The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-18

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liable To work on any road without said limits,
or to be taxed or assessed for the same.
Sec g. That the Town Council of Pendlcton
shall have power to impose an annual tax upon
tie keepers of billiard tables and ten pin alleys,
within the discretion of said Town Council,
and to grant or refuse license for the same,
upon such terms and conditions, and subject TO
such regulations as they may by ordinances
establish: They shall also have power to i'm
pose tax, within their discretion, on all sales
made by itincrant traders and auctioneers, on
all public drays, wagons, carriages, omnlbuses,
and other vehicles kept for hire, and Oil the
owner or pusscssor of all dogs, hogs, sheep,
goats and cattle kept within the corporate lin
its of said town. The said Town Council shall
have power to impose an annual tax on the
amount of all sales of goods, wares, merchan-
disc, and, also, on the amount OF income arising
from all factoragc and mechanical employ
ments. faculties and professions, including the
profession of dentistry: Provided, That no tax
shall be imposed in any one year to exceed the
rate of twenty cents on each hundred dollars OF
the value of such sales and income; and the
said Town Council shall have power to impose
q tax upon all persons who shall open any room
or car for the purpose of tiking daguereotypes
or other likcnesses, within the corporate limits
Of said town; and the said Town Council Shall
have the power to impose an annual tax, not
exceeding twenty cents on every hundred dol
lars of the value of all real estate lying within
the corporate limits of said town, the real es-
tate of churches and school associations excep-
ted, and for that purpose they shall appoint
three frcehoders, resident therein, to assess the
value of said real estate, upon OATH and return
the assessment, within one month, to said
Council, for taxation, and to fill any vacancy
occasoned by the death, resignation, refusal to
serve, or removal from office ofthe said assessors;
and any person who shall refuse to act as asses
sor, upon being appointed by the Council, may
be fined any sum not exceeding twenty dollars;
and the said Council shall have power to reSu-
late the price of license upon all public shows
and exhibitions in said town, and to erect 4
powder magazine, and to compel any person
holding more than twenty-five pounds of pow
der to store the same therein, and to make reg
ulatious for rates of storage thereof, and for
keeping ard delivering the same; and the said
Town Council shall have power to enforce the
paymcnt of all taxes and assessments levied
. under the authority of this Act against the
property and persons of dctaultcrs, to the same
extent, and in the same manner, as Is provided
, by law for the collection of the general State
, tax. except that executions to enforce the pay
; mcnt of the town taxes shall be issued under
the seal of the corporation and directed to the
Town Marshal or other persons specially ap-
pointed by the said Council to collect the same;
, and all property upon which tax shall be
levied and assessed is hereby declared and
made liable for the payment of same in prefer.
cnce to other debts due by the persons owning
such property ut the time of the assessment,
except debts due the State, which shall be first
paid; that 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, rs they may deem
necessary. by sale of the freehold therein, either
at public or private sale, as they adjudge best
for the interest of the said town; and they
shall have power to lazy out, adopt, open and
, keep in good repair all such new streets, roads
and WAYS, from time to time, rs they may deem
, inn oriant or necessary for the improvement OF
, said town: Provided That no new street, road
I, r way shall be opened without first having
obtained the consent OF the land owner or own
crS through whose premises any such new
street, road or way may pass.
| Sec g. That this Act shall be taken and
t deemed as public Act in all Courts of Justice,
and shall continue in force until repealed.
Approved March u, 1872.
, An ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF
f TOWNSVILLE, IN THE COUNTY OF ANDERSON.
Section l. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General AS
san,bly, and by the authority of the same:
That all persons, citizens oftle State OF South
, Carolina, who are now, or who may hereafter
f become, inhabitants of the town of Townville,
in the County of Anderson, shall be deemed,
, and arc hereby declared, a body polite and
corporate. and that said town shall be called
and known bv the name of Townvilc; and its
limits shall be deemed and held to extend one
half mile in every direction from the Townville
Baptist Church, in said town.
Sec. . That the said town shall be governed
by I'm Intcnlant and four Wardcns, who shall
be elected on the first Wednesday in April
next, on which day, as well rs OH the first w ed
neSday in April of every year thereafter, an
, election shall be held for an Intendant and
four Warens, who shall be citizens of the
State of South Carolina, and shall have been
resident in the said town for sixty days inimc-
diatcly preceding said election, at such place
in said town as the Intcndant and Wardens
Shall designate, ten days notice, i'll writing, be-
B. +. Ca t., W. j. lIarbin and j. w. Spear
man be, and they are, appointed Board of
Managers, to hold the first election under this
Act That all male inhabitants of the said
town, of the age of twcnty-onc years, who have
resided therein sixty days previous to said cleo
ton, shall be entitled to vote for said Inten-
dans and War,lens; and the election shall be
held from nine in the morning until three
O'Clock in the afternoon, when the polls shall
be closed, and the Managers shall publicly
count the votes, and proclaim the election, and
give notice thereof, in writing, to the persons
elected and that the Intendant and Wardens,
for the time being, shall appoint the Managers
to hold the ensuing election, at least twenty
days prior to the election; that the lntendant
and Wardcns, before entering upon the duties
of their offices, shall take the following oath,
to be administered TO the officers first elected
by some officer duly authorized to administer
IN OATH and by the outgoing Intendant to the
lntcndant and Wartels thereafter elected, to
wit: "As Intcndant Tor Wardcn) of TOWN.
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