Charter and Ordinances of the City of Greenville of Force June 1st, 1898. Together with such Statute Laws as Effect Same.

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futher duty of said Mayor and Coucil to levy and collect annually a tax sufficient to pay the salaries and all expenses of the Board of Police Commissioners, Marshal and Policemen, and all the expenses for the operation and mentenance of said police department, and a writ of mandamus, or proper process shall lie at the suit of the Board of Police Commissioners against the municipal authorities of such city to compel the levy and collection of such annual tax and the payment of such expenses by them. It shall be the duty of the Board of Police Commissioners to make general and special rules for its own government and regulation of the police department, and to make and promulgate proper orders to the police force through the Marshal.

SEC. 4. The Board may, on the application of any person or persons showing sufficient cause, therefore, in the discretion of the Board, appoint any number of special policemen, not exceeding in all the number of regular policemen at one time, to do duty at designated place or places in the city at the expense of the person or persons by whom such application shall be made, and the city shall not pay any special policement so appointed, and such special policemen shall not be required to do duty at any other than the designated place, or places, but in all other respects they shall obey all rules and regulations of the Board and all orders from the Marshal. The Board may also, with the consent of the State Board of the State, appoint such number of special policemen for general duty in the city as may be deemed advisable, but such special policemen shall not serve longer than two successive days without new appointments being made in like manner, and they shall not be paid at a rate exceeding that of the regular policement.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and Council of any such city, to provide at its expense all necessary accommodations for the sessions of the Board, and to provide a police court room, station houses and prisons, and to furnish, warm and light the same ; to furnish food

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for prisoners; to provide for the monthly payment of the Marshal and policemen on the certificate of the Board as to the amount due each; also for such office expenses, records, books, stationary, printing, telegraphing, badges, clubs, and the repair and cleaning of the police buildings as may be necessary-- it being the true intent and meaning of this Act that all the necessary expenses of the police department shall be borne by the city out of its general revenue fund, notwithstanding the government of such department is vested exclusively in said Board.

(Amendment 1896.) SEC. 6. Neither the Mayor nor the Council, or any offcer appointed by them, shall have any government of the police force; and the City Treasurer shall not pay any of the police force except the certificate of said Board. Any person or persons who shall in any manner interfere with or interrupt said Board or the Police Judge, Marshal or policeman so appointed, while in the legal performance of duty, shall, upon conviction thereof before the Court of General Sessions of the county wherein such city is located, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum, not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than ninety days for each offense.

SEC. 7. Every police, judge, marshal and policeman appointed under this Act shall be a qualified elector of such city, and before entering upon the discharge of his official duties shall take and subscribe and caused to be filed with the Board an official constitutional oath and for the faithful discharge of duty.

SEC. 8. The annual salaries of the following named officers shall be fixed by order of the Board within the following limits, namely : The Marshal not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars per annum, and the policemen not less than ten dollars nor more than sixty dollars per month. (Amendment 1896.)

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SEC. 9. All fines and forfeitures collected by the Mayor, Intendent or City Recorder upon charges for the violation of the laws of this State shall be by him paid into the county treasury of the county, in which each city is located, for the use of the common school fund of such county. All fines and forfetures collected by the Mayor, Intendant or City Recorder upon-charges for the violation of city ordinances, and all fees of officers collected by the Mayor, Intendant or City Recorder under any Act of the Legislature or city ordinance for services, shall be by him paid into the city treasury for the use of the general revenue fund of the said city.

SEC. 10. During the time that the police government of any city is administered under this Act, all Acts of the Legislature, and all ordinances of such city in so far as the same are in conflict or inconsistent with this Act, he suspended, and shall remain inoperative.

SEC. 11. When the government of such city under this Act shall cease, the Board shall turn over to the City Clerk all the records and papers of the Board, and thereafter they shall be deemed records and papers of the City Clerk's office.

SEC. 12. Whenever the said State Board shall deem it no longer necessary to continue the government of any such city in the manner provided for by this Act, the said State Board shall issue and cause to be published in a daily paper published at the State capital their proclamation to that effect, and thereupon the Mayor and Council shall reassume the government of the police of such city, under the ordinances and laws thereof as existing prior to this Act, appointing such officers as may be appointed, and providign for the election of such officer or officers as may be elected; and to that end, if there be a vacancy in such contingency in any elective office, the Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to fill such vacancy by appointment until an election may be held; and the functions and salary of the Marshal and the policemen and of the Board of Police Commisioners

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shall cease and determine upon the appointment and qualifications of a police force by the Mayor and Council after such proclamation. That nothing in this Act contained shall be so construed as to disqualify any member of any previous police force of any city from holding appointment under the Board of the Police Commissioners at their discretion, nor to disqualify any member of the police force appointed by such Board from holding appointment under the Mayor and Council afterward. And nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the said Commissioners for the same city whenever they may deem it advisable or necessary for the better or more perfect government of such city, in which event, and as often as such event may occur, this Act as to such city shall again be of full foree and effect.

SEC. 12a. A copy of all rules issued by said Board shall be forthwith furnished to the Mayor or Intendant for his information. That all claims against the police department be presented to the Mayor or Intendant in itemized form and all payments be made by the Treasurer or disbursing officer of such town or city, or under his direction, and that any special policeman appointed as provided in the Act, shall only be so appointed in case of emergency. [Act 1896 as Sec. 2, on page 91.]

SEC. 13. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its approval.

SEC. 14. All Acts and parts of Acts which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. Whenever the word "city" is used in this Act, the same shall be construed to mean "city or town." Approved December 24th, A. D. 1894. [Act 1894, 787.] ------------------------

AN ACT to confer on the City Councils and Town Councils of the cities and towns of this State power to

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make and establish certain rules, by-laws and ordinances, including general police powers.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That the City Councils and Town Councils of the cities and towns of the State shall in addition to the powers conferred by their respective charters, have power and authority to make, ordain and establish all such rules, by-laws, regulations and ordinances respecting the roads, streets, markets, police, health and order of said cities and towns, or respecting any subject as shall appear to them necesssary and proper for the security, welfare and convenience of such cities and towns, or for preserving health, peace, order and good government within the same. And the said city or Town Councils may fix fines and penalties for the violation thereof, not exceeding one hundred dollars fine, or thirty days imprisonment : Provided, That such rules, bylaws and ordinances shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this State : Provided, further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal the law establishing local Boards of Health.

SEC. 2. This Act shall go immediately into effect upon its approval. (Act 1898, page 820.)

SCHOOLS. AN ACT to provide for the Establishment of a School District in the City of Greenville.

SEC. 1. That for the purpose of maintaining public schools in the City of Greenville the Court Board of examiners of Greenville county be, and they are hereby, authorized and required, to lay off a separate school district, embracing the territory included in the corporate limits of said city.

SEC. 2. That the said district shall be known as the School District of the City of Greenville and shall be a body politic and corporate, with such government, rights,