The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-04-22

to aid IN making such arrests, and upon
the failure Of said officers to perform such
daty ,ss required. they shall severally be
subject to such fines and penalties as the
Tpwns Council may impose upon them,
and all persons 80 imprisoned shall pay
the cost and expenses incident to their
imprisonment, which said costs and ex-
manner Ms is provided for the collection
Of fines imposed for the violation OF
ordinances, rules and regulations: Pro
rided, That suoh imprisonment shall not
exempt the party from the payment Of
any fine the Council may impose for the
offence for whioh he, she, or they, may
have committed. And the anid Town
Council may have full power and autho-
rity, under their corporate seal, to make
oil such rules. regulations, bylaws aud
ordinances respecting the streets, roads
and the business thereof, as well as the
police system of the said town, az shall
appear to them necessary and proper for
the security, welfare and convenience,
and for preserving health, order aud
good government within said town; md
the said Town Council may impose fines
for offences against their bylaws, rules,
regulations and ordinances, and appro-
pirate the same for the public use OF said
town; and the said Town Council shall
have the same power which has been
heretofore granted to Magistrates in this
State to compel the attendance of wit
nesses, and require them to give evi-
dence Upon the trial before them of any
person or persons for violation of any Of
their ordinances, bylaws, rules, or regu-
lations, but no fne above the sum OF
twenty-five dollars shall be collected by
tho Town Council, except by suit in the
proper Courts of Justice in this State,
and that no fine shall exceed the amount
of fifty (50) dollars, and also nothing
herein contained shall authorize the said
Council to make any ordinance, or by.
law, inconsistent or repugnnnt to the
laws of this State.
SEC. ia. That the said Intendant or
Wardens, or majority Of them. shall
hnve power to abate or remove all nui-
sances in said town, and it shall be their
duty to keep oil roads, ways, bridges and
streets within the corporate limits of snid
town, open and in good repair, and. for
that purpose, they are vested with all the
powers of County Commissioners, or
Com missioners Of Roads, for aud within
the corporate limits of said town, and
they may lay out new streets, close up,
use, and shall have full power to classify
and arrange the inhabitants or citizens
Of said town, liable to street, road or
other public duties therein, and to force
the performance of such duty, under
snch penalties as are now, or shall here
after be prescribed by law, and they shall
haTe power 70 compound with nll per-
sons liable to work the streets, ways and
roads in said town, upon such terms as
their ordinances or bylaws may estab-
lish, or their rules and regulations re-
.quire, the moneys 80 received to be np-
piled to the public use of said town, aud
all persons refusing to labor, or failing
to pny such oommutation, shall be liable
to such fine, not exceeding twenty dol
lars for any one. year, as the said Town
Council may impoae. And they shall
hive power to enforce the payment Of
such fines in the same manner ns is now
or may ba hereafter provided for the col
lection 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 MS they may deem
necessary, and they may keep in repair
all such now streets, roads and ways as
they may from time to time deem neccs-
snry, for tho improvement and convent
enoe of said town: ProDided, That no
street, road or way shall be opened wi H.
out first having obtained the consent of
the land owners, or owners thereof,
through whose premises any such new
street, road or way may pass
SEC. 1l5. The said Town Council shall
have power and authority to require all
persons owning q lot or lots in said to wn
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 said Council, such
sidewalks shall be necessary, the width
thereof. aud the manner of construction
shall be designated and regulated by said
Town Council; and. for default or re-
fusal, after reasonable notice, to make
and keep in good ropnir such sidewalks,
and to close in such lot or lots, tile Town
Council may cause the same to be made
or put i'll repair, and require the owner
to pay the prico Of making or repairing;
aud tho said Town Council are hereby
empowered to sne for and recover tue
sumo, by action of debt. in any court of