Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-06-09


its ordinances, by ordaiaing Suitable fines
not, however, in any case to exceed the sum
of fifty dollars : Providcd5 that no fine above
/ the,sum of twenty dollars shall be collected
by>ths said council, except BY suit ia courts
;lof competent jurisdiction Aud provided,
further, That no ordinance shall be rcpug
nant to,or inconsistent with tho laws, Of tho
land, and all ordinances shall be, at all times,
subject to repeal by tle Legislature.
SE5. 50. The 'intcndant aud wafdcis shall
have powerto elect or appoint a marshall and,
if they SEQ fit, deputy marshal, upon such
terms as thoytmay decm proper, who shall be
duly sworn in by the 'intendaht, and vested
with all the power constables now have by law,
and whose power and authority Shall be par
ticularly confined within the limits of the said
town; but whose further power and authority
shall also extend to tho arresting and taking
in custody any person OF persons within u
distance of four miles in each and every di
'rocton beyond and without the corporate lin
its, who shall violate any ordinance of said
town {: Provided Said oifepcc be committed
within the corporate limits Tho duties Of
the marshal shall be to collect all fines aud
forfcitures imposed by the intendant and war
dens and to enforce and carry into execution
and effect the bylaws and ordinances of the
said corporation, and who shall bo liable to be
removed by the said town council and the
said intendant aud wardens shall also have
power to establish MI ordinance, whenever
they shall deem it expediont, to ordain and
establish police corps for the san town, the
expenses of the same to be provided for out
of the revenue of the said corporation.
SEC. 81. The intendant and wardcps shall
have power to select or appoint clefk} who
shall also be treasurer, whose duty it shall be
to attend all meetings of council, aud make
record iu a. book kept for that purpose, of all
tho proceedings thereof, to take charge of al
papers belonging to council, and to lodge with
the proper officer all summons, executions,
&C., and receive returns to keep q regular
which accounts shall, at all times, be acccssi-
bic to the intcndant or any of the wardcns
and it shall be his duty to make an official
semiaunual report TO TIC state Of his accounts,
at which times the doors of the council room
shall be open to all the citizens of the said
town; and which reports shalt be regularly
entered in a book kept for that purpose. He
shall attend to the publication Of all ordinances
and other documents ordered by council to be
published He shall hold his office for such
term as council may prescribe, not, however,
exceeding one year, and shall receive such
compensation for his services as council may
enact Provided, That he may be removed
from his Office at the pleasure Of the slid
town council, and before entering upon the
duties of his Office he shall give bond in the
penal SUN of three thousand dollars for the
faithful discharge of the same.
SEC 81. That the said town council shall
have power to establish a gaurdhousc, and to
prescribe, by ordinance suitable rules and reg.
ulations for keeping and governing the same J;
and the said town council may, by ordinance,
OF said .intcndant and wardcns in person, any
one or more of them, authorize and require
any marshal, deputy marshal or police officer,
Or any constable, specially appointed, to ar.
rest and commit to said guardhousc, or other
place of custody, to be designated by tho in
hours, any rpa. term not exceeding forty eight
gagged in fsiso I.s...,.o 5. .nessops.vh as.s,oas
or disorderly conduct, open obscenity, public
drunkenness, or III any copduct grossly inde
cent or dangerous to the citizens of the said
town, or any of them. And it shall be the
duty of the town marshal or othcr police Off
and who Shall have power to call to their as
sistancc the posse comitatus, if need oe, to aid
in making such arrests; and, upon failure
of said marshal or police officer in the pcrfr
nance of such duty as required, they shall,
scycrally, besubjcct to such fines and ponnlLics
as council may establish. And all persons
lawfully imprisoned shall pay the costs and
expenses incident to theirinlp prisonmont, and
be subject to such fines as council may impose
for the offence committed.
SEC. So. That the said intcndant and war
dens shall have full power to abatc and re-
move nuisanccs in said town
SEC. 81. That it shall be the duty of the
said council to keepall roads, ways and streets
within tho corporate limits open and in good
repair; and for that purpose they are invested
with all the powers vested in the county
commissioners; and they shall have full and
exclusive power to order out all the hands
now liable by tho laws of this State, and to
require them to work oD the respective roads,
ways and streets within the limits of the said
corporation, as many days in each year, and
to innct the some fines and penalties for the
non performance thereof as is by law now in
Aicted by the different boards of county com.
missoncrs Provided, 1t shall not be OBJ
ligatory on the town council to open any
street within the limits of the said town, un
less upon the petition Of the person applying
for the same, alleging that the said street IL
necessary for his use and accommodation, and
that there Is no other direct or convenient
access for him to the business part Of the
town : which petition shall be verified by the
affidavit of Tho onnlioant and rncnmp,opdoa