The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-02-12
G'he Court House Act.
ATE OF SoUTH CAROLINA.

: l., y. u. lINDAL, OeCretary or State
do hereby certify that the followin,
. is a true copy of An Act entitled Al
Act to authorize and provide for Tx
: erection of a new Court House fol
the county of Pickens, on file in this
office.
Given under my hand and the sea
of the State, this twelfth day of Jan
uary, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety
ono, and IN the one hundred and tif,
teenth year Of the Independence of
the United States of America.
[Ls.] j. e. T1NDAL,
Secretary of State.
AN ACT to authorize and provide
for the erection Of u new Court House
for the county of Picllens.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of South Carolina, now
met aud sitting in Gen eral Assembly,
and by the authority of the same.
That the County Commissioners of
the county of Pickens or their sue
cessors be, and the same are hereby,
authorized and required to cause to
be erected in the town of Pickens,
the County seat of the county of Pick
ems, upon the site of the old Court
House, n new Court House, in which
when completed the courts of said
county shall be held as provided by
law.
Sec. 2. That for the purpose OF
raising funds for the erection of said
court house, the county commissions
ers Of said county or their SUCCESSORS
in Office, be and they arc hereby au-
thorized and empowered to issue and
sell coupon bonds Of said county of
Pickers in IN amount sufficient with
tho funds herein after authorized to
be raised to meet the expense Of
erecting said court house. Provided,
that such issue Of bonds shall not ex-
coed the sum Of ten thousand dollars,
said bonds to be known as court house
bonds, to bear interest at rate not
exceeding six per cent. per annum,
said interest to be payable annuity
on the first day Of every January,
succeeding the issuance thereof until
the same shall fall due, the principal
of said bonds to be payable not more
than twenty years from the date there
of; said bonds shall be non taxable
for all purposes whatsoever and the
coupons thereof shall be receivable
for all county taxes.
Sec. 3. That said bonds or the
proceeds of the sale thereof shall be
used by said county commissioners
exclusively i'll erecting said court
house.
Sec. i. That for the purpose of
paying the interest on the bonds here
III authorized to be issued, the county
commissioners of said county, and
their successors shall each year levy a
sufficient tax upon all taxable proper
tv of said county to be known as the
court house tax, and be collected and
disburscd according to the laws now
of force, or as hereafter amended pro
vidmg for the payment Of interest on
railroad bonds of said county.
Sec. S. That said county commits
sioners, or their Successors, be, and
they are hereby, further authorized,
in order to raise funds for tho cree
ton of said court house to sell either
at public or private sale and on such
terms rs may seem to them proper,
The lots mentioned in section of an
act entitled, can Act to provide for
the charging and repairing Of the
court house of Pickens county," ap-
proved Dec 23d, 1889, belong ing to
said county, make good, and sufficient
conveyances therefor; that all the
proceeds Of such sales be, and they
are hereby appropriated towards the
cost Of said new court house; Provid
ed, That said county commissioners
may use any or oil the materials Of
tho old court house in erecting the
new court house, or may sell or dis
pose of the said materials as to them
may seem best, using the proceeds
in erecting the said new court house.
Sec g. Thut the said county COM
missiOncrs, or their successors be,
and they are hereby given the right
if in their judgement it is best in
stead of issuing bonds to build said
court house, to levy upon all the tax
able property of said county tax or
several annual taxes, such rs shall be
sufficient, to pay off in one or more
installmente, (not exceeding tivc) the
whole cost of the erection of said
court house; and IN case said plan
shall be adopted, then and i'll such
event the said county commissioners,
or their successors be, and they are
hereby, authorized to borrow sufiici-
ent funds for the erection of same, to
be repaid by said tax 30 raised.
Sec 7. That the said county com
missioncrs of said county and their
successors, be, and they are hereby
authorized, in the name of the said
county of Pickens to mako all such
contracts rs are necessary or proper
to be made to execute the powers
hcreinbcforc given them.
Sec. 8. That the said county com
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