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An Act to renew and amend the charter of the town of Barnwell. 1857 638 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0415 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. D. 1867. will to alter; shall sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any Court of Law or Equity in this State, and shall have and enjoy all and every right and privilege, incident and belonging to corporate bodies. Public Act. III. This Act shall be deemed a public Act, and shall continue and be of force for the term of fourteen years. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and in the eighty-second year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America. JAMES CHESNUT, JR., President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker Rouse of Representatives. No. 4364. AN ACT TO RENEW AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF BARNWELL. 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 Psaingef this from and immediately after the passing of this Act, all and every person or Act. yZ persons who may have relided within the corporate limits of the town of Barnwell for one year, or who may own a freehold therein, and their succes- sors, 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 passing of this Act, become a body politic and corporate, and shall be known Name. and called by the name of the Town of Barnwell, and its corporate limits shall extend as heretofore. Governed. III. That the said town shall be governed by an Intendant and four War- dens, who shall be persons that actually reside within the limits of the cor- poration, shall so reside 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 of 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 successors. And all free white male inhabitants of the said town, excepting all persons re- ceiving their support, or any part of their support and maintenance, from the Commissioners of the Poor, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one 688

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