The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-05-11

.tWenty-Ono years, ana unCll tne enQ OF lne SeS-
sion of the General Assembly of this State
then next following, and all Acts of incorpora-
tons or amendments thereof repugnant or
+ conflicting with this, are hereby repealed
Approved February %, 1871.
AN ACT TO RENEW AND AMEND THE CHARTER
{ - OF THE TOWN OF MOUNT PLEASANT.
SECTION 1. BE st enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives. of the State of South
-Carolina,now met and sitting in General AS
sembly, and by the authority of the same, That
from and after the passage of .thn Act all cit
izen of this State, having resided sixty days
In the Town of Mount Pleasant, shall be
deemed, and are hereby, declared to be body
polite and corporate, and the said town shall
be called and known by the name of Mount
Pleasant, and its corporate limits shall be and
remain as at present fixed by law.
81 SEc. 2. That the said town shall be governed
by an intendant and seven wardens, who shall
be citizens of the United States, and shall have
been residents of the said town for sixty days
Immediately preceding their election, who
shall be. elected on the third Wednesday in
April, in the present year, and thereafter on
the same day in every second year, as hereaf-
: ter provided, ten days public notice being pre-
viously given, and that all male inhabitants of
the age of twenty-one years, citizens of the
State, and who shall have resided in the said
town; for sixty days Immediately preceding the
election, shall be entitled to vote for said in
tendant and wardens.
SEC. 3. That the election for intendant and
wardens of the said town shall be held in. the
court house, or some other convenient public
place in the said town, from six o'clock in the
morning until six o'clock in the afternoon, and
when the polls shall be closed the managers
shall forthwith count the votes and proclaim
the election, and give notice. in writing, to the
persons elected. The intendant and wardons
shall appoint three managers to hold the en-
there shall not be an intendant and wardens,
or intendant and warden, from any cause
whatever, il shall be- the duty of the clerk of
the court for Charleston County to order such
election forthwith, and appoint three mana
gers for same. The managers, in each case,
shall, before they open the polls for said elec-
ton, take an oath fairly and impartially to con-
duct the same, and that theintendant and war
dans, before entering upon the duties of their
respective offices, shall take the oath pre-
scribed by the Constitution of this State, and
also the following oath, to wit: GAS intendaDt
or warden of the Town of Mount Pleasant;
will equally and impartially, to the best Of my
ability, exercise the trust reposed in me, and
will use my best endeavors to preserve the peace
and carry into effect, according to law, the pur-
poses for which have been elected So help
me Godn The said intendant and wardens
shall hold their Offices from the time of their
election until the third Wednesday in April in
every second year after their election and until
their successors shall be elected and qualified.
SEC. 4. That, in case vacancy shall occur
in the Office of the intendant or any of the
vardens, by death, resignation, removal or 9TH
or wise or in case of tie in said election, an
election to fill isuch vacancy shall be held, by
the appointment of theintendant and wardens,
or warden, Us the case may be, or the clerk Of
the court of Charleston County, if there shall
be no intendant or ,wardens, ten days public
notice, thereof being previously given; and in
oase Of the sickness or temporary absence OF
the intepdant, the wardens, forming council,
shall be empowered to elect one of their number
to act in his stead during the time.
SEC. s.. That the intendant and wardens, du-
II elected and qualified, shall, during their
term of service, seyerally and respectively, be
vested with all the jurisdiction snd powers Of
trial justices, or other inferior courts, within
the limits of the said town, and the said inten-
dant shall, and may rs often as he may deem
necessary, summons the Wardsns to meet in
council, any two of whom, with the intendant,
may constitute quorum to transact business ];
and they shall be known ,by the name of the
town council of Mount Pleasant, and they and
their successors hereafter to be elected may
have. common sea-; which shall be affixed to
oil the ordinances, And the said town council
shall have authority to appoint, from time to
time as they may. see fit, such and so may per-
sons to act as marshals and constables of said
town, as the town council may deem necessary
and expedient for the preservation of the peace,
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90 s appointed shall, within the corporate limits
Of said town, have the power and privileges
and emolrneGTts, and be subject to ali the obli-
cations penalties and regulations provided by
law for the Office of constable, and shall be Ii