The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1872-04-17
OFFICIAL.
Acts and Joint Resolutions
Passed by the General 4s-
sembEy Of South Carolina,
Regular Session, 1871 and
1872,


Senate and House Of Representa-
tiyes Of the State Of South Caro-
lima, now met and sitting in Cen
eral Assembly, and by the author
ity Of the same:
That from and after the passage
Of this Act, all citizens of this
State, having resided twelv e
months within this State, and six
ty days in the town of Little Rock,
shall be deemed, ana are hereby
declared to be, body polite and
corporate, and the said town shall
be called by the name Of Little
Rock, and its corporate links shall
extend three fourths Of a mile in
each direction from the Methodist
Church, in said town, Provided,
that the corporate limits Of said
town shall not extend beyond the
Little Pee Dee River.
SEC. >. That the said town shall
be governed by an Inten1ant and
four WardcnS, who shall be citizens
Of the United States, and who shall
have resided in this State twelve
months, and shall have been resi-
dents Of the said town sixty days
Immediately preceding their cleo
ton. The said Intendant and
Wardcns shall b, elected on the
second Saturday in April, in every
year, five days notice being pre-
viously given, and shall continue
in Office for one year, and until the
election and qualification Of their
successors and all male inhabi-
tants Of said town, who shall have
attained the age Of twcnty-one
years, paupers and persons under
disabilities for infamous crimes cx-
ccptcl, a2l shall have resided
therein sixty days Immediately pre-
ceding the election, shall be enti-
tied to vote for said Intendant and
Wardens.
SEC. 3. The said election shall
be held in some convenient public
place in said town, from six o'clock
in the morning until four o clock
in the evening, and when the polls
shall be closed, the Managers shall
forthwith count the votes and de-
clare the election, and give notice
thereof in writing to the persons
elected. The Intendant and Ward
ems, before entering upon the duties
of their Offices, shall each take the
oath prescribed by the Constitu-
ton of this State, and also the fol-
lowing oath, to wit: ':As Inten-
dant jor Warden, as the case may
bel of the town Of Little Rock, I
will equally and imparrially, to the
best Of my ability, exercise the
trust reposed in me, and will use
my best endeayors to preserve the
peace, and carry into effect, ac-
cording to law, the purposes for
which I have been elected So help
me God" And if any person,
upon being elected Intendant or
Warden, shall refuse to act as such,
he shall forfeit and pay to the Town
Council the sum of ten doll1rs, for
the use of said town Provided,
that no person who has attained
the age Of fsixty years shall be COM
pclled to serve in either Of said Of
fees, nor snail any other person be
compelled to serve more than one
year in any term Of three years.
The IEteIant and Wardens, for
the time being, shall always ap-
point a Board of three Managers
to conduct the election, who, before
they open the polls, shall take an
oath fairly and impartially to con-
duct the same. That James Stuck
house, Benjamin Mace and r. P.
Hammer are hereby appointed
Managers to hold the election on
the second Saturday in March, one
thousand eight hundred and sew
enty-two.
SEC. +. That in case q vacancy
shall occur in the office of Intcn-
dant or any Of the Wardens, by
death, eSignation, removal or 9TH
erwiSe, an election to fill such va
cancy shall be held by order of the
Intendant and Wardens, or a ma
jority of the same, five days pub
lie notice being previously given;
and in case of sickness or tempo
rary absence of the Intendant, the
War,lens, forming the Council,
shall be empowered to elect one of
their number to act as Intcndant
for the time being.
SEC. 5. That the Intendant and
Wardens, duly elected and quail
fed, shall, during their term Of
Office, seyerally and respectively,
be vested with all the powers here
tofore granted to Magistrates, Tri-
al Justices or Justices Of the Peace,
as the case may be, in this State,