The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-22

number Of inhabitants, course OF
trade, facilities for inter-communica-,
tlon, and the general convenience of
the people thereof. For the purpose
OF running and establishing the lines
of said townships, the County Com
missioners may employa q surveyor.
and incur such other expense as may.
be necessary to erect permanent
monuments to designate, the respec-
tive boundary lines at every angle
thereof, except where such lines are
bounded by the ocean or some per-
manent stream Of water. The monu-
ments shall be of stone, brick or iron,
and be at least four feet high from
the surface of the ground, and the
initial letter of the respective names
of contiguous townships shall be
plainly and legibly cut or marked
thereon.
XII. Whenever the Board Of Coun-
ty Commissioners shall erect town
ship as herein provided, they shall
designate the name thereof, the time
and place of holding the first meeting
therein, and three electors of such
township, whose duty it shall be to
preside ut such meeting. appoint a
clerk, open and keep the polls, and
exercise the same power as Justices
of the Peace, while presiding at such
meeting; and in case any of the said
electors shall refuse or neglect to
serve. the electors of the said town
ship present at such meeting shall
have power to substitute some other
clector of said town for each one so
refusing or neglecting to serve. No
tice of the time and place of holding
such town meeting, signed by the
chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners, shall be posted in
four of the most public places in such
township, by the persons so desig-
mated to preside at such meeting, at
least fourteen days before holding the
same.
XIII. The County Commissioners
shall report their doings under Sec
tions II and II of this Act to the
General Assembly for confirmation,
so far rs relates to the division of
their Counties into townships, the
townships therein established, and
the boundary lines thereof.
NV. The Boards of County Com
shall have power, and they
are hereby authorized:
1. AT any meeting thereof lawfully
assembled to purchase for the use of
their respective Counties any real
estate necessary for the erection of
and for the support of the
poor of such County.
2. 10 fix upon and determine the
site of any such buildings, and cause
to be erected necessary buildings for
poor houses, and prescribe the man
ner of erecting the same.
3: 10 borrow money for the use of
such County, to be expended for the
purchase of any real estate, or for the
erection of any such buildings, and
to provide for the payment thereof,
with interest, by tax upon such Coun-
ty, within ten years from the date of
such loan. in yearly instalments or
otherwise.
4. To authorize the sale or leasing
Of any real estate belonging to such
County, and to prescribe the mode
IN which the conveyance shall be
made.
5. To make such orders concerning
the corporate property of the County
as they may deem expedient.
8. 70 examine, approve or disap-
prove the official bonds of oil County
officers.
Z. To require any County officer
whose salary is paid by the County
to make report under oath to them
on any subject or matter connected
with the duties of their Offices; and
the said officers are hereby required
to make such report whenever called
upon by resolution of such Board;
any if any officer shall neglect or re-
fuse to make such report, he shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
punishable by fine or Imprisonment
within the discretion of the Circuit
Court.
s. To appoint Special Commission
ers to lay out public highways in
those cases where they shall be satis-
lied that the road applied for is i'm
portant, and the same is unreasona-
bly, neglected or refused by the town
or towns in which the highway is re-
quired: Prooitled, That no such loan
shall be created by the County Com
until they notify the Gen
eral Assembly of the necessity there
of, and authority be granted by them