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and penalties for the violation thereof,
and appropriate the same to the public
uses of the said corporation, and are
hereby empowered to collect the same.
In the manner now prescribed by law:
Provided, No punishment shall exceed
fifty dollars or thirty days. imprisou-
melt.
SEC. Z. That the Intendant and Ward
dens Of said town shall have full and
only power to grant or refuse LICENCES to
keep taverns, or retail spirituous liquors
within the corporate limits Of
said town, upon such condi-
tions as they. by Ordinance, may impose:
P-ouilcd, That no license. shall he. fixed
at less sum than is established by the
laws of the State; and all moneys so
collected shall be used for the benefit Of
said town, and that the licenses granted,
shall not extend beyond the term to
which said Intcndant md Wardens
shall have hcen elected.
SrC. 8. That it shall be the dntv of
the said 1ntendant and Wardens to keep
all roads, streets and ways within their
corporate limits open and in good repair.
They shall have power to com
pound with all persons subject to road
duty in said corporation and apply said
moneys so received to the, public
use of said town, and all persons
refusing or failing. after due summons,
to work the roads or pay such commu-
tation, shall be fined in such SUM, not
exceeding twenty dollars, and in case
Of refusal to pay snch ine, the Town
Council may imprison such person or
persons, for q period not to exceed ten
days, as the Town Council may impose.
SEC. 8. They shall also have power
to impose al annual tax not exceeding
twenty cents on every hundred dollars
Of the assessed value of all real and
persona! estate lying within the corpor-
ate limits Of said town, (the real and
personal estate of churches and scho0-
associations eXccptch.) The said Coun-
Gil shall have the power to regulate the
price of license upon all public shows
and exhibitions in said town, to erect q
powder magazine, and compel any per-
son holding more than twenty-five
pounds of powder to store the same
therein, and to make regulations for
the rates of storage thereof, and for
keeping and for keeping and delivering
the same, The said Council shall have
power to enforce the payment Of all
taxes levied under the authority of this
Act, against the property and persons, OF
de!aultcrs to the same extent. and in the
same manner, as is provided by law for
the collection of the general State tax,
except that executions to enforce the
payment of the town taxes shall h;
issued under the seal of the corporation
and directed to the Town Marshal, o
ht-t 1,,
Town Council, to collect the same.
SEC. 10. That the said Intendant and
Wardens shall have power.to elect al
such officers, as, in their judgment, may
be. necessary to carry out the provisions
of this charter.
SEC. II. That Intendant and Wardens
elect shall, during their term of office
be exempt from street duty. Eacl.
Town Council shall, within one months
after the expiration Of their term of Of
flee, make out and return to their sue.
cessors, full account of their receipts
and expenditures during their time, and
shall pay over all moneys in their pos.
session belonging to the corporation
anr deliver up all books, records, and
papers incidental to their SUCCESSORS
and on failure to do so, they shall be lia-
bic to- be fined in d sum not exceeding
one hundred dollars, and by imprison-
mcnt for u period not to exceed sixty
days, or by both, such fine and imprls,
onment to be collected in any proper
proper action by the Town Council.
SEC. II. That all Ordinances hereto,
fore passed BY the Town Council OF
Bambcrg in conformity with the au.
t!3rity granted BY existing laws, as dc
not nG,.na.:ct with the constitution of the
United States, and of this State, shall
be, aud they arc hereby, declared lcgaI
and valid. go
SEC. 13. All Acts or parts of Acts
heretofore passed in relation to the in
corporation of the town of BamberG
be, and the same arc hereby repealed
SEC. If. That this Act shall be deem
cd a public Act, and shall continue ir
force until amended. altered or repealed
Approved the 2,:!d OF March, 4. ID
AN ACT tn Alter and Rcnc,y the Charter
of the 7nav7 Of Manning.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the Son
ate and House of Representatives Of thu
State of South Carolina, now met anc
sitting in General Assembly, and by tn,
authority Of the same, That an Ac
entitled can Act to incorporate certain
towns and villages" approved on the
18th day Of January, A. j.. one Thousand
eight hundred and sixty, be and the
follows, to wit: That from and aftei
the passage of this Act, all and every
person or persons who shall have resided
In the corporate limits of the village OF
Manning for two months, are hereby
declared to be members of the corpora.
ton hereby TO be created.
SEC. ?. That the said person shall,
from and after the passage of this Act,
become q body polite and corporate;
and shall be known and called by the
name Of the "lown Of Manning," and
its corporate limits shall extend one
half mile in every direction from the
Court House, rs 4 centre, except on the
side next to Black River, the line OF
which, for:aed at high water. shall con-
stitute it's boundary in that direction.
SEC. 3. That the said town shall be
governed by an Intendant and four
Wardens, who shall have resided in the
State one year, and within the limits
Of the corporation for sixty days i'm
mediately preceding their election.
The said Intendant and Wardens shall
be elected on the second Monday OF
the month of April III each year, ten
cays' notice being previously given:
and shall continue in ollicc one year, and
until the election and qualification o,
their SUCCESSORS, and that all male in
llabitants Of the said town, who shall
have attained tho ago of twcnty-onc
years, and resided therein two months
Immediately preceding tho election,
shall he entitled to vote for said In
teudantand Wardens.
SEC. /. That the said election shall be
held in some convenient public place
in said town from eight o'clock in
the morning until four O'Clock in the
evening, and when tho polls shall be
closed, the Managers shall forthwith
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