The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1869-05-05

AN ACT 10 Hitter ssnd Ansessd
the GAasser OF tie 1oaon Of
0reeHci1e and for other pm.
poses. @'t'''-s : f''i'.-t saf7 -
Section 1. BE it enacted By tie
Senate and House of. Representa-
Sspes sf &he STATE of South Cdrots.
ma, szoto met end sitting an Gene.
raj assembly, and by tie author-
ETY. of the same, That from and inn
mediately after the passage of this
Act all and every person or per.
sons who are constitutioually quad.
flied to vote for members of the
General Assembly of this State,
and who may have resided within
the present corporate limits of the
Town Of Greenvillc for sixty days,
and their successors, and those
also who now reside and may have
resided for sixty days within a cir.
cult of onetodrth of a mile from
said corporate limits and their
successors are hereby declared
members of the corporation here
by INTENDED 10 DO cTeatcd. ,.as asar
SEC. Q. That tire said persons
and, their successors shall from
and after the passage of this Act,
become body corporate and pol.
itic, and shall be known and called
by the name of the City of Green.
vile, shall have a coesimon seal,
may sue and be saed, implead and
be impleaded in any court of law
or Equity IN 5his State, and may
purchase, hold, possess and enjoy
TO them and their successors in
perpetuaty cr for any term. of
.Scars, any estate, real, personal or
mixed, and IFS corp rate iimfts
sha& extend one and one fourth
miles in every direction from the
Court House as a centre. g.. .. s...
SEC. 3. That the municipal POW.
ers of said City shall be, and are
Rrese5y, vested in a Mayor and six
Aldermen to be chosen as herein.
after mentioned and directed, WHO
shall be denominatcd the Mayor
and AlderSaen OF the City OF
Grecnvil1e and shaVa be persons
who actually reside witain the
limits Of the said Corporation, and
have so resided for at least sixty
days immediately preceding their
election.
SBo 4. That on the second Men
day in September of each year, an
election for Mayor and Aldermen
-shall be held at such convenient
place or places withia said City as
may be designated by said Mayor
and Aldcrme7,, at which elections
all such persons as have beer
hereinafter declared members o.
tho said corporation shall be enti
tied to vote by a general ballot
ProUsded, That no person shall be
allowed to vote at any such elec
ton who shall not have registered
his name as a voter, with the City
Clerk in q book or books to be
kept by him for that purpose, q,
least thirty days before every such
election; and Rrouided, That the
present Intendant and Wardens o.
the Town Of Greenville, shall bs
Mayor and Aldermen, respective
ly, of the said City of Greenville
during the balance oftheir presen
term of Office. asss.si, sysssasij asE
SEc. 5. That the Mayor and AL
dermen TO be elected as above di
rected, before t.Iey enter upon til,
duties of their office, shall. in addi
tion to the oath prescribed in Sec
tion 80, Of Article III of tho Con
stitution, take the, following oath
to wit: II, Mayor or Alderman
OF the City OF Greerville,) do sol.
emnly swear. or affirm, (as tb,
case may be,) that ] viii eanalI,
and impartially to the best Of my
skiil and Judgment, exercise ana
discharge the trnst reposed In me
and will endeayor to carry int,
effect the puI pose tor which / have
been elected, so help me God ,
and that the said Mayor and any
-four For more Of the Aldermen
shall constitute q quorum to do the
business of the board; and in case
of the, sieath, resignation or re.
.moval from town, Of the Mayor
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