be answerable IN THE SENATE, December, 21st, 1792. The Committee, to whom was referred the petition of the Intendant and Wardens of the City of Charleston, relative to the Commissioners of the roads for the Parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael: REPORT, That in their opinion, the said ComCommission- missioners should forthwith account for the expendiers of roads to tures of the monies, received by them since the to the Intend-year seventeen hundred and eighty-five, to the Comant and War-missioners on public accounts, and that the said Comnies received. missioners of the roads for the said Parishes, should account for the monies, they may in future receive for repairing the roads, to the Intendant and Wardens of the City of Charleston, once in each year. dens for mo Passed, Dec. 19th, 1795. 1. Be it enacted, That the City Council of Charleston shall be, and they are hereby, vested with full power and authority, to take up and confine to laCity Council bour (if they are capable thereof) all strolling begtake up and gars, found strolling and begging about the City of confine to la- Charleston, and to make such rules and ordinances bour, strolling for the due regulation of such persons, as they shall Passed, Dec. 19th, 1796. Preamble. Whereas in consequence of the removal of the seat of government from Charleston to Columbia, inconveniencies have been experienced from the sole power of compelling vessels (suspected of. fbeing infected with any contagious distemper) to perform quarantine, being vested in the Governor: The powers of 1. Be it therefore enacted, That all the powers and the governor authorities, in and by the said above recited act quarantine, vested in the Governor so far as the same relates to to the Inten- the compelling of vessels to perform quarantine in dant and War- the harbour of Charleston, shall be, and the same is Charleston, hereby vested in the Intendant and Wardens of the respecting &c extended dens of &c. City of Charleston, at all times when the Governor * See City Ordinance, page 28, passed 20th Feb. 1796. detained for a 1. Be it enacted, That the officer or officers who may be entrusted with the execution of the quarantine laws, be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, in case of a violation, or an attempt to violate, any of the said laws, to board by force of arms any Vessels to be vessel, used in such violation or attempt to violate, violation of and to detain her and her crew and passengers; and the quarantine y that the penalty for a breach of any of the quarantine laws shall not be less than one hundred dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars, any laws to the contrary nothstanding. 2. That each and every Pilot who shall bring, or Pilots liable to attempt to bring into any port in this State, any ves- penalty for sel, or the whole or any part of her crew, beyond the quarantine places appointed for her examination, without being laws. examined agreeably to law, shall in addition to the penalty of one hundred pounds sterling, to which he is subjected by an act of assembly, passed the twentysixth day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four,* be deprived of his branch as a pilot. 3. That any vessel which shall be restrained under vessels to be quarantine law, thall attempt to violate the same, detained by may be fired upon and detained by force of arms. Whereas it has been represented to the Legislature by the City Council of Charleston, that vessels arriving at that port, and liable to the performance of quarantine, are by the present arrangements subjected to many inconveniences, and that the funds appropriated by the State, are insufficient to make suitable provision for the safe keeping of the cargoes of such vessels, or for the proper care of the sick : force of arms. Passed, Dec. 17th, 1817. Lazarctto to tinued, and 1. Be it therefore enacted, That the salary hereto- Salary of the fore allowed to the Keeper of the Lazaretto, be, and Keeper of the the same is hereby discontinued; and that in lieu be be disconthereof, the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, $1000 to be be paid to the City Council of Charleston, to be ap- vested in plied by them in any manner they may deem expedient for the accomplishment of the objects of the Quarantine laws. * See the act of 1784, 2d vol. Brevard, page 159. Council. Passed, Dec 19th. 1796. 2. Be it enacted, That the following officers of the City of Charleston, that is to say, the Intendant, City Officers Wardens, City Treasurer, City Sheriff, Marshal, and from serving City Recorder, be, and they are hereby exempted and excused from serving on juries. exempted on juries. Passed. Dec. Whereas the public business requires, that the 16th, 1797. Clerk of the City Council, and Clerk of the Court of Wardens,* of Charleston, and the Clerks of the County Courts, throughout the State, should uninterruptedly employ their attention and time, in executing the duties of their respective offices: Preamble. Certain Offi from serving on juries. 1. Be it therefore enacted, That the said Officers, cers exempted and their successors in office, forever hereafter, shall be exempted from serving as jurors upon all juries whatever; any law, usage, or custom to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding. Passed, Dec. Whereas narrow and confined streets, lans and al21st, 1799. leys are disadvantageous to every city, exposing the buildings so situated to greater dangers by fire, and the inhabitants thereof, by close and confined air, to malignant diseases, and moreover do greatly ob struct the free passage of persons and carriages: And whereas, the Corporation of Charleston can impose no penalty, which would be sufficient to prevent persons from acting in opposition to the regulations, intended to be prescribed by this act : Preamble. No street to be opened with out special permission. ๆ 1. Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this act, no street, lane, alley or court, shall be opened, laid out or established within any part of the City of Charleston, until the design of the same shall have been previously submitted to the Commissioners of the Streets; who are hereby required, within ten days after application to them made as aforesaid, to view such intended street, lane, alley or court, and report thereon with their opi nions thereof to the City Council. And if the said City Council, shall find, that such intended street, lane, alley or court possesses a sufficient passage way, and that the same will not be incommodious or pre Now Inferior City Court. judicial to the citizens, such street, lane, alley or court shall then be opened, and forever thereafter be deemed, held and taken as a public street.. Penalty for vi 2. That no person or persons, holding any freehold olating the provisions of or leasehold estate, or by any other right or title what-this act ever in the occupancy of land, shall at any time hereafter lay out, open or establish any street, lane, alley or court, contrary to the regulations hereby intended; and every such owner, or other person, interested in the occupancy of any land, so violating the provisions of this act, shall incur a penalty of any sum not exceeding forty dollars for each and every week the same shall be and remain open; which said penalty shall be recoverable in the Court of Common Pleas. City Council 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the passing Passed, Dec. of this act, whenever the City Council of Charleston 17th, 1817. shall think it expedient to widen any street, alley or lane, they shall first submit the plan of the intended authorized to improvement to a board of nine Commissioners, to be widen streets. named and appointed from time to time, by the Legislature, and if approved and sanctioned by the said board, then the said City Council shall have power to purchase the lots fronting on such street, alley or lane, and the fee simple of such lot or lots shall be.vested in the City Council, from the day of the deed of sale. valued. 2. That in case any owner or owners of said lot Lots to be or lots fronting on such street, alley or lane, shall refuse to sell his, her or their lot or lots, or shall demand for the same what may be deemed an unreasonable price by the City Council, then the City Council shall nominate and appoint, not less than three freeholders resident in the city, who shall meet an equal number, to be named and appointed on the part of the owner or owners, to determine and fix upon the true and real value of such lot or lots, with, full power in the Commissioners appointed as aforesaid, in case of disagreement, to call in one other Commissioner; and on the City Council paying the full value of said lot or lots fixed and determined on ་ How lots are owners refuse to appoint in the manner above designated, the fee simple of the said lot or lots shall be vested in them. 3. That in case of neglect or refusal on the par to be valued of the owner or owners of the lot or lots to be valu where the ed, within ten days after the notification in writing of the appointment of the Commissioners as herein di free-holders. rected, the board of Commissioners hereby appoint ed, or a majority of them, on the application of the City Council, are hereby authorized to name and ap point such Commissioners, whose decision, in con currence with those appointed by the City Council shall be final and conclusive. in the city to be drained. 4. That the City Council of the City of Charleston Low lots with shall have full power and authority, with the concur rence and approbation of the board appointed by the Legislature, to compel the owners of low lots* within the said city, to drain the same, if such draining be practicable, or to fill the same to the level of the streets on which such lots are fronting; also to compel the owner or owners of cellars occasionally filled with water, to cause the same to be pumped out, or otherwise carried off, within five days, or to fill up the same if deemed requisite by the Commissioners appointed by this act, within two weeks from the noti fication being given in writing to such owner or owners; and in case of neglect or default, they shall be subject to such penalty as shall be prescribed by the City Council; and in case the owner or owners of such lot or lots or cellars, upon such notice being given, shall neglect or refuse to fill up such lot or lots, or cause the water in their cellars to be pumped out, or otherwise carried off, the same shall be done by the City Council, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to issue a warrant and collect the expences arising from the same, or the accrued value of such lots. The expences of opening 5. That the expences incurred, and to be incurred Pinckney-st. by opening and continuing Pinckney-street to Meetsessed. ing-street, as the act of the seventeenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixteen directs, shall how to be as * See Ordinance requiring Board of Health to examine into the situation of low water lots and cellars, &c. Passed 19th March. 1818, page 126. |