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ton within the corporate limits or the
town, and to grant licenses to auction
GERS, itinerant traders, to keepers of no
tells and livery stables and to levy a tax
OH all drays, carts, wagons, carriages
omnibuses, buggies, horses, mares, mule:
kept for hire or use for public purpose:
in said town; and they shall the full anc
only power to impose tax on all shows
or exhibitions for gain or reward, within
the corporate limits of said town; they
shall have pow to impose tax, not ex.
ceeding twenty cents Oh every hundred
dollars of the value Of real and persona
property lying within the corporate lin.
its of the town, the real and persona
property of churches, and schools ano
college associations, excepted. That ar
ordinance declaring the rates of. annua
taXatic n upon property, and other sub.
iects of annual taxation for the year
Shall be published at least three weeks
during the month of January, in each
year provided that the said Town Coun'
Gil shall have power to levy tax for this
purpose under the same rule as is above
stated, Immediately after the publication
of this act, and that all persons liable tc
taxation under the same. shall make
oath of their taxable property within
said town, and make payment of theil
taxes to the Clerk or Treasurer Of said
corporation, or such other person as they
may be ordered or required to do, during
the succeeding months after publication
and upon the failure to make such re-
turn and payment rs required, the par
tics so in default shall be. subject to the
penalties provided by law for failnre to
pay the general State and county tax, to
be enforced by the orders of the Intend
ant and Wardens, or majority of them,
such cases that executions to enforce the
under the seal of the corporation, and
may be directed to the Town Marshal,
or other person appointed by the said
Town Council to levy, collect and receive
the same, with costs, as in snch cases
made and provided by law, and all prop
erty upon which said taxes shall be lev
led anu assessed is hereby declared and
mnde liable for the payment thereof in
preference to all other debts except
debts due to the State, which shall be
first paid, and that all other taxes im-
posed by the Intendant and Wardens, or
majority of them, shall be payable in
advance by the parties liable for tbs
same, and on failure of payment, their
property shall be liable for the same, as
in manner and form just before stated.
Sec. 8. The 1ntendant and Wardens
elect, together with Clerk and Treasurer,
shall, during their term of office, be ex-
empt 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, O full account of their receipts
and expenditures during their term,
which account shall be polished in spne
or more papers of the county; and shall
pay over all moneys in their possession
belonging to the corporation, and deliver
up all books, records and other papers,
incident to their office to their successors,
and OH failure to do 50, they shall be
liable to be fined in sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, to be collected by
any proper action Of the Town Council.
SEC. 10. That all ordinances or bylaws
passed by the Town Council Of Wrights-
vile shall be binding upon the citizens
of the said town the same as the laws Of
the State.
SEC. II. That all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with, or supplied by this
act, be, and the same are hereby, re-
pealcd.
Sec. 12. This act shall be deemed a
public act, and continue in force until re-
pe:led. ="
Approved January 3lst, A. D., 1872.
Au Act to More cfectuuuy ProHdc for
The Recording Of all Conueyanccs Of
Real Estate. .-
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Sen
ate and House of Representatives Of
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly, and
by the authority of the same.
That every conveyance of real estate,
within this State, and hereafter made,
shall, within three days, be recorded in
the office of the Clerk of the County in
which such real estate shall be situated,
except in the County OF Charleston,
where all such conveyances shall he re-
corded, within the same time, in the
office of the Register of Mesne Convey
ance and where such conveyance, not
so recorded, shall be void, as against
any subsequent purchases in good faith
and for valuable consideration, of the
same real estate, or any portion thereof:
Provided, Such subsequent purchaser
shall have first recorded his said convey
once.
SEC. 9. Different sets of books shall
be provided by the Clerks of the several
Counties, for the recording of deeds and
mortgages, in one of which sets all con-
veyances, absolute in their terms and
not intended as mortgages, shall be re-
corded, and in the other set all such
mortgages, or sureties in the nature of
mortgages, shall be recorded.
SEC. 8. All Acts or parts of Acts, in
consistent with the provisions of this
Act, are hereby repealed.
Approved January s, 1872.
AN ACT to amend the Charter of tho
1oDn of Union.
sEcrIoN /. Be it enacted by the Sem
ate and House of Representatives Of the
State of South Carolina, now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same, =
That from and Immediately after the
passage of this Act, all and every per-
son or persons whatsoever, who are con-
stitutionally qualified to vote for mem
bers of the Legislature Of this State, and
who may have resided within the pres
ent corporate limits of the town of
Union Sixty Gays, anu tueu' successo1s,
are hereby declared to be members of
the corporation hereby intended to be
created. Jag ..r.
SEC. 2. That the said persons and
their SUCCESSORS shall, from and after the
passage Of this Act, become body pol
Iitic and corporate, and shall be known
and called by name of the town of
Union, and it's corporate limits shall ex-
tend one mile, in, the direction of car
dinal points, from the Spartanburg and
Union Railroad Depotin In said town, as q
centre, and form square.
SEC. 8. That the said town shall 6ego-
verued by an Intendant and four Ward
ems, who shall be elected OH the second
Monday of September in each year, ten
days. notice being previously given, and
shall continue in Office for one year, and
until the election and qualification of