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An Act to incorporate certain towns and villages, and to renew and amend certain charters heretofore granted. 1860-1861 917 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0439 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTIT CAROLINA. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN ToWNS AND VILLAES, AND To A. D. 1801. RENEw AND AMEND CERTAIN CHARTERS HERETOFORE GRANTED. N 51 No. 4541. I. Be it enacted by the Senate and louse of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of thc same, That Manning. all fieo white persons, having resided six months in the village of Manning, in Clarendon District, are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the naime and style of Manning, and the corporate limits of said vil- lago shall extend one-hlalf of a mile, in. the direction of the cardinal points of the compass, fromn the Court House, now standing in said village, as a centre, and fomn a square. II. The corporation shall have all the powers, and be subject to all the Corporate pow- ors Samle as restrictions and liabilities, conferred and imposed on the corporation created CoIkesbury. by an Act entitled An Act to incorporate the Village of Cokesbury, rati- fled the sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, except that the first election for Intendant and Wardens of Manning shall be held on the second Monday in February next, and on the same day in every year thereafter. III. That the charter of the town of Camden be, and the same is hereby, Camden. so amended as to authorize and empower the Town Council of said town to impose a tax upon all real estate within the corporate limits thereof, not exceeding one-half of one per centum per annum on the value of' such real estate, instead of the rate now limited by law, and also to impose such increased tax upon all taxable property within said town as the said Town Council may deem expedient: Provided, The same shall not exceed the amount of taxes levied upon such property by the Legislature of this State for the year preceding the year in which such tax may be imposed by said Town Council. IV. That the charter of the town of Blackville be, and the same is hereby, lackyleIo. amended, so that the Town Council of said town shall not have power to impose any tax uponi any real estate within its corporate limits, which is not laid off in town lots, or which is used or reserved for agricultural or stock- ranging purposes, and shall have no power to impose any tax upon any slave employed exclusively in agriculture. V. That the charter of the town of Cheraw be, and the same is hereby, Charaw. so amended as to extend the corporate limits of said town, by continuing the eastern line of Front street, froin the point where it intersects the north- - crn line of said town, in its present course, to a point where it would inter- sect the western line of Second strect, continued in its present course, thence down said western line of Second stret to the point where it intersects the northern line of North street, thence along said northern line of North street, in its present course, to a point where it intersects the 92 917

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