Year: 1872

buses. buggies, horses, ,;mares, or mules, kept
for hire or used for public purposes in said
town; and they shall have the full and only
power TO impose a tax on all shows or exhi'
bitions, for gain or reward, within the cor
porate limits of said town. They shall have
The power to impose tax, not exceeding
twenty cents on every hundred dollars OF
the value of all real and personal property
Lying within the corporate limits of the town,
real and personal property of churches and
schools and college associations excepted
That an ordinance declaring the rates Of the
annual taxation upon property and other
subjects of annual taxation for the year, shall
be published at least three weeks, during the
month of January in each year: Provided,
That the said town council shall have power
to levy tax for this year under tie same
rule as is above stated, Immediately on the pas
sage of this act; and that all persons liable
to taxation under tho saiiio shall make oath
of their taxable property within said town,
and make payment of their taxes to the
clerk or treasurer of said corporation, or
such other person as they may be ordered or
required. to do during the succeeding month
after publication, and upon the failure to
make such return and payment as is requir-
cd, tile parties so in default shall be subject
to the penalties provided by law for failures
to pay the general State and county tax, to
be enforced by The orders of the intendant
and waraehs, or majority of them, for the
use of the said town, except in such cases
that executions to enforce the pay
nent of such taxes shall be issued under the
seal of tho corporation, and may be directed to
the town marshal, or other person appointed by
the the town council to levy, collect and re-
ceive the same, with costs, as in such cases
made and provided by law; and all property
upon which such tax shall be levied and as
sessed is hereby declared and made liable
for the payment thereof in preference to all
other debts except debts due to the State,
which shall be first paid; and that all other
taxes imposed by the intcndant and wardens,
or majority of them, shall be liable for the
same, as in manner and form just before
stated.


SEC. 0. The intcndant and wardens elect,
together with the clerk and treasurer during
their term of Office, be exempt from police
and Street duty. Each town. council shall
within one month after the expiration Of their
term Of office make out and rcturn. to their
successors in Office, full accotht Of their re-
ceipts and expenditures during their term,
which account shall be published in one or
more papers of the town. and shall pay over
all money in their possession belonging to the
corporation, and all books, records and pa
pcrs incidantt to their Office, to their success
ors; and on failure to DO so they shall be la
bic to be fined in sum not exceeding FIVE
hundred dollars, to be collected by any prop
or action of the town council.


SEC. 10. That all ordinances or bylaws
passed by :ho town .coencil of the town Of
Rock Hill shall be binding upon the citizens
of said town the same as the laws Of the
State.


SEC. II. All acts or parts of acts inconsis-
tent with or supplied by this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed.


SEC. -. This act shall be deemed and ia
ken to be public act, and continue in force
for the term of fourteen years, and until the
end of tho Legislature thereof.


Approved March 4th. 1879.