The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-05-20
OFFICIAL.
Acts and Joint Resolutions
Passed by the Legislature
Session 1870 and 1871. M

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An act to alter aud amend an act en-.
titled "dt act to difer ana amend the
charier- and ertead the lin,its of ule
city Of Co1umbiia," approved February
26, 1870.
SECTION 1. BE it resolved by the
Senate and Hocss Of Representatives of
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly. and by
the authority of the same, That the
mayor and aldermen of the city of Go.
lumbia arc hereby authorized and en-
powered to incorporate the territory
added to the former territory of the city
of Columbia, by an act of the general
assembly of this State entitled San act to
alter and amend the charter and extend
the limits of tho city of Columbia" ap-
proved February 26, 1870, into the pre-.
sent wards OF the said city, as they are
now laid out, by extending the lines
thereof north and Cast 10 its present
northern aud eastern boundaries; and
the said mayor and aldermen, at the
time they incorporate the said newly an
nexcd territory into the existing wards of
the said city eff Columbia are hereby au-
thorizcd and empowered to continue and
the said streets in straight lines through
the lands OF any person or persons, COM
pan'es or corporations, to the present
northern and eastern boundaries of the
said city, of the same width of the old
streets: Provided, however, That in car
rying out the first section Of this act in
extending the wards of the said city of
Columbia, and in the extension of the
streets thereof north and cast to the
northern and eastern boundaries, the said
mayor and aldermen shall confurm to
he 23d sectiol Of the first article of the
constitution Of this State now Of force
And -progidsd, further That the act Of
the general assembly Of this State cnli-
tied san act TO declare tie manner Ly
which the lands, or the right of way over
the lands, OF persons or corporations may
be taken Tor the construction and use of
railways and other works of internal
Improvement, ratified on the 22d lny
OF September, a. ID. 1865, shall be in all
respects followed and observed.
SEC. 2. That when the said territory
shall have been Incorporated into the
present wards of the said city, the i'll
habtants thereof shall be cutitled to all
the rights aud privileges, and be subject
cd to all the duties aud liabilities, which
now pertain to the corporators of the
said city ..of Columbia, or which may
hereafter be created by law.
SEC B. That in all cases in which, by
existing ordinance, or ordinances of the
said city which may hereafter be passed,
the mayor and aldermen thereof, or the
mayor alone thereof, have power to i'm
pose fines for the violation of the same,
the said mayor and aldermen, or the said
mayor alone, or any alderman acting in
his stead, are hereby authorized and en-
powered to impose the alternative pun.
ishmcnt of Imprisonment or confinement
at hard labor in the work house, when.
ever such work house shall be erected ::
Provided, however. That the term of
imprisonment or confinement at bard la
Dor shall not exceed ten days for any
single offeuce.
Sec. That all persons liable to taxa
tion shall make discovery, upon oath or
affirmation, of their taxable property
| within the old .:s.. &c OIL.
make payment Of their taxes to the
clerk aud treasurer of said city of Co.
lumbia, according to his assessed value
hereof; and upon the failure to make
such return and payment as required, the
party so in default shall be subject to
penalty of ten per cent, to be collected
In the manner hereinafter in this sec
tion provided for the collection of taxes.
fines and licenses; and whenever it shall
become necessary to issue executions for
the collection of taxes due to the said
city of Columbia, and to sell thereunder
the real property of the defaulting tax
payer, in order to collect the same, the
sale thereof shall take place in the same
manner and subject to the same regula-
tlons as arc applicable to sales of real es-