City Marshal to require the removal of rubbish, &c. City Marshal decayed wall, down, &c. &c. sioner or Chairman may give, in regard to the same. 15. That it shall be the duty of the City Marshal, to require the removal of all rubbish from any street, lane, alley or public court within the city, that shall or may arise or remain from the building or repairing of any house or tenement; and if such rubbish be not removed, within twenty-four hours, by the person building or repairing any such house or tenement, to proceed with regard thereto in the same manner, as directed in the preceding clause. And whenever to require any the side or sides of any house, building, wall, or fence, or any of the appendages thereof, fronting building, to be pulled upon any street, lane, alley, or public court within the city, shall be, or may appear, so far decayed, or so loose, as by their impending downfall to endanger the safety or lives of the inhabitants or passengers, it shall be the duty of the City Marshal, to require of the person or persons owning or occupying the premises, to pull down or otherwise alter the same, in such manner and within such time, as may be directed by the Board of Commissioners of Streets and Lamps; and if any such person or persons shall fail to comply with the directions given as aforesaid, it shall be lawful to and for the City Marshal, and he is hereby authorized and required, to execute and cause to be executed, such directions in regard to the premises, without any delay, and at the proper costs and charges of the person or persons, failing to comply therewith. And every person interrupting, molesting, or abusing Penalty and the City Marshal, or any person or persons, by him interrupting employed in executing such directions, shall for each the Marshal in and every such offence forfeit and pay, to the use of punishment for his duty. City Marshal to remove en the city, the sum of one hundred dollars, with costs; or if a slave, shall be confined for one month at the Work-House, and there receive three corrections, each correction to consist of not less than twelve nor more than twenty lashes, and to be adjudged by any Warden of the city. 16. That it shall be the duty of the City Marcroachments shal, whenever ordered by any Commissioner of Streets and Lamps, to remove and cause to be removed all encrochments upon any street, lane, alley upon any street, &c. or open court, and all obstructions of the same or of any foot pavement, and likewise to have any broken foot pavement repaired or replaced; in all which cases the City Marshal shall proceed agreeably to the provisions and tenor of an ordinance, entitled, "An Ordinance to define the powers and duties "of the Commissioners of Streets and Lamps," passed on the twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six. to attend the ing licences, mation against 17. That, whenever the City Council shall sit, for City Marshal the purpose of granting licences for keeping liqour Council at the stores, taverns or retail shops, the City Marshal shall time of grantattend if requested, and inform Council upon oath to give inforof all those applicants, who are known to, or justly offenders, &c. suspected by him, as transgressors of any City Ordinance or Ordinances, relative to the keeping of taverns or to the retailing of spiritous liquors. And he shall likewise be obliged to take away and remove every painted board, that had been put up City Marshal conformably to any such ordinance or ordinances, if painted boards the person, who had fixed it by virtue of his licence, to be taken suffers it to remain after the forfeiture of his licence, forfeiture or or after the expiration of the term for which his expiration of licence was of force, or after quitting the place to which such board was affixed. away after the licence. cess and re and keep book 19. That the City Marshal shall be, and he is City Marshal hereby vested with full power and authority, to serve to serve proall process, executions, attachments, and rules of the ceive same Inferior City Court, for and against the City Sheriff, fees as Sheriff, either in his official character, or in his private of record. capacity; and it shall be the City Marshal's duty, to keep a book of record, in which he shall duly enter all proceedings, had, done, and executed by him as aforesaid; for all which he shall be entitled to, and receive, the same fees as the City Sheriff in like cases. means to car 20. That it shall be the duty of the City Marshal, City Marshal to enforce and carry into effect, to the utmost of his to use every power, all and every of the City Ordinances, accord-ry into effect ing to the tenor true intent and meaning of the same, of c as well those which now are, as those which hereaf- Council, &c. ter shall or may be, of force; to obey and execute all the commands and orders of the City Council, as all ordinances of the City perquisites,&c. well as of the Intendant or any Warden of the City, in relation to any matter or thing, in which the City may be anywise concerned or interested; to be vigilant in detecting any violation infringment or breach of any City Ordinance, and for that purpose to pass through every street, lane, alley, or open court of the City, not less than twice a week; to furnish once in every month, the Intendant of the City, with a detailed report in writing, of all such offences against the City Ordinances or any of them, as were by him or any of his deputies detected; to wait on the Intendant once a week, or oftener if requested, or when occasion may require it; to call on any Warden of the City, whenever by him required; to prosecute all offenders against the City Ordinances or any of them, within one week after detecting or ascertaining the offence or offences, by them respectively committed; to attend regularly and punctually on all trials of offenders and offences, prosecuted in behalf of the Corporation of Charleston, and to use all lawful ways and means for the effectual prosecution and final conviction of all such offenders; to lay before the City Council a correct statement of all prosecutions, by him instituted in the Inferior City Court, within one week after its adjournment; and further to perform all such other and additional duties, and to comply with all such regulations, as may at any time be prescribed to him by the City Council. 21. That the City Marshal shall receive the City Marshal's proceeds of all sales of goats and swine, seized in conformity to the eighth clause of this ordinance, to the lawful costs and charges, of taking into his possessession any horse or horses agreeably to the tenor of the eleventh clause of the said ordinance, (together with the expence of keeping any such horse or horses, except when he sends the same to a livery-stable) and to one half of every fine, paid for any offence or offences against any of the City Ordinances, Provided, that he prosecutes such offence or offences, and proves the same by other evidence than his own; which with his salary, perquisites, and emoluments, shall be in full compensation of and for all his Proviso. services. and to remov Council for 22. That the City Marshal shall at any time be City Marshal liable to removal from office by a vote of Council, subject to fines and subject also to a fine of twenty dollars for every al from office neglect of duty, to be adjudged by the City Council, by vote of and deducted from his salary; but where higher fines neglect of duty or penalties are pointed out in the several ordinances, &c. requiring of him particular services and functions, he shall, for every neglect thereof, incur such higher fines and penalties respectively, to be adjudged and deducted as aforesaid. Whereas, by the eleventh clause of the two hun-Passed, June dred and fiftieth ordinance, directing and authorizing 27th, 1817. the City Marshal to take into his possession any horse or horses running at large in the city, (those parts of the city formerly known and distinguished as the thir- Preamble. teenth ward, and that part of the twelfth ward, which lies to the west of St. Philip-street, and to the north of George-street were excepted): No exception horses. 1. Be it ordained, That the aforesaid portions of as to limits for the city of Charleston, be no longer excepted from apprehending the operation of the ordinance aforesaid; but that the same be in all respects subject to the provisions, contained in the said eleventh clause of the said ordinance, numbered two hundred and fifty; and that the Marshal do in future execute the aforesaid clause as well in those parts of the city herein mentioned or referred to, as in all other parts of the city. 2. That if any person shall obstruct the Marshal, or any of his deputies in carrying into effect the du- Penalty. ties prescribed by ordinance, number two hundred and thirty-one, shall forfeit and pay to the City Council the sum of one hundred dollars to be recovered in the Inferior City Court, 1. Be it ordained, That no slave or slaves within Passed, Oct. the city shall have, hold, occupy, reside or sleep in, 28th, 1806. any house, out-house, building or enclosure, other Slaves not per cupy a house, ticket from their owner. than his or her owner's, or his or her owner's representative, without first obtaining a ticket or tickets, mitted to oc- from his, her or their owner or owners, or from the &c. without a agent or agents of his, her, or their owner or owners, expressly describing the place, which such slave or slaves is or are allowed respectively, to occupy reside or sleep in, and specifying also the time, during which the aforesaid permission or permissions is or are granted; and every slave holding, occupying, residing or sleeping in, any house, out-house, building or enclosure, without obtaining the permission aforesaid, shall be committed to the Work-House, by any Warden, there to receive not exceeding twenty lashes on the bare back, unless the owner or owners of such slave or slaves shall previously pay a fine of five dollars for each of them, with all costs and charges. Punishment. Penalty for hiring to a 2. That no person or persons whomsoever shall be permitted, to let or hire to any slave or slaves, within the City of Charleston, any lot, house, outslave any lot, house, tenement or room, either within his, her or their enclosure, or elsewhere, under a penalty of fifty dollars, for each and every such offence. house, &c. 3. That every white person, harbouring or concealWhite person ing a slave or slaves, the property of another, shall, liable to a pen on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay the sum of ten bouring slaves. dollars, with costs, for each and every slave so har alty for har of colour and corporal punishment. boured or concealed, and for each and every day, during which any such slave was harboured or concealed by such white person. And every free person of colour, harbouring or concealing a slave or slaves, Free puriable the property of another, shall, on conviction, forfeit to a penalty the sum of five dollars, with costs, for the first day, and ten dollars, with costs, for every subsequent day, for each and every slave, so harboured or concealed by such free person of colour, and shall moreover be liable to receive such a number of lashes, as any two Wardens of the City may adjudge, to be inflicted at the public market in Queen or Market streets. And every slave, harbouring or concealing another slave Slaves to re- or slaves, the property of another, shall for each and punishment. every such offence, suffer such corporal punishment, not extending to life or limb, as any two Wardens ceive corporal |