The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-03-13
LAWS OF TIE STATE.
Acts and Joint Resolutions, Passed
by the General Assembly Of South
Carolina, Session of 1s7O-'71.
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FFICIAL.]
AN ACT to alter and amend an act entitled
an ssAct to alter and amend the charter and
extend the limits of the City of Columbia, -
approved February 26, 1870.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the State Of South
Carolina, now met aud sitting in General AS
semNy, and by the authority of the same:
That the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of
Columbia are herby authorized and empowered
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
IAN act to alter and amend the charter and
extend the limits OF the City of Columbia" ap-
proved February 26, 1870, into the present
wards of the said city as they are now laid
out. by extending the lines thereof north
and east, to Its present northern and
eastern boundaries and the said Mayor
and Aldermen, at the time they incorpo-
rate the said newly annexed territory into the
existing wards of the said City of Columbia,
are hereby authorized and empowered to con-
tinue and extend the. said streets in straight
lines through the lands Of any person orper-
sons, companies or corporations, to the pres
ent northern and eastern boundaries of the
said city, OF the same width of the old streets:
Provided, ho,oerer, That in carrying out the
first section Of this act, in extending the wards
Of the said City of Columbia. and In the exs
tension of the streets thereof, north and eastss
to the northern aad eastern boundaries, the
said Mayor and Aldermen shall conform to the
twenty:third section of the first article of the
Constitution OF this State, now of force: Ands
provided further, That the act of the General
Assembly Of this State, entitled san act to
declare the manner by which the lands, or the
right of way over the lands, Of persons or
corporations may be taken for the construc-
tlon and use of railways and other works Of
internal Improvement" ratified on the ed
day of September, A. D. 1868, shall be In all
respects followed and observed.
SEC. 2. That when the said territory shall
have beeuincorporated into the present wards
of the said city, the inhabitants thereof shall
be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and
be subjected to all the duties and liabilities
which now pertain to the corporators OF the
said City OF Columbia, or which may hereafter
be created by law.
Sec. 3. That in all cases in which by exist
ing 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 impose 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 empowered
to impose the alternative punishment of i'm
prisonment or confinement at hard labor IN
the workhouse, whenever such workhouse
shall be erected: Provided, ho,serer. That The
term OF Imprisonment or confinement at Hard
labor shall not exceed ten days for any single
offence.
SEC L. That all persons liable to taxation
shall make discovery, upon oath or afllrma-
tion, OF their taXabe property within the said
City of Columbia, and make payment of their
taxes TO the clerk and treasurer of said City OF
Columbia, according to his assessed value
thereof; and upon the failure to make such re-
turn and payment as required, the party 80 In
default shall be subject to penalty of ten per
cent, to be collected in the manner herein
after in this section provided for the collection
of taye,, fines and licenses; and whenever it
shall become necessary to Issue executions Tor
the collection of taxes due to the said City OF
Columbia, and to sell Hereunder the real pro-
perty of the delaulting taxpayer, In order to
collect the same, the sale thereof Shall take
place in the same manner, and subject to the
same regulations, as are applicable to sales oil
real estate BY the sheriff of Riclhand County,
under executions Issuing. out OF the Circuit
Court OF Common Pleas. And al executions
to enforce the payment OF taxes, fines and
licenses, shall be Issued under the seal OF said
City of Columbia, and may be lodged In the
office of the sheriff of Richland County, and
may be directed to the said sheriff or to the
chief of police, or other person ap-
pointed by the said Mayor. and Alder
men to collect and receive the same, with
costs, as In such cases made and provided by
law; and nj! property upon which tax shall be
levied and assessed is hereby declared and
madellabie for the payment thereof, In prefer
ence 70 all otller debts, except debts due TO
the State. which shallbe first paid for the term
of one year from the time at which the same
may be assessed and levied, ind that all taxes
and licenses imposed by the Mayor and Alder
men OF said City OF Columbia shall be payable
in advance on or before the 18th day Of March
after the assessment of said taxes. by the par
Ties liable for the same; and, OIL failure Of pay
inent OF the same, their property shall be lla-
BILE as in manner and form first before Stated.
And for the purpose of putting the purchaser
of said real estate into the quiet and Immediate
possession thereof, ii it be necessary so 10 do,
the Mayor ofthe said City OF Columbia is here
| by authorized and empowered to issue his
warrant of ejectment, directed TO the chief OF
police, or any other officer of the city, against
the said def.uting taxpayer, his tenants or
lessons, and all persons whomsoever occupy
ing or holding the said property: Pfovmed,
That the said real property shall not be sold; OF
the owner Of The fee therein deprived OF Inc
same, for a longer period than two years.
SEC. S. That the Mayor apd Aldermenof the
said City Of Columbia, are hereby vested with
all the power and authority over the poor
within the City OF Columbia which by the law
now belong, or may hereafter belong, to the