The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-12

debt in any court Of competent jurisdic-
tion: Provided, That suoh contract for
making and repairing is let to the lowest
bidder. The cemeteries and public
grave-yards are also placed under the
jurisdiction of the said Town Council.
SEC. 8. The Intendant and Wardens
OF the said town, or majority of them,
shall have full power to grant or refuse
license to keep taverns or to retail spi-
rituous liquors within the corporate
limits Of the said town, upon such con-
ditions and under such circumstances as
to them shall seem proper and right:
Provided, That in no instance shall the
price OF license to keep tavern or to
retail spirituous liquors be less than the
amount that is established by the State;
and all moneys paid for licenses and for
fines and forfeitures shall be appro-
priated for the public use of the said
town: Provided, That the Intendant and
Wardens, duly elected, shall not have
power to grant any license to keep ia
vern or retail spirituous liquors. to ex-
tend beyond the term for which they
have sbeen elected. They shall have
power to regulate sales at auction within
the corporate limits OF said town, and to
grant licenses to auotioneers, itine1ant
traders, to keepers of hotels and livery
stables, and to levy tax on sll drays,
carts, wagons. carriages, omnibuses,
buggies, 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 on all
shows or exhibitions, for gain or reward,
within the corporate limits Of said town.
They shall have the power to impose q
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hundred dollars of the value of all real
and personal property lying within the
corporate limits Of the town, real and
personal property of churches and
school and college associations excepted.
That an ordinance declaring the rates of
the 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: Prorided, That the said
Town Council shall have power to levy q
tax for this year, under the same rule as
is above stated, Immediately after the
passage 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
as they may be ordered or required to
do, during the succeeding month after
publication; and upon the failure to
make such return and payment az re-
CURED, the parties 80 in default 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 O ma.
lority of them, for the use of the said
town, except in such cases that exeou-
tlons to enforce the payment of such
taxes shall be issued under the seal of
the corporation, a1d may be directed to
the Town Marshal, or other person ap-
pointed by the Town Council to levy
collect and receive the same, with costs
rs Ill such cases made and provided by
law; and oil property upon which suoh
tax shall be levied and assessed is hereby
declared and made liable for the pay
ment thereof, in preference to all other
debts, except debts due to the State,
which shall be first paid; and that all
other taxes imposed by the Intendant
and Wardens, or majority of them,
shall be liable for the same, as in manner
and form just before stated.
SEQ. 8. The Intendant and Wardens
elect, together with Clerk and Treasurer,
shall, during their term of Office, be ex-
empt from street and police duty. Each
Town Council shall, within one month
after the expiration of their term Of
Office, n AXE out and return to their suo-
cessors in Office full account of their
receipts and expenditures during their
term, which account shall be published
in one or more papers Of the town, and
shall pay over all moneys in their pos
session belonging 10 the corporation,
and deliver up all books, records and
other papers incident to their Office to
their successors; and on failure to do so
they shall be liable to be fined in sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be
collected by any proper action of the
Town Council.
SEC. 10. That all ordinances or by-
laws, passed by the Town Council Of
Rock Hill, shall be binding upon the
citizens of said town. the same as the
laws OF the State.
SEQ. II. All Acts or parts of Acts in
consistent Or supplied by this Act, be,
and the same arc hereby, repealed.
SEQ. IL. This Act shall be deemed n
public Act, and continue in force fo. .,,c
term of fourteen years, and until tho
end of the Legislature thereof.
Approved March 4, 1872.