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shall be liable to be removed at the pleas
ure of said Council. And the said Town
Council shall have power to establish or
authorize the establishment of O Market
house in said town, also to establish or
authorize the establishment of guard
house, and to prescribe suitable rules
and regulations for keeping and gov
erning the same, and until the SAID
guard house be established, they shall
be authorized to use room in the COM
mon Jail of the County of Spartanburg,
for the confinement of all who may be
subject to be committed for a violation
of any ordinances, rules and regulations
of said town Council, or the said Inten-
dant and Wardens, in person, any one
or more of them, may authorize and re-
quire any Marshal of the town, or any
Constable specially appointed for that
purpose, to arrest and commit to the
said guard house or Jail of Spartanburg
County. as the case may be, for term
not exceeding twenty-four hours, any
person or persons who within the cor
porate limits of said town, may be
engaged in q breach of the peace,
any riotous or disorderly conduct,
open obscenlty, public drunken
ness, OF any conduct grossly
indecent or dangerous to the citizens of
raid town, or any Of them. Add it
shall be the duty of the town Marshal
or Constables to arrest and commit all
such offenders when required 80 to do
and who shall have power to call to
their assistance the posse cOnaitdtus, If
need be, to aid in making snch arrests,
and upon the failure of said officers to
perform such duty as required, they
shall severally be subject to such fines
and penalties as the Town Council may
impose upon them. And all persons so
imprisoned shall pay the costs and ex-
penses incident to their imprisonment,
which said costs and expenses shall be
collected in the same manner as is pro-
vided for the collection of fines imposed
for the violation of Ordinances, rules
and regulations: Provided, That such
imprisonmet shall not exempt the party
from the payment of any fine the Coun-
Gil may impose for the offence for which
he, she or they may have committed.
And the said Town Council shall have
full power and authority under their
corporate seal, to make all such rules
and regulations, ,Eby-laws and ordinances
respecting the streets, roads and the bus
mess thereof, as well rs the police sys-
tenn of the srid town rs shall appear to
them necessary and proper for the secu-
rity, welfare and convenience, and for
preserving health, order and good gov
ernment within said town. And the
said Town Council may impose fines for
offences against their bylaws, rules and
regulations, and ordinances, and appro-
pirate the same to the public use Of the
said town. And the said Town Council
shall have the same power that Trial
Justices or Justices of the Peace now
have, or may hereafter have, to compel
the attendance of witnesses, and requir-
ing them to give evidence upon the trial
before them Of any person or persons,
for violation of any of their ordi-
nances, bylaws, rules or regulations,
but no fine above the sum Of twenty-five
dollars shall be collected by the said
Council, except by suit in the proper
Courts of Justice in this State, and that
no fine shall exceed the amount of fifty
dollars; and also, that nothing herein
contained shall authorize the said Coun-
Gil to make any ordinance Or bylaw in
consistent with or Repayment to the laws
OF the State.
SEC. 6. That the said Intendant and
Wardens, or q majority of thep, shall
have full power to abate and remove all
nuisances in said town, and it'shall be
their duty to keep all roads, ways,
bridges and streets within the corporate
limits of the said town open, and in
good repair and, for that purpose, they
are invested with all the powers of
County Commissioners or Commission
ers of Roads, for and within the corpo-
rate limits of the said town, and they
may lay out new streets, clese up, widen,
or otherwise alter those now in use; and
shall have full power to classify and ar
range the inhabitants or citizens of said
town, liable to street, road, or other pub
lie duty therein, and to force the per-
formance Of such duty under such pen
alties as are now, or shall hereafter be,
prescribed by law. And they shall have
power to compound with all persons lia-
BILE to work the streets, ways and roads
in said town, upon such terms as their
ordinances or bylaws may establish or,
their rules and regulations require, the
moneys so received to be applied to the
public use of the said town. And all
persons refusing to labor, or failing to
pay such communication, shall be liable
to such fine, not exceeding twenty dol
lars for any one year, as the said Town
Couucil may impose, and they shall
have power to enforce the payment OF
snch fine, in the same manner us is now,
or may be hereafter provided for the col.
lection of County taxes. And the said
Town Council shall have power, with
the consent of the adjacent land owners,
to close all such roads, streets and ways,
within the said town, as they may deem
necessary, by the sale of the. freehold
therein either at private or public sale,
rs they may adjudge best for he interest
of said town, and they shall keep in re-
pair all such new streets, roads and ways
as they may from time to time, deem
necessary for the improvement and. con.
venieuce of said town: Provided, That
no street, road or way shall be opened
without first having obtained the con-
sent of the land owner, or owners there
of, through whose premises such new
street, road or way may pass. :,
SEC. +. The said Town Council shall
have power and authority to require all
persons owning q lot or lots i'll said
town to close in, and to make and keep
in good repair sidewalks in front of said
lot or lots, whenever the same shall
front or adjoin any public street of said
town, if, in the Judgment of the Coun-
Gil such sidewalk shall be necessary; the
width thereof, and the manner OF con:
struction, to be designated and regulated
by the said Town Council; and for the
| default or refusal, after reasonable no.
tice, to make and keep in good repair
such sidewalks, and to close in such lot
or lots, the Town Council may cause the
same to be made or put in repair, and re-
ouire the owner to pay heprice Of max
ing or repairing; and the said Town
Council are hereby empowered to sue
for and recover the same by action o
debt, in any Court of competent juris
diction: Provided, That such contrac
for making and repairing is let to thu
lowest biddea. The cemeteries ant
public gmveyards are also placed unde
the jurisdiction Of the said Town Coun