The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-05-20

men to collect aud receive the same,
with costs, as in such cases made and
provided by law and all property upon
which tax shall be levied and assessed as
hereby declared and made liable for the
payment thereof in preference to all
other debts, except debts due to the
State, which shall be first paid, for the
term of one year from the time at which
she same may be assessed aud levied !;
and that all taxes and licenses imposed
by the mayor and aldermen CT said city
of Columbia, shall be payable in advance
on or before the fifteenth day of March,
after the assessment of said taxes, by the
parties liable for the same, aud. OIL fail
ure OF payment of the same, their pro-
perty shall be liable as in manner and
form just before stated. And for the
purpose of putting the purchaser of said
real estate into the quiet and Immediate
possession thereof, il it be necessary so
to do, the mayor of the said city of
Columbia is hereby authorized and en-
powered to issue his warrant OF eject
mont, directed to the chief of police or
any other officer of the city, against the
said defaulting tax payer, his tenants or
lessons, and all persons whomsoever oc-
cupying or holding the said property:
Provided, That the said real property
shalt not be sold, or the owner of the
lee therein deprived of the same, for a
LANCER period than two years.
SEC. 5. That ,he mayor and aldermen
OF the said city of Columbia are hereby
vested with all the power and authority
over the poor within the city of Colum-
bia which. by the law, now belong, or
may hereafter belong, to the county
commissioners of Richland county over
the poor of said county. And for the
purpose Of raising funds to provide for
the support and comfort of the said poor,
the said mayor and aldermen NAY assess
and collect poor tax on the taxable
property of the snid city, in the same
manner us they assess and collect taxes
thereon Tor the support of the city gor-
crumeut Provided, That said tax shall
not cxceia ten per cent on the amount
IF taxes thereon paid to the said city :
Provided, further, That the tax payers
of the said city of Columbia shall not be
taxed for the support Of the poor outside
of the corporate limits OF the said city.
SEC. 6. That when any fine imposed
BY the said Mayor and Alderman, or by
tho said Mayor alone, for a violation of
any ordinances Of the said city of Co
lumbia, passed pursucnt to law, exceeds
forty dollars, or less, the Same shall be
recoverable in the circuit court of com
mon pleas for Richland county; and
when such fines shall be for forty dol
lars, or less, the same shall be recoyera
BILE before the said Mayor and Aldermen,
or before the said Mayor Provided,
That in all cases the party so fined by
the said Mayor shall have the right Of
appeal for hearing to the said Mayor
aud Alderman in Council assembled, on
giving pryper security to the city Of Co
lumbia to prosecute said appeal.
SEC. !. That the Twelfth section eff an
act of the General Assembly of this
state entitled "An Act to alter and
amend the chrrtcr of the town of Colum.
bia," ratified on the 2lst day of Decem-
Der, one thousand eight hundred and
iity-four, which authorizes the Mayor
aud Alderman of the said city Of Colum-
bia to issue an execution against the
body of exemption for street or unofii-
cial police duty under the circumstances
therein named, be, and the same is
hereby, repealed. Tho said Mayor and
alderman of the city Of Co.umbia shall
I rs~..e. - .1-..o 49,. .s."v.o uurs,nvvs
in said city; and it shall be their duty to
keep all roads, ways, bridges and streets
within the corporate limits Of the said
city liz good repair; and for that purpose
they are invested with all the powers of
county commissioners, or commissioners
of rhoads, Tor and within tho cooperate
OF said city; and they may lay cut new
streets, close up, widen, or otherwise
alter those now in use, subject, however,
to the two provisos contained in the first
section of this act; and shall have power
to class and arrange the inhabitants or
citizens of said city liable to street, road