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An Act to amend an act entitled An act to prevent and punish the planting and cultivating in this state 1862-1863 115 (1862)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0451 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. be construed to affect -the right of any white person himself to plant and A.D. 1862s. cultivate cotton according to the rate herein prescribed. II. That every violator of this law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and Penalty for vio- upon conviction thereof, shall be fined the sum of five hundred dollars for lation. each and every acre so planted above the number specified; such penalty to be paid to the Soldiers' Board of Relief of the District where such conviction takes place. III. That after warrant issued against any person or persons, for a Rule of survey violation of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court of General to be issued. Sessions and Common Pleas for the District in which the offence is charged, upon the application, under oath, of either party, prosecutor or defendant, to issue a rule of survey in the case, giving five days' notice thereof to the opposite party, the costs of such rule and survey to be taxed in the bill of costs,. upon the final adjudication of the case. IV. That all owners of slaves or employees shall give in, on oath, to the Planters to re- turn number of Tax Colector, the number of hands owned or employed by them in agri. hands to tax culture, between the ages of twelve and fifteen, and fifteen and fifty-five, collectors. and fifty-five and sixty-five, each year during said war, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for each hand, to be recovered as specified in the former sections of this Act. V. That the Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas and General Ses- Judges to sions be required to give this law specially in charge to the Grand Juries, sre grand at each term of their Courts, during said war with the Abolitionists. 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 Representaties. AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO PREVENT AND No. 4620. PUNISH THE PLANTING AND CULVIVATING, IN THIS STATE, OVER A CERTAIN QUANTITY OF COTTON DURING THE PRESENT YEAR. 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 Area limited to the Act entitled An Act to prevent and punish the planting and cunti- ,re per A 115

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