Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1872-02-22

said town upon such condition, and
under such circumstances assto them
shall seem proper and right; provid-
ed that in no instance shall the price
of a license to a tavern, sor to sretaiIE
spirituous liquors, Ebe less than the
amount that is established by the
State; and all moneys paid for III
censes and for fines and forfeitures
shall be appropriated to the public
uses of said town; provide that the
Intendant and Wardens, duly elected,
shall not have power to grant any Ii
cense to keep taverns, or retail 1pirlt-
uous liquors, to extend beyond the
term for which they have been elect
ed.4 Theyshall have power to regu-
late sales ait auction within the cor
porate limitsof the town, and to grant
licenses to auctioneers, itinerant ira
iders, to keepers of hotels and livery
stables andSto levy tax on all drays,
carts, wagons, carriages, omnibuses,
buggies, horses, mares, muies,' kept
for hire, or use, for public purposes n
said town; and : they shall haves.the
full and only power,to impose tax
on all shows or exhibitions for gain
or reward, within the corporate limits
of said town; they shall have power
to impose tax, not exceeding twen-
ty. cents on every hundred dollars of
the value of real and personal prop
erty lying within the corporate limits
of the town, the real and personal
property of churches, and schools,
and college. associations, excepted.
That an ordinance declaring the rates
of annual taxation upon property,
and other subjects 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 Council shall have
power to levy tax for this purpose
under the same rule as is above sta
ted, immediately after the publication
of this act, and that all persons ill.,
BILE to taxation under the same, shall
make oath of their taxable property
within said town, and make payment
of their taxes to the Clerk or Treas
urer Of said corporation, or such 9TH
er person as they may be ordered or
required to do, during the succeeding
monthzafteraspublica tions;ssand upon
the failure to make, such return and
payment, as required; the parties so
in default shall be subject to the pen
alties provided by law for failure to
paw fthe;general State ;andcounty tax,
to be enforced by the orders Of the
Intendant and Wardens, or a majori-
ty of them, for the use of said town,
except that in such cases that execu.
tions to enforce the payment?of such
taxes sail be Issued under the seal
of the corporation, and may be di-
rected to the Town Marshal, or other
persons appointed by the said Town
Council to levy, collect and receive
the same, with costs, as in such cases
made and provided by law, and all
property supona ch-said tax shall
be levied and assessed lis hereby de
clared and made liable or the pay
ment thereof in preference to al 9th
er debts except debts due to the
State, which shall be first paid, and
that all other taxes imposed by the
Intendant and Wardens, Or majori-
ty of them, shall be payable in adj
vance by the parties liable for the
same, and on failure of payment,
| their property shall be liable for the
same, as in manner and form just be-
fore stated.
SEC. g.. The Intendant and War
dens elect, together with Clerk and
Treasurer, shall, during their term OF
Office, be exempt from street and po-
lice 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, a
full account of their receipts and ex-
penditures during their term, which
account shall be published in one or
more p .pers Of the county; and shall
pay over all moneys in their pos
session belonging to the corp"rati"n,
and deliver up all books, records and
other papers, incident 10 Their Office
to their successors. and on failure to
do so, they shall be liable to be fined
in sum not exceeding FIVE hundred
dollars, to be collected by any prop
er action of the Town Council.
SEC. 10. That al ordinances or by
laws passed by the Town Council Of
Wrightsville shall be binding upon
the citizens of said town the same as
the laws of the State.
Sec. IL. That all acts and part Of
acts inconsistent with, or supplied by
this act, be, and the same are hereby,
repealed.
SEC. II. This act shall be deemed
a public act, and continue in force un-
til repealed.
Approved January 5lst, a. D.,
1872.
AN ACT to Charter tile 15wn Of BEL
ton. in tie County Of anderson, and
State of South Carolina.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the
Senate and House OF Representatives
of the state of South Carolina, now
net and sitting IN General Assembly,
and by the authority oi ne same :
rnat from and alter the passage oi
this act all citizens OF this Sale, hav-
ing resided sixty days'in the Town OF
Belton, shall be deemed, and !. here
,y declared to be bo,ty polite and
corporate, and the said town shall be
called and known by the name Of
Bolton, and its corporate limits shall
extend one-half mile in each direction
from the depot in said town.
SEC. 2. That the said town shall
be governed by an lntendant1and six
Wal dens, who shall be citizens of the
United States, and shall have been
residents of the said town for sixty