The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-29

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. lucy suaii also nave
power to levy tax upon the property of said
educational purposes in repair And they sha
also have power to compound with all perso.
liable to work the streets, ways and roads III
said town, upon such terms as they shall, by
ordinance, establish the money so received to
be applied to the public use of the said corpo-
ration. And all persons refusing or failing to
pay such Communication shall be liable to such
fines and penalties as the said town council
may impose. And no person, residing within
the said limits, shall be liable to work on any
road or bridge without the said limits, or to lie
taxed or assessed for the same. The said town
council shall have power to require license fees
from the keepers of ten-pin alleys or any other
pin alleys, and to grant or refuse licenses for
the same, upon such terms and conditions, and
subject to such regulations as they may, by Or
dinance, establish. They shall also have pow
er to require license fees from itinerant auc-
ry stables, vehicles and horses kept for hire,
within the corporate limits of said town. They
shall also have power to impose an annual tax
upon the property in said town, to wit: Upon
all real estate, not exceeding ten cents on the
value of one hundred dollars; upon all stock
in trade, not exceeding ten cents on every hul-
dred dollars worth of the value of said stocl.
The State assessment to be taken as basis OF
taxation. And the said town council shall
have power to enforce the payment of all taxes
and assessments levied by the said council
against the property and persons of defaulters
to the same extent, and in the same manner, as
is provided by law for the collection of the
general State tax, except that executions to en-
force the payment of the town taxes shall be
issued under the seal of the corporation, and
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specially appointed by the said council to col
be applied to the public uses of the said corpo-
ration. And all property upon which tax
shall be levied and assessed is hereby declared
and made liable for the payment thereof, in
preference to all other debts due by the person
owning the property at the time Of the assess
ment, except debts due the State, which shall
be first paid.
Sec TO- That the said town council shall
have power and authority to require all per-
sons, owning lot or lots in said town, to make
and keep in good repair sidewalks in front of
said lot or lots, wherever the same shall front
or adjoin any public street of said town, if in
the judgment of the council, said sidewalk shall
be necessary the width thereof, and the man
ner of construction, to be designated and reg
ulated by the said council; and for default or
keep in repair such sidewalks, the town coun-
Gil 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 are hereby empowered to sue for and
recover the same: Provided, That such con-
tract for making and repairing be let to the
lowest bidder.
Sec IL. That the intendant and wariens
shall have power, and are hereby authorized to
elect or appoint one or more marshals, who
shall be duly sworn in, and invested with all
the powers constabes now have by law, and
whose jurisdiction and authority shall be con-
fined to the corporate limits of said town; and
the intendant aud wardens, or any one or more
of them, are hereby authorized to require the
marshal of said town, or any special constable,
appointed by said intendant or wardens for that
purpose, to commit to the Jail of Union Coun-
ty, for term not exceeding twenty-four hours,
any person who, within the corporate limits of
said town, may be engaged in breach of the
peace, any riotous or disorderly conduct, open
obscenity, public drunkenness, or in any con-
duct grossly indecent or dangerous to the citi-
zens of said town, or any of them. And all
persons so imorsoned shall Fay all costs and
expenses incident to their imprisonment, which
said costs and expenses shall be collected in the
same manner as is provided by this act for the
collection of fines imposed for violation of Or
dinances: Provided, That such imprisonment
shall not exempt the party from the payment Of
any fine which the council may impose for the
offence for which he may have been committed.
Sec. -. That said council shall have power
to collect licenses from all persons representing
publicly, within their corporate limits, for gain
or reward, any plays or shows, of what nature
or kind soever, to be used for the purpose of
said corporation.
Sec. l3. That all fines which shall hereafter
be collected by conviction in the Court of Ses-
sions for retailing without licens:, within the
corporate limits of said town, shall be paid
one-half to the informer, and the other half to
the said town council, for the Use of the said
corporation.
Sec. IA. That the said council shall have full
power and authority to abate all nuisances
within their corporate limits, and also to ar.
point board of health for said town, and TO
pass all such ordinances as may be necessary
| to define the powers and duties of said board,
and to impose fines and penalties upon the
members of said board for neglect of duty
Provided, That no fine hereby authorized to be
imposed shall exceed the sum of twenty dollars.
Sec 15 That all streets hereafter to be OPEN
ed in the said corporation shall be at least sixty
feet wide, except when such widths cannot be
allowed on account of permanent buildings
erected or in course of erection, at the time of
the opening of said streets.
Sec. 16. That each town council shall, within
one month after the expiration of their term
of office, make out and return to their success
sors full account, under oath, of their receipts
and expenditures during their term, and shall
pay over all moneys in their hands belonging
to the corporation, and deliver up all books,
records and other papers incident to their office
to their successors; and on failure so to do,
they shall be liable to the punishment pre-
scribed in the seventeenth ~ section of this
Sec. II. That for any wilful violation or neg
lect of duty, malpractice, abuse or oppression,
the said intendant and wardens, severally, shall
be liable to indictment in the Court of Ses-
sions, and upon conviction, to imprisonment
and Sne not exceeding one hundred dollars or