The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-05-04

SEC. u. If any Surveyor shall have tailed
to collect the taxes contained in his tax BILL as
required by law, or if he shall fail to pay over
any moneys which he may have collected and
not expended, the County Commissioners shall
proceed against him upon his official bond.
SEC. Is. If any person receive or suffer Dodi-
ly injury, or damage in his property, through
defect or want OF repair or sufficient ralilpg
in or upon highway, causeway or bridge, he
may recover, in an action, OF the County by
law obliged to repair the same, the amount of
damage sustained thereby, if such County had
reasonable notice of the defect, want OF repair,
or of insufficient railing, or if the same had
existed for the space of twenty-four hours pre-
yious to the occurrence of the injury or dam
age but no such damage shall be recovered by
person whose carriage and load thereon ex-
ceeds the weight of six tons.
SEQ IA. If, before the entry Of an action
provided for in the preceding Section, the
County Commissioners tender to the plaintiff
the amount which he would be entitled to re-
cover, together with all legal costs, and the
plaintiff does not accept the same, and does not
recover upon his trial more than the sum SO
rendered, the defendant shall recover COSTS
SEC. 15 If q County neglect to repair any OF
the highways or bridges which, by law, it is
obliged to keep In repair, or neglect to make the
same safe and convenient, such County shall
be liable to indictment and fine, as the Court
in its discretion may order The fine imposed
in such case shall be certified to tho County
Commissioners by the Clerk of the Court, and
they shall proceed to collect the same from the
Surveyor or Surveyors of the highway district
or districts charged by this Act with the duty
of experimenting and keeping said highways
in repair; the sum, when collected, shall be
laid out in the repair Of highways and bridges
in the County.
SEC. l6 Each person who shall furnish work
on the highways in payment OF his highway
shall be allowed, for good hand, at the rate
of ten cents for each hour. 1t shall be the duty
of the Highway Surveyor of the district to
make such allowance for the use of teams,
carriages and tools, as shall be equitable
and just
SEC. IT, That all able-bodied male persons
between the ages of eighteen and fortysdye
years shall be liable, annually, to perform on
the public highways and roads, not less than
three, and not more than five days labor, un-
der the direction of the Highway Surveyor of
their district: Provided, That if any person,
being warned to work upon the highways, shall
pay to the Highway Surveyor, in the district
in which he may reside, the sum of one dollar
per day for each day required, the same shall
be received in lieu of such labor, and shall be
applied by the said Highway Surveyor to the
construction and repair of the highways and
roads in the district. And should any person
refuse either to work on the highways and roads
or to pay the fine imposed as a penalty for re-
according to tho direction Of said Commission
ers. the said person shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof,
punished by imprisonment in the County Jail
for the same, for term not exceeding thirty
days. =,
SEC. 1S. Each Highway Surveyor provided
for in this Act shall receive fifteen cents per
hour for the time necessarily employed in dis
charging the duties required by this Act:
Provided, That he shall not receive exceeding
fifty dollars per annum, except ir extraordina-
~ cases, when the County Commissioners may,
in their discretion, allow greater sum, and, in
no event, more thau seventy ty-fve dollars.
Sec 10. The County Commissioners shall,
for the year 1871, levy no tax under this Act
but that provided for in Section IL, but shall
set apart portion of the tax heretofore author
lied to be raised for County purposes, and have
visions of this Act.
SEC. 20. All Acts and parts of Acts, incon-
sistent with this Act, are hereby repealed
Approved March 8, 1871.
AN ACT TO RENEW AND AMEND THE CHARTER
OF THE TOWN OF ANDERSON.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State Of South
Carolina, now mot and sitting in General AS
sembly, and by the authority of the same, That
from and Immediately after the passage of this
Act all and every person or persons who may
have resided within the corporate limits of the
town of Anderson for one year, or who may
own freehold therein, and their successors,
are hereby declared to be members of tho cor
poration hereby intended TO be created.
SEC. 2. That the said persons aud their sue
cessors shall, from and after the passage of this
Act become body polite and corporate, and
shall be known and called by the name OF the
town of Anderson, and its corporate limits
shall extend one mile in the direction of the
cardinal points from the court house thereof as
centre, and from square.
SEC. s. That the said town shall be governed
by an Intendant and four Wardeus, who shall
be persons that actually reside within. the lin
its of the corporation, and have 30 resided at
least twelve months Immediately preceding
their election. The said Intendant and War
dens @ shall be elected on the second Monday in
September in each year, ten days notice hav-
ing been previously given, and shall continue
in Office for one year, and until the election
and qualification of their successors; and all
male inhabitants of said town, who shall have
attained the age of twenty-one years, and resi-
ded therein sixty days Immediately preceding
the election, shall be entitled to vote for said
Intendant and Wardens: Provided, That no
persons shall be allowed to vote at any such
election who shall not have registered his name
as voter with the CLERK of the Council, in a
book or books to be kept by him for that pur-
pose, by ten o'clock A. H., on the day preced-
ing every such election.
Sec. 4. That said election shall be held in
some convenient public place in said town,
from nine o'clock in the morning until five in
the evening and when the polls shall be closed
the Managers shall forthwith proceed to count