The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-06-24
OFFICIAL.
Acts aud ssesss.s Resolutions
paEEssl by the Legislature--.
Sessions 1syo ana ls71.
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council, any two of whom, with the may
CT, OF a;;s.S;' a;.S three three aldermen, may const-
tptc q quorum to trallsact business, and
they shall be known,by the name of the
town council of Orungeburg, and they
md their successors hereafter to be elec-
ted may have a common seal, which
sshallibe affixed to oil their ordinances,
may sue md be sued, plead and be i'm
pleaded, ipiSany court ef las or equity
In thir State, and purchase. hold, possess
and enjoy to them and to their success
~ IN pefpetnityser. for Any term of years,
any cstateS real, personal or mixed, and
= sell, aiteniand convey the same: Provi-
ded, The same shall not exceed, at any
one time, the sum of ten thousand dol
lars. And the mayor and aldermen
s,s shall have full power to make ard estab-
lish all such rules, bylaws and ordinan-
,vsccs, respecting the roads, streets, market
and police of said town, as shall appear
.Stoythem necessary and requisite for the
securitys welfare and convenience of the
said town, or for preserving health,
= peace, order and good govdrnment with
in the same; and the said council may
fix and impore fines and penalties for the
violation thereof, and appropriate the
same to tho public uses of the said cor
poration: Provided, that no fine shrll
exctee fifty dollars for any one offence.
SEC. 93. That the mayor and alder
B men of said town shall have full aud
only power to grant or refuse licenses to
any person, firm, company or corporation
engaged in, or intending to be engaged
in any trade, business, or profession
whatsoever, within the corporate limits
of said town, upon such conditions and
suuder such circumstances MS to them
shall seem proper and right: Provided,
that 10 no instance shall the price of u
license to keep q tavern, or to retail
spirituous liquors, be fixed at less sum
than is established by the laws of this
Ltate; and all moneys paid for licenses,
and for fnes aud forfIiturcs for retail
spirituous liquors, keeping taverns and
billiard tables, within the said limits
without licenses, snail be appropriated
10 the public uses of said town: irovi-
ded, that tho mayor and aldermen, duly
elected and qualified, shall not have
power to grant any license to keep lav-
! ern, or rctailspirituous liquors, to extend
lbeyoud the termifor which they have
elected.
Sec. 81. That it shall be the duty of
the said Mayor and aldermen TO keep all
roads, streets aud ways within their cor
aporate limits open and in good repair,
und for that purpose they are invested
with all the powers and duties of survey
i'9prs of.hlghways and selectment of towns
They shall have power ,ocompound with
rallpersons liable to work the streets,
ways and aoads, in said town, upon such
terms as they shall by ordinance cstab-
lish; the moneys so received to be ap-
piled to the public use of said town, and
all persons refusing or failing to pay such
computation shall be liable to such fine,
not exceeding twenty dollars, as the
town council may impose.
Sec. 95. They shall also have power
to impose an annual tax not exceeding
fifty cents on every hundrec dollars of
: The assessed value of all real and person
al estate lying within the corporate lin
Its ofssaid town, (the real and personal
estate e-of churches and school associations
ssexceptcd.) The said council shall have
3 tho power TO regulate the price of lcen-
= 50 upon all public shows aud exhibitions
IN said town, to erect powder maga-
zine, and compel any person holding
more than twenty-five pounds to store
y the Same therein, aud to make rcgula-
s lions for rates of storage thereof, and for
keeping delivering the same The
said council shall have power TO enforce
I the payment of all taxes levied under the
: authority of this act, against the prop
erty and persons Of dcfaultcrs. to the
same extent and in the same manner as
: is provided by law for the collection Of
1athes general State tax, except that exc
cutions to enforce the payment of the
town taxes shall be issued under the
seal OF the corporation, and directed to
, the town Marshal, or other derson cs-
pecially upon which a tax shall be levied
|. ia .herebY declared and made limbo for