The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-06-17
OFFICIAL.
Acts and Joint Resolutions
Passed by the Legislatnre---
Session 1870 and 1871.
+ Continued from last IEccA.1


of the said town, upon such conditions.
aod under .such circumstances, as t,
then, shall seem properand right: Pro
vidad, that, in no instance shall the
price of u license to keep tavern or to
retail spirituous liquors be less than the
amount that istestablished by the State;
and all moneys paid for licenses aud for
fines and forfcitures, shall be arpropria-
ted to the public uses of said town Pro
vided, Tlat the intendant and wardens.
duly elected, shall not have power to
grant any license to keep tavern, or re-
tail spirituous liquors tn extend beyond
the term for Which they have been eec-
ted. They shall have power to regulate
sales at auction within tho corporate lin
its of the town, and to grant licenses
auctioneers, itincrant traders, to kcel cis
of hotels aud livery stables; and to levy
Il tax on all drays, carts, wagons, car
rlages, onnibuscs, buggies, horses, mares
or mules, kept for hire, or used for pub
lie purposes il said towu and they shall
have the fall ana only power to impose
tax on all shows or exhibitions for
gain or reward, within the corporate
limits of said town; they shall have pow
er to impose tax, not exec li7g twenty
cents Oh every hundred dollars of the
value of all real and personal property
, , ct churches and school and college asso.
.i,t.ona excepted. That an ordinance
declaring the r.tes OF annual taxation
upon property and other bjccts Of
annual taxation for the year, sla'l b.
published at least th:co weeks during
The month Of January in each year:
Provided, that tic sad loYN conn":;..
shall have power :, !, H.. :o ,hiy
sSear, under " ss u G sqla aas1z. " abese.
stated, Immediately after the passage OF
this act; aud Chat all pcrs rs li:bc to
taxation uader the same shall make oath
Of tlieir tax..hie property within said
tpwn, and make payment OF their taxes
to the clerk or treasurer OF siid corpora
lion, or such ether persan us they may
bc ordered or required to do Iumng the
succeeding month aitcr publication, and
upon the failure to make such return and
payment, as required, the parties so in
deiault shall be subject to the penalties
provided by law Tor failure to pay tic
general State and county tax, to b, en-
forced by the orders OF the intenda II
and wardens, or IL majority OF them, for
the usc OF said town, except that, iii
such eases, that executions to encor sc
the payment Of such taxes shall be is
sued under the seal Of the corporation
and may be directed to the town mar
shal, or other person appointed by the
said town council, to levy, colec and
recSivc the sam, with costs, us i'll such
cases made aud provided by law; and ali
property upon which such tax shall be
levied and assessed is hereby declared
and made liable for the poymcn, thereof
in preference to all other debts, except
debts due to the State, which shall pc
first paid; and that all other taxes i'm
posed by the intendant and wardcns or
II majority Of them, shall be payable, iu
advance, by the parties liable for the
same, and, on failure of payment, their
property shall be liable for the same, as
i'll manner and form just before stated.
SEC 0. The intcndant and wardens
elect, together with clerk and treasurer,
shall, during their term of Office, be en-
rmpt from stroot ana police duty. Each
town council shall, within one moIth
after the expiration of their term OF
Office, make out and return to their
successors in office, full account of
their receipts aud expenditures during
their term; which account shall be pub
lished Ill onc or more papcrs OF the town
or county; and shall pay over all moneys
in their possession belonging to the cor
poration, and deliver up all books, re-
cords and otf ar papers incident to their
Office, 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 10. That all ordinances or by.
laws passed by the town council of St
Stephens shall be binding upon tho citi-
zens OF said town, the sumo as the laws