The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-04-09

specting- the roads, streets, markets and
police of soid town, as shall appear to
them necessary and requisite for the Sc
ourity, welfare md convenience of the
said town, or for preserving health,
peace,' order and good government with
in the Same. And the said Council may
FIX and impose fines and penalties for the
violation thereof, and appropriate the
same to the public use of the said cor
poration: Provided. That in all cases of
trials to be Ind before the said Town
Council, as hereinbefore provided, the
party charged shall be cited to trial, by
service upon him of o summons, under
the hand of the Intendant, any one of
Gil, wherein shall be expressed, with Ger.
tainty, the offence charged, and tho time
and place of trial, which service shall bo
nude at least five days before the day of
trial. Y
Sec. z. Th1t the Intendant and Ward
ems Of the said town shall have full and
only power to grant or refuse license to
retail spirituous liquors within the said
limits. which liconse shall be granted in
the same manner, and upon the samc
conditions rs they now are or may here
after be, under the laws of this State,
except that the Town Council shali have
the power to regulate the prico of H.
cense to keep taverns to retail spirituous
liquors: Prouideti, That in no instance
the price Of n license so to keep tavern,
or retail spirituous liquors, shall be fixed
ut O less sum than is established by tho
laws Of this State; and NIL tho powers
vested formerly in the Commissioners of
Ronds are hereby granted to the said In
tendant and Wardens within the snid
limits, and all moneys paid for licenses,
and for fines and forfeitures for retailing
spirituous liquors, keeping tnverns and
billiard tables within the said limits with
out license, shall be appropriated 10 the
uses Of said corporations: Provided, That
the Intendant and Wnrdens duly elected
and qualified shall not have power to
grant any Licenses to keep tavern or re-
tail spirituous liquors to extend beyond
the time for which they shall have been
elected.
SEQ. 8. That it shall be the duty Of the
said Intendant and Wardens to keep all
streets, roads and ways, within their cor
porate limits, open and in good repair,
and for that purpose they are invested
with all the powers granted formerly to
the Commissioners of Roads; and they
shall have power to compound with all
persons liable; to work the streets, ways
and ronds in said town, upon such terms
as they shall by ordinance establish; the
moneys so received to be applied to the
public use.
SEQ. 9. That the said Town Council
shall have powerto impose an annual tax
upon tho keepers of all billiard tables
and ten-piE alleys, or other pin alleys
within the discretion of said Council,
and to grant or refuse license for tho
same, upon such terms aud conditions,
md subject to such regulations, as they
may by ordinance establish. They shall
also have power to impose tax, within
their discretion. on oil sales made by
itinerant traders aud nuctionccrs, on MI
public drays, wagons, carriages, omni-
buses and other vehicles kept for hire,
and on the owners or proprietors of all
dogs, hogs, sheep, goats and cattle kept
within the corporate limits Of said
town. The said Town Council shall
have power to impose an annual tax Oh
the amount Of NIL sales Of goods, wares
and merchandise. and also Oh the am cunt
of income arising from all factorago and
merchandise. employments, fnoulties and
professions, including the profession OF
dentistry; atso, upon the amount of in
come from all moneys loaned at interest,
and from dividends received from bank
and oil other stocks: Provided, That no
tax shall be imposed in any one case, to
exceed the rate OF thirty cents on cncll
hundred dollars of the value of such
sales and income; and the said Town
Council shall also have power to impose
an annual tax on all carriages and
wagons, of whatever kind, kept for pri.
vate use; on ell gold, silver and other
watches kept for private use, within the
limits OF said town; and the said Town
Council shall have power to impose an
annual tax, not exceeding thirty cents on
every hundred dollars on the value of NIL
real estate lying within tho corporate
limits OF said town, the real estnte OF
churches and school associations cx-
cepted; and for that purpose they shall
appoint three freeholders, residing there
in, to assess the yaluo of said real estate
upon oath, and return tho assessment
within one month. to said Council for
taxation, and to fill any vacancy occa-
stoned by the death, resignation, refusal
to serve, or removal from office, of tho
said assessor; and the said Town Council
shall have power to regulate tho price of
Licenses npon MI public shows aud exhi-