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Title
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Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, Passed at the Regular Session of 1875-76. Including Act 183 to Incorporate the Town of Greer's.
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Subject
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The state legislative act chartering the Town of Greer's, SC.
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Description
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The Act to Incorporate is number 183, and appears in the original book on page 169. In this PDF file, it is page 193.
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Original Format
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Published book
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Text
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No. 183.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF GREER'S, IN GREENVILLE COUNTY.
SECTION 1.
• Corporators.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina , now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That all persons, citizens of the United States , who now are, or hereafter may be, inhabitants of the town of Greer's, shall be deemed, and are hereby declared, a body politic and corporate; and said town shall be called and known by the name of Greer's,
• Corporate Limits.
and its limits shall be deemed and held to extend one-half a mile in each direction from the Air Line Railroad Depot at said place.
SEC. 2.
• Officers.
That the said town shall be governed by an Intendant and four Wardens, who shall be elected on the first Monday in April next, 1876, as well as on the first Monday in April of every year thereafter an election shall be held for an Intendant and four Wardens,
• Qualification of electors.
who shall be citizens of the United States, and shall have been residents of the said town sixty days next preceding said election, at such place in said town as the Intendant and Wardens shall designate, ten days' notice thereof in writing being previously given; and that all the male inhabitants of said town of the age of twenty-one years who have resided therein sixty days previous to the election shall be entitled to vote for said Intendant and Wardens;
• Conduct of election.
and the election shall be held from seven in the morning until six o'clock in the evening, when the polls shall be closed and the Managers shall count the votes and proclaim the election, and give notice thereof to the persons elected; and that the Intendant and Wardens for the time being shall appoint Managers to hold the ensuing election; that the lntendant and Wardens, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the State, and the following oath, to wit: "As Intendant (or Warden, as the case may be) of Greer's, I will equally and impartially, to the best of my ability, exercise the trust reposed in me, and will use my best endeavors to preserve the peace and carry into effect, according to law, the purposes of my appointment: So help me God."
SEC. 3.
• Vacancies.
That in case any vacancy shall occur in the office of the
Intendant or any of the Wardens, by death, resignation, removal from the State, or from any other cause, an election shall be held by appointment of the Intendant and Warden (or Wardens, as the case may be,) ten days' public notice thereof, as aforesaid, being given; and in case of sickness or temporary absence of the Intendant, the Wardens, forming a Council, shall be empowered to elect one of themselves to act as Intendant during such sickness or absence.
SEC. 4.
• Indentant and Wardens invested with powers of Trial Justices.
That the Intendant and Wardens, duly elected and qualified, shaII, during their term of service, severally and respectively, be vested with all the powers of Trial Justices and Justices of the Peace in this State for the preservation of the peace within the limits of said town; that the Intendant shall, as often as occasion may require, summon the Wardens to meet him in Council, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and shall be known as the Town Council of Greer's; and they and their successors in office shall have a common seal,
•Town Marshal.
and shall have power and authority to appoint from time to time such and so many proper persons to act as Marshals and Constables as they shall deem expedient and proper, which officers shall have all the powers, privileges and emoluments, and be subject to all the duties, penalties and regulations by the laws of the State for the office of Constable;
• Corporate powers.
and the Intendant and Wardens in Council shall have power and authority, under the corporate seal, to ordain and establish all such rules and by-laws and ordinances respecting the streets, ways, public wells, springs of water, markets and police of said town, and for preserving health, peace, order and good government within the same, as they may deem expedient and proper; and the said Council may affix fines for offenses against such by-laws and ordinances and appropriate the same to the use of the corporation, but no fine shall exceed fifty dollars. All fines may be collected by an action for debt before a proper tribunal.
SEC. 5.
• Nuisances.
That the said Council shall have power to abate or remove nuisances within the limits of said town,
• Persons liable to road duty.
and also to classify and arrange the inhabitants liable to public duty, and require them to perform such duty as occasion may require, and enforce performance of the same under the same penalties as are now or may here after be established by law: PROVIDED, ALWAYS, NEVERTHELESS, That said Town Council shall have power to compound with the persons liable to perform such duty, under such terms as they shall by ordinance establish.
SEC. 6.
Streets and ways.
That it shall be the duty of the Intendant and Wardens to keep all streets and ways in the limits of said town open and in good order, and for that purpose they are hereby invested with all the powers and privileges granted by law to the Commissioners of Roads within the limits of said town; and for neglect of duty they shall be liable to the same pains and penalties imposed by law upon Commissioners of Roads for like neglect; and they are hereby individually exempt from the performance of road and public duty; and the inhabitants of said town are hereby exempt from road duty without the limits of said corporation.
SEC. 7.
May compound with persons liable to road duty.
That the said Intendant and Wardens shall have power to compound with persons liable to work on said streets and ways, and to release such persons as may desire it upon the payment such sum of money as they may deem a fair equivalent therefor, to be applied by them to the use of the corporation.
SEC. 8.
Powers and privileges.
That the said Town Council of Greer's shall also be empowered to retain, possess and enjoy all such property as they may be possessed of or entitled to, or which shall hereafter be given, bequeathed to or in any manner acquired by them, and to sell, alien or in any way transfer the same or any part thereof: PROVIDED, The amount of property so held or stock so invested shall in no case exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
SEC. 9.
Imposition of taxes.
That the said Town Council shall have power to impose an annual tax upon all real and personal property within the limits of said town: PROVIDED, Said tax does not exceed the sum of fifteen cents on the one hundred dollars.
SEC. 10.
Granting of licenses.
That the lntendant and Wardens of the said town of Greer's shaII have power to reguIate sales at auction within the limits of said town and grant licenses to auctioneers: PROVIDED, That nothing herein contained shall extend to sales by or for Sheriffs, Clerks of Courts, Judges of Probate, Coroners, executors, administrators, assignees, or by any other person under the order of any Court or Magistrate.
SEC. 11.
Sidewalks in town.
That the Intendant and Wardens shall have power and authority to require all persons owning a lot or lots in the said town of Greer's to keep in repair the sidewalks adjacent to their lots, respectively, and for default in this matter shall have power and authority to impose a fine not exceeding four dollars.
SEC. 12.
Licenses to retail spirituous liquors.
That the authority to refuse or grant licenses to keep a tavern or retail intoxicating drinks be, and the same hereby, vested in the Town Council of Greer's, and that they be also in vested with all the necessary power, by ordinance or ordinances, to suppress or regulate intoxicating drinks to be drank at the place where sold, or in or upon any of its appurtenances, or in or upon any of its highways, streets, lanes, alleys, commons, kitchens, stores, shops, public buildings, stalls or out-houses of the said town, or within a half a mile of the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railroad Depot in said town: PROVIDED, No rule or regulation shall be made inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State.
SEC. 13.
• Clerk of Court to appoint Managers of election.
For the purpose of holding the first election under this Act, the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Greenville County shall designate three suitable persons, citizens of said town, to act as Managers of the Election, and said Managers so appointed shall give at least ten days' previous notice of said election.
SEC. 14.
Town Weigher.
That the Intendant and Wardens of the town of Greer's be, and they are hereby, empowered to establish an office of Town Weigher, and to elect a suitable person to perform the duties of such office: under such rules, regulations and restrictions as the said Intendant and Wardens may by ordinance establish.
SEC. 15.
That this Act be deemed a public Act, and continue in force until repealed.
Approved March 25, 1876.
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Contributor
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Digitized by Google.
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Publisher
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Republican Printing Company, State Printers. Bound by Edward Perry, Charleston.
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Date
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1876
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Format
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PDF
