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An Act to renew and amend the charter of the town of Greenville. 1860-1861 894 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0438 and id is 1 raw text is: STATUTES AT LARGE A. D. 1801. AN ACT TO RENEW AND AMEND THE CHARTER OF TUE TOWN OF GREENVILLE. No. 4529. I. Be -it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met Corporators, and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That qulifiJcations of. from and immediately after the passing of this Act, all and every person or persons who are constitutionally qnalified to vote for members of the Legislature of this State, and who may have resided within the corporate limits of the Town of Greetiville'for one year, 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, which corporation corporation. shall be known and called by the name of The Town of Greenville, and mne and stylo or. that the corporate limits of the said town shall extend for one mile in every direction, froni the contre of the public square, on which the Court House is situated. Powers, in III. That the municipal powers of the said town shall be, and are hereby, wlon, vested. vested in an Intendant and six Wardens, who shall be denominated The Intendant and Wardens of the Town of Greenville. Intendant and IV. That the said Intendant and Wrardens shall be persons who are con- fi li- stitutionally qualified to vote for members of the Legislature of this State, and who shall have resided within the corporate limits of the said town for at least one year immediately preceding their election, and who Shall own real estate in their own right therein. Election time V. That the said Intendant and Wardens shall be elected on the second of. Monday in September of every year, at which election all such persons as have hereinbefore been declared to be members of the said corporation shall be entitled to vote: Provided, That no person shall be allowed to vote at any election for Intendant or Wardens who shall have failed to perform road or patrol duty, or to pay his commutation tax in lieu thereof, or who shall have failed to pay any of his taxes to the said corporation for the year pre- ceding such election, unless he has previously been discharged from the performance of such duties, or from the payment of such taxes. Fines, power to VI. That the said Intendant and Wardens shall have authority to punish, impose, for ille- gal voting. by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, any person who shall vote at any such election for Intendant or Warden, without being legally qualified so to vote. Elections,tines VII. The said election shall be held at one or more convenient places in the and places for . Kolngi. said town, from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, when the polls shall be closed, and the Managers shall forthwith count the votes, declare the election, and give notice of the result thereof, in writing, to the persons elected. The Intendant.and Wardens, for the time being, shall 894

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