The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-04-11
LAWS OF THE STATE.
Acts and Resolutions Of the General
Assembly of South Carolina.
Published by Authority.

Union.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives ofthe State of
South Carolina, now met and sitting il Gen
eral Assembly, and by the authority Of the
same:
That from, and immediately after the pass
age Of this act, all and every person or per-
sons whatsoever, who are constitutionally
qualified to vote for members Of the Legisla-
ture of this State, and who may have resided
within the present corporate limits of the
town of Union for the period of sixty days,
and their successors, are hereby declared to
be members of the corporation intended to
be hereby created.
SEC. 2. That the said persons and their
successors shall, from and after the passage
of this act, become body corporate and pol
tic, and shall be known and called by the
name of the Town of Union; and its corpo-
rate limits shall extend one mile, in the di-
rection of the cardinal points, from the Spar
tanburg and Union railroad depot in said
town, as a centre, and form a square.
SEC. 3. That the said town shall be gov
eaned by an intendant and four waraens,
who shall be elected on the second Monday
in September of each year, ten days notice
being previously given; and shall remain in
Office one year, and until the election and
qualification of their SUCCESSORS; and that all
male inhabitants of said town, who shall have
attained the age of twcnty-one years, and re-
sided therein sixty days previous to the elec-
ton, shall be entitled to vote for intendant
and wardens.
Sec. 4. Thatthe election of intendant and
wardens of said town shall be held in some
convenient place in said town, from nine o.
clock in the morning until-six o'clock in the
after noon, and, whom the polls shall be clos
ed, the managers shall forthwith count the
votes and proclaim the election, and give no.
ticc in writing to the persons elected. The
intendant and wardens for the time being,
shall always appoint three managers to con-
duct the election, who, before they open the
polls for the said election, shall take an oath
fairly and impartially to conduct the came;
and the intendant and wardeus, before enter
ing upon the duties of their Offices, shall re-
spectively take the oath prescribed BY the
Constitution of this State, and also tue fol-
lowing oath, to-wit: Gas intendant Cor war
DEM Of the town Of Union, I will equally
and impartially. to the best of my ability,
execute the trust reposed in lie, and will use
my best cndeavors to preserve the peace and
carry into effect, according to lax, tbsApasl
poses for which I have been elected So
help me Gcd."
SEC. s. That in case vacancy should
occur, in the. Office of intendant, or any OF
the wardens, by death, resignation, or other
wise and election to I'll such vacancy shall
be held, by the appointment Of the intcndant
and wardens, or wardens, as the case may be,
fifteen days previous notice being given; and
IN c,lse of the temporary absence Of the In
tcndant, the wardens forming the council
shall be empowered to elect one Of the war
dens to act as intendant during the time.
SEC. 6. That the intendant and wardens
duly elected and qualified, shall, during their
term of office, scverally and respectively be
vested with all the powers of trial justice OF
other inferior courts in this State, within the
limits of said towa. and the inteudant shall
and may, as oftnn as may be necessary, sum
mons the wardens to meet in council, any
two of whom with the intendant, or any
three wardcns may constitute quorum, tt
transact business, and they shall be known
by the name of the town council Of the town
Of Union, and they and their successors here
after to be elected, may have common sea
which shall be affixed to all their ordinances
may sue and be sued, may plead and be EN-
pleaded in any court of law or equity in thi'
State; and purchase hold possess and enjoy
to themselves and and their successors, il
perpetuity, for any term of years, any estate
real or personal or mixed, and sell, alien anc
convey the same; shall not exceed at any ont
time the sum of ten thousand dollars. Ant
the said intendant and wardens shall hav'
full power to make and establish all sucf
rules, bylaws and ordinances respecting tn
roads, streets, market commerce, trade, build
ings and police of said town as shall appea
to them necessary and requisite for security
welfare and convenience Of said town, or TO
preserving health, peace, order and gool
government within the same.
And the said council may fix and impos'
fines, and penalties, and Imprisonment in tn
county jail, for the violation thereof, and ap
propriatc such fines to the use of said corpo
ration: Providedcd that no fine shall excec'
fifty dollars for any one offense, and no i'm
prsonment shall exceed twenty days, ant
when any person is charged with any ofenc
for which fine of more than twenty dollar
is ordained, the said charge will be heare
and determined in an action of debt, to b
broug ght in the name of the said town cour
Gil, for the recovery of said fine, before
court having jurisdiction Of causes OF actio
of that amount, for Union county. And
the fine be one of not more Than twenty doI
lars, or the offence be one for which impris
onment is ordained, the said town council, o
quorum thereof shall have power to hea
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