The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-05-13
.oFFICIAL.
Acts end Joint Resolutions
Passed by the EegisIaturc---
Sessions 1870 and 1871.

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An Actto Chd.1er tie To,en Of Hamburg.
SECTION 4. lie it enacted by tho
Senatoan House Of Representatives of
the State Of South yarolinu, now met
and sitting IN. General Assembly, aud
by tn authority Of the same, That
fr,m aud after the passage of this Act,
all citizens Of this State having resided
sixty days 10 the town of Hamburg shall
be deemed, and are hereby declared to
be, body polite and corporate; and the
said town be called and known by the
name Of Hamburg, and its corporate
limits shall be held and deemed to ex-
tend from the Savannah Bridge, leading
to Augusta, Georgia, one mile west, one
half a mile east. and one mile north.
Sec. q That the said town shall be
govern ed by an Intendant and four
Wardens, who shall be citizens Of this
State, and shall have resided within the
corporate limits of said town for sixty
days Immediately preceding their cleo
tion, who shall be elected on the second
Monday ip April in every year, ten days
public notice thereof being previously
given; aud udtast that all sanals inhabitants Of
the age of twenty-one years, citizens Of
this State, and who shall have resided
in the said town for sixty days imm,di-
atcly preceding the election, shall be
entitled TO vote for said Intcndant and
Wardens.
SEC. 3. That the election for Inten-
dant and Wardens of the said town
shall be held at the Town Hall, in the
said town, from eight o'clock in the
morning until four in the afternoon; and
when thepolls. shall be closed, the Man.
ayers shah Forthwith count the votes and
proclaim the election, and give notice, in
writing, to the persons elected; the In
teudant and Wardens shall appoint three
Managers to hold the ensuing aud every
subsequent election, except the first,
which shall be ordered by the County
Commissioners of Eagefeld County I'M
mediately 'aftcrthe passage Of this Act
The Managers, in each case, shall, before
they open. the polls for said election,
take an-oath fairly and impartially to
conduct tie same;A and the Intcndant
and Wafdens, before entering upon the
duties of their respective Offices, shall
take the oath prescribed by the. Consti-
tuition Of this State, aud also the follow
ing oath, to wit "As Intendant Cor
Warden) of the town of Hamburg,
will equally and impa,tially, to the bcs,
of my ability, exercise the trust reposcd
in me, and will use my best endeavors to
preserve the peace, and carry into effect,
according to law, the purposes for which
I have been elected So help me God"
The said Intendunt and Wardens shall
hold their officers from the time of their
election until the second Monday in
April ensuing, and until their successors
shall be elected and qualified.
SEC. 4.sThat in case vacancy should
occur should occur in the Office of In
tendant or any of the Wardens, by death
resignaticn, removal, or otherwise, or in
case of tie in said election, an election
to fill such vacancies shall be held by
the appointment of the Intendant and
Wardens or Warden, Gas the case may
be,) or THE County Commissioners of
Edgcfeld County, if there should be no
Intendant or Wardens, ten days public
notice eiarspf. being previously given;
and in ase of she sick ness or temporal
ry absencepf the Intendant, the War
dens, farsning q Ennncil. shall be en-
powered to elect one of their number to
act in his stead during the time.
SEC 5. That the Intcndant and
Wardensg duly elected and qualified,
shall, during their term =, of service, sc.
verally and respectfully, be vested with
all the jurisdiction and powers of Trial
Justice, or any other Inferior Court.
within the limits ofsthe said town. And
the Intendant it shall and may, as often
as he mey deem it necessary, summon
the Wardcns to meet in Council, (any
t~n afthc W.-acns w;..: he I..nna,n.
shall constitute a quorum to transact
business;) and they shall be known as
the Town Council cf Hamburg, and
they and their successors, hereafter to
be elected, may have common seal,