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An Act to incorporate certain towns and villages, and to renew and amend certain charters heretofore granted. 1859 794 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0430 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. D. 1859. XIX. This charter shall be deemed a public Act, and the charter hereby granted shall continue and be of force for twenty years, and no longer. In the Senate House, the twenty-second day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and in the eighty-fourth year of the sovercignty and independence of the United States of America. WILLIAM D. PORTER, President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, )peaker Housc of Representatives. No. 4468. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN TOWNS AND VILLAGES, AND TO RENEW AND AMEND CERTAIN CHARTERS IIELRETOFOitE 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 luffton. the charter of the town of Bluffton be, and the same is hereby, revived and extended, with all the rights, powers and privileges heretofore granted, with the additional rights, powers and privileges hereinafter specified: Povided, the northern boundary of the said town be not extended beyond its former limits, to-wit: The public road, called and known as the North May River Road, and that the remaining boundaries remain as they were set forth in the original Act of Incorporation, passed in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two-except that the eastern boundary of said town shall be the eastern boundary of a lot, known as 1 Mr. Kirk's Set- tlement, now owned by Clarence B. Kirk, to its intersection with the North May River Road, and that the northern boundary shall be the north side of the said North May River Road, thence to its intersection with the western boundary of said town. Qualfication of II. That in order to qualify one as an Elector in said town, he shall have el ec~tor. all the qualifications now required to vote for members of either branch of the Legislature of this State, with the exception of six months' residence in the Election District, and in lieu thereof he shall be either a resident and owner of a house and lot in the said town for three months, a freeholder therein for six months, or a resident therein for one year previous to the election. Power to ta, III. That the Council of said town are hereby empowered to levy a tax g.o afree for the support of the said town, of not exceeding twenty-five cents per head 794

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