The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-18
ACTS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1871 AND 1872.

AN ACTT RENEW AND AMEND THE CHARTER
OF THE TOWN OF WILLIAMSON.
Section /. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General AS
sembly, and by the authority of the same:
That from and Immediately after the passage
of this Act, all and, every person or persons
who may have resided within the corporate
limits of the town of Williamson for one year,
or who may own freehold therein, and their
&. successors, are hereby declared to be members
of the corporation hereby intended to be Gre
ated.
Sec. g That the said persons and their sue
cessors shall, from and after the passage OF this
Act. become body polite and corporate, and
shall be known and called by the name OF Will
liamston, and its corporate limits shall extend
one mile in the direction of the cardinal points
from the present brick hotel as centre, and
form circle.
Sec. 8. That the said town shall be governed
BY an Intendant and four Wardens, who shall
be persons that actually reside within the linn
its of the corporation, and have so resided at
least twelve months Immediately preceding
their election. The said Intendant and War
dens shall be elected ON the second Monday in
September in each year. ten days notice having
been previously given, and shall continue in
office for one wear, and until the election and
qualification Of their successors. And all male
Inhabitants of the said town, who shall have
attained the age of twenty-one years and resi-
dcd therein sixty days Immediately preceding
the election, shall be entitled to vote for said
Intendant and, Wardens: Provided, That no
person shall be allowed to vote at any such
election whoFsliall not have registered his name
as voter with the Clerk of the Council, in a
book or books to be kept by him for that pur-
pose, by 10 o'clock A, NJ, on the day preceding
: every such election.
Sec. 4 That said election shall be held in
some convenient public place in said town,
from O'Clock in the morning until o'clock
in the evening, and when the polls shall, be
closed, the managers shall forthwith proceed to
count the votes, under oath, publicly, stating
the.whole number of votes cast for each can
didate or person voted for, and shall transmit
their report for the same, in o sealed envelope,
to the Intendant of the town, and If there be
no such Intendant, the same shall be transmit
ted to the Clerk Of the Court of Anderson
County. The said Intendant, or Clerk of the
Court. shall open the report Of the said mana
gers, and shall announce and publish the whole
number of votes cast and the whole number
cast for each candidate, when the several can
didates receiving the highest number OF legal
votes for the Offices which they were voted for,
shall be declared duly elected. The 1ntendant
appoint three managers to conduct the election,
who. before they open the polls for said cleo
ton shall take the oath fairly and impartially
to conduct the same. And the lntendant and
Wardens before entering upon the duties OF
their Office shall, respectively, take the oath
prescribed by the Constitution of this State,
and also the following oath, 10 wit: "As Intend
ant ior Warden) of the town of Williamson, l
will faithfully and impartially, to the best of
my ability, exercise the trust reposed in me,
and will use my best endeavors to preserve the
peace, and carry into effect, according to law,
the purpose for whica l have been elected. So
help me God"
Sec. s.. In case a vacancy should occur in
the Office of Intendant, or any of the Wardens,
by death, resignation, or otherwise, an election
to fill such vacancy shall be held by the ap-
pointment of the IEtendant and Warden or
Wardens; and, in case there be none, then by
the appointment of the Clerk of the Court of
Anderson County.
See. 6. That the Intendant and Wardens,
duly elected and qualified, shall be, during their
term of office, vested with all the powers and
authority with which Trial Justices are at pre-
sent vested by law, Except the trial of civil
cases, and except as it may be otherwise pro-
yided in this Act And the Intendant shall
aud may, as often as may be necessary, summon
the Wardens to meet in Council, any two of
whom, with the Intendant, or any three Ward
ems, may constitute quorum to transact busi-
ness; and they shall be known by the name OF
the Town Council of Williamson; and they
and their successors hereafter to be elected,
NAV have common SEAL which shall be affixed
to all other ordinances, may sue aud be sued,
plead and be,impleaded, in any court of law or
equity in this State, and purchase, hold, pos
sess and enjoy, to them and their successors Ill
- Of
estate, real, personal or mixed, and sell,
alien and convey the same: Provided, The
same shall not exceed, at any one time, the
sum of ten thousand collars. And the said In
tendant and Wardens shall have full power to
make and establish all such rules, bylaws and
ordinances respecting the roads, streets, mark
cts and police of said town rs shall appear to
them necessary and requisite for the security,
welfare and convenience of the said town, or
the preserving of the health, peace, order and
good government within the same. And the
said Council may fix and impose fines and pen
alties for the violation thereof and appropriate
the same to the public use of the said corpora
ton Provided, That in all cases of trials to
be had before said Town Council, as hereinbe-
fore provided, the party charged shall be cited
to trial by service upon him of summons, un-
der the hand of the Intendant, any one OF the
Wardens, or the Clerk of the Council, wherein
shall be expressed, with certainty, the offence
charged, and the time and place of trial, which
service shall be made at least five days before
the day of trial.
Sec. Z. That the Intendant and Wardcns of
the said town shall have full and only power
to grant or refuse license TO retail spirituous
liquors within the said limits, which license
shall be granted in the same manner, and upon
the same conditions, as they are, or may here
after he under the laws of this State except
that the Town Council shall have the power to
regulate the price of licenses to keep tayerns
and to retail spirtuous liquors: Provided, That
in no instance the price Of license so to keep
tavern or retail spirituous liquors shall be fixed
at a less sum than is established by the laws of