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An Act to amend an act entitled An act to organize and supply negro labor for coast defence 1862-1863 109 (1862)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0448 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 109 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT, TO ORGANIZE AND A.D.1802'8. SUPPLY NEGRO LABOR FOR COAST DEFENCE, IN 0OMPLIANCE WITH REQUISITIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, No. 4615. AND TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE GOVERNOR TO PROCEED TO FUR- NISH NEGRO LABOR UNDER SAID ACT. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That Amendment al lowing assist- an Act entitled (An Act to organize and supply Negro labor for Coast do- ant agents. fence, in compliance with requisitioni of the Government of the Confed- erate States, passed on the eighteenth day of December, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended, and that the State Agent, appointed under the fourth section of said Act, shall have the power, and is hereby authorized, to appoint, with the approval of the Governor, such number of assistant agents as in his judgment may be necessary to enable him to execute the provisions of the sixth section of said Act, and as a compensation for their services while so employed, they shall be entitled to receive two dollars per diem. II. That the eleventh section of said Act be so amended that, instead of Amendment in, the fines and penalties therein imposed upon such owners of slaves as shall for detault. neglect or refuse to send their slaves, according to the requirements of said Act, such defaulters shall be liable to a fine of one and a-half dollars per diem for each slave, for the time they shall be liable to send such slaves, to be imposed and collected by the Commissioners of Roads in the District where such default has been made, in the manner now provided by law for default in the performance of said duty. III. That the Governor be, and is hereby, authorized and directed, Governor to to proceed to furnish negro labor to the Confederate Government under lIa h gr said Act; notwithstanding said Government has not, through the proper officer authorized thereto, assented and agreed to the provisions contained in said Act, declaring said Government liable to the owner for any loss or damage of or, to the slave or slaves during his or their service: Provided, however, That the State does not, by this Act, waive the right to insist upon such liability, as well as all the provisions of said Act, and the amendments thereto, and he is hereby directed to take such proceedings' as'he may deem necessary and proper, to bring said provisions to the notice of the Congress of the Confederate States, and procure their assent to all its terms and conditions. In the Senate House, the sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in the eighty- seventh year of the sovereignty and independence of the State of South Carolina. W. D. PORTER, President of the Senate. A. P. ALDRICH, Speaker House of Representatives.

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