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

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ton Of any Ordinances rules and
regulations of said town; and the
said Town Council. or the said In
tend.nt and Wardens, in person, any
one or more of them, may authorize
anv Marshal of the town, or .any
Constable, specially appointed for that
to arrest and commit to the
said s guard house, or Jail of Charlie
ton county, assthe case may be, for
term not exceeding twenty-'our hours,
any person, OF persons, who. within
the corporate limits of said town,
may be engaged in breach of the
peace. any riiotous or disorderly con-
duet, open obscenity, public drunken M zen
ness. or any conduct grossly indecent,
or dangerous to the citizens OF sald
town, or any of them; and it shall
be the duty Of the Town Marshal or u
Constables. to arrest and commit all
such offenders, when required so to do
and who shall h We power to call to
their assistance the posse comitatus,
if need be, to aid in making such ar
rest. and upon the failure, Of such
officers to perform such duty as re
ouired, they shall, severally, be sub
iect to such fines and penalties as the
Town Council may impose upon them !;
and all persons so imprisoned shall
paw the costs and expenses incident
to their imprisonment. which said
costs and expenses shall be collected
in the same manner asis provided tor
the collection of fines imposed for
the violations of Ordinances, rules
and regulations: Provided, That
snch Imprisonment shall not exempt
the party from the payment of any
fine the Council may impose for the
offence which he, she, or they may
have committed. And the said Town
Council shall have full power and
authority, under their corporate seal,
to make all such rules, regulations,
bylaws ard Ordinances, respecting
the streets, roads, and the business
thereof, as we'll as the police system
of the said town. as shall appear to
them necessary and proper for the
security, welfare and convenience,
and for preserving health, order and
good government within said town.
And the said Town Council may I'M
pose fines for offences against their
bylaws, rules and regulations and
Ordinances, and appropriate the same
to the public use of said Town; and
the said Town Council shall have the
same power that Trial Justices, or
Justices of the Peace now have, or
may hereafter have, to compel the at
tendance of witnesses, and requiring
them to give evidence upon the trial
before them Of any person or per ons
for violation Of any of their ordi-
nances, bylaws, rules or regulations;
but no fine above the sum Of twenty
FIVE dollars shall be collected by said
Council, except.by suit in the proper
Courts of Justice in this State; and.
also, that nothing herein contained
shall authorize said Council to make
any Ordinance or bylaw inconsistent
with, or reprgnant 20, the laws of the
State.
SEC 6. That the said Intendant
and Wardens, or a majority Of them,
shall have power to abate and remove
all nuisances in said town; and it
shall be their duty to keep all roads,
ways bridges and streets in said town
open and in good repair and, for that
purpose, they are invested with all
the powers OF County Commissioners,
or Commissioners of Roads, for and
within the corporate limits Of j the
said town and they may lay out new
streets, close up, widen or otherwise
alter those now in use and shall have
full power o classify and arrange the
inhabitants or citizens of said town
liable to street, road or other public
duty therein, and to force the perfor-
nance Of such duty, under such pen
alties as are now, or shall hereafter
be, prescribed by law; and they shall
have power to compound with all per-
sons liable to work the streets, ways
and roads in said town, upon such
terms as their ordinances or by laws
may establish, or their rules and reg
ularions requlre-the moneys so re-
c we'd to beapplied to the public uses
OF said town; and all persons reIus-
ng to labor, or failing to pay such
Communication, shall be liable to such
fue not exceeding twen'y dollars for
any one year, as the said Town Coun-
cl may impose; and they shall have
the power to enforce the payment Of
such fine, in the same manner as is
now, or may be hereafter, provided
io. the collection of county taxes.
nj the said Town Council shall have
power, with The consent of the ada
cent land owners, to\close al such
roads, streets and ways, within the
said town, as they may deem neces-
sary, by the sale of the freehold there
in. either at private or public sale, as
they may adludpe best for the inter
est of the SAID tlwn: and hey shall
keep in repair all such new streets,
roads and ways as they may, from
ana to time, deem necessary for the
,nprovem mt and convenience Of said
towns; provl.led that no street, road
all be opcnej without first
.aed l.. consent of Ike
o. swneis hereof through
e.n~es my sn'i, Nv street
m ! pass,
SEC. I. he said Town Council
aa lagcpower and authority to re-
q'llre ali persons owning a lot or lots
IN s.nd town 10 close in, and to make
;la Keep in good repair sidewalks IN
front of said 10 or lots, whenever the
same shall front o.. adjoin any public
ract Of said town, il, IN the judg.
uent o; the Council, such sidewalks
snail be necessary, The width thereof,
and the manner of construction, to