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An Act to incorporate the Village of Sumterville, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 1845 336 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0359 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. D. 1845. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE TIE VILLAGE OF SITERVILLE, AND FOR OTHER No. 206. PURPOSES THEREIN MENTIONED. Som1rvile I. Be it eitacted, by the Senate and flousc of Relresentatives now met iaeorporatcd. and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority ofth2 same, That froin and after the passing of this Act, all persons, citizens of the United States, having resided six months in the Village of Sumtorville shall be doemed, and are hereby declarcd a body politic and corporate; atid the said Village shall be called and known by the name of Sumterville, nd its corporatc limits shall extend three fourths of a mile in the direclion of the Cardinal points from the Court flouge now standing in said Villnge as a centre and form a square ; Provided, that the provisions of this Act extending the limits of the Corporation of Suinterville to an ideal line beyond the lots included.in the said Village, shill not be construed to render the lands and buildings taken in by such extension, any more liable to be ranked as Village property, or property contiguous thereto in tile collection of public taxes, than if this Act had not boon passed. Intendant and II. That the said Village shall be governed by an Intendant and four War ardes when dens (who shall always be freeholers within the 1 mits of said Village) who shall be elected on tile second Monday in January in every year, and shall continue in office until the election and qualification of their successors. The Managers ofthe first election shall be appointed by the Clerk of the Court of the District of Sumter, who shall also designate the place of said election within the corporate limits of said village, ten days notice in writing being previously given ;. and tiat every succeeding election for said Intendant and Wardens shall be held at such place and by such persons as the Council shall Qualification ofthoereafter designate and appoint; and that all free white male inhabitants of voters. the said Village, who have attained the age of twenty one years, and have re. sided therein six months previous to the election, paupers excepted, shall be on- titled to vole for the said Itendant and Wardens-the election to be held from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, and when the poll shall be closed, the Managers shall proclaim the election and give notice thereof in writing to the persons elected. That the Intendant and Wardens, before entering upon the duties of their offices shall take the oath prescribed by the Constitution of this State, and also the followig oath, to wit: As In- tendant or; Wrarden ofSumterville, I do solemnly swear that I am duly quahi. fled to exercise the office to which I have been clected, and that 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. Vacancies how Ill. That in case a vacancy shall occur in the office of Intendant or any filed. of the Wardens, by death, resignation, removal from office, or by removal from tile State, an election shall he held by the appointment of the Intendant and WVardens or Wardens, as the~case may be, ten cays previous notice being given ; and in ease of the sickness or temporary absence of the Intendant, the Wardens forming a council, shall be empowered to elect one of them- selves to act as Intendant during the time. Cernin powers IV. That the Intendant and Wardens duly elected and qualified, shall, do. vested io In ring the term of service, severally and respectively be vested with all the Wardens powers of Maigistrates in this State, within the'limits of the said village, except for the trial of small anl mesne causes, on taking the oath now by law re- quired to be taken by Magistrates; and the Intendant shall and may as often

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