Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-03
AN ACT

AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled ssAn Act to Incorporate the
VILLAGE of York, ratified the 18Th December, l849.
Sec. Ind be it further enacted, That an Act enti-
tied "An Act to incorporate the village of York,
ratified on the nineteenth day of December, In the
Eear of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
N.ty-nine, be so amended that the Town Council Of
Yorkvflle be, and they are hereby, authorized to
compound with persons liable to patrol duty IN SAID
town for the payment Of such an annual tax in lieu
Of the performance of such duty said Town Coun-
Gil may by ordinance prescribe-the money so re-
ceived to be applied to the purpose of supporting
night watch for said town. and all persons refusing
or failing to pay such communication shall be liable to
patrol duty, and, for non-performance thereof, to
such fines and penalties as are now provided for by
law.
SEC. That the Intendant and Wardens of said
town shall have power and authority to require all
persons owning lot lots in said town fronting on
Congress Street. or Liberty Street. to make and keep
in repair sidewalks in front of their lots, dwellings,
stores, Offices or shops, of sufficient width, which
width as also the grade and height thereof the said
Council has power to designate; and for default or
refusal to make and keep in repair such sidewalks
the Town Council may cause the same to be made or
put in repair and require the owner to pay the price
of making or repairing Procided that such contract
for making or repairing be always let to the lowest
bidder.
Sec. That the Intendant and Wardens of said town
shall have power to regulate the price Of licenses to
be paid by persons representing within their corpo
rate limits, for gain reward, any plays or shows
of what nature or kind soever and in default Of
payment to enforce collection in the same manner
as Clerks of the Court authorized to do against
persons representing such plays shows in the sew
eral Districts of this State.
Sec. That the said Town Council of Yorkvine
shall have power to impose tax upon the keepers
of Ten-pn or other pin Alleys and Billiard Tables,
and to grant or refuse licenses for the same, upon
such terms and conditions and subject to such regu
lations as they may by ordinance establish They
shall also have power TO impose tax within their
discretion on all sales made by itnerant auctioneers
and to prescribe the mode and manner Of collecting
such tax on all hacks, omnibuses, drays, carts,
wagons or other vehicles kept for hire, an annual
tax not exceeding ten dollars each, to be regulated
respectively by said Council. The said Town Coun-
Gil shall also have power to impose an annual tax
not exceeding ffty-cents, on each white male inhab-
liant of said town. over the age Of twentyone years.
and hereafter person shall be permitted to vote
for Intendant and Wardens who has not paid such
tax as the Council may by ordinance prescribe.
Sec That the Town Council of Yorkville shall
have power to prevent the violation Of its ordinances
by ordaining as to free white persons offending,
certain fines not exceeding eighty-ve dollars for any
one offence and to slaves and free persons Of col
member. When any free white person shall be
charged with an offence for which fine Of more
than twenty dollars is ordained the said charge shall
be heard and determined in an action of debt, by
summary process to be brought in the name of the
said Town Council, for the recovery of said fine in
the Court of Common Pleas; and if the said fine
dained be not more than twenty dollars, the said
Town Council or quorum thereof shall have power
to hear and determine the said charge and render
Judgment thereon. In all of trials to be had
before the said Council as hereinbefore provided,
the party charged shall be cited to trial by personal
service upon him Of summons, under the hand of
the Intendant or any one of the Wardens, wherein
shall be expressed with certainty the offence char
ged and the time and place of trial, which service
Shall be made at least five days before the day OF tri
al The said Town Council shall have power to pro-
cure and compel the attendance of witnesses by
cess similar to that which by law Magistrates may
use in the trial Of small and mean causes, and to
enforce the judgments rendered by an execution in
the nature Of er acias against the personal goods
of the offender; and from any Judgment so rendered
by the said Town Council appeal to the Court OF
Common Pleas for York District may be taken by
the defennant in the same manner and upon the same
terms as are now provided in the case of judgments
rendered by Magistrates in civil cases. The Mar
shall of tie said town Of York shall have power to
serve and execute all summonses and other process
mesne or anal, issued by the said Town Council by
Town Council the Sheriff of the District shall have
like power-the costs to be paid to the said Mar
shal or Sheriff to be fixed by said Town Council
and collected from defendants.
SEC. That slaves and free persons of color charged
with offences against the Ordinances of the said
town shall be tried by the said Town Council or q
quorum thereof, and the judgments and sentences
rendered and passed in such trials shall be executed
by the Marshal Of said town or the Sheriff of the
District, and the modes of conducting such trials
shall be prescribed by the said Town Council by or
dinances for that purpose.
Sec. That the said Town Council of the town Of
York shall be, and is hereby, empowered to enforce
the payment of all taxes and assessments lawfully
levied by the said Council against the property and
persons of defaulters to the same extent and in the
same manner is provided by law for the collection
Of the General State Tax.
SEC. That the Intendant and Wardens of the
town of Yorkyie be and they are hereby authoriz-
ell and directed to open q new street in said town
commencing on the Landsford road east of the indie
pendent Church, partly on the lands claimed by J.
Bolton Smith and partly on the lands belonging to the
said Church, and extending the said street parallel
with Congress Street. thirty feet WIDE until it inter-
sects with the extension of Madison street herein.
after provided for, and that the said street be called
and known as Independent Street.
SEQ. That the said Intcndant and Wardens be
and they are hereby authorized and directed to open
out ana e1tenu Madlson-Sreet, parallel with Lber-
tystreet until it ntersects with Independent
the new street herein before directed to be opened
and extended, and that the width thereof be the
same as that of Libertysreet at the point at which
it intersects with Congrcss-street.
SEC. That this Act shall be deemed and taken to
be Public Act and all Acts and parts of Acts in,
consistent with or repugnant to the same be, and
the same are hereby, repealed.
HORRIBLE FkNAT1CISI.
The following account of some of the horrible re-
suits Of new phase of Northern fanaticsm is ia
ken from Massachusetts, paper. The parties have
been arrested, and will be brought to JUSTICE
i 1t seems scarcely credible that in this age fnat