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Persons not to city, shall on any pretence employ or permit any ne employ a slave gro or other slave, to sell any such goods wares, mer in a shop without being prechandize, or liquors, unless the owner thereof, or ano ther white person in the employ of such owner, present; and every person herein offending, shall for feit and pay a sum of fifty dollars for each and ever such offence, with costs of suit.

Penalty.

Price of badges.

Penalty for 13. That no owner, or other person having the hiring out a slave without care or management of negroes or other slaves, shal a badge. permit any such slave, whether male or female, t be employed on hire, out of their respective house or families, without first informing the City Treasure of the specific trade or employment, which he or sh is to pursue, when working on hire, and withou obtaining from him a ticket or badge expressing the same, and numbered, under a penalty of forfeiting twenty dollars with costs, for each and every such offence. And for each ticket or badge, so to be ob tained, the several sums following shall be respec tively paid, viz. For every handicraft tradesman three dollars; for every carter, drayman, porter o day labourer, two dollars; for every fisherman or fish erwoman, one dollar; for every house servant or wash erwoman, one dollar; for every seller of fruits and cakes, or of any article of what description soever not prohibited as aforesaid, fifteen dollars ;* which said ticket or badge shall continue, until the last day of December in every year, and no longer, and shal be renewed at the beginning of every year, on pay No inhabitant ment of the fees aforesaid.

allowed to hire

out more than six slaves with

treble the price for a badge.

14. That no inhabitant of Charleston shall be per out paying mitted, to have more than six slaves to work out for hire, unless such inhabitant shall for every slave, ove and above the aforesaid number, pay in a threefold proportion for the badge or badges, under which any Slaves not en such slave is to be classed, as aforesaid, under a pen whose owner alty of twenty dollars for each and every such slave does not reside but no slave shall be entitled to a badge, or permitted dows and or- to work out on hire in the city, if he or she belongs to any person or persons living without the limits of

titled to badge

in the city, wi

phans excepted.

*Altered by an ordinance, passed 1st of Feb. 1813, as regards sellers of fruit, cakes, &c. to five dollars; they are also made subjec to a penalty of five dollars.

arleston, and paying no city tax, except widows 1 orphan children, who are hereby permitted to ain badges for their slaves, although they may be ng without the limits of the city, but not to exed the number of four slaves, belonging to one low or to one orphan child; Provided however, t nothing herein contained, shall extend, or be astrued to extend, to hinder the hiring of any slave slaves for any public work or employment, without procurement of a badge.

Proviso.

grants badges.

15. That every person, applying to the City Treaer for a badge or badges, shall take before him e following oath, to wit: "I, A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm,) that the negro or negroes, (stating he number) is or are my property, or the property Oath of C. D. a resident of Charleston, or of E. F. payng a City Tax, in whose name or names, (as the case may be) I do now apply, or the property of G. H. a widow, or of J. K. an orphan child, living without the limits of the city, and not having above four slaves now employed on hire therein, and that the employment of every such slave, when working on hire, is to be no other than such, as is now mentioned by me-So help me God. And the City Treasurer to keep a regisity Treasurer shall grant no badge, unless such oath try of all slaves affirmation be previously taken before him, by the to whom he ersons so applying. And the City Treasurer shall eep a register of all slaves, for whom he grants adges, together with their owner's names, and their spective ages and employments; and every badge anted by the City Treasurer, shall express the imber, as well as the specific trade or emplyoment, Slaves to wear be pursued by any slave working out on hire. 16. That every negro or other slave, working out hire, shall wear the badge, received from the City reasurer, on some visible part of his or her dress. and it shall be lawful for any person or persons, to ommand any negro or other slave, applying for ire, or working out, to produce his or her badge, nd immediately to carry to the Work-House any ne, either having no badge, or refusing to produce or producing a badge different from the work in which he or she may then be employed on hire, or

badges conspicuously.

Slaves to produce badges,

detained in the

whipped.

Slaves to be not producing a badge correspondent with, and leWork-House. gally obtained for, the year in which the demand is made. And every negro or other slave, so brought Penalty. to the Work-House, whose owner had not taken out a badge for him or her in the manner aforesaid, shall be detained, until the aforesaid fine* of twenty dollars, with costs, and the expences of the Work-House. shall have been fully paid; and if the owner of a negro or other slave, so brought to the Work-House, for not wearing a badge, or for refusing to produce it Slaves to be as aforesaid, had obtained a legal badge for him or her, he or she shall be discharged from the WorkHouse, upon the owner's paying, or causing to be paid, a fine of two dollars and the charges of the Work-House, but if such payment is not made within two months, after such negro or other slave hath been brought to the Work-House, he or she shall receive, at the public market, twenty stripes on the Master of the bare back. And it shall be the duty of the Master to give notice of the Work-House, to give immediate notice to the owner of any negro or other slave, when brought to Work-House as aforesaid, but if the owner cannot be Penalty for found out, to proceed, as the law directs, with regard hiring slaves to runaway slaves.

Work-House

to owners.

without an ap

propriate badge.

17. That every person, employing a negro or other slave on hire, without such negro or other slave having a badge or ticket, duly obtained from the City Treasurer, and correspondent with the work, in which such negro or other slave is employed, as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay double the amount of such badge or ticket, with costs, for each day or part of a day, White person on which he or she shall employ such negro or other fined for coun- slave.

terfeiting

badges.

18. That, if any white person or persons shall counterfeit any badge or badges, to be given out by the City Treasurer only, as aforesaid, he, she, or they, shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars, with costs, for each and every such offence. And if any negro or person

* See 13th clause, imposing a fine of twenty dollars, with costs and expences; and under the ordinance of 1st of February, 1813, sellers of fruit, cakes, &c. are only to pay five dollars for a badge, and made subject to a penalty of five dollars for each and every violation of this ordinance..

of colour shall counterfeit any of the said badges,

treated in this

case.

he or she shall, by a warrant from under the hands How slaves, of any two Wardens of the City, be put into the &c. are to be stocks for one hour, and receive twenty lashes on the bare back, and shall moreover be confined in the Work-House for any term, not exceeding twenty days. And if any negro or other slave shall wear a badge, which does not properly belong to him or her, so wearing it, or which does not specify the particular nature of his or her employment, every such negro or slave shall be publicly whipped, by a warrant from under the hands of any two Wardens of the City, unless the owner shall previously pay the sum of two dollars, as an exemption from the punishment, that would otherwise be inflicted on such slave or slaves.

remain there

19. That the City Marshal shall, under the direc- City Marshal tion of the Intendant, fix proper stands for porters to fix stands. and day labourers, to which each of them shall repair; and if any porter or day labourer, shall offer Porters, &c. to himself for work at any other stand, than the one under penalty, allotted to him as aforesaid, he shall be liable to be taken before any Warden of the city, who shall adjudge him to receive ten stripes, unless he, if a free man, shall previously pay to the City Treasurer the sum of five dollars, or if a slave, unless the owner shall previously pay to the City Treasurer, the sum of two dollars. And as soon, as any porter or day labourer is engaged to work, he shall immediately depart from his stand to such place, as shall be ordered by the person engaging him, or otherwise, in default thereof, be considered as not engaged. And any one not immediately going from his stand to the place, to which he is ordered by the person engaging him, shall be liable to the aforesaid punish

ment.

20. That no negro or other slave, working out on hire as a porter or day labourer, shall demand, or be entitled to receive, any other wages, than according to the following rates, viz: For a full day's labour, which is to be from sun-rise till twilight in the evening, allowing one hour for breakfast, and one hour for dinner, (except in the months of June, July, August

Aa

Rates of le

bcur.

To deduct from labour

er's wages.

If labourers demand higher

punished.

and September, when two hours shall be allowed for dinner) eighty one cents and a quarter; for half a day's labour, forty three cents and three quarters ; for an hour's labour twelve cents and a half.

21. That if any person, hiring a porter or labourer by the day, furnishes him with victuals and drink, he shall have a right, to deduct from his wages eighteen cents and three quarters for his meals in the morning, noon or evening, or six cents and a quarter for each meal so furnished.

22. That if any porter or day labourer shall ask, demand or receive any greater wages, than as herein wages to be specified, or as may be hereafter established by the City Council, every such porter or day labourer shall, if a slave, be carried before any one of the Wardens of the City, who, on conviction, shall adjudge him to receive any number of lashes on the bare back, not less than twelve, nor more than twenty; but if a free man, he shall forfeit and pay to the use of the city, a fine of not less than five dollars, and be confined in fuse to work the Work-House until the same is paid. And if any to be punished porter or day labourer shall refuse or neglect, to work

Penalty,

If labourers re

Penalty.

Slaves to be

singing, &c. in the streets.

for any person, who applies to him, and tenders him the established rate for his hire, such porter or day labourer (unless previously engaged or actually employed to work, which fact shall appear, by his having quitting his stand, as aforesaid, or by the testimony of some credible witness) shall, on conviction before any Warden of the city, receive at the Work-House, or at the public market, a number of lashes not less, than twelve, nor more than twenty, unless the owner should previously pay to the City Treasurer the sum of two dollars for such porter or day labourer, if a slave, or unless such porter or day labourer, if a free man, shall previously pay to the City Treasurer the sum of five dollars.

23. That, if any negro or person of colour, shall whipped for be guilty of whooping or hallooing any where in the city, or of making a clamorous noise or of singing aloud any indecent song, he or she shall, for each and every such offence, receive at the Work-House or public market, such a number of stripes, not exceeding twenty, as any Warden of the city shall adjudge.

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