The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-02-20

seal, to make all such rules and
regulations, bylaws and ordinances re-
spectIng the streets, roads and the business
thereof as well as the police system Of the
said town, as shall appear to them necessary
and proper for the security, welfare and CEN
yenience, and for preserving health, order and
good government within s;dd town. And the
said town council may impose fines for offences
against their bylaws, rules and regulations,
and ordinances, and appropriate the same TO
the public use of said town. And the said
town council shall have the same power that
trial Justices or justices Of the peace now have,
or may hereafter have, to compel the attend
ance of witnesses, aud requiring them to give
evidence upon the trial before them OF any
person or persons for violation OF any OF
their ordinances, bylaws, rules or regulations,
but no fine above the sum of twenty-five dot-
lars shall be collected by the said coun-
Gil. except by suit in the proper courts
of Justice in this State. and that NO
fine shall exceed the amount of fifty
dollars;. and also, that nothing herein con-
tanned shall authorize the said council to make
any ordinance or bylaw inconsistent with or
repugnant to the laws of the State.
SEC. 6. That the said intendant and W.
dens, or majority OF them, shall have full
mower to abate and remove all nulsances IN
said town, and it shall be their duty to keep
all roads, ways, bridges and streets within the
corporate limits of the said town open and IN
good repair; and, for that purpose, they are
invested with all the powers OF county COM
mlssioners or commissioners Of roads, tor ana
within the corporate limits Of the said town.
and tney may lay out new streets, close up,
widen. or otherwise alter those now in use;
an6 shall have full power to classify and or
range the Inhabitants or citizens OF said town
liable to street, road, or other public. duty
therein, and to force the performance of such
duty under such penalties as are now or shah
hereafter he prescribed by law. And they
shall have power to compound with all per-
sons liable to work the streets, ways and roads
IN said town, upon such terms as their oadi-
nances or bylaws may establish, or their rules
and regulations require, the moneys SO
received to be applied to the public
use Of the said town, And all persons reius-
ing to labor, or failing to pay such commuta.
ton, shall be liable to such line, not exceeding
twenty dollars for any one year, as the town
council may impose, and they shall have
power to enforce the payment of such fine, in
the same manner as is now, or may be hereat!
ter provided for the collection 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 aad ways with.
in the said town, as they may deem necessary
by the sale of the freehold therein, either at p-
vate OF public sale, RS they may adjudse pest
for the interest of said town, and they shall
keep in repair all such new streets, roads and
ways as they may, from time to time, deem
necessary for the improvement and con-
yenience of said town: ProUiled, that no
street. road or way shall be opened,
without having first obtained the consent Of
the land owner or owners thereof, through
whose premises any suoh new street, road OF
way may pass.
SEC. 7. The said town council shall have
mower and authority to require all persons
owning lot or lots in said town TO close In,
and to make and keep in good repair side
walks in front OF said lot OF lots, whenever the
same shah front or adjoln sany public street of
said town, if in the judgment OF the council
such sidewalk shall be necessary; the width
thereof, and the manner Of construction, to
be designated and regulated by the said town
council; and for the default or refusal, after
reasonable notice, to make and keep In good
repair such sidewalks, and to close in such lot
or lots, the town council may cause the same
10 be made or put in repair, and require the
owner to pay the price of making or repairing;
and the ssid town council are hereby empow-
cred to sue for and recover the same, by ao-
llon of debt, in any court Of competent juris-
diction: PROVIDED, That such contract for
making or repairing is ito the lowest bidder.
The cemeteries and public graveyards are also
placed under the jurisdiction OF the said town
council.
Sec 8. The lntendant and wardens Of The
said town, or majority Of them, shall have
full ReBer to grant or refuse licenses. Y keep
taverns, or:retalf fsplrisaous' liquors within the
corporate limits OF the said town, upon such
conditions and under such circumstances us to
themsshall seem proper and right: Provided,
Thatin no instance shall the price Of license
to keep tavern or to retail spirituous liquors
be less than the amount is established by the
State, and all moneys paid for licenses and ior
ines aud torfeitures shall,be appropriated for
the public uses Of the said town: Provided,
That the intendaRt and wardens duly elected
shall not have power to grant any license to
keep tavern OF retail spirituous liquors to exr
tend beyond the term for which they have
been elected. They shall have power to regu-
late sales at auction within the corporate
limits of the town, and to grant licenses
to aactionees, itinerant traders, to keep
ers of hotels, livery stables, billiard
tables, ten-pin alleys, or other kinds OF
games OF hazard, skill or chance, on all drays,
carts, wagons, carriages, omnibuses, busgtes,
horses, mares, OF mules kept tor hire or used
for public purposes in said town. And they
shall have the full and only power to impose a
tax on all shows or exhibitions for gain OF re-
ward within the corporate limits of. said town.
They shall have power to .imposeatax not ex-
ceedlng twenty cents on every hundred dol
lars of the value of all real and personal prop