Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-04
AMENDED CHARTER OF THE TOWN Of
YORKVILLE.

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AMENDED CHARTER OF THE TOWN Of
YORKVILLE.
AN ACT to amend An Act entitled "An
Act to Charter the Town of Yorkville
| in the State of South Carolina" ap-
proved December, 23rd, 1886.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Sem
ate and House of Representatives of
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly and
bv the authority of the same: That
Section Q Of the said Act Of Incorporation
be amended, 80 that said Section, when
amended, shall read as follows: "Sec-
ton 2. The municipal powers of said
town shall be vested in the Intendant
and four Wardens, who shall constitute
the Town Council Of the town, each OF
whom shall, within its corporate limits,
be conservator of the peace. They
shall be citizens Of the United States,
and shall have resided in this State for
twelve months, and in said town sixty
days, Immediately preceding their elec-
ton. They shall hold their office for one
wear and until their successors are elect
ed and qualified"
SECTION 2. That Section Of said Act
be amended, so that said Section 5, when
amended shall read as follows: "Sec-
ton 5. The Intendant shall, as often as
he may deem necessary, summon the
Wardens to meet in council, any two OF
whom with the Intendant, shall consti-
tute quorum for the transaction OF
business. They shall have full power,
from time to time, under their corporate
seal, in council assembled, to make all
such ordinances as may be necessary to
carry their corporate powers fully into
they may deem proper relative to the
streets, roads, markets, public squares,
public buildings, public scales, weights,
measures, fire department, water supply,
police and health Of said town, and the
building and maintaining Of side walks
at the expense of the land owner along
whose lot the side walk runs provided
the owner, after due notice to do so,
fails to build or maintain the same;
and all such ordinances as may tend TO
preserve the quietude, peace, safety and
good order of the inhabitants Of said town,
and the protection, security and enjoy
mento of their property, and all such ordi-
nances as they may deem proper, prescri.
bing penalties for violations Of the Act OF
February 9th, 1882, regulating the sale OF
spirituous or Intoxicating liquors in the
said town of Yorkville, and also looking
to the regulation of the sale of intoxlca-
ting liquors by druggists, and to the ls-
suing of prescriptions therefor by ply
sicians within the meaning of Section 10
of said Act as amended by this Act; and
they may provide for the enforcement
of all ordinances so made by them, and
for any violation thereof, they may pro-
vide for the punishment of the same by
fine not exceeding fifty dollars or i'm
prisonment in the town prison not ex-
ceeding thirty days for each oftence:
Provided That all ordinances before
taking effect shall be published for at
least eight days in newspaper PaAhsn-
ed in said town, or if there be no such
newspaper, in any newspaper published
all ordinances enacted under the Char
ter lately expired, except such lin whole
or in part) as may be inconsistent with
this Charter, shall be of force in said
town the same as if they had been regu-
larly enacted under the provisions Of
this section: Provided further, That
all persons undergoing sentence or I'M
prisonment may be compelled to work
upon the streets at least eight hours
day during the period Of confinement:
SECTION 8. That Section 10 Of said Act
be amended so that said Section 10, when
amended, shall read as follows: Section
10. So long as the Act entitled AN, Act
to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors
in the town of Yorkville, in York coun-
tv,' approved February 9th, 1882, re-
mains Of force, the Town Council are
hereby authorized and empowered to
regulate the sale of such liquors made
upon prescription by the drug stores sit
uated in said town, in the following par
ticulars They may, by Ordinance, with
appropriate penalties, forbid druggists
to fill any prescription for such liquors,
except such as physicians are hereinaf-
ter authorized to issue, and they may,
likewise, require the physician giving
| the prescription, to certify in writing. al
the foot thereof, all the facts, the exist
ence of which allow the prescription to
issue, and they may, by resolution, ap-
| the files Of the said drug stores, and see
to it that said prescriptions are made in
due form, and shat none others are filled,
which committee may be required to
make up from the files Of each drug
store, since the preceding inspection, a
report of the whole quantity prescribed;
and the number of prescriptions issued
and filled, the names of the prescribing
physicians, and the quantity prescribed
by each physician. And the Town Coun-
| ell shall be authorized and empowered to
require all persons, companies ana cor
porations now engaged, or who may here-
after become engaged in business Voca'
tions, or professions OF any KIND what-
| soevcr, within the limits OF said town.
/ to take out a license from the Town COua-
| Gil, who shall be authorized to impose
such charge or tax, for the conduct OF
the same, as by Ordinance OF the SAID
town NAV 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 ofsuch
license or tax, in such manner as they
NAV by Ordinance provide
| SEcTIoN 4. That Section 13 of said Act
he amended: So that when amended
the said Section l3 will read as follows:
"Section l3. That ell otfenses against the
| Ordinances of said town, and all ohenses
mentioned in the seventh Section OF tnls
| Act. shall be tried before the lntendant
of said town, who shall have all the pow,
ers within the corporate limits that Irlal
Justices now have, ,or may herea1ter nave,
with regard to compelling the attendance
of witnesses and imposing punishment
for contempt, whether in the trial of cases
before him as Intendant, or before the
Town Council on appeal, as Hereinafter
provided for; Provided, That all persons
convicted before the Intendant shall have
the right of appeal to the Town Council,
upon which appeal the trial shall proceed
| de noyo; And Provided further, That
said appeal shall be final.
| In the Senate House the oath day of De-
4 cember in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and eighty seven.
Approved the oath day Of December,
A. d. 1887.