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An Act to amend the charter of the town of Georgetown in sundry particulars. 1860-1861 879 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0437 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER OP TiE ToWN or GEORGETOWN IN A.D. 1801. SUNDRY PARTICULARS. . No. 4520. 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 it Rtronads, c., shall not be lawful hereafter for the Town Council of Gcorgotown to sub- 'rowl Collnenl to suibscribe to, scribe to the capital stock of any railroad, plank road or canal company, withconditions. unless the following terms and conditions be observed and complied with: First, A resolution declaring the intention of the said City Council to sub- scribe to the stock of the particular company, specifying the number of shares and amount to be subscribed, shall first be passed at a regular meet- ing of the said Town Council, by a majority of the whole body. Second, That the resolution of the said Town Council of their intention to subscribe to the stock of such company, be published in all the newspapers of tile said town, with a notice calling upon the citizens to meet at the Town Hall, in the day time, at a certain day, named in the said notice, to consider tile propriety of submitting the measure proposed to a direct vote of all the citizens of the said towit. Third, That a majority of the citizens assembled in such meeting, or at an adjourned meeting thereof, shall determine by resolution, after full and free discussion, to submit the said measure pro- posed to them to a direct vote of all the citizens of the said town. Fourth, That when a majority of the citizens assembled at such meeting have resolved to submit the measure proposed to the direct vote of the voters, the Town Council shall order and give notice in all the newspapers of the said town (which notice shall be published at least seven days before) that the managers of elections of the said town will open and hold polls at their usual places in the said town, and between the usual hours for holding elections therein, on a certain day, to be named in the said notice, not earlier than ten nor later than fifteen days after the meeting of citizens have resolved to submit the proposed measure to the direct vote, as aforesaid. And the managers of elections in the said town, on the day named in the said notice, shall open the polls at the proper places, and between the proper hours, and receive the votes of all persons entitled to vote in tile said town for Intendant and Wardens, those persons approving of the measure to vote, each, one printed or written ballot, with Aye thereon, and those opposed voting similar ballots, with the word No theroon, and the said managers of election shall, as soon as practicable after tile said votes have been taken, count the said ballots and return the state of their polls and the result to the said Town Council, in writing, which returns shall be published in all the newspapers of the said town. If the vote be in favor of the subscription proposed by the said Town Council, then, and not other- wise, it shall be lawful for the said Town Council to authorize such 879

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