The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-06-08

Council NAV i'm pose fines for offences against
their bylaws, rules and regulations and ordf-
nances, and appropriate the same to the public
use of said town; and the said Town Council
shall have the same power shat Trial Justices
or Justicesof the Peace now have, or may here
after have, to compel the attendance of witness
ses, and requiring them to give evidence upon
the trial before them of any person or persons
for violation of any of their ordinances, Dy-
laws, rules or regulations, but no flne above the
sum of twenty-five dollars shall be collected py
said Council, except by suit in the proper Courts
of Justice in this State, and also, that nothing
herein contained shall authorize said Counclito
make any ordinance or bylaws inconsistent
with or repugnant to, the laws of the State.
SEC. 6. That the said Intendant and Wardens,
or majority of them, shall have powerto abate
and remove all nuisances in said towns and 1t
shall be their duty to keep all roads, ways,
bridges and streets within the corporate limits
of said town open and in good repair; and for
that purpose they are invested with all the pow
ers Of the County Commissioners or Comm !s-
sioners of Roads, for and within the corporate
limits of the said town and they may lay out
new streets, close up, or widen those now In
use, and shall have full power to classify and
arrange the inhabitants or citizens of said town
liable to street. road or public duty therein, and
to force the performance of such duty under
such penalties as are now or shall hereafter be
prescribed by law: and they shall have power
to compound with all persons liable to work the
streets, ways and roads in said town, upon such
terms as their ordinancesor bylaws may estab-
lish, or their rules and regulations require the
moneys 80 received to be applied to the public
use of said town; and all persons refusing to
labor, or failing to pay such Communication, shall
be liable to such fine, not exceeding twenty
dollars for any one year, as the said Town
Council may impose; and they shall have the
power to enforce the payment of such hne In
the same manner as Is now or may be hereafter
provided for the collection of County taxes.
And the said Town Council shall have power,
with the consent of the adjacent land owners,
to close all such roads, streets and ways within
the said town as they may deem necessary; by
the sale of the freehold therein, either at pri-
vate rpublic sale, as they may adjudge best for
the interest of said town; and they shall keep
in repair all such new streets, roads and ways
as they may, from time to time, deem necessary
for the improvement and convenience of said
town: Provided, That no street, road or way
shall beopened without first having obtained
the consent of the land owner or owners there
of, through whose premises any such new street,
road or way may pass.
SEC. 7 The said Town Council may have
power and authority to require all persons own
ing lot or lots in said town, to close in, and
to make and keep in good repair sidewalks in
front of said lot or lots, whenever the same shall
front or adjoin any public street of said town,
if, in the judgment of the Council, such side
walk shall be necessary, the width thereof and
the manner of construction to be designated
and regulated by the said Town Council and
for:default or refusal after reasonable notice, to
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and to close such lot or lots, the Town Council
may cause the same to be made or putin repair,
and require the owner to pay the price of max
ing or repairing; and the said Town Councilare
hereby empowered to sue for and recover the
same, by action of debt, in any Court of COM
petent Jurisdiction Provided, That such con-
tract for making or repairing is let to the low
est bidder. The cemeteries and public grave
wards are also placed under the jurisdiction of
the said Town Council.
SEC. 8. The Intendant and Wa,dens of the
said town, or majority Of them, shall have full
power to grant or refuse license to keep tayerns
or retail spirituons liquors within the corporate
limits of the said town, upon such conditions
and under such circumstances, as to them shall
seem proper and right: Provided, That in no
instance shall the price of license to keep
tavern, or to retail spiEituous liquors, be less
than the amount that is established by the
State and all moneys paid for licenses, and for
fines and forfeitures, shall be appropriated for
the public use of the said town: Provided,
That the Intendant and Wardens, duly elected,
shall not have power to grant any license to
keep tavern or retail spirituous liquors to ex-
tend beyond the term for which they have been
elected. They shall have power to regulate
sales at auction within the corporate limits Of
the town, and to grant license to auctioneers,
.itinerant traders, to keepers of hotels and liv-
cry stables and to levy tax on ali drays, carts.
wagons, carriages, omnibuses, buggies, horses,
mares or mules, kept Tor hire, or used for public
purposes in said town ; and they shall have the
full and only power to impose al tax on all shows
or exhibitions, for gain or reward, within the
corporate limits of said town they shall have
power to impose tax, not exceeding twenty
cents on every hundred dollars of the value of
all real and personal property lying within the
corporate limits Of the town, the real and per-
sonh property of churches and school and col
lego associations excepted. That an Ordinance
declaring the rates of annual taxation upon
property and other subjects OF annual taxation
for the year, shall be published at least three
weeks during the month of JANUARY in each
year: Provided, That the said Town Council
shall have power to levy a tax for this year, un-
der the same rule as is above stated, Immediate
ly after the passage of this Act and that all
persons liable to taxation under the same shall
make oath of their taxable property within said
town, and make payment of their taxes TO the
Clerk or Treasurer Of said corporation, or such
other person as they may be ordered or re-
quired to do during the succeeding month after
publication, and upon the failure to make such
return and payment, as required the parties so
in default shall be subject to the penalties pro-
vided by law for failure TO pay the general State
the Intendant and Wardens, or majority of
them, for the use of the said town, except in
such cases that executions to enforce the pay
ment of such taxes, shall be issued under the
seal of the corporation, and may be directed to
the Town Marshal, or other person appointed
by the said Town Council to levy, collect and