Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-06-02
Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed by the
Lsgislsture--Session 1870 and 1871.
TOFFICIAL
An Act to Renew and Amend the Charter
of the Town Anderson.

OEOIION L. l)e ~ CHUCtCU Dy inc oCUatC
and House of Representatives of the State
Of South Carolina, now met aud sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That from and immediately after
tho passage of this Act all and every person
or persons who may have resided within the
corporate limits of the town of Anderson for
enc year, or who may own freehold therein,
and their successors, arc hereby declared to
be members of the corporation hereby intend.
cd to be created.
SEQ 2. That the said persons aud their
SUCCESSORS shall, from and after the passage
Of this Act, become body polite and cor.o.
ate, and shall be known aud called oy ,hc
name of the Town OF Anderson, aud its cor
porate limits extend one mile in the direction
Of the cardinal points from the court house
thereof as centre, and form square
SEC. 8. That the said town shall be govern
ed by an Intend,nt aud four Wardcns, who
shall be persons that actually reside within
the limits of the corporation, and have so re-
sided at least twelve mouths Immediately pre-.
eeding their election. The said Intendant
and Wardens shall be elected on the second
Monday in September in each year. ten days
notice having been previously given, and
shall continue in Office for one year, and un-
til the election and qualification of their sue.
ccssors; and all male inhabitants of said town,
who shall have attained the age of twenty.
ono years, and resided therein sixty days i'm
mcdiatcly preceding the election, shall be en-
titled to vote for said Intcndant and War
dcns Provided, That no person shall be al
lowed to vote at any such election who shall
not have registered his name as voter with
tho Clerk Of the Council, in book O., books
to be kept by him for chat purpose by ten
o'clock A. NJ :, on the day preceding every such
election.
SEC. H. That said election shall be held
i'll some convenient public place in said town,
from nine o'clock in the morning until five
o'clock in the evening; and when the polls
shall be closed the Managers shall forthwith
proceed to count the votes under oath, stating
the whole number Of votes cast for each can.
didate or person voted for, and shall transmit
their report OF the same, in scaled envelope.
to the lntcndant OF the town; and if there
be no such lntcDdant. the same shall be
transmitted to the Clerk Of the Court of An
dcrson County. The said Intendant or Clerk
of the Court shall open the report Of said
Managers, and shall announce and publish
the whole number Of the votes cast, aud the
whole number cast for each candidate. when
the several candidates receiving the highest
number of legal votes, for the Offices for which
they were voted for, the time being, Shall
be declared duly elected The Im,cnlnnt
and Wardcns, for the time being, shall always
appoint three Managers to conduct the cleo
ton, who, before they open the polls for said
election, shall take the oath fairly and imparti.
ally to conduct the same and tho Intcndant
and Wardens, before entering upon the duties
of their Office, shall, respectively, take the
oath prescribed by the Constitution OF the
this State, and also the following oath to wit !:
GAS Intendant Cor Warden) of the town of
Anderson, will faithfully and impar,ialy,
to the best Of my ability exercise the trust
reposed in me, and will use my best cndcnv
ors to preserve the peace and carry into effect,
according to law, the purposes for which |
have been elected: SO help nc God"
SEC .. In case vacancy should occur in
the office of lntcndant, or any of the Wardcns,
by death, resignation, or otherwise an election
to Gil such vacancy shall be held by the an.
pointmcnt of the Intcndant and Warden or
Wardcns and in case there be none, then by
the appointment of the Clerk Of the Court of
Anderson County
SEC. g. That the Tntcndant and Wardcns,
duly elected and qualified, shall be, during
their term of Office, vested with all tho pow.
ols and authority with which Trial Justices
arc at present vested by the law, except the
trial OF civil cases, aud except as it may be-
otherwise provided in this Act; and the In
tendant shall aud may as often as may be
necessary, summon the Wardcns to meet in
Council, any two Of whom, with the Intend
ant or any three Wardens, may constitute a
quorum to transact business and they shall
Se known by the name OF the Town Council
OF Anderson and they and their successors
hereafter to be elected, may have common
seal, which shall be affixed to all their ordi
nanccs; may sue and be sued, plead and be
implcaded, in any Court Of law or equity
IN this State, and purchase, hold possess and
enjoy to them and their successors, in pcrpc
tuity, or for any term Of years, any estate,
real, personal or mixed, and sell, alien and
convey the same: Provided, The same Shall
not exceed. at any one time, the sum of ten
thousand dollars. And the said Intcndan
and Wardens shall have full power to make
aud establish all such rules, bylaws and or
dinances respecting tho roads, streets, markets
and police Of said town, as shall appear to
them necessary and requisite for the sccu;ty
welfare and convenience Of the said town, O,
for preserving health, peace, order and good
government within the same. And the said
Council may fix and impose fines and penal
ties for tho violation thereof, and appropriate
the same to the public use of the said corpo
ration {: Provided, That in all eases of trials
to be had before the said Town Council, as