Council to aforesaid act of Congress, or pursuant to any future levy a duty of act which shall be passed by Congress, to impose and ten cents per levy a duty of ten cents per ton, or any duty what ton, &c. Passed, Dec. 19th, 1805. ever, that shall hereafter be sanctioned or authorized by Congress, on all ships and vessels, of the United States, which shall arrive, and be entered in the Port of Charleston, from any foreign port or place; and also receive from the United States, or the government thereof, any grant or compensation whatever, which shall or may from time to time be granted or allowed for the providing relief and the maintenance of sick or disabled seamen in a Marine Hospital for the Port of Charleston. 1. Be it enacted, That that the Comptroller-General be, and he is hereby required and directed, annually, to call on the Treasurer of the City Council of City Treasurer Charleston, to render an account on oath, to him, of to render an the application of such monies as are appropriated for monies appro- the support of the transient poor, and for other pursupport of the poses; and that the account, so rendered, be laid bepoor. fore the Legislature. account of priated for Passed, Dec. 19th, 1801. 1. Be it enacted, That nothing contained in this act, shall be construed to extend to lessen the powers at Power vested present granted by law, and now exercised by the in corporation. Corporation of Charleston, or the Commissioners of the town of Columbia, or the Commissioners of the Streets of Georgetown, or the Corporation of Camden, or any other incorporated towns and that any regulations, conformably to their present powers, which the City Council of Charleston may deem requisite to enforce or prescribe, in relation to the granting of licences to tavern keepers, retailers of spirituous liquors, and keepers of billiard tables, within the City of Charleston, shall be deemed lawful and valid ; any thing in this act to the contrary, notwithstanding. INDEX. Accounts To be kept in dollars, cents and mills, City Treasurer to keep his books in dollars cents and mills, and enter All judgments to be entered in dollars, cents and mills, Account of fees and perquisites to be rendered to the city council once Amusements Application to be made to the city council to exhibit all shows, &c. page $ The intendant alone, without the city council; may grant permission Assize of Bread Bread to be numbered; penalty for not numbering it; weight of bread, Penalty for bakers refusing lawful search or seizure, Auctions No goods to be exposed for sale in the streets, except to the eastward Auctioneers to retain and pay over to the city treasurer, a tax from the Persons wishing licences, how to apply, Licences granted only to citizens; oath to be taken; penalty for act- Auctioneer to keep books of sale-penalty for refusing, ૨૧ ib. ib: 6 ib. 6 7 ib. ib. ib. 9 ib. ib. 10 11 12 12, 13 14 14, 15 page 17 ib. ib. ib. ib. 18 Assessment-city treasurer's duty, To call on auctioneers for payment of the tax, once every three months, Penalty; mode of application; no individual to be security for more than one licence; no person possessing a licence to be taken as security; sum required; gambling prohibited, Liquors not to be sold; but prohibition not to extend to persons who have taken out licences to keep tavern, Licence to state where kept ; no playing allowed on sunday, Fine for keeping openafter hours; penalty, Marshal's duty; penalty; how recoverable, Bake House, (public) Commissioners, of whom composed, Commissioners to appoint superintendant, bakër and steward; appointments to be submitted for the approbation of council; commissioners to affix wages of persons employed; wages to be submitted to council; baker to give bond; commissioners to draw on city treasurer for a sum not exceeding $1000 every three months; commissioners to render accounts quarterly, Board of Health Commissioners to be ballotted for; time of meeting, Their duty; duty of city marshal and his deputies, Of the clerk of the commissioners of streets and lamps, scavengers and constables; power of the commissioners, Penalty for not obeying order of commissioners, Appointment and duty of clerk; his salary, duty and power, 19 ib. ib. 20 ib. 20 Penalty for refusing him admittance into any house, lot or enclosure, Duty of the harbour master or deputy; vessels to admit and discharge water at least twice a week; penalty for refusing, Commissioners, or any three of them, to order off any vessel supposed to endanger the health of the city, Penalty for refusing to remove vessel, Interments to be published weekly, 25 Regulations for the health of the city to be enforced by commissioners; regulations to be approved of by the city council, ib. Any one of the commissioners may enter any lot, grounds, &c. of any person, and examine the same, ib. Commissioners to cause lots to be drained, and water to be pumped out of cellars, 26 Penalty for refusal or neglect, 27 Ciy Treasurer, to defray the expence of draining lots, &c. and city sheriff to recover the same, ib. City Inspector Office abolished; duties to be performed by the clerk of the board of health; his salary, 27 Commissioners of the Poor Beggars to be sent to the poor house; commissioners to make rules and regulations for the poor house; to be submitted to the city coun-' page Commissioners to have direction of the poor, poor house and lunatics, Carriages and Carts No person to drive a cart, &c. without a licence, Price of licence; number of licence to be painted on shaft; penalty, Penalty for refusing to carry, unless good excuse be given City Marshal and constables to stop persons riding or driving immoderately, 1 Drivers of carts or drays not to ride, how to be treated if a slave, Free persons refusing to pay fine, to be confined, No carts or drays to apply for hire but at places appointed by the city marshal; penalty, Regulations for driving; penalty, Persons not allowed to break horses in. the city; penalty for doing it, 28 29 ib. 29 30 ib. ib. ib. ib. ib. 31 ib. ib. ib. Nor to turn round the corner of a street faster than a walk, To produce the same to the city treasurer, 32 33, 34 35 36 ib. 37 ib. ib. Persons not to drive a cart, dray or waggon, faster than a walk, ib. ib. ib. 38 Persons applying for a licence for cart, to make oath that he is owner, People of colour, applying for licence, to be recommended, Penalty, Public carriages to stand only where directed by the city marshal, to be expressed in their licence by the city treasurer; penalty, ib. ib. ib. ib. 39 ib. Persons holding licences to give bond for payment of fines, ib. Bond to be executed before licence is issued, 40 Licences not granted to slaves, ib. Persons on conviction of six offences to forfeit their licence, ib. Penalty for driving after forfeiture of licence, ib. City Treasurer and city marshal's duty, ib. Persons of colour offending to receive corporal punishment, and may be imprisoned, 40, 41 City Guard to patrol and inform city marshal of offenders, 41 Horses, carts, &c. stopt, to be sent to a livery stable, Persons opposing city guard, to be dealt with in the manner directed by the ordinance respecting the city guard, ib. ib. City Treasurer's duty when he grants licences, ib. 42 Cotton Bales Bales of cotton not to be thrown from the second or upper story; penalty, 48 Commissioners of Streets and Lamps To be elected annually; penalty for refusing, No person obliged to serve more than one year in seven, No building to be erected fronting on a street without consulting a Penalty for neglecting to apply to a commissioner, and for not com- Regulations for building steps, and of the projection; penalty, Sign boards to be placed thirteen feet high, Houses to have but one balcony, and above the first story; penalty, page 44 ib. ib. ib. ib. 45 ib. ib. 46 ib. ib. ib. To take up only the front of their respective stores, and to the distance of six feet, ib. No fine for keeping cellar doors open in the day time, if the same be Fire wood not to lay longer than four hours in any street, Penalty for leaving dirt, &c. in any street, Scavenger's duty; penalty for employing scavenger's cart, Commissioners to point out where drains, &c. are to be built, and tə contract for building the same, ib. ib. 47 ib. ib. ib. ib. 48 ib. ib. ib. 40 ib. Posts to be put along the pavements, Owners of lots to be assessed for drains, ib. ib. How asssessments are to be made and collected, Pavement repaired at the expence of the owner of lot on which it fronts, Penalty for molesting workmen, repairing broken pavements, How slaves are to be dealt with, 50 ib. ib. ib. ib. White persons rolling barrels or wheel-barrows on foot pavement to be fined; negroes whipped, ib. White persons injuring posts to be fined, 51 Negroes offending, how to be dealt with, ib. White persons injuring trees, to be fined; negroes corrected, Negroes confined and corrected, Fines for extinguishing lamps; negroes to be corrected, 52 ib. ib. |