Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-05-26
Acts and Joint Resolutions Passed by the
Legislature--Session 1870 and 1871.
IOFFICIAL.]

of South Carolina, now met md sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority Of
the same:
That from and after the passage of this
act, all and every person or persons who shall
have resided in the corporate limits of the
Village Of Florence for two months, ure here
by declared to be members Of the corporation
hereby to be created
SEQ. Q. That the said persons shall, from
and after the passage of this act, become
body polite and corporate and shall be known
and called by the name of the Town of Flor.
enoe, and its corporate limits shall extend
one mile in every direction from the corner
Of Front and Dargan streets, in said town.
SEQ 3. That the said town shall be gov
erned by an intcndant and four wardens, who
shall have resided in the State for one year,
and within the limits Of the corporation for
sixty days Immediately preceding their cleo
ton. The said intendant and wardons shall
be elected on the second Monday of the
month of April, in each year, ten days no.
tice being previously given, and shall continue
in Office one year, and until the election aud
qualification of their successors; and all male
inhabitants Of the said town, who shall have
attained the ago of twenty one years, and re
sided therein two months preceding the cleo
ton, shall be entitled to vote for said intcn.
dant and wardens.
SEQ 4. That the said election shall be
held in some convenient public place in said
town, from six o'clock in the morning until
six o'clock in tho evening and when the
polls shall be closed tho managers shall
forthwith count the votes aud declare the
election, giving notice in writing to the per
sons elected. The intendant and wardcns,
for the time being, shall always appoint
the managers to conduct the election, who,
before they open the polls for the said cleo.
tion, shall take an oath fairly and impartiully
to conduct the same. And tho intcndant
and wardens, before entering upon the duties
of their Offices respectively, take the oath
prescribed by the Constitution of the State,
and the following oath, to wit: GAS inten.
dant Cor warden) of the Town Of Florence,
will equally and impartially, to the best of
my ability, exercise the trust rcposcd in me,
and will use my best cndeavors to preserve
the peace, and carry into effect, according to
law, the purpose 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 said town council the sum of twenty dol
lars, for tho use of said town Provided,
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sixty years shall be compelled to serve in
person be compelled to serve more than one
year i'll any term of three years
SEC. 5. That in case any vacancy should
occur in the office Of intcpdaut or any of the
wardens, by death, resignation or otherwise,
by the appointment of intendant or warden
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previous notice being given and in case Of
sickness or temporary absence of the inten.
dant, the wardcns forming a council, shall
be cmpowcted to rlect ono Of their number
to act as intendant during the time.
SEQ. g. That the intendant aud wardens
duly elected and qualified shall, during their
term Of service, severally and respectively,
be vested with all the powers Of a trial jus
tice or other inferior court and the inten-
dant shall and may, as often as may be nee
essary, summon the wardcns to meet in coun-
Gil, any two of whom shall, with tho inten-
dant, or any three wardcns, constitute quo.
Sum to transact business, and they shall be
known by the name Of the town council of
Florence. And they and their successors,
hereafter to be elected may have u common
seal, which shall bca!fixcd to all their ordinln-
ces may sue and be sued, may plead and be-
impleaded in any court of law or equity in
this State, and purchase, hold or possesses and
enjoy to them and their successors, in pcrpc-
tuity, or for any term of years, any estate,
real or pcrson,l, or mixed, and sell, alien, or
convey the Same: Provided, The same shall
not exceed, at any one time, the sum Of ten
thousand dollars. And the iutcndunt and
wardens shall have full power to make and
establish all such all such rules, by laws and
ordinances respecting the roads, streets mar.
kcts and police Of said town, as shall appear
to them necessary and requisite for the secu,
rlty, welfare and convenience Of said town,
or for preserving health, order, peace and
good government within the same; and all
the bylaws, rules and ordinances the said
council may make shall at all times, be sub.
ject to revisal or rcpea! by the General As
sembly of this State. And the said council
may fix and impose fines and penalties for
tho violation thereof, and appropriate the
same to the public uses of said corporation
Provided, That no punishment shall exceed
fifty dollars, or thirty days imprisonment.
SEC. 7. That the intcndant and wardcns
of said town shall have full md only power
to grant or refuse licenses to keep taverns, or
retail spirituous liquors within the corporate
limits Of said town, upon such conditions and
undor such circumstances, as to then. shall
soem right and proper: Provided, That in
no instance shall the price Of license to
keep tavern, or to retail spirituous liquors,
he fixed nj less sum than is established nv