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village, also to authorize the establish
ment of guard house, and prescribe
suitable rules and regulations for keeping
and governing the same; and until the
said guard house be established, they
shall be authorized to use a room in the
common Jail in the county of Charleston
for the confinement of all who may bt
subject to be committed for violation o
any Ordinances, rules and regulations O
said town; and the said Town Council
or the said Intendant and Wardens, ir
person, any one or more of them, may
authorize any Marshal of the town, OF
any Constable, specially appointed fot
that purpose, to arrest and commit to the
said guard honse, or Jail of Charleston
county, rs the case may be, for term
not exceeding twentyfour hours, any
person, or persons, who, within the cor
porate limits of said town, may he en-
gagged iu breach of the peace, any riot
Gus or disorderly conduct, open obsceni.
ty, public drunkenness, or any conduct
grossly indecent, or dangerous to the
citizens of said town, or any of them
and it shall be the duty of the Town
Marshal, or Constablcs, to arrest and
commit all such offenders, when requir'
ed so to do, and who shall have power
to call to their assistance the posse COM
itatus, if need be, to aid in making such
arrest; and upon the failure of such
officers to perform such duty as requir-
ed, they shall, severally, be subject to
such fines and penalties as the Town
Council may impose upon them; and
all persons SO imprisoned shall pay the
costs and expenses incident to their
i'm prisonment, which said cost and eX-
penses shall be collected in the same
manner rs is provided for the collection
of fines imposed for the violations OF
Ordinances, rules and regulations: Pro.
vidcd, 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, regulations, by
laws and Ordinances, respecting the
streets, roads, and the business thereof,
as we'll as the police system of the said
town, as shall appear to them necessary
and proper for the security, welfare and
convenience, and for preserving health,
order and good government within said
impose fines for offences against their
bylaws, rules and regulations and Or
dinances, and appropriate the same to
the public 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 hereafter
have, to compel the attendance OF wit
nesses, and requiring them to give ev-
i tf;o haf 1 nf n
person or persons for q violation of any
of their ordinances, bylaws, rules or
regulations /; but no fine above the sum
of twenty-five dollars shall he collected
by said Council, except by suit in the
proper Courts Of justice in this Slate !:
and, also, thet nothing herein contained
shall authorize said Council to make
any Ordinance or bylaw inconsistent
with, or repugnant TO, the laws OF the
State.
SEC. G. That the said intendant and
Wardens, or majority Of them, shall
havepower to ajate and remove all nui-
sances in said town: and it shall be their
duty to keep all roads, ways, bridges and
streets in said town open and in good re-
pair; and, for that pupose, they are lnVes
ted with all the powers of County Com
misioners, or Commissioners of Roads, for
and within the corporate limits of the
said town; md they may lay out new
streets, close up, widen or otherwise al
ter those now in use; and shall have
full power TO classify and arrange the in
hahitants or citizens of said town liable
to street, road or other public duty there
in, and to force the performance OF such
duty, under such penalties as are now,
or shall hereafter be, prescribed by law !;
and they shall have power to compound
withNlll persons 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
reguire-the moneys so received to be
applied to the public uses of said town
and all persons refusing to labor, or fail
ing to pay such communication, 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 be hereafter, 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 therein, either at public or pri-
vatc sale, as they may adjudge 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 for the improve
ment and convenience of said town !; pro-
vided that no street, road or way shall be
opened without first having obtained the
consent of the land owner or owners
thereof, through whose premises any
such new street, road or way may pass.
SEC. I. The said Town Council shall
have power and authority to require all
persons owning a lot or lots in said town
to close in, and to make and keep in
good repair sidewalks in front Of said lot
or lots, whenever the same shall front
or adjoin any public street of said town,
if, in the judgment of the Council, such
sidewalks shall be necessary, the width
thereof, and the manner of construction,
to be designed and regulated by the said
Town Council; and for default or refusal,
after reasonable notice, to make and keep
in good repair such sidewalk, and to
close such lot or lots, the Town Council
NAV cause the same to be made, or put
in repair, and requise the owner to pay
the price of making or repairing, and
the said Town Council are hereby en-
powered to sue for and recover the same
by action of debt in any court of compe-
tent Jurisdiction provided that such
contract for making or repairing is to be
let to the lowest bidder. The said Town
Council shall appoint three discreet PER-
sons, who shall form Board of Super
vsors of the Health, who shall have
power over the ways and water courses,
bitches and stagnant water ponds, and
take such other sanitary measures as the
public health require, giving twenty
days notice to the occupants of said
premises, where the said nuisance lie,
and in default of noncompliance with
the order of said board, the parties 80 Of
Tending shall be fined in sum not less
than twenty dollars, or thirty days in
the county Jail, for each and every Of