The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-10

lOFFlO1AL.
Passed 46y The sLegislataTe Te-Sfsaipn 1870
AN AoT TO ALTER AND AMEND AN, AcT fN-
TITLED GAN ACT TO AFTER AND AMEND,
THE CHARTER AND EXTEND THE LIMITS
OF THE CITY OF COLUMBIA" APPROVED
FEBRUARY 26. 1870.
SECTION l. Be il enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives, OF the
State of South Carolina. now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same. That the Mayor
and Aldermen of the city of Columbia
are hereby authorized and empowered to
incorporate the territory added to tho
former territory of the city of Columbia,
by on Act of the General Assembly of
this State entitled ''An Act to alter and
amend the charter and extend the limits
of the city of Columbia" approved Fe-
bruary 26, 1870, into the present wards
of the said city as they are now laid out,
by extending the lines thereof North
and East, to its present Northern and
Eastern boundaries; and the sold Mayor
and Aldermen, at tho time they inoorpo-
rate the said newly annexed territory
into the existing wards of the said city
of Columbia, are hereby authorized and
empowered to continue and extend the
said streets in straight lines through the
lands OF any person or persons, compa-
nies or corporations, to the present
Northern and Eastern boundaries of the
said city, of the same width of the old
streets: Prouided. ho,oeper, That in car
rying out the first section of this Act,
in extending the wards Of the said city
of Columbia, and in the extension of
ha ofc H.
the Northern and Eastern boundaries,
the said Mayor and Aldermen shall con-
form to the twenty third section of the
first article of the Constitution of this
State, now of force: And, prouided Jfur-
Tier, That the Act of the General AS
scmbly of this State, entitled San Act
to declare the manner by which the
lands, or the right Of way over the lands,
of persons or corporations muy be taken
for the construction aud use of railways,
and other works of internal improve
mont" ratified on the 22d day Of Sep
tember, A. d. 1868, shall be in oil re.
spects followed and observed.
Sec. 2. That when the said territory
shall have been incorporated into the
present wards of the said city. the inha-
bitants thereof shall be entitled to all
the rights and privileges, and be subject
ed to all the duties and liabilities which
now pertain to the corporators of the
said city of Columbia, or which may
hereafter be created by law.
SEC. 3. That in all cases in which by
existing ordinance or ordinances of tue
said city, which may hereafter be passed,
the Mayor and Aldermen thereof, or the
Mayor alone thereof, have power to i'm
pose fines for the violation of the same,
the said Mayor and Aldermen, or the
said Mayor alone, or any Alderman aot-
ing in his stead, are hereby authorized
and empowered to impose the alternative
punish ment of imprisonment or confne-
ment at hard labor in the work house,
whenever such work house shall be
erected: Prooided, Ao,oecer, That the
term of imprisonment or confinement at
hard labor shall not exceed ten days for
any single offence.
SEC. 4. That all persons liable to taxa
tlon shall make discovery, upon onth or
affirmation, of their taxable property
make payment OF their taxes to the
Clerk and Treasurer of said city of CO.
lu u bia, according to his assessed value
thereof; and upon the failure to make
such return and payment as required,
the party SO in default shall be subject to
a penalty OF ten per cent, to be collect
ed in the manner hereinafter in this SEQ
tion provided for the collection of taxes,
tines and licenses; and whenever it shall
become necessary to issue executions for
tho collection of taxes due to the said
city of Columbia, and to sell Hereunder
tho real property of the defaulting tax
payer, i'll order to collect the same, the
sale thereof shall take place in the same
manner, and subject TO the same regula-
tons, as are applicable to sales of real
estate by the Sheriff of Rchand Coun-
ty, under executions issuing out of the
Circuit Court of Common Pleas. And all
executions to enforce the payment of
taxes, fines and licenses. shall be issued
under tho seal of said city of Columbia.
and may he lodged in the Office of the
Sheriff Of Richlnnd County, and may be
directed to the said Sheriff or to the
Chief of Police. or other person ap-
pointed by the said Mayor and Alder
men to collect and receive the same,
with costs, MS in snch cnses made and
provided by law; aud all property upon
which tax shall bc levied and assessed is