The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-04-09

the amount of all sales of goods, wares,
merchandise, aud also on the amount of
income arising from all factorage and
| mechanical employments, faculties and
professions, including the profession of
dentistry: Provided. That no tax shall
be imposed in any ole year to exceed
| the rate of twenty cents on each hun
dred dollars of the value of such snles
and income; and the said Town Council
shall also have power tc impose tax
upon nll persons who shall open any
room or car for the purpose Of taking
daguerreotypes or other likenesses,
within the corporate limits of said town;
and the said Town Council shall have
| the power to impose an annual tax, not
exceeding twenty cents on every hun
dred dollars of the value of all real es-
tate lying within the corporate limits OF
said town, the real estate of churches
and school associations excepted; nnd
for that purpose they shall appoint three
freeholders, resident therein, to assess
the value Of said real estate. upon oath.
and return the assessment, within one
month, to said Council, for taxation, and
| to fill any vacancy occasioned by the
death, resignation, refusal to serve or
removal from Office of the said assessors;
| ooo ohJ lISAoOd wiz cuNlk lCluSC 10 uCU
rs assessor, upon being appointed by the
Council, may he fined any sum not ex-
ceeding twenty dollars; and tho said
Council shall have power to regulate the
price OF license upon oil public shows
and exhibitions in said town, and to
erect powder magazine, and to compel
any person holding moro than twenty
| five pounds Of powder to store the same
therein, and to make regulations for
rates OF storage thereof, and for keeping
and delivering the same; and tho said
Town Council shall have power to en-
force the payment of all taxes and as
sessments levied under tho authority of
this Act against tho property and per-
sons of defaulters, to the same extent
and IN the same manner as is provided
by law for the collection of the general
State tax, except that executions to en-
force the payment of the town tax shall
be issued under the seal of the corpora
tion, and directed to the Town Marshal,
or other person specially appointed by
the said Town Council to collect tho
same; and all property upon which
tax shall be levied and assessed is hereby
declared to be liable for the payment of
the same in preference to other debts
due by the persons owning such property
at the time of the assessment, except
debts due the State, which shall first be
paid; that the said Town Council shall
have power, with the consent of the ad-
]accnt land, owners, to close all such
roads, streets and ways within the said
town, as they may deem necessary, by
sale OF the freehold therein, either ut
public or private sale, rs they adludge
best for the interest of the said town;
and they shall have power to lay out,
adopt, open and keep in repair all such
new streets, roads and ways, from time
to time, as they may deem important or
necessary for tho improvement Of said
town: Procieleel, That no new street,
road or why, shall be opened without
first having obtained the consent Of the
landowner or owners through whose
premises any such new street, road or
way may pass.
SEC. o. That this Act shall be taken
and deemed rs public Act in all courts
OF Justice, aud shall continue so until
repealed.
Approved March 12, 1872.
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAMES OF TYH-
REL WILLARD AND IDA WILLARD, AND
MAKE THEM THE LEGAL HEIRS OF T. J.
JONES.
Whereas it is the desire of the mother
Of two children, bearing the names of
Tyrrel Willard and Ida Willard, to h I'VE
their names changed, and that tacy
should become the legal heirs of Z. J. |
Jones; and whereas it is also the desire
OF L. j. Jones to adopt said children
and make them his legal heirs; now,
therefore,
BE ii enacted by lie Senate and House of
Representotires ofhhe Stale Of South Caro-
lima. ''o'o met and sitting in General As
sen'6ly, and by TIE authority of tie same,
That the names of Tyrrel Willard and
Ida Willard be changed to that of Tyr
rel Jones and Ida Jones, and that they
be DECLARED the legal heirs of T. j.
Jones.
Approved March IL, 1872.
AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN
ACT TO INCORPORATE THE wAcCAlAw
AND LITTLE RIVER CANAL COMPANY"
SECTION l. BE il enactcd by Mel Senate |
and House of Representatives. Of The State !
Of Souh Carolina, no,c met and sitting in
General ASSEMBLY, and By lie authority of
Tie same, That the Act entitled "An Act |
to incorporate the Waccamaw and Little |
River Canal Company" be, and is he;e-