The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-02
tion to the duties and liabilities specially

tion to the duties and liabilities specially
conferred and empowered on them by
the Town Council: Provided, That their
jurisdiction shall be confined within the
limits of the said town. ,,ri
SEQ. IL. That the said Town Council
shall have power to establish n guard
house. and to prescribe, by ordinance,
suitable rules and regulations for keep
ing and governing the same; and the
said Town Council may. by ordinance,
or tho said Intendant or Wardens in
person, aDy ono Or more of them, au-
thorize and require any Marshal Of the
town, or any Constable, specially up
pointed for that purpose, to arrest and
commit to the said guard house, for n
term not exceeding twentyfour hours.
any person or persons, who, within tho
corporate limits of said town, may be
engaged in any breaoh of the peace, any
riotous or disorderly conduct, open
obscenity. public drunkenness, or in
any conduct grossly indecent or danger
GUS to the citizens of said town, or any
Of them; and it shall be the duty Of the
Town Marshal to arrest and commit all
such offenders, when required to do so,
who shall have power to call to their as-
sistance the posse co,nii0tus. if need be.
to aid in making such arrests, and upon
failure Of said Marshal to perform such
duty, as required, they shall severally
be subject to such fines and penalties as
the Town Council may establish. And
all persons so imprisoned shall pay the
costs and expense incident to their i'm
prisonment, which said costs and e1-
penses shall be collected in the same
manner as is provided by this Act for
the collection OF fines imposed for the
violation OF ordinances: Propidsd, That
such imprisonment shall not exempt the
patty from the payment of any fine the
Council may impose for the offence
for which he may have been committed.
SEQ 13. The said Town Council shall
have power to impose and collect taxes
from all persons representing publicly
within their corporate limits, for gain or
reward, any plays or shows, of what
nature or kind whatsoever, to be
appropriated to the public uses of said
town.
SEQ. IA. The said Town Council shall
have full power and authority to abnte all
nuisances within the corporate limits of
said town.
SEo 25. The Intendant and War
dens elect shall, during their term of
office, be exempt from street duty.
Each Town Council shall, within one
month after the expiration of their term
of office, make out and return to their
successors full account of their receipts
and expenditures during their term,
which account shall be published in one
or more papers in the County, and shall
pay over all moneys in their possession
belonging to the corporation, and shall
deliver up oil books, records and other
papers incident to their Office, to their
successors; and on failure SO to do, they
shall be liable to be fined in q sum not
exceeding five hundred dollars, to be
collected by the Town Council.
SEC. 16. For any willful violation or
neglect OF duty, malpractice, abuse or
oppression, the said Intendant and War
dens, jointly and severally. shall be
liable to indictment in the Court of Ses-
sions, and. upon conviction, to punish
ment as prescribed in the preceding
Section, besides being liable for damages
for any person or persons injured.
SEC. II. This Act shall be deemed q
public ACT, and continue in force for the
term Of fifteen years, and until the end
OF tho session OF the Legislature then
next ensuing.
Approved March 8, 1872.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE "STAR FIRE
ENGINE COMPANY, OF GEORGETOWN.
SECTION 1. Be ii enacted by the Senata
and House Of Representatives. Of the State
Of SouM Carolina. a,oD met and sininy in
General assembly, and by The authority of
the same. That George II. Pawley, ] ony
G. Rutledge, Wm. A. johnson, Wm.
Moultrie, John Smyley, and their asso-
ciatcs and SUCCESSORS in Office, be, and
they arc hereby, created and constituted
body politic aud corporate, by and
under the namo and style of the "Star
Fire Engine Company, Of Georgetown, I"
with capital stock not exceeding the
sum of FIVE thousand dollars, with a
right to sue and be sued. to plead and
be impleaded, in my court of competent
jurisdiction, to have and uso common
seal, and the Ganio 20 utter ut will and
pleasure, md to have and enjoy oil othor
rights, privileges and immunities that
arc now or may be hereafter secured by
law to like incorp Grated bodies.
SEQ. Q. This corporation shall enjoy
all the rights and privileges secured to
corporations under the Act to regulate
the formation of corporations, and be