The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-09
SOME OF THE NEW LAWS
PASSED AT THE LATE SESSION OF
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.

FHSoGO ~ INl Z SCSSiOi> W
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
The Full Text of the Metropolitan Police
Law as Finally Passed--The Law Relat-
Ing to scotch" Mortgages.
Below is given the act for the ap-
pointment of Board of Police Com
missioners, ETC., in cities and towns
of not less than l,00G inhabitants, and
popularly known as the ''metropoli-
tan police act.
Section l. That on and after the pas
sage of this act, whenever the Gov
ernor, the Secretary of State and the
Comptroller General shall deem it ad-
visable or necessary for the better and
more perfect government OF any city
and incorporated twon in this State
of more than 1000 inhabitants, a
board composed of the Governor,
Secretary of State and the Comptrol-
Ter General shall appoint a Board OF
Police Commissioners. to consist OF
three members, for such city or incor-
porated town. Such commissioners
shall have been qualified electors and
freeholders of such city at least one
year next prior to their appointment.
The official term of such commission
ers shall be co-terminal with that of
the said State board appointing them
and until their successors be appoint
ed and qualified, but such commission
ers, or any one of them, may be re-
moved and the vacancy or vacancies
filed by the said State board at any
time they may deem such removal ex-
pedient or necessary to promote the
object of the original appointment,
and so long as it may be deenes nee
essary or expedient by said State
board or their successors to continue
said State board shall make new ap-
pointnlent of the same or other COM
missioners for the succeeding term.
to-wit; co-terminal with the term of
such said State board and until their
successors be appointed and qualified,
if such enforcement of the laws Of this
State in any city or Incorporated town
under police regulation be continued
under this act. Before entering upon
their duties. such commissioners shall
each take and subscribe and cause to
be fled in the Office of the Secretary
of State an oath of Office for the faith
full discharge of their duties and the
usual constitutional oaths required Of
public officers, and if the appolntee
shall, for ten days after notification
of appointment, fail to cause such
oaths to be fled as aforesaid, his ap-
pointment shall be revoked and new
appointment shall be made by said
State board; and the said State board
shall have power to fill any vacancy
in said board at any time. whether
caused by death, removal, resignation
or any other cause, or may IN their
discretion, remove any member or
members of said board if in their opin-
ion he or they fail to perform any du-
ty according to the intent of this act.
One OF said board shall be designated
by the said State board to be president
and another as secretary of said board.
The annual salary of said commission
-ers shan be not less than fifty dollars
nor more than three hundred dollars.
to be fixed by the said State board
within these limits in proportion to
the population Of the particular city
in question. But the secretary may
be allowed a sum not exceeding fifty
dollars in addition to his salary as a
commissioner. Said salaries shall be
paid out of the town or city treasury
In like manner as the salaries of town
or city officers.
Sec. 2. Such Board of Police Com
missioners shall Immediately appoint
marshal, who shall be chief of po-
lice, and the necessary commissioned
officers, who shall give bond IN an
amount equal to that required on the
18th day of December 1894, of SINH
lar officers under the ordinances of
such cities and towns, subject to the
orders of the board, and as many po-
hcemen as may oe deemed necessary
by the board, not exceeding one for
every one thousand inhabitants, and
who shall have been residents OF such
CITY or town at least six months prior
to their appointment. The marshal
and policemen shall hold their re
spective Offices co-terminally with the
board appointing them, subject,
however. to removal at any time by
a majority vote of the Board of Po-
lice Commissioners. The marshal and
policemen so appointed shall have
exclusive power, and it shall be their
duty, to ser e all process issued by the
mayor, in,=nGant or city recorder, and
all notices and papers issued by the
Board of Police Commissioners. They.
the said marshal and policemen. shall
have and exercise all the common law
and statutory power Of constables
within such city, except for the ser,
vice of civil process, and they shall
also have the powers now had and
exercised by policemen under the
laws of tho State and the ordinances
of such city. Provided, that no city
or town shall be liable in damages for
any of the acts of the mashals or police
men or officials appointed under the
provisions of this act.
Sec. 8. The Board Of Police Com
missioners shall keep and maintain
an Office at the council chamber, police
court room or some station house or
other convenient place, and shall meet
in regular session every monlh, and
in special session at any other time
upon written request or any member
TO each other member who is IN the
city. Any regular session may be ad-
iourncG for a period not exceeding
four days. Two members shall consti-
tute quorum at any regular or ad-
iouned session. or at any special ses
sion properly called and notified. The
concurrence of two members shall be
sufficient to decide any question prop
erly coming before the board. 1t shall
be the duty of the Board Of Police
Commissioners to fill all vacancies IN
the offices of marshal and policemen.
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