The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-17

voters present; he shall make the vote
certain By polling the votes or divid-
ing tne Meeting, for which purpose
he may appoint tellers.
li Ky. No person shall speak in the
meeting without leave of the ATodeL
rator, nor while another person is
speaking by his permission; and ali
persona shall at his request be silent.
XVI If o person behaves In q
disorderly manner, and after notice
from the Moderator persists therein,
the Moderator may order him to
Withdraw from the meeting, and on
his refusal may order the Constable,
or any other person or persons, to
take him from the meeting and con-
fine him in some convenient place
until the meeting is adjourned. The
person SO refusing to withdraw shall,
for every such offence, forfeit o sum
not exceeding twenty dollars.
XVII. A Moderator or other prc-
siding officer who, at town meeting,
before the poll is closed and without
the consent Of tie 1oter, reads, ex-
amines, or permits to be examined,
the names written on such voters
ballot, with view to ascertain the
candidate voted for by him, shall for
felt the sum of fifty dollars.
XVIII. At the annual meeting,
every town shall choose from the
inhabitants thereof the following
town officers, who shall serve during
the year, and until others are chosen
aud qualified in their stead: L. A
Town Clerk, who, if present, shall
be forthwith sworn, either by the
Moderator or Justice of the Peace.
2. Three Selectmen. B. One or more
surveyors of highways. 4. One Con-
stable. All the town officers desig-
mated herein shall be sworn.
NIX. The election of Town Clerks,
Selectmcn, Constabies and the Mod
orator of the meetings held for the
choice of town officers shall be by
written ballots; and the election Of
ali other town officers in such mode
as the meeting determines, except in
cases otherwise provided by law.
AA. Every person chosen Con-
stable shall, if present, forthwith
declare his acceptance or refusal of
the office; if he does not accept, the
town shall proceed to new election
until some accepts the Office and takes
the oath.
XXI. If town, at the annual
meeting, fails to elect full Board of
Selectmen, or if any of the persons
chosen or disqualified, refuse to act,
or omit to be qualified according to
law, the Selectmen or Selectman
chosen and qualified may sign war
rants for town meetings until full
Board is elected.
XXI. The Selectmen of each town
may at any time appoint policemen,
with all or any of the powers of Con
stables, except the power of serving
and executing civil process, who shall
hold their Office during the pleasure
of the Selectmen by whom they are
appointed.
NXIII. After the election or ap-
pointment of town officers, who are
required to take an oath of office, the
Town Clerk shall forthwith make out
a list containing the names of all such
persons not sworn by the Moderator,
and the designation of the Offices to
which they are chosen, and deliver
the same, with his warrant, to Con-
stable, requiring him, within three
days, to summon each of such per-
sons to appear and take the oath of
Office before the Town Clerk, within
seven days after such notice; and the
Constable shall, within seven days,
make return to the Town Clerk.
XIV. If person so chosen and
summoned, who is not exempt by
law from holding the Office to which
he is elected, shall not, within seven
days, take the oath of Office before
the Town Clerk, or before Jnstice
of the Peace, and file with the Town
Clerk certificate thereof, under the
hand of such Justice, he shall, unless
the Office to which he is chosen is that
of Constable, or some other for which
a different penalty is provided, forfeit
five dollars.
XIV. A person removing from the
town in which he holds q town Office
thereby vacates such Office.
XXVI. When n vacancy occurs in
n town Office by reason Of the nom
acceptance, death, removal, insanity
or other disability of person chosen
thereto, or by reason of failure to
elect, the town may fill such vacancy
by new choice at any legal meet