Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-02-01

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 contract for making and re-
pairing be let to the lowest bidder.
SEC. IL. That the Intendant and Ward
ems shall have power, and are hereby
authorized, to elect or appoint one or
more Marsha's, who shall be duly sworn
in aud invested with al! the powers Com
stables now have by law, aud whose juris-
diction and authority shall be confined to
the corporate limits of said town and
the Inteudant and Wardens, or any one
or more of them, are hereby authDri to
require the Marshal of said town, or any
special Constable appointed by said In
tendant or Waldens for that purpose, to
commit to the Jail Of Union county, for
term not exceeding twenty-four hours,
any person who, within the corporate
limits Of said town, may be engaged IN a
breach of the peace, any riotous or dis
orderly conduct, open obscenity, public
drunkeune IS, or in any conduct grossly
indecent or dangerous to the citizens OF
said town or any Of them. And all per-
sons so imprisoned shall pay all costs and
expenses incident to their imprisonment,
which said costs and expenses shall be
cole cted in the same manner as is pro
vded by this act for the cole ction of fines
impos ID for violation of ordinances Pro
vided, That such imprisonment shall not
exempt the party from the payment of
any fine which the Council may impose
for the offeose for which he may have
been committed
SEC. L. That said Council shall have
power to collect licenses from all persons
representing publicly, within their Cor
porate limits, for gain or reward, any
plays or shows, of what nature or kind
soever, to be used for the purpose of said
corporation.
EEC. 1D. L udU ali uuSo "b'Su oh'ii
hereafter be collected by conviction in tie
Court of Sessions for retailing without
license, within the corporate limi Of said
town, shall be paid one half to the in-
former, ard the other half to the T"wh
Council, for the use Of the said corpora
tion.
SEC. IA. That the said Council shall
have full power and authority to abate all
nuisances within the corporate limits, and
also to appoint B ard of Health for said
town, aud to pass all su b ordinances as
may be necessary to define the powers and
duties of said B ,ard, and to impose fines
aud penalties upon the members of said
Board for neglect of duty: Provided,
That no fine hereby authorized to be i'm
posed shall exceed the sum of twenty dol
lars.
SEC. 15. That all streets hereafter 10
be opened 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. l6. That each Town Council shall,
within one month after the expiration Of
their term of Office, max out and return
t0,their successors full account, under
oath, of their receipts and expenditures
daring 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
successors and on failure so to d., they
shall be liable to the punishment pre-
scribed in the seventeenth (l7) Section of
this Act.
SEC. II. That for any wilful violation
or neglect of duty, malpractice, abuse or
oppression, the said Iuteudant and Ward
ems, severally, shall be liable to indict-
meat in the Court of Sessions, and. upon
conviction, to imprisonment and tine not
cxcet ding one hundred dollars, or
imprisonment not exceeding sixty
sixty days. or both, at the discretion OF
the Court, besides being liable for damages
to any person Injured.
SEC. Is. That this Act shall be public
Act, and continue Of force for twenty
veals and until the end of the session OF
The LEGISLATURE then next ensuing; and
that all Acts aud parts of Acts heretofore
passed Inconsistent with, or rtpugnant to,
this Act, be, and the same are hereby,
repealed.
Approved, January Slh, 1872.
IN 1d to amend Section Tro Umd1ed
and Screntyniae otMe Code Of Proc i"re