The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-02-22

power to establish or authorize the es-
tablishment of a market house in said
town, also to establish or authorize the
establishment ofa guard house, and to
prescribe suitable rules and regulations
for keeping aud governing the same.
ana until the said guard house be es-
tablished, they shall be authorized to
use room in the common Jail of the
County of Spartanburg, for the coniue-
ment of all who may be subject to be
committed for a violation of any ordi.
nances, rules and regulations of said
town Council, or the said intendant and
Wardens, in person, any one or more Of
them, may authorize and require 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 exceed,
ing twenty.four hours. any person or
persons who withic the corporate limits
of said town, may be engaged in a
breach Of the peace, any riotous or dis
orderly conduct, open obscenity, public
drunkenness, or any conduct grossly
indecent or dangerous to the citizens Of
said town, or any Of them. And it
shall be the duty of the town Marshal
or Constables to arrest and commit all
such offenders when required so to do,
aud who shall have power to call to their
assistance the posse com;tatus, if need
be, to aid in making such arrests, and
upon the failure of said officers to per
form such duty as required, they shall
severally be subject to such fines aud
penalties as the Town Council may i'm
pose 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
provided for the collection of fines i'm.
posed for the violation of Ordinances,
rules aud regulations: Provided, That
such Imprisonment shall not exempt
the party from the payment of any 6ne
the Council may impose for the offence
for which he, she or they may hare
committed. And the said Town Coun-
ell shall have full power aud authority
under their corporate seal, to make all
such rules aud regulations, bylaws and
ordinances respecting the streets, roads
and the business thereof, as well as the
police system of the said town as shall
appear to them necessary and proper for
the security, welfare and convenience,
and for preserving health, order and
good government within said town.
And the said lown Council may impose
fines for offences against their BY laws,
rules and regulations, and ordinances,
and appropriate 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, aud requiring them to give
evidence upon the trial before them Of
any person or persons, for violation of
any Of their ordinances. bylaws, rules
or regulations, but no 6ne above the
sum of twenty Eve dollars shall be
collected BY the said Council, except BY
suit in the proper Courts of Justice in
this State, and that no 6ne shall exceed
the amount of fifty dollars; and also.
that nothing herein contained shall
authorize the said Council to make any
ordinance or bylaw Inconsistent with
or repugnant to the laws Of the State.
Sec. 6. That the said Tnteniant aud
Wardens, or a majority of them, shall
have full power to aoate aud remove all
uuisances in said town, and it shall be
their duty to keep all roads, ways,
bridges and streets within the corpo-
rate limits Of the said town open, and
in good repair; aud, for that purpose,
they are invested With all the powers Of
County Commissioners or Commission
crs of Roads, for and within the corpo-
rate limits of the said town, aud they
may lay out new streets, close up, widen.
or otherwise alter those now iu use:
and shall have full power to classify aud
arrange the inhabitants or citizens Of
said town, liable to street, road, or 9TH
er public duty therein, and to force the
performance of such duty uuder such
penalties as are nov, or shall hereafter
be, prescribed BY law. And they shall
have power to compound with all per-
sons liable to work the streets, ways and
roads in said town, upon such terms as
their ordinances or by laws may estab-
lish, or their rules and regulations re-
quire, the moneys so received to be
applied 10 the public use Of the said
town. And all persons refusing to
labor, or failing to pay such commuta-
tion, shall be liable to such iue, not
exceeding twenty dollars for any one
wear, as the said Town Council may
impose, and they shall have power to
enforce the payment v erch fine, in the
same manner as is nos, or may be here
after provided for the collection Of
County taxes. Aud the said Town
Council shall have power, with the con-
sent of the adjacent land owners, to close
all such roads, streets and ways, within
the said town. as they may deem neces-
sary, BY the sale of the freehold therein
either at private or public sale, as they
may adjudge best for the interest of the
said town, and they shall keep in re-
pair all such new streets, roads aud
ways, as they may, from time to time,
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