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which said dollar so to be paid, shall follow the event of the suit, and be allowed in the costs to be taxed.

other persons, committing of fences against city ordinance and about to

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order for bail,

be committed

12. And whereas, many offences against the City Preamble. Ordinances may be committed by transient persons, who may depart the state, or by persons who may withdraw themselves and their effects out of the reach of the process of the Inferior City Court, before they can be brought to answer for such offence: Transient and For prevention whereof. Be it ordained, That whenever any offence shall be committed against any city ordinances, by any transient person or persons, an oath shall be thereof made by the City Marshal, or depart the any other informant, stating particularly the offence er to give an committed, and that the person or persons charged and if bail be therewith, is, or are a transient person or persons, and not given shall as the informant apprehends may depart the state to prison. before he, she or they can be brought to answer and nake satisfaction for such offence, the Recorder of the city is hereby authorized, empowered and required, to give an order to hold such person or persons to bail, in any sum not exceeding the penalty annexed to such offence, to appear and answer to the charge against him, her or them; and in case such bail shall not be given, such person or persons shall be committed to prison, there to remain until bail shall be given, or he, she or they shall be otherwise discharged, by due course of law. And when any offence shall be committed as aforesaid by any person or persons resident in the city, but not transient, and the penalty affixed for such offence shall exceed thirty dollars and sixty-two cents, upon oath being made thereof, as aforesaid, and that the informant has reason to believe, and does apprehend, that the person or persons charged, may remove themselves and their effects out of the reach of the process of the court aforesaid, before he, she or they can be brought to answer and 'make satisfaction for such offence, the same proceedings, with respect to bail, shall be had as aforesaid.

Fines, &c. re

coverable in Court of Ward

ens, for breach

13. That all fines, forfeitures and penalties affixed, of ordinances or imposed, by the several ordinances of the City to be recover Council, or any of them, for breach of the same, and ed in the Infethereby made recoverable in the Court of Wardens,

rior city court.

Passed, Nov. 12th, 1802.

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shall be sued for and recovered in the name of the City Council, in the Inferior City Court aforesaid, and appropriated as directed by the respective ordinances by which the same are severally imposed.

Clerk of the Inferior City Court.

Whereas the fees of the Clerk of the Inferior City Court, and of the City Sheriff, are not ascertained and fixed, either by any act of the Legislature, or Ordinance of the City Council, in cases where the debt or damages recovered do not exceed the amount to which the exclusive original jurisdiction of a Justice of the Peace extends, or in cases where the fine or penalty imposed by the Recorder, in the said Fees of the court, shall not exceed the said amount:

Clerk of the

1. Be it ordained, That in all cases where the debt Inferior City or damages recovered in the Inferior City Court, and Court and City Sheriff fixed. in all cases where the fine or penalty imposed in the said court, shall not exceed twelve dollars and twentyfour cents, the Clerk of the said court shall be allowed the same fees, as are, by law, allowed to Justices of Peace; and the City Sheriff shall be allowed the same fees as are allowed by law to Constables in similar cases-and that no other fees to the said Officers be exacted.

Passed, March 11th. 1816.

Clerk of Council.

1. Be it ordained, That from and after the 20th day of February last, the salary of the Clerk of Salary of the Council, shall be at the rate of one thousand dollars cil, one thou- per annum, payable quarterly.

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2. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances repugnant hereunto shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Clerk of Council and Treasurer. Passed. Dec. 1. Be it ordained, That in future whenever an application shall be made for a vendue licence, the Clerk of Council shall be entitled to a fee of two dollars on the said application being granted, to be paid by

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the applicants prior to the issuing of a certificate by
he City Treasurer. And that
the City Treasurer shall
be entitled to a fee of two dollars for issuing the said
vendue licence, pursuant to the ordinance passed the
thirteenth day of March, one thousand, eight hun-
dred and fifteen, the same to be paid by the appli-
cant prior to the delivery of the said licence.

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Will of Alex

Whereas, Mr. Alexander Shirras, now deceased, Passed, Nov. did by his last will and testament, bearing date the eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten, devise and express Mr. Shirras his intention in the manner and words following, that bequest. is to say :--As I am impressed with a belief, that the Dispensary established in this city, has been of great benefit to the poor and indigent inhabitants, as well as to strangers, when afflicted with sickness or disease; with a view to mitigate the sufferings of the distressed, ease the inhabitants, and assist the medical gentlemen in their humane intentions, I give and bequeath in trust, to the three gentlemen filling the three undermentioned offices, at my decease, and to ander Shirras. their successors in office forever, viz. the Intendant of the city, the President of the Medical Society, and the President of the St. Andrew's Society, of this city, my house and appendages thereto belonging, situate at the corner of Meeting and Federal-streets, for the express purpose, that said house be applied and occupied as a Dispensary for the inhabitants, where medicines and advice are to be given or distributed to the poor and needy; Chirurgical operations may be performed, and fractures, bruises, wounds, sores, &c. &c. attended. Accommodation may be given in the house to a few patients, that the Medical Society may wish to have constantly under their eye-(I do not mean patients whose disease is highly contagious.) For the purpose of making the abovementioned charity more beneficial to the distressed,

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I give and bequeath to the Dispensary, my two tene ments on Champney's-street, with the appendages thereto belonging. This I give in trust and manage ment to the three gentlemen filling the three offices already mentioned, at my decease. And whereas the houses, tenements and appurtenances devised as aforesaid have been transferred and delivered over to the trustees nominated and appointed in and by the said last will and testament; in order therefore that the charitable and beneficial intentions of the deceased Alexander Shirras be extended and carried into effect, and that the public should enjoy as soon as possible the advantages of so valuable an insti

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1. Be it ordained, That a sum not exceeding one priated for the thousand dollars be annually appropriated for the es support of the tablisment and support of a Dispensary in the city of pensary. Charleston, to be distinguished and known by the name of "SHIRRAS' DISPENSARY."

Shirras' Dis

stituted commissioners.

2. That the Intendant of the city of Charleston, and his successors in office, the President of the MePersons con- dical Society of South-Carolina, and his successors in office, and the President of the St. Andrew's Society of the city of Charleston, and his successors in office, be and they are hereby constituted Commissioners on the part and behalf of the City Council, and they are hereby fully authorized and empowered to apply the sum above appropriated, to the establishment and support of "Shirras' Despensary," in such manner as shall appear to them most likely to promote the institution and the charitable objects of the said Alexander Shirras: also to receive donations, recommendations from applicants, and to judge of the propriety of their admission, and to make such rules and regulations as shall appear to them proper for the government of the said Dispen

Election of ci- sary.

tizens to be as- 3. That twelve citizens be annually elected by commissioners the City Council, from the residents of the four Wards

sistants to the

in this city; from each Ward the same number as the Wardens who represent it in council: That the election shall take place on the third Monday in October in every year, or if no council shall be held on that day, on the first meeting of council thereafter.

That the citizens so elected, shall continue in office for one year from the fourth Monday in the same October, and they shall be considered, and they are hereby appointed assistants to the Commissioners and Trustees of the Dispensary. And it shall be the duty of the said assistants, acting in their different and respective Wards, to aid and forward the charitable objects of the Institution; but in so doing, they are to act in all cases agreeably to the rules and regulations which the Commissioners and Trusteess hall from time to time make and establish.

physicians.

4. That the Medical Society shall be, and they Appointm are hereby authorized to appoint such members of of consulting their body as to them shall seem requisite, to act as consulting and attending Physicians and Surgeons to "Shirras Dispensary."

Annual counts to

5. That the Commissioners hereby appointed, shall annually submit to the City Council a statement of rendered their proceedings, together with a regular account of council. all expenditures for the support of the Dispensary.

Dogs.

30, 1818.

Whereas serious inconvenience, and calamitous Passed, Dec. consequences have resulted from Dogs going at large throughout the city; to remedy therefore, as much as Preamble, possible, an evil of such magnitude:

1. Be it ordained, That from and after the passing Dogs not suf of this ordinance, no dog shall be suffered to go at fered to be at large in any street, lane, court or alley; or on any large. wharf of this city: And in case any dog shall be found going at large as aforesaid, the owner of such dog shall forfeit a sum not less than ten dollars, and Penalty. not more than twenty dollars, to be recovered in the Inferior City Court; the same to be applied to the use of the informer.

lour forbid

2. That it shall not be lawful for any negro, mulatto Negroes or or person of colour, to be owner of a dog or dogs; persons of coand each and every of them, are hereby prohibited keeping dogs. from having or keeping any dog whatever, in any yard, lot or enclosure, either public or private, within the

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