The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-12-17

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MrSlclpAL CoRpoRArIoSs.- Senator
Cochran has introduced an important
! bill IN the Senate. It is intended to
provide for the incorporation of towns
and villages and for the government OF
the same. The bill is quite lengthy,
| and the effect OF its passage will be to
cave the State the expense OF printing
! incorporation bills from every little
cross-rond store in the country, aid to
shorten the sessions Of the Legislature.
1t provides that whenever two-thirds
OF the Inhabitants Of any part OF any
County, not embraced within the
limits of any incorporated city, town
or village, shall desire to become
organized into an Incorporated village
or town, twenty Of the qualified voters
may apply by petition. in writing, to
the Clerk Of Court Of the County in
which said town is to he located. The
petition shall set forth the Notes and
bounds OF the proposed Incorporated
town, and have annexed to it M ac-
curnte map or plan thereof; the mum
beT Of qualified voters residing within
the proposed limits; tho name pro-
posed for such town, md tho name of
the person or persons authorized 10 act
IN behalf Of the petitioners in prose
cutting the petition. The Clerk OF the
Conr: must appoint q day for hearing
the petition in public, and upon being
satisfied that not less thun thirty
qualified voters reside in the limits de
scribed and that two-thirds OF them
nave siSned tho petition, inuy issue u
charter OF Incorporation. III case the
Ciork refuse" to grant the petition, the
pttitloucrs may appeal tn the Circuit
Judge. The Act goes Oh to describe
tEa rights, duties and privileges O: the
municipality SO chartered, nn,! sets
iorta the ,annucr OF cnn,iuct:.lH e:ec.
sions. Inc question CT gran ting liquor
liccnses is LETT to the qualified voters
OF the town, to be deteruiued a. the
annual election for Town Council.
The most prominent feature OF the
bill is contained in Section II, which
provides tllut oil elections for mnnial-
pal officers shall be conducted under
he cumulative system Of voting In
all towns where the yearly traffic in
cotton exceeds 1.0U0 bales, the Town
Council shall appoint public weigher
The Town Clerk or Treasurer is re-.
qulred to make semi-nnnual reports Of
the tiuances. After prescribing the
duties and powers Of tho officers aud
regulating the manner Cf granting
Licensed, the final section euucts that
all corporations which existed when
the present Constitution OF this State
took effect, or which now exist under
the provisions thereof, by virtue Of
any Act of tho Legislature, for the
purposes Of municipal government,
and described by any law now in force,
as towns and villages, shall be, aud
they nre hereby, organized into towns
and incorporated villnges, with the
territorial limits to them respectively
prescribed or belonging, in the munner
following: All such municipal corpora,
tions as IN any such law are dcnomi-
mated towns. shal be deemed towns;
all those denominated villages, shall be
deemed Villages; to be respectively go
verneu as towns, or as Incorporated
villages, for general and spccinl pur-
poses, rs provided in this Act; and nll
Acts now OF force. for the orga nizution
or government of any such munich pal
corporations. shall be, aud arc hereby,
repealed: ProrHic,i, That any such re-.
peal shall not bar, or destroy, my
right OF property. action or prosccn-
tlon which may be vested, or exist, at
the time this Act takes eff.c.."
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