Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-04-11

AppTOE6u MdICu o, 1OiG.
AN ACT Conte171ng upon the County
Commissioners Certain PoaOers n
relation to the License and Sale o
Intoxicating Liquors.
SECTION /. Be 1t 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 all the powers and duties here.
tofore conferred upon the Commis.
sioners of Roads Of the various Dis
tricts of this State, in relation to ths
license and sale of intoxicating liquors
be and they are hereby, conferred
upon the County Commissioners. This
act to take effect on and after its pas
sage.
Approved March 9, 1872.
AN ACT to Rene0 and Amend th'
Charter Of the Town Of WS5han''
Ston.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House Of Representative
of the State of South Carolina, now
met and sitting in General Assembly
and by the authority of the same
That from and Immediately after the
passage of this act, all and every
person or persons who may have re-
sided within the corporate limits o1
the town of Williamson for one year
or who may own a freehold therein
and their successors, are hereby de-
clared to be members of the corpor.
alton hereby intended to be created
SEC. 2. That the said persons, and
their successors, shall, from and after
the passage Of this act, become body
polite and corporate. and shall be
known and called by the name of the
town of williamson, and its corpo.
rate limits shall extend one. mile IL
the direction of the cardinal points
from the present brick hotel as cen
tire, and form a.circle.
SEC. 8. That the said town shalI
be governed by an intendant and foul
wardens, who shall be persons that
actually reside within the limits ol
the corporation, and have SO resided
at least twelve months Immediately
preceding their election. The sdid
intendant and wardens shall, be elect
ed on the second Monday in Septem'
. .ber in each year, ten days notice
having been previously given, and
shall continue in office for ono, year,
and until the election and qualihca,
ton of Their; successors. And al
male inhabitants s~of the said town
who shall have attained the age O
.twentz-oae .aad resided- thsee;
in sixty days Immediately preceding
the election, shall be entitled to vote
for said intendant and wardens pro
vided, that no person shall be allow
ed to vote at any such election who
shall not have registered his name al
voter with the Clerk Of the Council
in a book or books to be kept by hin
for that purpose, by 10 o'clock \. M.
on the day preceding every such elec
ton.
SEC. 4. That said election shall bt
held in some convenient public place
in said town, from nine o'clock in th'
morning until FIVE 0 clock in the even
ing, and when the polls shall be clos
ed, the managers shall forthwith pro
ceed to count the votes, under oath
publicly, stating the whole number
Of votes cast for each candidate o,
person voted for, and shall transmit
their report for the same, in a sealed
envelope, to the Intendant of the
town and if there be no such lnten:
dant, the same shall be TRANSMITTED
to the Clerk of the Court of Ander'
son county. The said Intendant, Oh
Clerk of the Court, shall open the. re,
port of the said managers, and shall
announce and publish the whole nun
ber of votes cast, and the whole mum.
ber cast for each candidate, when the
several candidates receiving the high.
est number of legal votes for the OF
fees which they were voted for, shall
be declared duly elected. The In
tsndant and Wardens, for the time
being, shall always appoint three
MANAGERS to conduct the election
who, before they open the polls, fo'
said election. shall take the oath far.
ly and impartially, to conduct ~ th'
same. And the Intendalit and War
dcns, before entering upon the duties
of their Office, shall, respectively
take the oath prescribed by the con
stitution of this State, and also tht
following oath, to wit: "As lnten
dant (or Warden) of the, town o
Williamson, I will faithfully ant
impartially, to the best of my ability
exercise the trust reposed in me, ant
will use my best endeavors to pre-
serve the peace, and carry into effect
Secording to law, the purpose TO :
which I have been elected:s 50 hell
me God"
SEC. 5. In case vacancy shoule
occur in the office of lntendant, .
any of the Wardens, by death, reslg
nation, or otherwise, an election t.
fiji such vacancy shall be held by tn
appointment of the Intendant an'
Warden or Wardens; and, in cas-
there be none, then by the appoint
ment of the Clerk Of the Court OF AN
derson County.
Sec. 6. That the Intendant 3 an'
Wardens, duly elected. and qualified +!
shall be, during thsir term OF ofhce
vested with all the powers and. au
thority with which Fl j Justices ar
at present vested by law, except tn
trial of civil cases.. and except as ! !
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