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An Act to incorporate certain towns and villages, and to renew and amend certain charters heretofore granted. 1855 461 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0403 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 461 tation of passengers and goods on said road, not exceeding one white A. D. 1855. engineer and his white assistant to each engine, and one white person to every passenger car, and to every five cars for the transportation of goods. XXIV. That this Act shall be regarded as a public Act, and may be Public Act. given in evidence as such in all cases without being specially pleaded. XXV. That this charter shall in no wise be subject to the provisions of the forty-first section of 'the Act of the General Assembly of South Caro- lina, passed on the seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thouEand eight hundred and forty-one. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent any Railroad in South Carolina from connecting with the said road. This act shall be of no effect until a direct communication, by steam or other locomotives and cars, and a common track and depot between the Georgia Railroad and the South Carolina Railroad in Augusta, be estab- lished or secured. In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and in the eightieth year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America. ROBT. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives. AN ACT TO INdORPORATE CERTAIN TOWNS AND VILLAGES, AND TO RENEW No. 4246. AND AMEND CERTAIN CHARTERS HERETOFORE GRANTED. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That all free white persons, citizens of the United States, who have resided six vitinge of Bel- months in the Village of Belton, in Anderson District, shall be deemed, and ton. are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate. And the said vil- lage shall be known and called by the name of Belton, and its corporate limits shall extend one-half mile in every direction from the Railroad Depot established therein, and the said corporation is hereby invested with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the restrictions, that are conferred on the corporation of the Village of Anderson by the Act of the General Assembly heretofore passed incorporating said village, and that the charter of the said Village of Belton be continued for the term of fourteen years.

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