The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-05-23

rate limits of said town, may De enSaSeo in
any breach of the peace, any riotous or dis
ORDERLY conduct, open obscenity, public
drunkenness, or any conduct grossly indc-
cent, or dangerous to the citizens of said
town. or any of them. And it shall be the
duty of the town marshals or conBtables to
arrest and commit all such offenders, when
REQUIRED so to do, and who shall have power
to call to their assistance the posse comitatus,
if need be, to aid in making such arrests,
and upon the failure of said officers to per
form such duty as required, shall, severally,
be subject to fines and penalties as the town
council may impose upon them. And all
persons so imprisoned shall pay the cost and
expenses incident to their Imprisonment,
which cost and expenses shall be collected
in the same manner as is provided tor the
collection of fines imposed for the violation
of ordinances, rules and regulations: Pro-
vided, That such imprisonment shall not
exempt the party from the payment of any
fine the council may impose for the offence
which he, she or they may have committed;
And the said town council shall have full
power and authority, under their corporate
SEAL to make all such rules and regulations,
bylaws and ordinances, respecting the streets,
roads. and the business thereof, as well as
the police system of the said town, as shall
appear to them necessary and proper, Tor
the security, welfare and convenience, and
for preserving health, order and good govern
ment within said town. And the said town
council may impose fines for offenders against
their bylaws. rules, regulations and ordinanc-
ccs, and appropriate the same to thepub.lic use
of said town; and the said town council shall
have the same power that trial justices or
justices of the peace now have, or may here
after have, to compel the attendance OF wit
nesses, and require them to give evidence
upon the trial before them, of any person or
persons, for violation of any of their ordi-
nanccs, bylaws, rules and regulations; but
no fine above the sum oftwenty dollars shall
be collected by said councils, except by suit
in proper courts ofjustice in this State; and
also that nothing herein contained shall au-
thorize said council to have ordinances or
bylaws inconsistent with, or repugnant to
the laws of the State.
SEC. 6. That said intendant and wardens,
or majority of them, shall have power to
abate and remove all nuisanccs in said town;
and it shall be their duty to keep all roads,
ways, bridges and streets in said town open
and in good repair, and for that purpose
they are invested with all the powers OF coun-
ty commissioners, or commissioners OF roads,
for and within the corporate limits OF the
said town; and may lay out new streets. close
up, widen, or otherwise alter those now in
use; and shall have full power to classify and
arrange the inhabitants or citizens OF said
town liable to street, road or other duty there
i and to force the performance Of such du-
ties under such penalties as are now, or shall
hereafter be, prescribed by law; and they
shall have power to compound with all per-
sons liable to work the streets, ways and
roads in said town, upon such terms as their
ordinances or bylaws may establish, or their
rules and regulations may require, the mo-
ncy so received to be applied to the public
use of said town; and all persons refusing to
labor or failing to pay such commutatlon
shall be liable to such fine, not exceeding
twenty dollars for any one year, as the said
town council may impose; and they shall have
the power to enforce the payment OF such fine,
in the same manner as is now or may here
after be provided for the collection OF county
taxes. And the said town council shall have
power, with the consent of the adjacent land
owners, to close all such roads, streets and
ways within the said town as they may deem
necessary, by the sale Of the freehold there
in, either at private or public sale, as they
may adjudgc best for the interest of the
said town; and they shall keep in repair all
such new streets, roads and ways as they
may. from time to time, deem necessary tor
the improvement and convenience Of said
town. Provided, That no street, road or
way shall. be opened without first having OBJ
tanned the consent Of the land owner or
owners thereof, through whose premises any
such new street, road or way may pass.
SEC. 7. The said town council. shall have
power and authority to require all persons
owning lot or lots in said town to close IN
and to make and keep in good order and re-
pair sidewalks in front ofsaid lot or lots
whenever the same shall front or adjoin any
public street of said town, if, in Judgment OF
council. such sidewalk or sidewalks shall be
necessary, the width thereof, and the man.
ner of construction, to be designated and
regulated by the said town council; and 1or
default or refusal, after reasonable notice to
make and keep in good repair such side
walks. and to close such lot or lots, the town
council 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 arc hereby empowered to
sue for and recover the same by action OF
debt in any court Of competent Jurisdiction
Provided, That such contract for making or
repairing is let to the lowest bidder. The
cemeteries and public graveyards are also
placed under the jurisdiction OF the town
council.
SEC. s. The intcndant and wardeDs OF
the said town, or majority of them, shall
have full power to grant or refuse license to
keep taverns or retail spurious liquors With
in the corporate limits Of the said town, upon