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Laws of South Carolina
ACTS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
PASSED BY THE GENERAL
.s ASSEMBLY.
Published by Authority.]

An Act to amend An Act No. 1922 Ent:
tied "An Act to Grant, Re,eaU ana
Amend the Charters Of Certain 1oaUn'
and Villages therein Mentioned.'
Commencing aVith Section No. SO q
said Act, Relating to the Incorporation
of the Io,Un of Riyhtsuille, passed d
the Regular Session of the Genera
ASSEMBLY Of the State Of South Caro-
lima, lS71-72.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by tho Sen
ate and House of Representatives of the
Slate of South Carolina, now met ano
sitting in, General Assembly, and by
the authority of the same:
That from and after the passage of thi:
Act, all citizens Of this State, having
resided twelve month within this State
and sixty days in the village of Wright
Vile shall be deemed, and are hereby
declared to be, body polite and cor
porate, and the said village shall be call
eI snd known by the name of Wright
ville and its corporate limits sshall in
clude Edisto Island, together with. Ed
dingsville. The metcs and bonds O.
said town of Wrightville will be bound
on the North, by North Edisto Inlet OF
River, on the South, by South Ediste
i River and Saint Helena Sound and or
the West by Johasse Island and Edistc
River.
SEC. 2. That the said village shall be
governed by An Intendant and foul
Wardens, who shall be citizens Of the
United States, and who shall have resi-.
ded in this State twelve months, and
shall have resided in the said village
sixty days Immediately preceding theil
election, and who shall be elected on the
third Monday in May, 1872, and on the
same day in each year thereafter, ten
days public notice thereof being pre-
viously given; and that all male inhabi-
tants of the age of twenty-one years,
citizens of the State, and who shall
have resided within the State twelve
months, and in the said village sixty
DAYS Immediately preceding the elec-
ton, shall be entitled to vote for said
Intendaut and Wardens-paupers and
persons under disabilities for crime
excepted.
Sec. 3. The said election shall be held
at some convenient public place in said
village, from eight o'clock in the morn
ing, until four o'clock in the afternoon,
and when the polls shall be closed, the
Managers shall forthwith count the
votes, and declare the election, and give
notice thereof, in writing, to the In
tendant therein being, who shall, with
in two days thereafter, give notice, or
cause the same to be given, to the per-
sons duly elected. Provided, The Com
missioneTs of election of Charleston
county shall call the first election under
this Act, and shall appoint Man.
ayers to conduct the same, who
shall make returns thereof to the Com
missioners the same as other elections
held in this State; and the said Com
missioners shall count the votes and
declare the election, and notify the per-
sons so elected Intendant and Wardens,
before entering upon the duties of their
Offices. shall respectively take the oath
prescribed by the Constitution of the
State. and also the following oath, to
wit: "As Intendant Tor Warden) of the
village of Wrightville, I will equally
and impartially, to the best Of my abil-
ity. exercise the trust reposed in me,
and will use my best endeavors to pre-
serve the reace and carry into effect, ac-
cording to law, the purpose for which l
have been elected: So help me, God"
And, if any person, upon being elected
Intendant or Warden, shall refuse to
net as such, he shall forfeit and pay to
the Council the sum of twenty dollars
for the use of said village: Provided,
That no person who has attained the
age of sixty years shall be compelled to
serve, either as Intendant or Warden,
more than one year in any term of three
wears. The Intendant and Warden, for
The time being, shall always appoint
one or more Boards of Managers, three
Managers for each Board, to conduct the
election, who, before they open the polls
shall take an oath fairly aud impartially
to conduct the same.
SEC. 1. That in case a vacancy shall
occur in the office of Intendant or War
dens, by death, resignation, or other
wise, nm election to fill such vacancy
shall be held by order Of the Intendant
and Wardens, or majority of the same,
ten days public notice being previously
given and in case of sickness, or tenn
porary absence of the Intendant, the
Wardens. forming the Council, shall be
empowered to elect one of the number
to act as Intendant during the time.
Sec. 5. That the Intendant and Wardens,
duby elected and qualified, shall, during
their term of service, severally and re-
spectively, be vested with all the power
of Trial Justices, or Justices Of the
Peace, as the case may be, in this State
within the limits of the said village, eX-
cept for the trial of small and mean
causes; and the Intendant shall or may,
as often as Is necessary, summon the
Wardens to meet in Council, any three
of whom, with the Intendant, shall con.
stitute quorum to transact business
and they Shall be known as the Town
Council of Wrightsville and they and
their successors in office, hereafter to be
J elected, may have q common seal, which
: NAV be affixed to all Of their Or
dinances; may sue and be sued, plead
and be impleaded in any Court Of Jus
tice in this. State, and purchase, hold
possess and enjoy to them and their sue
cessSrs, in perpetuity, or for any term o
wears, any estate, real, personal, OF mixed
and sell, alien, or convey the same: FRO
vided, The same shall not exceed, a
any one time, the sum of ten thousan!t
dollars. And the said Towu Councl
shall have authority to appoint, iron
time to time, as they may see MT, sucl
and so many proper persons 10 aGt
i MorshaIs or Constables of said village
las the said Council may deem necessar.
and expedient for the preservation Q
peace, GOOD order and police Thereon
which persons, SO appointed, shall, with
lin the corporate limits .of said village
have the power and privileges, ana o
subject to all the obligations, penaltie
lind regulations provided by law for tn
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