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Sec. IS. The Intendant and Wardens
elect, together with Clerk and Treasur.
er, shall, during their term Of office, be
exempt from street and police duty.
Each Town Council shall, within one
month after the expiration of their term
of Office, make out and return to their
successors in Office q full account of their
receipts and expenditures during their
term, which account shall be published
in one or more papers OF the town, and
shall pay over all moneys in their pos
session belonging to the corporation,
and deliver up all books, records and
other papers incident to their office to
their successors; and on failure to do 80
they shall be liable to the punishment
prescribed in the twentieth section OF
this Act. lae
SEC. 10. That all ordinrnces hereto
fore passed py the Town Council OF
Williamson, in conformity with the
authority granted by existing laws,
shall be, and they are hereby, declared
legal and vailed. =
Sec. %. For any willful violation OF
neglect Of duty, malpractice, abuse OF
appTession, the said Intendant and War
dens Jointly and seyeraily, shall beliable
to indictment in the Court of Sessions,
and upon conviction, to punishment by
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars,
besides being liable for damages for
any person or persons injured.
SEC. 81. That all Acts, and parts OF
Acts, heretofore passed in relation to
the incorporation of the Town of Will
| liamston, be, and the same are hereby,
repealed. And this Act shall be deemed
and taken to be public Act, and shall
continue in force for the term Of
twenty years, and until the end of the
session of the Legislature next ensuing.
Approved March 8, 1872. r -,
AN ACT to alter and amend the
Charter of the Town Of Greenwood,
South Carolina.
SEC 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
State of South Carolina, now net and
sitting in General Assembly and by
the authority of the same:
That all persons, having resided
twelve months in the town Of Green
wood in the County of Abbeville, are
hereby declared, to be body polite
and corporate, by the name and style
of the town of Green Sood. and its
corporate limits shall be an irregular
polygon, the vertices of whose angles
shall be at, or near the following
points, to wit: 1st. A large pine tree
near J. R. Tarrant's residence on the
Abbeville Road, I'd. A point on the
New Market Road, in fiat just be-
yond james ClesweIl's residence. Sd.
The point on the road that leads to
w. A. Blake's, where the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad crossed. 4th.
The first small branch on the New
Cut Road, beyond J. W. Regards.
9TH. The hollow bridge, on the Abbc-
Vile Road, just beyond J. II. Old.
hams residence, 9Th. The junction. Of
the Cokesbury and Stoney Point
Road. .''.'%'
Sec. 2. That the said town shall
be governed by an Intendant and
four Wardens, who shall be elected
on the second Monday in January
next, and in every year thereafter.
ten days notice bcing previously CIV
en-; and all male inhabitants Of said
town, who are qualified under the
Constitution Of this State to vote for
members Of the Legislature, and who
have resided therein twelve months
Immediately preceding the election,
shall be eli gible to the Office Of In
tendant and Wardens. Male inhab-
itants, who are qualihed to vote for
members Of the Legislature, and who
shall have resided within the limits G.!
the corporation for sixty days imedi-
ately preceding the election, shall be
entitled to vote for said Intendaht
and Wardens.
SEC. 3. The election Of 1ntendant
and Wardens Of said town shall be
held at some convenient public place
therein, from six o'clock in the morn
ing until six o'clock in the evening,
and when the polls are closed, the
Managers shall forthwith proceed to
count the votes and proclaim the elec-
ton and give notice in writing, to the
parties elected. It shall be the duty
Of the Clerk Of the Court for Able
vile County to give legal notice and
appoint managers for tho first cleo
ton. And the .Intendant and War.
dcns. for the time being, who shall
be known rs the "Town Council of
Greenwood" shall give the legal no.
tice and appoint three persons to
manage all subsequent elections, who
shall manage and declare the same as
hervin provided for the first time Of
election. The managers shall, before
they opensthe polls for any such elec-
ton take an oath fairly and impair
tally to conduct the same, and the
Intendant and Wardens, before eli ter
! ing upon the duties Of their offices,
shall take the oath prescribed by the
Constitution of this State, and also the
! following Oatn, 10 VIII: AS 1nleiuai,,,
and Wardens of Greenwood, l will
equally and impartially, to the best OF
my ability, exercise the trust rcposed
in me, and will use my best endeavors
to preserve the peace and carry into effect
according to law, the purposes for which
l have been appointed or elected. So
help me God" :,
And if any person elected Intend
ant and Warden shall refuse to serve
as such he shall forfeit and pay to the
Town Council Of Greenwood the sum
of twenty dollars, for the use OF said
town: Provided, That no person
shall be compelled to serve more than
one year in any term of three years
SEc. 4. That in case Il vacancy shall
occur in the offices Of Intendant OF