Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-29

answer under oath concerning their proper
ty liable to taxation; and the said Town
Council may correct all returns and assess at
its true value all such property liable to tax
alton. And should any person or persons
fail to make return of their property with
in the time above mentioned, or fail to
appear and answer concerning their proper
ty when summoned as above provided, the
Treasurer shall make out an assessment
from the books of the County Auditor of
the realand personal property of such per
son liable for taxation, and may, when di-
rected by an ordinance so to do, add thereto
a penalty of twenty per centatne for such fall-
ure. An ordinance declaring the rate of an
uual taxation upon property and other SUBJ
jects of annual taxation for the year shall be
published at least two weeks during the
month of October, and all persons liable to
taxation shall make payment OF their tax
es to the said Treasurer during the succeed
ing month of November; upon failure to
make such payment, the persons so in de-
fault shall be subject to a penalty OF twenty
per ce,atuna upon the amount OF their taxes.
1t shall be the duty of the Treasurer to en-
force the collection of any and all taxes,
penalties, Communication moneys or other
charges due to said corporation; and for this
purpose he shall be authorized and empoW-.
cred to issue executions, under the seal OF
the corporation, directed to the Sheriff OF
the County, or the Town Marshal, requir-
ing him to levy and sell Of the property,
real and personal, of such persons so in de-
fault, sufficient to pay all such taxes, penal
ties, charges and costs. If such executions
are lodged with the said Sheriff, he shall
be entitled to charge and collect the same
costs now provided by law on executions
against property: Provided, That no natltG
bona costs shall be charged against said
town and all property upon which tax
shall be assessed shall be declared and made
liable for the same, and for any penalties
and other charges thereon, in preference to
all other debts or encumb7ances, except
debts and taxes due to the State: Provided
further, That the present acting Intendant
and Wardens, or their successors in office,
are hereby authorized, upon two weeks
public notice, to levy and collect two mills
tax during the month of January, 1887, to
defray the current expenses of the town Tor
the year 1886, the special assessment for that
purpose to be also made during said month
all the provisions of this section to obtain,
so far as may be, for the enforcement of
this special tax. But if this special levy
and collection shall not be made, then the
ordinary levy for October, 1887, may be in
creased two mills in order to cover the ex-
penses of 1886.
SEC. 10. So long as the Act entitled "An
Act to prevent the sale of spirituous or in
toxicating liquors in the Town of York
vile, in York County," approved February
9th, 1882, remains of force, the Town Coun-
Gil are hereby authorized and empowered to
regulate the sale of such liquors made upon
prescription by the drug stores situated in
the said town in the following particulars:
They may, by ordinance, with appropriate
penalties, require the physician giving the
prescription to certify in writing at the foot
thereof all the facts the existence of which
allows the prescription to issue, and appoint
a committee of their body to inspect the
files of the said drug stores and see to it
that said prescriptions are made In due
form and that none others are filled.
And the Town Council shall be author
lied and empowered to require all per-
sons, companies and corporations now en-
gagged, or who may hereafter become en-
gagged, in business vocatiOns or professions
of any kind whatsoever within the linn
its of said town to take out q license from
the Town Council who shall be authorized
to impose such charges or tax for the con-
duct of the same as by ordinance of the said
town may be provided, and the revenue
derived from such license shall be for the
public uses of said town :, and the Town
Council may enforce the payment of such
license or tax in such manner as they may
by ordinance provide.
SEC. II. The Town Council shall have
power to define the limits of fire dis
trict within said town, and to prescribe
of-what material buildings or other struct-
ures within such limits shall be construct
ed; and to prevent the erection of build
ings or other structures therein ofany other
material than that prescribed; and they
shall he authorized to make all ordinances
necessary to carry this power into full effect,
and to punish by fine or imprisonment, or
otherwise, all violations or attempted vio-
lations thereof.
SEC. -. The Town Council shall be au
thorized to borrow money only for corpo-
rate purposes and upon corporate bonds,
bearing interest not exceeding seven per
cent,tns per AMMAN: Provided, that no loan
shall be effected without previous concur
renee of majority of the voters of said
town voting upon the same, to be ascertain
ed by a special election upon the amount
and purpose of such loan, previously named
and stated by an ordinance of said Town
Council, which election shall only be or
dered by the said Town Council upon tWen-
ty-one days public notice, and upon a Pc
tition presented to said Town Council, sign
ed by a majority of the residents who are
owners of real estate therein, praying such
election. If the loan be voted, the Town
Council are hereby authorized to enact ap-
propriate ordinances for the payment of the
principal and interest: Provided, That the
levy for that purpose shall be made along
with the levy for ordinary town purposes,
and that said special levy shall not exceed
two mills for any one year.
SEC. 13. That all offences against the or
dinances of said town, and all offences men
toned in the seventh section of this Act
shall be tried before tie Intendant Of said
town, who shall have all the powers within
the corporate limits that Trial Justices
now have, or may hereafter have, except
in civil cases: Provided, That all persons
convicted before the Intendant shall have
the right of appeal to the Town Council,
agreeably to the provisions regulating ap-
peals from inferior Courts: And provided
further, That said appeal shall be final.
SEC. IA. That this Act shall take effect
Immediately upon it's passage; it shall be
deemed public Act, and shall continue of
force for fourteen years and until the end Of
the session of the General Assembly next
following.
SEC. -. That the present acting Town
Council of said town shall continue in Of
flee until their successors shall be elected
and qualify under the provisions of this
Act, with all such powers and duties as if
they had been elected hereunder.
SEC. 1G. That all Acts of incorporation,
or amendments thereto, repugnant to this
Act are hereby repealed.
Approved, the 23d day of December, 1885,
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