Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-01-10
Mew ga1rs ut the State.
CHANGES IN THE STATE LAW.
TRESSPASS-EJECTMENT.

SECTION l. That if any person shall have
gone into or shall hereafter 60 into possession
of any lands or tenements of another with
out his consent or without warrant OF law,
it shall be lawful for the owner of the land
SO trespassed upon to apply to any trial
Justice to serve notice on such trespasser
! to quit the premises, and if, after the eNpi-
ration of five days from the personal ser
vice of such notice, such trespasser refuses
or neglects to quit, it shall then be the duty
of such trial justice to issue his warrant to
any sheriff or constable requiring him forth
with to eject such trespasser, using such force
as may be necessary; provided, however,
that if the person in possession shall, be-
fore the expiration of the said five days,
appear before the trial justice and satisfy
him that he has a bona ,fde color of claim to
the possession of such premises, and enter
into bond to the person claiming the land
with good and sufficient security, to be ap-
proved by the trial Justice, conditioned for
the payment of all such costs and expenses
as the person claiming to be theowner of the
land may incur in the successful establish
ment of his claim by any of the modes of
proceeding now provided by law, the said
trial justice shall not issue his warrant as
| aforesaid.
SEC. ,. That the trial justice shall be ell
| titled to demand and receive from the per-
/
dollars before issuing the same, and the sher-
| iff or constable shall in like manner be en-
titled to demand and receive fee OF two
dollars and mileage before executing such
warrant from the person applying for the
same.
SEC. 3. That either party to these proceed
ings shall have the right of appeal; that the
trial Justice shall not issue his warrant until
the expiration of five days after he annOunc-
&c tho
defendant may apply for an injunction, SIS
in other cases, restraining the execution of
such warrant pending the determination of
his appeal by the Circuit Court.
Section repeals all Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent herewith.
BOARDS OF HEALTH.
| The Act to organize boards of health and
| for the better protection of the public health
is in substance as follows:
SECTION l. That every Incorporated city
or town shall have board of health of not
| less than three members, one of whom shall
| be graduate Of medicine in good standing.
The board of health shall be elected or ap-
pointed by the mayor or intendant and conf
mon council in such manner and for such
| length of time as shall be determined upon
! by the constituted authorities, and it shall
| be the duty of boards of health so constitu-
ted to prepare and submit to the municipal
authorities for action thereon ordinances for
maintaining the public health in such city
| or town.
SEC. gives the State Board of Health
power to appoint local boards of health
| within sixty days after the passage of this
| Act in case the local authorities fail to make
such appointments.
| SEC. 3 makes it the duty of all boards of
health in the State to aid the municipal au-
| thorties in the enforcement Of all State
laws as to the adulteratjon of food and drink,
to prevent the sale or exposure fer sale OF
any meat or vegetables or fruit o. other ar
tcles Of food that are unWholesome or unfit
for food, and also to define and declare what
shall be nuisances to health in lots, streets,
docks, ponds, wharves, piers, vessels and all
public or private places in such city or town,
to prevent the spread of dangerous epidenl,,
les or contagious diseases, to maintain and
enforce proper quarantine whenever this
may be deemed eXpedient or necessary by
the State board Of health and approved by
the Governor, to regulate and control the
keeping or slaughter of all cattle or other
animals in any city or town to regulate and
prohibit the accumulating Of Otfal and all
decaying or injurious vegetable or other
substances in any place, public or private
to prohibit and remove any nuisance or Of
fensive matter in any place, public or pr
vate, and to cause the removal Of the same
at the expense of the owner or owners there
of, fhe, she or they decline to remove it after
notice to that effect ; to regulate and control
or prohibit the cleansing Of sewers and the
dumping of garbage, or the using of any
noXiOus or unsuitable material for filling
town lots, marshes, ponds and other places
and to provide for the filling of sunken or
low lots and other places in any part of said
city or town.
A Tl,nS ,p, ,ic.ln
source of fOulness, or cause of sickness,
hazardous to public health, shall be found
on private property, the board of health
shall at once notify the municipal authori-
ties, who shall require the owner to remove
and abate the same at his, her or their own
expense, within such time as the board may
deem the public health to require. If the
owner or agent cannot be reached speedily
a notice left at the house or premises with
the tenant or occupant or published in 4
local newspaper, or if there is no such news
or post Office, shall suffice. If the owner or
agent shall not comply within the time
specified, the municipal authorities shall
proceed to remove such nuisance, &c, and
may recover the expenses incurred in such |
removal from the person or persons who
caused or allowed such nuisance, &C., or
from any occupant or tenant Of the premi-
ses in case it affect the freehold from the
owner, who shall have failed after notice to
remove such nuisance, &C. Nothing herein
contained shall be held to bar All action by
such owner, occupant or tenant for damage
for unlawful proceedings in the premises.
SEC. 5. The board of health shall have the
right to declare any epidemic or cause OF
i'll health SO injurious or hazardous as to
make it necessary to close any or all of the
public or private schools in such city or
town, but in the case Of public schools
they shall not be closed except by those
having control and direction thereof, but
those having control of the public schools
may cause any or all to be closed if in
their Judgment such closing be necessary
for sanitary purposes.
SEC 6 gives any board Of education, school
trustees or any other body having control
of the schools the right to prohibit the atten-
dance of any teacher or scholar upon any
school under their control in order to
prevent the spread of contagious or infec-
tious diseases; they may specify the time
such teacher or scholar may remain absent
or they shall require satisfactory certificate
from physicians that such attendance is no
longer attended with risk to others attend
ing school, or may prohibit the entrance
into or attendance at any school OF all unvac-
cinated persons who have not had small
pox. They may also require vaccination
of any or all teachers, scholars and at
tendantS if a case of smallpox has occur
red in the city or town.
SEC. I. All boards of health are required
to make reports to the executive commit
tee of the State Board of Health, annually or
oftener if notified to do SO; said reports to be
made of all marriages, births or deaths Oc-
currinu in the Jurisdiction of local boards Of