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FOE, SALE OE KEIMT,. A DWELLING HOUSE, containing fifm eight rooms, situated two miles from lUiLoolumbia, on thc Camden Hoad. On thc premises are a carriage home, Stahle, barn and all necessary out-honses. Tho lot contains ISO acres, "wooded. Apply to BEN J. T. DENT, Dec 13 At tho Market. GUNSMITH?NG. PETER W. KRAFT would respectfully inform his (dd friends and customers that ?hu has resumed his old busi? ness of a GUNSMITH, and will promptly attend to all orders. Dec 7 12*& If you Want a Comfortable and Con? venient Residence for yourFanri? BEST TIIE LATTA HOI SE fppj TUE abore is located near tho Char "T lotte Railroad Depot. The building is divided into nine comfortable rooms, with a piazza on all sides, and cTcry conve? nience in tho house a family could desire. On tho premises aro ?ne out-buildings, such as Kitchens, ?servants" Rooms, Sta? bles, Carriage House, Ac. The ground attached consists of 84 acres LAND, suitable for pasture and growing of all kinds of grain; fine Veget able Garden, Orchard, Ac. , For terms, appl" at the Auction Room of Messrs. LEVIN Sc PEIXOTTO, corner of Assembly and Plain streets. _ Dec 14 STEAMBOAT LINE FROM Columbia to Charleston. THE NEW ami FiEST-CLAS. LIGHT DRAFT STEAMER GEORGE is now prepared to make engagements to lake Freight from Granby Landing to Charles ton. All goods forwarded by this lino will be insured, if desired. Also, forwarded to New York, and advances made upon the same, if required. Dee l-l Imo A. L. SOLOMON, Agent. J8S5" The Abbeville ?'.minar. Newberry fTerald, Anderson hdeUtaences and Chester Standard will publish the above for two weeks, and send bills to this office. UNTIL FURTHER O 3ES. 33? 313 3=8. S? , THE SUBSCRIBER'S WILL BE AT THE STORE OF C. S. JENKINS, ASSEMBLY STREET, NEXT MARKET* SANTA CLAUS. Dec 9 Imo BOOTS, SHOES AND LEATHER. THE subscribers have just received general assortment of BOOTS and ?.SHOES, consisting of : Gent's Singlo and Double-soled BOOTS, (Philadelphia make,) Balniurals, Gaiters, Bootees, Bro? gans, Ac. Also, a line lot of the very best Baltimore Oak Sole LEATHER. We will, as usual, make to order all variet'es of Boots and Shoes, of the best material and workmanship, for cash only-a rulo from which thcro will bu no exception. J. A A. OLIVER, Sumter st., between Richland and Laurel Dec 7 Imo* Commission Agent. WA. HARRIS. Agent to Purchase or . Soil Real Estate. Prompt attention given to any business entrusted to his care. Office, for the present, at his resi? dence, corner Gerrais and Rull streets. Columbia, S. C. Dee. 3 THE Underwriters' Agency OF NEW V0RK, CASH ASSETS, Three Million Dollars IS?UC Policies of FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE Made payable in Gold or Currency. Negotiable and Bankable CERTIFICATES OF INSURANCE* Are iisued by this Associatioa. H. E. NICHOLS, Agent, Corner Assembly ?nd Washington Sis., Doo 5 Imo Columbia, S. C. vcr ct xi* o ca., ASITUATION a.; TUTOR, in a family of rive, six or eight children. All the English Branches and Latin and Greek (if desired) taught. Apply at this office, stating salary. References given, if re? quired. Dec 5 18 -^---waaa mjw----3-MI^^I respectively be Clerk uml Sheriff, and may act in person, or by deputy, j whenever,, iu this Act, or other Acts passed at this session, one of these | officers is mentioned, either he, or Iiis deputy, is meant, unless thc con- ! text shows that he himself is intended. IV. The Judge, Clerk and Sheriff of a District Court shall each, before entering 011 the duties of his office, take the official oath prescribed in tho Constitution of the State, and also the following oath, viz: "I solemnly swear, (or affirm,) that, as Judge, Clerk or Sheriff, as the ease may be, of +he District Court for the District of , I will earnestly endeavor to do what is required of me by law, and without pr?? judice for or against race or color, to conduct myself aa becomes an up? right and faithful officer." These oaths shall bc endorsed on the com? mission or certificate of appointment of the office, and with it be entered on the Journal of the District Court. V. The office of every Magistrate nov.- in office shall continue according to the terms of tho appointment under which it is held, with the power and rights now by law attaching and incident lo such office. The Magis? trates who are appointed to exercise the powers and duties, and to have the rights imposed by this Act and the Act entitled "An Act to establish and regulate the domestic relations of Persons of Color, and to amend the law in relation to Paupers and Vagrancy," shall bo appointed iu every District by the District Judge thereof, by and with the advice and consent of a majority of the Delegation of such District in the General Assembly, in such manner and so located as the condition of the District may, from time to time, requiro ; and such Magistrates shall have all thc powers and rights and may exercise all the duties of Magistrates, by law conferred on Magistrates. Each Magistrate so appointed shall, before entering on the duties of his office, take before the Clerk of the District the oaths hereto? fore prescribed for the District Judge, and also the oath prescribed in the second section of the " Act concerning the office and duties of MagifA traies," passed A. D. 1839, and shall sign a roll as required in that section. The term of his office shall be four years from the day he signed the roll. VI. "The sum which limits the proceedings by summary process is enlarged to one hundred dollars, exclusive of costs. In every case under that proceeding, either party may be a witness in his own behalf, or may be required by the adverse party to testify, either by being served with a subpoena, or by being called up under a commission, in like manner as in like circumstances another witness in the case could bo ; tho practice now prevailing in reference to interrogatories propounded to an adverse party not being hereby interfered with. And in every such case, no person shall be held incompetent as a witness because of interest. Of all snell eases, where both the parties litigant aro white persons, there shall tx concurrent jurisdiction in the Superior Court of Law, and in the District Court ; all laws, rules, fees, powers and practice in respect to such cases which may prevail in the Superior Court being extended to the District Court. VIT. The District Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction, subject tc appeal, of all civil causes where one or both of the parties are persons o: color, and of all criminal cases wherein the accused is a person of color, anc also ol' all cases of misdemeanor affecting the person or property of ? person of color, and of all cases of bastardy, and all cases of vagrancy not tried before a Magistrate. In these cases, thc same laws, fees, power! and practice shall prevail in the District Court as in the Superior Court except as to Juries, concerning which provision is hereinafter made, anc except as to matters of form, concerning which power is hereinafter givei to the Court of Appeals. In thc District Court, prosecutions shall bi conducted by the Attorney-General, or Solicitor of the Circuit to wilie! the District belongs, or by a deputy appointed by such Attorney-Genera or Solicitor, or, in the absence of all of these, by an Attorney appointe? by the District Judge. Whenever any case affecting the person or pro perty of a person of color, which arises within thc District of a Distric Judge, that Judge may have an interest, the process may be made return able, and the case bc tried before the District Court of an adjoining Dis trict which the plaintiff or actor in the case may select. VIII. Thc District Court shall have the same power and jurisdiction as th Superior Court of Law in reference to Constables, Jurors, punishment c contempt. The District Court shall have power in all c:uses of tenant holding over, cases of forcible entry and detainer, cases under the Insol vent Debtors' Acts, where the arrest and detention are under the proc?s of a District Court, all cases under the Prison Bound Act, and all matters c District police; the practice being always conformed, in general, to that c the Superior Court, subject to the rules which may bc made by thc Com of Appeals. IX. The Judge of a District Court shall, in all respects, have the pow? of a Magistrate or his District. He shall exercise supervision over th Clerk and Sheriff o? his Court, thc Coroner, all Magistrates, Constable Boards of Commissioners and other public functionaries of his Distric and from him to any of them may proceed orders, rules and attachment: or writs of mandamus, prohibition, certiorari, quo warranio or scire facia X. The Judge of a District Court shall have the powers in respect t habeas corpus which two Magistrates have under the ninth section of tl "Act concerning the office and duties of Magistrates," passed A. D. 183' he may admit to bail in all cases bailable, and in all cases triable in h Court, and may also exercise jurisdiction under habeas corpus at comme law in all cases within his District, where the liberty of a person of color restrained, or the liberty of any person is restrained by a person of colo and in all cases within his District, which affect white persons onl except that he shall not have the power of a Judge of a Superior Court discharge or let to bail a white person charged with a felony not clergyabl against whoi? a true bill has been found. XI. The Judge of a District Court shall have the power which is giv< to two Magistrate? oy the Act of 1787, concerning vagrants; and sh? likewise have thc power which two Magistrates have under the twent third section of the "Act concerning tho office and duties of Magistrates passed A. D. 1839, in respect to tenants holding over; and in the case a tenant holding over, or of an issue of fact to be tried under the Pris< Bound Act, or in any other case where, by law, there is provision for tr or inquest by a jmy before one or more Magistrates, the District Jud may either proceed to organize a Jury, as Magistrate? are directed to cl ami have trial before himself at a place to be appointed by him, or m take the case into bis Court, and submit it to a Jury organized there, is hereinafter provided ; and the verdict had in either course shall have the effect which any verdict before Magistrates would have ; au appeal m be taken by either party to a Circuit Judge at Chambers, or in open Cou from the decision of the District Court on the trial of any case betwe landlord and tenant, or of forcible entry and detainer: Provided, Tl notice of the appeal shall be given in writing to thc District Judge, a to the opp osite party, or his attorney, within twenty-four hours after i decision shall have been rendered, and that a time not exceeding twei days, shall be ?tated in tho notice, as tho time at which tho application hear the appeal will be made, which notice shall state before what Jud and what place the application will be mad". It shall be the duty of 1 District Judge on whom the notice of appeal may be served, to deliver the appellant or his attorney, within two days alter service of such noti a certified copy of all the proceedings in the ease, and for such certifie and copy, the Clerk of the District Court shall be entitled to charge i costs, in the case, fifty cents for the certificate and one mill for each w of such copy. The Judge, before whom the appeal shall be heard, si have the power to reverse the decision, if there be no evidence U] which to sustain it, in cases where the decision shall be for the plaintif actor, or may in any case grant a new trial, or order au issue made up be tried in the Circuit Court. XII. The District Court shall be always open, and shall be a Court Record ; ordinarily, it shall sit in the Court Koon>\>f tho District C< House, except in tho District of Berkeley. A place near by shall be ] vided by the Commissioners of PubHc Buildings for its sittings, when ^??j----??g- .Illll.l IIMIIllliailllWnMWWMWM CGU? L jtvoom may Lc occupied by the Superior Court. For any rtittincf. except the quarterly sittings hereinafter mentioned, the District Judge may, however, appoint any place in the District; and these parties, witnesses, Jurors and other persons concerned; shall he bound, having due notice, to attend; every summons, notice and process being, however, understood to require attendance at the Court House, if another pince bo not specified. XIII. All judgments and decrees obtained in the District Court, the effect of which would bo to create a hen on the property, of the defendant, shall be entered up at such times as judgment obtained in- thc Circuit Court thence next ensuing may be entered up. XIV. On the first Monday of every month shall be a monthly sitting* of the District Court, which shall continue as long as the despatch of business may require. At this sitting may be tried small and mean causes, small matters, civil and criminal, between persons of color, between white persons and persons of color, between master and servant, between iaaster and apprentice, and between employer and laborer. Petty misdemeanors, imputed to persons of color, complaints bj' persons of color against white persons of misdemeanors, for which a fine not exceeding twenty dollars is a sufficient punishment, civil suits, involving not more than twenty dollars, in which a person of color is a party,Hind questions concerning vagrants ?fiP" and paupers not requiring a jury. %Any business to which a Judge at Chambers is competent; and other business which does not require a jury, may also be done ; besides all business which may be doue, as aforesaid, luay also, at this sitting of the District Court, be tried cases of aggravated misdemeanors and clergyable felonies, of which persons of color may be accused, and of misdemeanors requiring punishment exceeding a fine of , twenty dollars, and affecting the person or property of a person of color, of which white persons may bc accused. These cases may be tried by a common jury, organized as hereinafter provided, and, in case of con? viction, punishment shall be awarded by the Judge, according to the practice of the Superior Court of Law. At this sitting may also be tried cases of tenants holding over, cases under the Prison Bound or Insolvent Debtor Act, which are hereinbefore mentioned, and any issue in a civil suit ordered to be tried before a common Jury. XV. Previous to a monthly sitting, if the nature of the business shall require a Jury, the Judge shall direct the Sheriff to summon a Common Jury. Thereupon, the Sheriff shall return the names of eighteen citizens: of the District, and from these nine shall be drawn, in tho presence of tho Judge, at least ten days before thc said monthly sitting; and the Jury so drawn shall be summoned by the Sheriff, and served with tickets, at least five days before they are required to attend; and they shall be bound to attend under the penalties which may fall upon defaulting Jurors in the Superior Court of Law. Of those who attend, six shah be drawn in open Court, of whom the four first drawn shall constitute the Common Jury for that sitting, thc other two being supernumeraries, to supp?jj vacancies. The others who may .attend shall be discharged without pay ; but the six drawn shall be entitled to like pay as Jurors in the Superior Court of Law. If less than six, out of the nine summoned, should attend, the Sheriff shall summon a sufficient number that may be drawn of the original eighteen, or in ease of their insufficiency, of any other citizens. Provided, No person shall be required to attend as a Juror more than once in six months. The right to challenge peremptorily one Juror is given to the accused and to the prosecuting officer in any criminal case triable before a Jury, at a monthly sitting ; and tho same right is given to each party in a civil suit there triable ; unanimity of the four Jurors shall bc requisite for a verdict. XVI. Four times a year there shall be a quarterly sitting of the District Court, to be continued as long as business may require, and if necessary to be adjourned from week to week ; at which, besides any business that may be doue at a monthly sitting, may be tried cases of summary process pending in the Court ; civil suits, above the summary jurisdiction, wherein one or both of the parties are persons of color, cases of crime or felony punishable by death without beucht of clergy, of which persons of color may be accused, and any other matters pending in the Court. The pro? ceedings in the cases severally shah be, in general, similar to those in like cases in the Superior Court of Law, subject to the diversities in form which may be produced by the rules adopted by the Court of Appeals, as herein? after provided. XVII. For each quarterly sitting, Jurors shall be drawn at a monthly sitting, not more than forty nor less than ten days before such quarterly sitting, who shall, under a venire, be summond by the Sheriff five days preceding the time which may be fixed for the commencement of tho quarterly sitting. With a view to these Jurors, once iu every two years a list shall bc procured from the Tax Collector; from that the names of all Jurors qualified to sit as Jurors in the Superior Court, shall be entered on tickets, and from these tickets there shall be drawn, for each quarterly sitting, twenty-four, to be copied in the panel annexed. At the quarterly sitting, from those of the twenty-four yrho attend, eight snail be drawn, in open Court, who shall constitute a Grand Jury, and twelve shah be drawn, who shall constitute a Petit Jury of six, to be called a Special Jury, and six supernumeraries. Of the Grand Jurors, the concurrence of six shall be necessary to the finding of a true bill. In the Special Jury, unanimity of the six shall be required for a verdict. At the openingcjf a trial, in a capital case, at least twelve Jurors shall be present, and of these the accused may make peremptory challenges until the number shall be reduced to six. At the opening of atrial in a civil suit, or iu a criminal case not capital, not - more than ten Jurors need bo present, and each party alternately in a civil suit, and the accused, in a criminal case, not capital, may muk? peremptory challenges, until the Jury of six is left. If there should not be sufficient reduction by challenges, the six shall be ascertained by drawing. An in? sufficient number in any instance shall be supplied by Jurors whom the Sheriff shah summon, of the same persons, and in the same way, as has been hereinbefore provided in respect to a Common Jury. A Special Jury may do anything for which a Common Jury is competent. Challenges for causo at either the monthly or quarterly sittings shall be unlimited. A separate jury box shall be provided for the District Court, and in respect to Juries, the orders of Court, duties of Tax Collector, Sheriff and Clerk, pay of Jurors, penalties for default, and all laws and practice shall, with such modifications as tho provisions herein made, and tho rules adopted by the Court of Appeals, may render necessary, be the same in the District Court as in the Superior Court. XV? ll- Tlie Judge shall take care, by proper arrangements of the order of business, and by discharging all Jurors who may be present above the necessary number, to reduce the expenses of his Court as much as justice will permit. Each Juror shall receive from the Clerk a certificate signed by the Clerk, and countersigned by the Judge, for such SUIT? as for Eke services he would have received i'" a Juror of the Superior Court ; and this sum shall be paid under the order of the District Court Judge. In like manner, there shall bo a certificate*hnd payment for any Constable that may attend the Court under the order of the Sheriff, of whom there shall not be more than three without the order of the Judge, which shall be granted only in cases of necessity. The Clerk shall enter on the Journal of the Court a roll containing the names of the Jurors and Con? stables, who receive certificates, with the sums paid to them respectively, and copies of the rolls for the year preceding^ the Clerk shall, annually, after the quarterly sitting in each year, which ends next before the regular session of the General Assembly, transmit to the Treasurer. A condensed statement of all thc rolls for au the Districts of thc State shall be con? tained in the annual report of thu Treasurer. XIX. The Judges of the Court of Appeals shall, from time to time, fix the days upon which the quarterly sittings of the District Court in each District shall convene, avoiding, as far as possible, interference with the Superior Court in that District or neighboring Districts, giving public notice of the several days fixed, and making no unnecessary changes. {Continued on si.dh page.) i