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| SEC. @ That the said company shall
have succession of officers and members
according to its Bylaws, shall have
power to make Bylaws not rcpugnant
to the laws of the land, and to have
use and keep common seal, to alter
the same at will, and to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded in any Court III
! this State.
/ SEC. 8. That said Company shall be
empowered to retain, possess. and enjoy
all such property, real and personal, as
it may possess, be entitled to, or which
shall hereafter be given, bequeathed to-
or in any manner be acquired by it, and
to sell, alien or transfer the same.
SEC. 4. That this Act shall be deemed
q public Act, and to continue in force
for the term of ten years from the date
of its ratification.
Approved February II, 1871.
AN ACT to Rcnew and cntend an act to
Provide Mode by avhich to Pcrpetu-
ate Testimony in Relation to Dccds,
| WIS, Choscs IN action, and other l'd-
2oers and Records Destroyed or lost du-
| ring the recent War.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives,
of the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly, and
by the authority of the same, That the
Act entitled Gan Act to provide mode
by which to pcrpctuate testimony III re-
lation to deeds, Wills, Choses in Action,
| o+l, 1nSfrn1-n6
or lost during the recent War;" APPROX
ed on the twenty-frst day of December.
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and siXty-tive, be, and
the same is hereby, renewed, and shall
extend and continue in force for the
term of five years from the ratification
of this Act.
SEC. 2. That said Act be further
amended so as to dispense with the
personal service of any notice required
under the provisions of said Act, and in
all cases in which such notice shall be
left at the usual place of residence or
business of the defendent, the same
shall be valid in law to all intents and
purposes as if served upon the person OF
such defendent.
Approved February II, 1871.
AN ACT to Regulate tile Right Of
2Tovcrsc.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representative Of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in Gener-
al Assembly, and by the authority of the
same, That traverse of an indictment
shall not, in any Court of criminal ju-
rsdiction in this State, of itself, operate
to continue the case.
Approved February II, 1871.
AN ACT to Rencw and amend tho
Charter of the 7oaon of Spdrtd,bstrg.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by tho SEN
ate and House of. Representatives., of the
State of South Carolina, now met and
sitting in General Assembly and by the
authority of the same, That from and af-
ter the passage of this Act, all citizens of
this State, having resided twelve months
! within the State, and sixty days in the
sown of Spartanburg, shall be deemed,
and are hereby declared to be, o body
polite and corporate; and the said town
Shall be called and known by the name
Of Spartanburg, and its corporate limits
shall extend one mile in each direction
from the Court House in said town.
SEC. 9. That the said town shall be
governed by All Intendant and six War
dens, who shall be citizens of the United
States, and who shall have resided in
this State twelve months, and shall have
been residents of the said town sixty
days Immediately preceding their elec-
ton, and who shall be elected OH the
second Monday in September of each
year, ten days public notice thereof be-
ing previously given and that all male
inhabitants of the age of twenty-one
years, citizens of the State, and who
twelve months, and in the said town
sixty-days, Immediately preceding the
election, shall be entitled to vote for
said intendant and wardens, paupers
and persons under disability for crime
excepted.
SEC. g. The said election shall he held
at some convenient public place III said
town, from eight o'clock in the morning
| until four o'clock in the afternoon; and
when the polls shall be closed, the man
ayers shall forthwith count thevotes and
declare the election, and give notice
thereof in writing, to the 1ntendant
then being, who shall, within two days
| to be given, to the persons duly elected.
The Intendant and Nardcns, before en-
tering upon the duties of their offices,
shall respectfully take the oath prescrib-
| ed by the Constitution of this State, and
also, the following oath, to wit: "As
Intendant Tor Warden) of the town Of
| Spartanburg, I will equally and impair
| TALLY to the best of my ability, exercise
| the trust reposed in me- and will use my
best endeavors to preserve the peace and
carry into effect, according to the law
the purposes for which have been cleo
ted: So help me God" And if any
person, upon being elected Intendant
or Warden, shall refuse to act as such,
| he shall forfeit and pay to the Council
the sum OF twenty dollars for the use of
the said town: Provided, That no per-
son who has attained the age of sixty
years shall be compelled to serve in
either of said offices ; nor shall any per-
son be compelled to serve either rs In
tendant or Warden more than one year
in any term Of three years. The Inten-
tendant and Wardens for the time being
shall always appoint one or more Boards
of Managers, three Managers for each
Board, to conduct the election, who, be-
fore they open the polls, shall take an
oath fairly and impartially to conduct
the same.
SEC. 4. That in case vacancy shall
occur in the office of Intendant or any
of the Wardens, or majority of the
same, ten days public notice being pre-
viously given; and in case of sickness
or temporary absence of the Intcndant,
; the NNardens forming the Council shall
be empowered to elect one of their num-
Der to act as Intendant during the time.
SEC. S. That the Intendant and War
dens duly elected and qualified, shall
during their term of service, scverally
and respectively be vested with all the
powers of Trial Justices, or Justices OF
the Peace, as the case may be, in this
State, within the limits of the said town,