The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-03-22
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE

| shall not be sold, or the owner of the
fee therein deprived of the same, for a
longer period than two years.
Sec. 5. That the Mayor and Alder.
men of 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
County Commissioners of Richland
County, over the poor of said County.
And for the purpose of raising funds to
provide for the support and comfort Of
the said poor, the said Mayor and AL
dermen may assess and collect poor
tax on the taxable property of the said
city, in the same manner as they assess
and collect taxes thereon for the support
of the city government; Provided, That
said tax shall not exceed ten per cent.
on the amount of taxes thereon paid to
the said city; Provided further, That
the tax payers Of the said city Of Colum.
bia shall not be taxed for the support Of
the poor outside Of the corporate limits
of the said city.
Sec. 6. That when any fine imposed
by the said Mayor and Aldermen, or by
the said Mayor alone, for violation of
any Ordinance of the said city OF Colum
bia, passed pursuant to law, exceeds
forty dollars, the same shall be recover
able 10 the Circuit Court of Common
Pleas for Richland County, and when
such fine shall be for forty dollars or
less, the same shall be recoverable before
the aaid Mayor or Aldermen, or before
the said Mayor alone; Precided, That
in all cases the party so fined by the said
Mayor shall have the right of appeal for
hearing to the said Mayor and Alder
men in Council assembled, on giving
proper security to the city Of Columbia
to prosecute said appeal.
SEC. 7. That the twelfth section Of
an Act of the General Assembly of this
State, entitled can Act to alter aud
amend the charter of the Town of Co
| lumbia," ratified on the 21st day of
December, one thousand eight hundred
and 6fty-four, which authorizes the
Mayor and Aldermen of the said city Of
Columbia to issue an execution against
the body of every person for any SUM of
money imposed by way Of fine, tax, or
exemption for street or unofficial police
dntv under the circumstances therein
named, be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed. The said Mayor and Aldermen
Of the City of Columbia shall have
power to abate and remove all nuisauces
in said city, and it shall be their duty
to keep all roads, ways, bridges and
streets within the corporate limits ofthe
said city in good repair; and for that
purpose they are invested with all the
powers of county commissioners or COM
missioners of roads for and within the
corporate limits Of said city, and they
may lay out new streets, close up,
widen or otherwise alte, those now in
use; subject, however, to the two
provisos contained in the first Section
Of this Act; and shall have power to
class and arrange the inhabitants or
citizens of said city liable to street,
road or other public duty therein, and to
| force the performance of such duty,
under such penalties as are now, or
shall hereafter be, prescribed by their
ordinances, passed pursuant to law; and
they shall have power to compound with
all persous liable to work the streets,
ways aud roads in said city, upon such
terms as their ordinances may establish
or their rules and regulations require /;
and all persons refusing to labor, or fail
ing to pay such Communication, shall be
liable to such fine, net exceeding twenty
dollars for any one year, as the said
uayor and Aldermen may impose; and
they shall have power to enforce the
payment oil such fine in the same man
ner as is provided in the sixth section
of the Act for the collection of other
fines. And said Mayor and Aldermen
shall have power and authority to re.
quire all persons owning a 10: or lots 10
said city to close in, aud to make and
keep in good repair sidewalks in front of
said lot or lots wherever the same shall
front or adjoin any public street Of said
city, if in their judgment, such sidewalks
shall be necessary; the width thereof,
and the manner of construction, to be
designated and regulated by the said
Mayor and Aldermen and for default
or refusal, after reasonable notice, to
make and keep iigood repair such side
walks, and to close in such lot or lots,
the Mayor and Aldermen may cause the
same to be done, and require the owner
to pay the cost ofthe work; and the
said Mayor and Aldermen are hereby
empowered to sue for and recover the
same by action in any Court Of com i.
petent jurisdiction; Prouided, That the
contrast be let to the lowest responsible
bidder.
SEC. 8. That the said Mayor aud
Aldermen are hereby empowered to re-
quire all persons and corporations uo=
engaged, or who may hereafter become
engaged, in business or avocations Of
any kind whatever within the limits Of
the City Of Columbia, to take out a
license from the Mayor and Aldermen
Of the said city, who are hereby author.
lied to impose . reasonable charge or
tax for the conduct Of the same.
SEQ. 9. That all that part of Section
10 Of an Act Of the General Assembly of