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An Act to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts heretofore passed by the Legislature of this State on the subject of furnishing Slave Labor on the Coast and Fortifications within this State, and otherwise to provide for furnishing such labor. 1864-1865 244 (1864)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0458 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. D. 1804. XV. That all Acts and clauses of Acts inconsistent with the provisions ---' of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. In the Senate House, the twenty-third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and in the eighty-ninth year of the sovereignty and independence of the State. of South Caroliun. W. ). PORTER, President of tIe Sanate. R. 11. 1BOYLSTON, Spealer !louse qf Representdires. No, 4703. AN ACT TO IEPEAL ALL AUTH AND PARTS o ACTS 1ERETOPORE PASSED av. THE LunisntATum op Tris STATE ON TE SUJEa op URNsuNO SrLAVE1 Linon ON THE COAST AND FoluTrmIATIoxs wl'rN rmis S'I'ATE, AND OTHERW RE TO PROVIDE FOR FURNISHING STORf LAROR. For aot I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of lieprosentatives, now met slaves to be and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That organized. in order to furnish thonecessary slave labor to work on the coast of thisStato and the fortifications within the limits of the same, there shall be organized a force, consisting of iale slaves between the ages of eighteen afnd fifty years, liable under existing laws to road duty, not exceeding in number, at any one time, of ono-tenth part of said slaves, to servo for.the term o f twelve months from the date of their impressment, subject, however, to the right of their respective owners, at the expiration of every three months of said term of service, to substitute other slaves so liable to road duty in their place, and who by such substitution shall constitute a portion or, the whole of said force, as the case may be, from the respective dates of such substitution. This force shall be raised by a general impressment throughout the whole State, whenever His Excellency the Governor may order or direct such agent of the State as he may appoint to make such I m, pr os s impressment, under the provisions of this Act. But if the impressment 1ment of slaves. of a less number than one-tenth would produce should be found to be sufficient, then the impressment shall be made on the Stato at large, according to one uniforni rule of equality, to be prescribed in the order of the Governor directing such impressment to be made by the State Agent; and whatever number greater than ten shall be so prescribed as a divisor to make the apportionment by, no fraction of slaves either below or above such number selected as a divisor shall be considered or taken into the apportionment, unless it is at least one-fifth or more of such divisor; and in-such cases, the fraction of one-fifth shall be taken by requiring the party owning it to furnish one hand for two months, with the same right of sub- stitution as in case of whole numbers; and the same rule as to fractions shall be observed where the number ten is used as the divisor in making the apportionment. State Agent. II. It shall be the duty of His Excellency the Governor to appoint a, State Agent, such Agent to be selected from the class of persons nobliable to conscription in Confederate military service, if the services of a suitable Agent can be secured from said class, who shall receive for his services the Pay. pay of a Lieutenant-Colonel of infantry, as allowed by the Confederate Gov- ernment, during his employment, to be paid to him monthly by the State. Dii ties or IIl. That it shall be the duty of the State Agent aforesaid, immediately State Agent. on the reception of any order from His Excellency the Governor to make imupressment of slaves under, the provisions of this Act, to.extend such Sherimfl. order to the Sheriffs of the several Judicial Districts of the State, whose duty it shall be to execute the sanic in their respective Districts; and it Commission- shall be the duty of the Commissioners of Roads and the authorities.of ers of Roads. incorporated cities, towns and villages, and such other person or persons 244

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