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An Act to renew and amend the charter of the town of Anderson. 1856 553 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0409 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. A.D. 1856. AN ACT TO RENEW AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF No. 4802. ANDERSON. 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 Corporators. from and immediately after the passing of this Act, all and every person or persons who may have resided within the corporate limits of the town of Anderson for one year, or who may own a freehold therein, and their suc- cessors, are hereby declared to be members of the corporation hereby intended to be created. II. That the said persons and their successors shall, from and after the Name. passing of this Act, become a body politic and corporate, and shall be known and called by the name of the Town of Anderson, and its corporate limits shall extend one mile in the direction of the cardinal points, from the Court House thereof as a centre, and form a square. III. That the said town shall be governed by an Intendant and four Intendant and WVardens. Wardens, who shall be persons that actually reside within the limits of the ' corporation, and have so resided for at least twelve months immediately preceding their election, and who shall own a freehold therein. The said Intendant and Wardens shall be elected on the second Monday in September in each year, ten days notice being previously given, and shall continue in office for one year, and until the election and qualification of their sue.es- sors; and all free white male inhabitants of said town, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and resided therein six months imme- diately preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote for said Intendant and Wardens. IV. That said election shall be held in some convenient public place in Elections. said town, from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the even- ing, and when the polls shall be closed, the managers shall forthwith count the votes and declare the election, giving notice in writing to the persons elected. The Intendant and Wardens for the time being shall always appoint three managers to conduct the election, who, before they open the polls for said election, shall take an oath fairly and impartially to conduct the same. And the Intendant and Wardens, before entering upon the duties of their offices, shall respectively take the oath prescribed by the Constitution of this State, and also, the following oath, to wit: As Oathof office. Intendant, or Warden, of the town of Anderson, I will equally and impar- tially, to the best of my ability, exercise the trust reposed in ue, and will 553

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