The tri-weekly news. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, December 30, 1865, Image 2
angeoug Distric', live hundred dollars I
'RichlHnd Disirict, ono thousiand dollars
Sumter District, seven hundred dollars
Union Distric, five hutitlred dollars ;
York District, five hundred dollars
Williamsburg District, five hundred dol.
lars ; Berkeley Election District, oie
thousand dollars; Charleston Election
District, one tiousand dollars ; Beaufort
Distric, one thousand dollars; Kershaw
District, five liindred dollars; and fbr
the District Judge of each of the other
Judicial Distriets of t is Statte, the snm of
five hundred, dollars: Provided, hoto.
ever, That in case the District Court
Fund in any Distiict sha-l piove isiffi.
cient for thei purpose for stuch additional
:otmpensalion, as is herein provided. n1o
claim for tie whole, or any part, di such
additioial competisation upon the Treas
ury of the State shall arise hv reason tf
such deficiency : And Proviled, aho,
That the tiie when the salaries herein
provided for shall commence, shall be
when 'he Court is organized, aid the
Judge empowered to execuite this Act.
III. For each District. Court, d h,
Clerk and Sirill' of the lis trict shall
respectively Le Clerk and Shmeriff. and
may act in per.on, or by dtpitty, when
ever, in this Act. or othei Acts passed
at this session, oie of fthise oflicers i4
mentioned,9ithelnr he, or his depity, is.
Ineint, uiless thbcOitext, shows that lie
hiims-'lf isintended.
IV. The Judge, Clerk and Sheriff of a
District Court -hall eaclh before' enter.
ing on th. duties of his oflice, etke tie
official oath prescribed in soleninly
swear, (or afirii,) that as Judge, Clerk
or Sherif, as the case iimay be, 6f the
District Court for the District of .
I will earnestly endeavor tt> do
what is required of me by law, land
* without prejudice for or against'race or
color, t.o conduct myself s becomes ain
upright -and faithful ohliverj" These
oatIs shall boeindorsed on 'the commis.
sion or certificate of appointment of th
ofIice. and with it,. be entered on the
Joutrnal of tihe Di.istrict (oirr.
V. Ti'i flict --of 'verv .\l t
nowt in ,lliet .fe oud iunew ac,'inr g m
ile terms of tII- appoimmeit r
Which it is ll-b, willh the lower ;1i#
righs iow 1y law alt tc1ii:g an ii !.
dent to sch thiet. Tue Maig'is i.11'
who .arm npimlited to exe'rcis, I lite pow
erS ad dUties, and to have tihe right
iiplosted by this Act alt th Act e-ta
tied 'A1: Act to establish and reguiate
the. domestie relations of Persois ef
Color, and to aumend theblw iI relation
to Paupers and Vagra ney, s all be Imp.
pointed in every District by tht Dis.
trict 'Judge titertof, by and withn tie
advice anad conseit of it lmajority of the
Delegation of such District in the Gen.
eral Assembly, in such ian-ier and so
located as tha coidition of tle District
may, from time to ltiime retidire; and
suci Magist rates shall have all the pow.
era and rightsi and may exercise .all
the duties of -Magistraties, by law con
ferred on Magistrats's. Each Mags.
trite so appoinlAd shall, before entering
on the dit ies of his olice, . take before
the Clerk of the District thIw-onths here.
tofore prescribed for the District Judge..
and also the eAth prescribed in the se
cond section of time 'Act concerning the
- office and duties of Magistrates," pass
ed. A. D 1839, and shallhsign a roll as
required in that section. The term of
his offilce shall be four years from the
day te signed the roll.
VT; The sum which limnits the pro.
ceedings by summary process is enlarged
to oneo hundred doldars, exclusive of
costa. In every case under that pro.
ceeding, eitHer party -may be a witness
in his owil behalhf, or aybreirdy
the adverse p arty to tiy, reiherl by
*bemng served with a, subpocna, or .by
being called usp un ler a commission, in
like manner as in like circumstancos an
othenr witness in the case could be ;- the
practice how preva ling in reference to
* . interromgatories propounded to an ad
verse party not being hereby interfered,
wvith. 4~nd in every such -case, no per.
* son shall be held incompetent, as .a wit.
ness bcPaiise of'interest. Of iall such
cases, where both the partie litigaat
are white persons, there shall be con.
current jurisdicedoh in tle Suprenie
Court of Law, and in the District
Court ; all l~ws, rules, fees, pow'ers and
practice in respect:.o such- cases which
may6 ptuvail ini thne Superior Court being
exteruled to the Distneot Court..
VII. The pistrict. Court shall have
* excluisive jurisdiction, subject, to app~eal
of all civil causes whaer& one or both of
thme parties arb persons,$cpfor, .and-of
all criminal cases whereitn the accused is
a person od' color, and aJea of all cases
of' misdemeanor affecting toe person or
yproperty. of a person of olr, an 00
- .all cases of batrda .4hI casesp
In, seet te emja - fee~l4
era ud ' hall prov.'U 4'
,t rict Couarias ithe Siippi6~k4
capt as Jqrg coont.e
S vision4 liertiniafr maade1iit k~
p'werji lireitlftler given to the Court
4-App4hs. .In-the Distri'et Court, pro.
'ecutions shall be conducted. by the AL.
Lorney Generil, or Solicitor of tue Cir
Dni to hich the, District belongs, or by
a deputy appointed by auch Attorney
Gene-al or Solicitor, or, in the absence,
of 'all of these, by an Attorney ap.
pointed by the Di trict Judge. When
ever nny case afflcting the person or
property ot a 1.prson 'of color, wich
arises within ite Dist rict. of a Distriet
Judge, that J ugmig Iy la ve a i interest,
the process niny I. mi:tib- retornable,
and the case be tried before t.ho District
Court ofan adjoining District. which the
plahitiff or hetor inl tiv cas may wliec.
VIII. The District Court chaNl have
the saine power and j i*risdiction as the
tf Supirior Court. of Law in reference
to Constables. Jurors, punishment of
contempt. The District, Qourt shall
have power in all cases of tenants hold.
ing over, cases of forcible entry and le
tain-, aenses- Iltide' the Insolvent Deb
lors' Acts, where .no arrest. and dgten
tiou are ndiler te process of a District
Cotri, all case's Ainder ti Prison Bound
Act, and :,l matters of District police;
do 1racyce beiig always conformed, in
general, to liat of the Snperior Court,
subject to the rules wiicl may be.miado
by the Court of Appeals.
IX. The Judge of a District Court.
shall, in all respects, have the power of
a Magistrate for his District. I lo shall
exercise supervision over lie Clerk and
Sheriff of his Court, the Coroner, all
M agistrales, Constables, Boards of Con,
iiiissioners andi other pubic flunctionaries
of his District; and from him to any of
then may proeed orders, rules 'and
nttachnients, or writs of ' mandamns,
prohibitidn, certiorari,'quo toarranto 6r
scire ficias.
X The Judge of a District Court
shall have the powers in respect to ha.
bras cor/)us which two Magistrate-s have
min er le iinith section of the "Act cotn
'tinIIIg I: offite a duties of Magis
.wie, pa A D. I839; 'he may ad.
it mil in all casvi bailable. and inl
ll caseis t ilu.e -in his Court, and inav
Alb;o exercise jurisdiction under habeas
clrpms at connion hiw in all cases with.
inhis Distriet, iiere hberty of a person
of, color is restrained, or tie liberty of
any persoin is restriined- by a person of
color; and in all cases within his Dis.
irict, which affect white persons only,
except. tliat lie shall not have the power
of a Judge of a Sulirior Court to -U-3
elmrge or let to) Ia nii whito persoa
charg.d with a feJoiiv not elergybhl.,
against whom a trm- bill has been found.
XI. Tid Judge of a District Court
shall have the power which is given to
two Ma'gistrates by the Act of 1787,
concerning vagrants; and shall likewise
lave ite power which two Magistrates
have under the twenty-third section of
the "Act concerning the ofice and din.
iios of Magistrates, pRsed A. D. 1830,
in respect to tenaits holding over and
in thegase of a tena- t holiling over, or of
an issue of fact to be tried under the
Prison Bound Act, or in any other ease
where, by law, there -is provision for
trial or inquest by a .jury before one or
inoro Magistrates, the District Judge
may either proceed to organize a Jury,
as Magistrates are directed to do, anid
have trial before himsel!'at a pluce to
Aq appointed by him, or may take tie
case into his Court; and submit it to a
Jury organizedr there, as is hereinafter
provided ; and the verdict had in either
course bhiall have all the effect which
atny verdict before Magistrates would
have; bn appeal may be taken by either
party to a Circnit Judge at Chasmbiers,
or in openi Couirt, from the decision of the
Distiiet Court on the trial of any case
between landlord and tenjut, or 'of for
6ible entry and deitainler :Proide-d,
.That. notice of the appeal shlul be given
in writing to the District Judge, and to
the opposite party, or his attorney,
within twenty-.for house siter the de
cision shall h ave been retndered, and
that a timte tiot- exceeding twventy-daysi,
shall be stated in thz notice, as~ha time
at whichm.thle application to'hear the ,ap
peal will be made, which notice shall
state before 'what Judge, and what
place the application will be masde. It
shall lii thd duty of t he Distric Judge
on whom tike flotibut of appeal may hbe
served, to deliver to the appellant, or his
atternef; within two days after service
of such abtic', a certified copy of all the
proceeding.'itn the case, -and for stich
certifie ' and p~py, the. Clerk of the
District Jonrt Miall be entitled to charge.
as ooste, it the cense, 'ftV' cents for the
certilsato and one mill 'for oc'h word'
of macepy. The Jndge; beforewheii
the api1## hall .be heard, ahall have the
power tokvored thu decision, if there be
no et'iaede upon whick to satein it, in
cases a the #ecision&:41 bolidt the
sinpti . ~actonrdfewti d' i case
inew tra r rd .an % tde,
addedin~g pi,
s o
Saturdoy no big, 4Rcibr 1865,
Cover r ? PrqIumation.
We publi. this it ring an irnpor
tantproclam tion fro Governor )ni
In it he definu s the s6lusj othe State
aid. her relaoions to et mlitary nd ex.
ecntivo aith 4rities the geieral Gov.
ernhent. I is a v I advise<.1.step, and
may prevent unch' ilprofitable contenl.
tion and colli n wli 'Ie- military.
- IOurAper.
On th firstpa f this issie we pub.
ish~ the'chedl1efchalrg1 that will bo
observed in the tr sction.s or this ieomc,
during the new r.
Our readeri c. ot fail to reinark the
miodi fie.o i-ons in the. ra -e-, nid t lu
heavy t0a1ucion ny.
Iti mikiig 1.1 'nce)-Nioni it) the 'ifim.
ciltie's and nec1 ti.i of dh (, -ri., e
do it with-a 'e. ito re.: ,ne pe
accessi le and 'k-71f1l to nll iInI h).D .
trict, aid we rtuiilv (ite7 i l it
hope ind exp< 0t1 thlat i!4 s.y f
our w ill he re: ded to bY a. iiirv a
tive lil gele 4ihIAnir and lo-oIr
tion t ' ha, retof I re been bemowmi
upon t is pi We ask for more
subscri t'rs. irge- circulntioni is ihe
very e< idi ' >a poperS i.sefahn
and w hin limits of a D.ist ric. i.s al.
most to it of a District.journal.
We a fo vertising pttrotinge on a
larger 'al om our ui-rchantg. it,
effieac Is auxiliary to Iercliandiz.
ing i, vt -stalishid faet.
\Y, t a freer corrpencitiet, ni
comim ic m", thiit with our ai(j we
may I k lis fnifil tho Ie'gitimnte fuie.
tionls eful paper, by rendering ,it
the V. or Ihe prolpogation of new
ideas iforcemenit of sound onies,
and *iination of inforiation atid
intelli Snlikible to an enlightened
comm nii
W ,lfI I l t
WA tatn to oi:r ciiizens alung
the 1- nih on'd in bioth directions, I
and o ig the liiie of tinge travel
to A, of ud Shelonl's Ferry, tlw.
ill I 1-e or regutir postil crmni.
tuen angements w'i l be nM 1111 .
priv, wbii, if desired, they cang p
be re furnished with our piper.
-Contracts.
(I
0 ng left'er wsi taken from
tlh at Dal'-News.' ft. com1- is
mn th proceedings of a la'rge
1 en nmeting of j)hiters from
ihai adj int Districts of (lan.
nd. 1er nd Keraha*.
it I viAw wis, by a free col. .(
lat dis 1sion of variols id-as -4r
an Pes to'dterine u and es
, giforkdity in the' system of
e errae tegniatinig labor (luring -
Lii yttart.i It sefulma tO us8 that 'in
tht most. jractical1 anid valuale. fr
m n qiion, and doutbt and .
he 'an, fuatal in all' enter.
pr 1.01 ' less 80' in agrienlture. TP.
L f ,appreciating .the, novel. II.
ty ~itation anid' nnwilling to
a Enaiivi'xluial ideas which havo~
no Ajtsproved by esrpariment j
a e lokly inu the irutter ; while IBh
ti , uinder a vague and undie. I-l
fit lee ationr of future chfincey
asAeare indisposed to bind "t$
ti by :eonltradt3. In this pos
tirs we think it of the higheet w1i
u eaftblish some11 genraintie- .vot
t don'diituion d formula (for
P'~ %jt'o'ieA era tion i hai i,,. ti
C' -'cpputry, AutIfI to --r41move
tb tytlit ruiti~lerqni ibA ggh*b fre.
je (~J giya.confIdence Vi the thit
P .*ouitIgo atll tow rdls ett. *ihI
w ~IjV~~ia of tho singi1d
* rtw~nt. ,~
n i- ih
- *pden,
8ui ! Soi AX~ON sod tiofor HOW'~' l-i
SuMT:ii.S. c)..~Cemlwr 21. 1IS C:
~ZieO l ii 1-11rgest meetiigsi %vii, 11:1
lben 114-(1 lIvi4 for year.d willeiitd i
t o voiir k. Ni.t Atc.iy wa CIDt~dv-he
oif II lii Jli-s oif siigtr, lKj-rs.ll:Iv 11t
(l iiioll i tri cts.~ (.)ii Iiioioi of Co
L"' "'. \hitti( l. Joii X. 'ro-rsoi
WI MA Cail d 10 i tl~~- JIj* i"ltiri
wits api J itiiid Stcre~tary
011)U'll i i l ii ijIIl:i16-do I~m lii bljo
of' thIt I Iiiet-i u il i: VVry- vlIoc ie itl
en. Sd x ''i. iiill -i btif :otltr--is, de,
wvorkm i uit ut i piroilemui f*,r laboir;
It)d iLf lir Im liii ilitilO thar iIa tl. cithe
tio milier 11't'o Hiiatt it 4muil1 liav. been
By~ ilivitatIioln. R~ev. M.I - i "leii - vlo
laid >'i1.irjou i-,in: XV ,.liiioi,
gavei h.o~i-; itaiI ilt- nj:if-tciil, if flii.
itiki. dv t : ie# Iih~v .'f- .liho'iof hO i t 41 'ti'
a ik ofs Ill i ai li: of 1. S Pro11
iio oi:tl l'rr tlto and i l ie ' 111-lio r l III,
tIM1et i iid s i i -fi~li l l r di - 5 i -!
%tvnil a i ti litim . I i fiul 'to pi - oi]
a5iii ac m ' Iom u ill asi Oiii'.~~r 1.
Judge. lite$ 'V~slio-i to kiiow if Mro a
Frnti 1ii've ta O w d I hv-II9k
%vIii ici.ijrv 4,m i.. U ii'i t:i ac t~. nl
1 ) i t W il lit- ld iii ii, e~ rez,'r f . l sm be
iri1-d y 1i. joh"l"iulltr tof croii- taI re.~
a yiviho viildwil li Ow* feyar oil-~ wa ll
hiit. lo iluLeT..t ilil ok for-,,g~ SIhjte
imi c g riei fii o . i l-r iifoi iii .ut
In.Cs uiotit hail bem I)iiii~o Ill'.i
ri. byx fton laeorl thait, thae f,~
a,,eu iiv, Wili li! bvliep il wasii o
oiM ; 111111 flivrf t ii i t. wasi i bwi iio' 19 im
fO;al, an~jte byijei itbe Duhui~.o~ll.
(S1.- Sa tS h tW1:f
Inley IL C. )ri-eu utici an *oili a;oeu
14 tor poiiire'1t-uiuod-j liire wuis itotli
9g i saulbo'u; r-c-klemses8$,fil ho ar
lefro't'tli,i ni desrop i g,,(I. on .. th t I
hitdt ? - 4
G.on. Saxtoni.: OVCOnr80i wlatrp they) If
,4troy proiury, it coants Out ai their t0
("(41 J. D) B!:tluug L I W1811 to knowv
lIt-dhia fl/in l tary loSs tiE' ;~ii, uts ill '
!Xiit'S-;, shall fiill* ipoin Lhu> lnnt.ior
'u aFrt-cimmeii ? 0 . 01
(Ja.~x itiu - Ipn tr feodn
Im~tl.t a1r4' t. '~u :i tl
hve.o tilyir. lone lis I jt!)oo'r.-. fin the 1a o
hio2 4)f - -,--. Fl'oill I: h o . of' J.1I. a.
I t"Wrt, to ItIl 4t of J'ilmlrv. 18!7 :I.
C:011. 1142t Iu'go'Iv' fii it 11 fill).. hola " ZO
lir onl snt( hI a.. IIla I jolt, O~r slicth as t;f
I f. eolvilvl(' d I 111'(W12hii nuu v .
lut- r'qtire '1 bY till"- ;ift or 1"~
Solidt 1 0 t keepJ Ito poi ri . or
sl t tk of im kt itj. e~xcet.~ at,; 4( 'h ri if'te
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(mnt, 21' riorti Sfti'ils. nor i1 ic
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itl 0 1 . Of'I14 tile pop2 icor or h-is'
peifaNiq h T Ih I I. sa 4i d ii rlb 'l I l , l hP- i.t
onti(I Pi!1111116011 to Wit. 12*
to 1,30 rnilg 1ii 1Ns~ g in, til'VV to ix'
a~~s*ditchbolrbalIII w(Oii.- :,'e~00 to coo
feet ; llo(lijo1g co.(,,ti, 70 to :110 row.,z :m~
Ia ll 1 t0e. whetre rinsks e~Imiot 1, n,.
ilgfil i-i rve *lo labor dibiP, Ity
fll hours1 a dae'.
da(~ v' t It t 1,! ,r 1, ..qt I'
-ha ll* C iit , fIh t y fn , t n'I lV !
'oil wiy o ill 'lu e to I otl~ 1 t1:
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mitl a!io, to h o k i I4) iv. t421 1i'ti li m. , :11;
lit o t Ii )mjlr k1Iil t I Jui*ii i
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VI ;i'! Itiso.ato 110 2tl~r~fo and , iht
War) by li,' l 'ido opr ite fgtiitoh
lit't4iIil ta io blr hii* I hoI fo*Ijroitina,
ui r r. I(2)(*L;wil, e sll ri'.c
propier or Ilt Silthe rrra
reall si4*. t.(t 1 ut)~~ .. 1illle si ifche ll).1(
to 1lt ,11-nuil fiatu1di fill
mimbvtO ((ni i si fot lite snd'ic, .11.40
liek pt-i vid'er and~ foruim to fl'iotufi
!dii 11Y un il th ou prounis&.r , to I )(, 41 -
ait'lft' l ll their labor (no ft) r d: vadt
Lo' 1o i ;rIvr,4 i d l-i fIlie shall re
i)oet hintn ,et -,re' oft ,. ginoeuil Cto
xt or . or 4 yor-ltp y(t i , It '~l~
;.1 to1 shar .Ii. Al ( dt ftbo11 io. ~LA0c
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lt.gol(, I'l, tt mil ill lie on iw w prope~I .
I4 Q2) CII t t6e 6n bib,!. orte
oriq h , p ,a tI(22
tird oftji-cm o)ttoes an pea",f
2.1bir c no.~, proe of t i t. pi'tli.Cg
)I~I of it.4 markpoyovir , at'v Ibo p iitldtcif
~~listrid.b11pa frmtu tnatiii, to'Iho
rcielto of aor her - l'i W. rof' lihe. rop
wak-ivrA sia -tctela eI therp yep
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