? ton, Ga., will make daily connection with this House, affording to persons going W.-st and East a safe, comfortable and ex? peditious means of conveyance. Persons desiring to go from Abbeville to any point of tho country not accessible by public conveyance, can lind at my LIVERY STABLES, for hire, Carriages, Buggies and Saddle Horses. I?. S. RUTLEDGE. Abbeville C. H., December 12, 18(15. Dec 21 _Jnii\_ J. J. GOODWYN, BL D., OFFERS his professional services to the citizens, ot Columbia. His office for the present is at thc residence of s. L. De Veaux. Esq., Camden (orTavlor) street. Dec 19 1* go into the District Court fund ; and the Clerk shall keep a record of all licenses issued under the order of the Judge of the District Court. EVICTION OF PERSONS OF COLOR. LiXXY. Where, upon any farm or lands there now are persons of color, who were formerly the slaves of the owner, lessee or occupant of the said farm or lands, who may have been there on the tenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and have been on said lauds for six months previous ; and who are helpless, either from old age, infancy, disease or other cause ; and who are unable, of themselves, and have no parent or other relation able to maintain them, and to provide other homes or quar? ters, it shall not be lawful for the present, or any subsequent, owner, lesse or occupant, before tho first day of January, in thc year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to evict or drive from the houses which now are, or hereafter shall be, lawfully occupied by such helpless persons of color, such helpless persons, or any of them, by rendering such houses unin? habitable, or by any other means ; and upon conviction of having done so, every suck owner, lessee, occupant, agent or other person, shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than five dollars, for each such person of color so evicted, and may be imprisoned, at thc discretion of the Judge of the District Court, not exceeding one month. LXXVI. But the owner, lessee, or occupant of such farm or lauds shall, nevertheless, have authority to preserve order and good conduct in the houses so occupied as aforesaid, and to prevent visitors and other persons from sojourning therein ; and for insolence to himself or his family, for theft or trespass committed by such persons of color, or any one of them, | upon the premises, or for violations by them of his regulations for the preservation of order and good conduct, the prevention of visitors and sojourners therein, tho owner, lessee, or occupant, may complain to the Judge of tho District Court, or a Magistrate, who, upon finding the com? plaint well founded, may, according to the case, cause the immediate eviction of some or all of such persons of color, and their removal from the premises. After the period aforesaid, they may be ejected, as is here? inafter provided in case of intruders. LXXVII. It shall be the duty of tho Judge of the District Court, or any Magistrate, on complaint made to him that persons of color have intruded into any house or upon any premises, as trespassers or otherwise, or that they unlawfully remain therein without permission of the owner, on ascertaining the complaint to be well founded, to causo such persons to be immediately removed therefrom, and in case of the return of any such person without lawful permission, the party so offending may be subjected to such fino and corporal punishment as the Magistrate or District Judge may seo proper to impose. LXXYILL During the term of service, the house occupied by any servant is the master's; and, on tho expiration ol the term of service, or i tliG discharge of a servant, he shall no longer remain on the premises of the master; and it shall be the duty of the Judge of the District Court, or a Magistrate, on complaint of any person interested and due proof made, to cans? such servant to be immediately removed from such premises. LXXIX. Leases of a house or land to a person of color shall bo in writing. If there be no written lease, or the term of lease shall have expired, a person of color in possession shall be a tenant at will, and shall not be entitled to notice; and on complaint by any person interested to the. Judge of the District Court, or a Magistrate, such persons of color shall be instantly ejected by order or warrant," unless he produce a written lease authorizing his possession, or provo that such writing existed and was lost. LXXX. In every case the costs of eviction may be exacted, by order or process, from the person evicted. FAT TEES. LXXXI. "When a person of color shall be unable to earn his support, and is likely to become a charge to the public, the father and grand-fathers, mother and grand-mothers, child and grand-child, brother and sister of such person, sheJ?, each according to his ability, contribute monthly, for the support of such poor relation, such sum as the District Judge, or one of the Magistrates, upon complaint to him, shall deem necessary and proper, and on failure to pay such sum, the same shall be collected by summary order or process. LXXXII. In each Judicial District, except the Judicial District of Charleston, in which there shall be one Board for thc Election District of Charleston, and one for the Election District of Berkeley, there shall be established a Board, to be known as the ' ' Board of Relief of Indigent Persons of Color," which shall consist of a Chairman and not less than three, nor more than seven other members, all of whom shall be Magis? trates of the District, and be selected by the District Judge. LXXXLII. This Board shall meet at the Court House on tho Tuesday next after tho first Monday in February and August in every year, and at other times and places, fixed by its own appointment or the summons of its Chairman, and it may, at its pleasure, appoint sub-Boards, to be com? posed of such of its own members and other Magistrates of the District as it may select. LXXXIV. By tho Board the District shall, as soon as practicable, bc divided into precincts, within each of which some Magistrate shall reside. Tho Board is required ko keep exact minutes of all its proceedings, and ! in these shall appear the boundaries of each precinct, as from time to ! time they may be arranged LXXXV. A District Court fund shall be established in each District, to be composed of aids paid for the approval of contracts between master and servant, and of instruments of apprenticeship and for licenses granted by the District Judge, all fines, penalties and fo. ieitures collected under order or process from the District Court or a Magistrate of tho District, fees for appeal from the District Judge, wages of convicts, and taxes col? lected under the order of tho Board of Relief of Indigent Persons of Color. LXXX VI. If the District Court fund, after payment of the sums with which it is charged, on account of tho salary of the Judge of thc District Court, Superintendent of Convicts, Jurors, and other expenses of the Court, and of convicts, shall bo insufficient to support indigent persons of color, who may be proper charges on the public, the Board aforesaid shall have power to impose for that purpose, whenever it may be {required, a t:ix of one dollar on each malo person of color between tho ages of 1 eighteen and fifty years, and fifty cents on ''ach unmarried female person of color between the ages of eighteen and forty-five; to be collected in each precinct by a Magistrate thereof : Provided, That the said imposition of a tax shall be approved in writing by the Judge of the District Court, and that bis approval shall appear in the journals of that Court. LXXXVLL For collection of a tax imposed by the Board aforesaid, every Magistrate of a precinct shall give ten day's public notice, within his precinct, of thc classes of persons liable to the tax, the sum which is required from every person of each class, and of thc day when payment shall bc made. Every person liable to pay, who fails to pay on the day appointed, shall become liable to pay a double tax, if he shall not make to the Magistrate a satisfactory excuse; and against him the Magistrate may issue process in the nature of fieri /acias, special attachment, and other process most likely to exact payment,; any or all of which shall be executed by a constable or the Sheriff. LXXXVIII. It shall be thc duty of every person who is occupant of a house or promises, within seven day's after notice to report, in writing and on oath to a Magistrate of the precinct in which such house ur premises are, the names, sexes, ages and occupations of all persons of color in the said house, or on the said premises, who aro unable to earn a livelihood for themselves and respective families, with the cause of disa? bility as to each one, and also in respect to each one of such persons the (name, place of abode, and ability, so far as may be known, of every j relation who is, according to the provisions hereinbefore contained, bound to contribute to the support of such person. For every failure, without good excuse, to make report, as herein required, nn occupant of house or premises as aforesaid, shall be hable to a fins not exceeding twenty dollars, nor less than five dollars ; to be paid immediately ; or if it should not be paid, substitution of other punishment to take place, us in other cases of fines not paid. LXXXLX. It shall be the duty of every magistrate to make diligent inquiry into the condition and wants of the colored poor within his pre? cinct; to give public notice when reports from occupants us aforesaid are required; to require such reports within a month before each regular meeting of the Board of Relief of Indigent Persons of Color, and when? soever else the said Board may direct; to examine such reports when made to him; from them and o*ther informatiou. to ascertain the correctness of ? of the facts therein stated; to enforce, as far as possible, the obligation of" persons bound, as before provided, to contribute to tho support of poor relations, and to make reports to the Board aforesaid as hereinafter di j reefed, and to the District Court as is required by the "Act to establish District Courts.'* I XC. Every Magistrate shall, besides the quarterly reports which he Ls required to make to thc District Court, make, on the Monnday next prece? ding the first Monday of February and August, every year, a semi-annual report to thc Chairman of the Board aforesaid; which report shall clearly exhibit, for the time since his last preceding semi-annual report, all his receipts, all his payments, all his commissions, the condition of tbe colored population within his precinct, thc name, sex, age, occupation and particular disability of every person of color in that population who re? quires assistance from the pubhc; the sum which, in his opinion, is neces? sary for such person, and the sum required for his whole preciont. Lu the receipts the distinction shall be observed between collections and moneys turned over to the Magistrate by some other officer, the particulars and ?um of each hoing shown. The collections shall be classified accord? ing to tho sources from which they proceeded, or for instance aids fronv contracts, aids from instruments of apprenticeship, fines, taxes. Under taxes shall appear the name and sex of tho person from whom each item, was collected. Tho sums paid for tho support of your relations, and by, and for whom, shall be set forth. In the expenditures distinctions shall be observed between actual disbursements and sums turned over to other officers ; and the different purposes of disbursements be arranged under. suitable heads. Every expenditure must bo accompanied by a proper voucher unless it should appear that it was impracticable to obtain one. For any failure to make a report as herein required, a Magistrate shall be liable to indictment shall pay a fino not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less, than twenty dollars. XCI. Tho Chairman of the Board aforesaid, besides the quarterly reports which, by the "Act to establish District Courts," he is required to make to the Distrit Court, shall, at each regidor sitting of tL said Board, and whensoever else he moy bo required by the said Board, or by the District Judge, make to tho Board, in respect to his own acts as Magis trate of a precinct, such a report as is required from another Magistrate ; lay before the Board the reports made to lum by other Magistrates ; and also make a full and particular report in which shall be condensed thc information obtain, d from the semi-ann aal reports of the Magistrates, so as to show the condition and wants of the whole District and of each pre? cinct ; which report yhall also exhibit the receipts and expenditures for the whole District since the report last preceding, arranged under proper heads, so as to show the sums received from each source, and by what Magistaate, the sums disbursed for each purpose, and by what Magistrate, the sums turned over from one officer to another, commissions, expenses and contributions for poor relations. Each report shall particularly specify all delinquencies of Magistrates during its period, and the names of delinquents. For any failure to make report as hero required, tho Chairman shall bc liable to indictment, and, upon conviction, shah pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than twenty dollars. XCII. The Board of Belief of Indigent Persons of'Color "shall determine the sum necessary for the support of ca h indigent person of color, who shall be deemed a proper charge on the public, tho sum required by each precinct, the sum which shall be paid to each Magistrate to be disbursed by him, when reports from occupants as aforesaid shall be required, and when a tax shall be imposed. It shall direct the Magistrates respectively in the performance of the duties required of them in reference to paupers and the District Court fund, and it shall report to thc District Court all delinquencies and delinquents. XCILT. The balance of the District Court fund which, as provided by the "Act to establish District Courts," shall, under the order of the Dis? trict Judge be paid to the Chairman aforesaid, shall, under the order of the Board aforesaid, be distributed to the Magistrates of precincts, and be by them disbursed for the relief of indigent persons of color, and other uses of the Board, as may be directed. Tho minutes of tho Board shall show the sum assigned to each Magistrate, and the receipt of the Magi? strate for every sum-paid to him shall be taken bj' the chairman of the Board, and shall accompany the next report of the chairman to the Board as well as bc exhibited in support of the chairman's quarterly report to the District Court in which such payment is set down. XCTV. On satisfactory information to the District Judge, or a Magis? trate, that a person ot color has removed from another District, and is likely to become a charge to the District into which he has removed, the District Judge, or tho Magistrate, shall proceed against such a person as a vagrant, and. on conviction, he shall be punished as such : Provided, howcer, That persons of color who were removed by their former masters from other Districts, within the last five years, shall be allowed twelve months to return to the Districts from which they were removed ; and those who have been separated from their families or relatives shall be allowed to return to them within twelve months. VAGRANCY A KD IDLENESS. XGV. These are public grievances, and must be punished as crimes. XG VJ- All persons who have not some fixed and known place of abode, and some lawful and reputable employment ; those who have not some visible and known means of a fair, honest and reputable livelihood ;. all common prostitutes ; those who are found wandering from place to place, vending, bartering or peddling any articles or commodities, without a license from the District Judge, or other proper authorities ; all common i gamblers ; persons who lead idle or disorderly lives, or keep or frequent ! disorderly or disreputable houses or places ; those who, not having suffi i cient means of support, are able to work ami do not work : those who (whether or not they own lands, or aro lessees or mechanics,) do not pro? vide a reasonable and proper maintenance, for themselves and families; those win) are engaged in representing publicly >r privately, for fee OT reward, without license, any tragedy, interlude, comedy, farce, play, or other similar entertainment, exhibition of the circus, sleight-of-hand, wax work or the like ; those who for private gain, without license, give any concert or musical entertainment, of any description'; fortune-tellers; sturdy beggars ; common drunkards ; those who hunt game of any description, or fish on thc land of others, or frequent the premises, contrary to the willoi the occupants : shall be deemed vagrants, cud be liable to tho j punishment hereinafter provided. XCVTL Upon information, or oath, of another, or upon Iiis ow? knowledge, the District. Judge er a Magistrate, shall issue a warrant for I the arrest of any person of color known, or believed, to bc a vagrant. within the meaning of this Act. 'The Magistrate may proceed to tryr : with the assistance of five freeholders, or call into his aid another 'Magistrate, and the two may proceed to try, with the assistance of three j free-holders, as is provided by the Act of 17?7. concerning vagrants ; or ; the Magistrate may commit the accused to be tried before the District i Court. On conviction, the defendant shall be hable to imprisonment, and ! to hard labor, one or both, as shall be fixed by the verdict, not exceeding twelve nv in tbs.