George Haltiwanger, sheriff of the Lexington District, seeks compensation for "dieting" Peter, a slave tried in August 1823 "for Burglary with an intent to commit a rape and was Sentenced to corporal punishment imprisonment and to be transported beyond the limits of this State in thirty days." The sheriff reports, however, that Peter remained in jail until December when his "transportation was respited & his imprisonment remmitted by his Excellency the Governor of the State of South Carolina." Haltiwanger therefore asks that he be granted "the usual Compensation allowed by Law for Dieting negroes." His "account for Dieting the within mentioned negro" came to $27.50, or twenty-five cents a day for one hundred and ten days; he also listed a fifty-three-cent-fee for "Committing & Releasing" the said Peter.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
