The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-29
improved pattern, with the usual complement
of ammunition" approved March 16, 1863, be
and the same is hereby, repealed.
OrFIcE SEcRETARy OF STATE.


OFFICE SECRETARY OF STATE,
Columbia. 8. c., February S, 1872.
The foregoing act having been presented to
the Governor of this State Tor his approval,
and not having been returned by him to the
branch of the General Assembly in which it
originated, within the time prescri Jed by the
Constitution, has become law Without his
approval. +. L. CARDozo,
Secretary of State.
AN ACT to Renew the Charter of the Pendle-
ton Male Academy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of South Carolina
now met and sitting in General Assembly, and
by the authority of the same: That the charter
of the Pendeton Male Academy be, and the
same is hereby, extended and shall continue in
force until repealed.
Approved February 18th, 1872.
AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Town of
Union.
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
whatsoever, WHO dTG COHsGllutloidiiy qudiiucu
to vote for members of the Legislature of this
State and who may have resided within the
present corporate limits of the Town of Union
sixty days, and their successors, are hereby
declared to be members of the corporation
hereby intended to be created.
Sec g. That the said persons and their sue
cessors shall, from and after the passage of this
act, become u body polite and corporate and
shall be known and called by name Of the
Town of Union; and its corporate limits shall
extend one mile, in the direction of cardinal
points, from the Spartanburg and Union Rail
road Depot in said town, as centre, and form
8 square.
Sec g. That the said town shall be governed
by an intendant and four wardens, who shall
be elected on the second Monday of September
in each year, ten days notice being previously
given, and shall continue in Office for one year,
and until the election and qualification of their
successors; and that all male inhabitants of
said town who shall have attained the age of
twenty-one years, and resided therein sixty
days previous to the election, shall be entitled
to vote for said intendant and wardens.
Sec f. That the election of intendant and
wardens of the said town shall he held in some
convenient place in said town, from o'clock
, in the morning until o'clock i'll the afternoon,
and, when the polls shall be closed, the mana
gers shall forthwith count the votes and pro-
claim the election, and give notice, in writing,
to the persons elected The intcndant and
wardens for the time being shall always appoint
three managers to conduct the election, who,
, before they open the polls for said election,
shall take an oath fairly and impartially to
conduct the same and the intendant and war
dens before entering upon the duties of their
offices, shall respectively take the oath prescri-
bed By the Constitution of this State, and also
the following oath, to wit: GAS intendant Tor
warden) of the Town of Union, l will equally
and mpartially to the best of my ability, ex-
ecute the trust reposed in me, and will use my
! best endeavors to preserve the peace and carry
into effect, according to law, the purposes for
which have been elected: So help ME Coo" !"
Sec. 5. That in case a vacancy should occur
in the office of intendant, or any of the war
dens, by death, resignation or otherwise, an
8 election to fill such vacancy shall be held, by
the appointment of the intendant and warden,
or wardens, as the case may be, fifteen days
! previous notice being given; and i'll case of the
sickness or temporary absence of the intendant,
the wardens, forming council, shall be en-
powered to elect one of the wardens to act as
, intendant during the time.
Sec. 6. That the intendant and wardens duly
elected and qualified shall, during their term
of Office, severaly and respectively be vested
with all the powers of trial justice or other in
ferior courts in this State, within the limits of
the said town and the intendant shall, and
may, rs often as may be necessary, summon the
wardens to meet in council, any two of whom,
e with the intendant, or any three wardens, may
a constitute quorum to transact business, and
they shall be known by the name of the town
council of Union, and they, and their success
sors hereafter to be elected, may have COM
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ordinances, may sue and be sued, may plead
!. and be impleaded in any court of law or equity
in this State, and purchase hold, possess and
/ enjoy to them and their successors, i'll perpe-
tuity, or for any term of years, any estate, real
or personal, or mixed, and sell, alien and con-
vey the same; shall not exceed ut any one
r time the sum of ten thousand dollars. And
the said intendant and wartlens shall have full
: power to make and establish all such rules, by
!, laws and ordinances respecting the roads,
0 Streets markets, commerce, trade, buildings
: and police of said town as shall appear to them
necessary and requisite for the security, welfare
] and convenience of the said town, or for pre-
: serving health, peace, order and good govern
e ment within the same. And the said council
may fix and impose fines and penalties and
2 imprisonment in the county Jail for the viola
: ton thereof, and appropriate the fines to the
$ public use of the said corporation: Provided,
That no fine shall exceed fifty dollars for any
: one offence, and no Imprisonment shall exceed
@ twenty days; and when any person shall be
/ charged with an offence for which fine of
t more than twenty dollars is ordained, the said
: charge will be heard and determined in an ac-
e ton of debt, to be brought in the name of the
said town council, for the recovery of said fine,
: before court having jurisdiction of causes of
action of that amount for Union County. And
if the fine ordained be not more than twenty
dollars, or the offence be one for which impris-
e onment is ordained, the said town council, or q
e quorum thereof shall have power to hear and
: determine the said charge and render Judgment
therein. In all cases Of trials to be had before
the said town council, as hereinafter provided,
r the party charged shall be cited to trial by "a