The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-02-22
Highest Style of the Art.

the default or refusal, after reasonable
notice, to make and keep in good repair
such sidewalks, and to close in such lot
OF lots, the Town Council may cause
the same to be made or put in repair,
and require the owner to pay the price
of making or repairing; aud the said
Town Council are hereby empowered to
sue for aad recover the same, by action
of debt, in any Court Of competent
jurisdiction Procalecl, That such con-
tract for making and repairing is let to
the lowest bidder. The cemeteries and
public graveyards are also placed under
the jurisdiction Of the said Town
Council.
SEC. 8. The Intendant and Wardens
of the said town, or majority of them,
shall have full power to grant or refuse
licenses to keep taverns, or retail spiri-
tuous liquors within the corporate limits
Of the said town, upon such conditions
and under such circumstances as to them
shall seem proper and right: Provtded,
That in no instance shall the price of
license to keep tavern or to retail
spirituous liquors be less than the
amount as established by the State, and
all moneys paid for licenses and for Snes
and iorfeitures shall be appropriated for
the public uses Of the said town Pro-
rided, That the Intendant and Wardens
duly elected shall not have power to
grant any license to keep tavern or re-
tail spirituous liquors to extend beyond
the term for which they have been
elected. They shall have power to
regulate sales at auction within the
corporate limits of the town, and to
grant licenses TO auctioneers, itinerant
traders, to keepers of hotels, livery sta
bles, billiard tables, npin alleys, or
other kinds of games Of hazard, skill, or
chance, on all drays, carts, wagons,
carriages, omnibuses, busgies, horses,
mares, or mules kept for hire or used
for public purposes in said town. And
they have the full and ouly power to
impose tax on all shows or exhibitions
for gain or reward within the corporate
limits of said town. They shall have
power to impose tax not exceeding
twenty cents on every hundred dollars
of the value Of all real and personal pro-
perty lying within the corporate limits
Of the town, the real and personal pro-
perty of churches and schools aud COL
lege associations excepted. That an
ordinance declaring the rates of annual
taxation for the year, shall be published
at least three weeks during the month
Of January in each year, except the first
publication, which shall be Immediately
after this amended charter is accepted
and adopted BY the General Assembly
of this State; P'oUitled, That if in the
judgment ofthe said Town Council any
property, real or personal, shall be
returned below its actual and true value,
then, in such case, reference shall be
made to the books Of the County Trea
surcr; and the last assessment of such
property made by the County Assessors
shall be taken as the value of the same,
and that all persons liable to taxation
under the same, shall make oath Of
their taxable property within said town,
aud make payment of their taxas to the
Clerk and Treasurer of the said corpo
ration, or such other person as they may
be ordered or required to do, during
the succeeding month after publication,
and upon failure, to make such return
aud paymen. as required, the parties so
in default shall be subject to the penal
ties provided by law for failure to pay
the general, State and County tax, to be
enforced by the orders Of the Intend.
ant and Wardens, or majority ofthem,
for the use Of the said town. except that
in such cases that executions to'enforce
the payment Of such taxes shall be
issued under the seal Of the corporation,
and may be directed to the Town
Marshal, or other person appointed by
the said Town Council to levy, collect
and receive the same, with costs. rs in
such cases made aud provided by law,
And all property upon which such tax
shall be levied and assessed, is hereby
declared aud made liable for the
payment thereof 10 preference to all
other debts except debts due to the
State, which shall be first paid. And
that all other taxes imposed By the
Tntendant and Wardens. or a majority
of them, shali be payable in advance by
the parties liable for the same, aad on
failure Of payment their property shall
be liable for he same, as in manner ani
form just before stated.
. SEc. 9 The Tntendent AID Wardens
elect, together with Clerk and Treasurer,
shall, during their term of Office, be
exempted from street aud police duty.
Each Town Council shall, within Que
mor, III after the expiration oftheir term
of Office, make on: and return to their
successors in Office fall account of their
receipts and expenditures during their
term, which account shall be published
in one or more papers of the town or
county, and shall pay over all moneys
in their possession bonsine to the
corporation, and deliver up all b,oks,
records and her papers incident to
their Office TO their Successors; and on
failure to DO so, they shall be liable to
be fined in sum not exceeding FIVE
hundred dollars. to be collected by any
proper action Of the Town Council.
Sec TO- That all ordinances hereto
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