The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-03-21

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 re.
quring them to give evidence upon the trial
before them of any person or persons for vlo-
! ation of any of their ordinances bylaws rules
or regulations; but no fine above the sum OF
twenty-five dollars shall be collected by said
/ Council, except by suits in the proper Courts
! of Justice in this State, and also that nothing
| herein contained shall authorize said Council
| to make any ordinance or bylaws inconsistent
with or repugnant to the laws of the State.
Sec 6. That the said Intendant and Wardcns,
or majority of them, shall have power to
abate and remove all nusances in said town
and it shall be their duty to keep all roads,
ways, bridges and streets within the corporate
limits of said town open and i'll good repair,
and for that purpose they are invested with all
the powers of County Commissioners, for and
within the corporate limits of the said town;
and they may lay out new streets, close up,
alter or widen those now in use; and shall have
full power to classify and arrange the inhabl-
tants or citizens of said town liable to street,
road or public duty therein, and to force the
performance of such duty, under such penalties
as are now, or shall hereafter be, prescribed by
law; and they shall have power to compound
with all persons liable 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 may require; the
money so received to be applied to the public
use of said town; and all persons refusing to
labor, or failing to pay such commutation, shall
be liable to such fine, not exceeding ten dollars
for any one year, Us the said Town Council
may impose and they shall have the power to
enforce the payment of such fine in the same
manner as is now, or may be hereafter, provided
for the collection 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 ut private
or public sale, as they may adjudge best for the
interest of said town; and they shall keep i'll
repair all such new streets, roads and ways as
they may, from time to time deem necessary
for the improvement and convenience OF said
town: Proridcd, That 10 street road or way
shall be opened without first having obtained
the consent of the land owner or owners there
Of through whose premises any such new street,
road or way may pass.
Sec Z. The said Town Council may have
power and authority to require all persons own
ing Il lot or lots in said town to close in, and
to make and keep in good repair, sidewalks III
lIOIlL VI iOg VI lOto, "ANhN'NA s"N
shall front or adon any public street of said
town, if, in the judgment of the Council, such
sidewalk shall be necessary, the width thereof,
and the manner of construction, to be designa-
ted and regulated by the said Town Council /;
and for default or refusal, after reasonable no
tice, to make and keep in good repair such
sidewalks, and to close such lots, the Town
Council may cause the same to be made or put
in repair, and require the owner to pay the price
of making or repairing; and the said Town
Council arc hereby empowered to sue for and
recover the same by action OF debt in any Court
of competent Jurisdiction Prorided, That such
contract for making and repairing Is let 10 the
lowest bidder. The cemeteries and public
gr.,yeyards are also placed under the jurisdic-
ton Of the said Town Council.
Sec. s. The Intcndant and Wardcns OF the
said town, or u majority of them shall have
full power to grant or refuse license to keep
tayerns or to retail spirituous liquors within
the corporate limits of the said town, upon
such conditions, and under such circumstances,
as to them shall seem proper and right: FRO
ridcd, That in no instance shall the price OF
license to keep a tavern or to retail spirituous
liquors be less than the amount that is estab-
lished by the State; and all moneys paid for
licenses and for fines and forfetures shall be
appropriated for the public use of the said
town Proridcd, That the Intendant and War
dens, duly elected, shall not have power to
grant any license to keep tavern or retail splr-
ituous liquors, to extend beyond the term for
which they have been elected They shall
have power to regulate sales by auction within
the corporate limits of said town, and to grant
licenses to auctioneers anttradcrs, to keep
ers of hotels and livery stables, and to levy
tax On all drays, carts, wagons. carriages, ON
nibuscs, buggics horses mares, or mules, Kept
for hire or used for public purposes, in said
town; and they shall have the full and only
power to impose tax OIL all shows or cxhibi-
lions. for gain or reward, within the corporate
limits of said town. They shall have the power
to impose tax, not exceeding twenty cents on
: every hundred dollars of the value of all real
and personal property lying within the corpo-
rate limits of the town, real and personal prop
erty of churches and school .lnd college assOci-
ations excepted. That an ordinance declaring
the rates of annual taxation upon property and
other subjects of annual taxation for the year,
shall be published at least three weeks, during
the month of January in each year: Provided,
That the. said Town Council shall have power
to levy a tax for this year, under the same rule
as is above stated, Immediately after the pass
ace of this Act; and that all persons liable to
taxation under the same shall make oath of
their taxable property within said town, and
make payment of their taxes to the Clerk or
Treasurer of said corporation or such other
person rs they may be ordered or required to
DO during the succeeding month after ,publiea-
tion and upon the failure to make such return
and payment as required, the parties SO in de;
fault shall be subject to the penalties provided
by law for failures to pay the general State and
County tax, to be enforced by the orders of the
Intendant and Wardens, or i majority of them,
for the use of the said town, except in such
cases that executions to enforce the payment
of such taxes shall 6e issued under the seal of
the corporation, and may be directed to the
the Town Council to levy, collect and receive
provided by law; and all property upon which
aucl, toy shall ha lavied aud assessed is hereby