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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privileges and liabilities, as are provided for school districts by the school law of South Carolina, approved March 22d, 1878. (Act 1885, pag 382.)

SEC. 3. That in addition to the rights and privileges hereinbefore granted, the said school district shall have power to levy, on all real and personal property returned in said district, a tax not exceeding three mills on the dollar, subject to the following provisions: The tax of two mills on the dollar which was voted by the citizens of said school district returning real and personal property therein, at a meeting called by the Trustees of said district in the month of June 1893, shall remain unchanged and be levied by said Trustees during the month of June each year, of which levy they shall give the Auditor of said county written notice on or before the 15th day of the next July, and shall be assessed and collected each year without further notice, as now provided in this Act, and appropriated for the support and maintenance of the public schools of said school district, unless twenty or more citizens of said school district returning real or personal property herein for taxation shall, on or before the first day of June of any year, sign and present a petition addressed to the Trustees of said school district asking that a meeting of the citizens returning real or personal property therein for taxation be called for the purpose of reducing or increasing said tax. In case such petition shall be presented said trustees shall issue a call for a public meeting, to be held in the month of June, on or before the 30th day of said month, of all those citizens of said school district returning real or personal property therein for taxation. Such notice shall be published in at least one newspaper and be posted in two public places in said district for at least two weeks before such meeting, and shall specify the place and object of such meeting. When the persons answering the above description shall have assembled in public meeting they shall have

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power to select a chairman and secretary, adjourn from time to time, decide what tax shall be levied, if any, and appropriate the same in such a manner as they shall think best for the educational interest of said school district; provided that no tax levied shall be repealed at any subsequent meeting within the same year. The tax so voted at such meeting shall remain unchanged, unless it shall be changed at a meeting called as hereinbefore provided.

SEC. 4. There shall be a Board of six Trustees for said school district, one from each of the wards of the City of Greenville. The said Board of Trustees shall be elected at a general municipal election to be held on the third Tuesday in June 1894, and on the same day of each alternate year thereafter, to be held at the City Hall of the City of Greenville. The Trustees shall order said election and publish a notice of the same for two weeks previously thereto in one or more of the newspaper published in the City of Greenville, and appoint managers thereod, who shall be sworn and shall conduct said election according to the rules and regulations prescribed for conducting municipal elections in the City of Greenville, and who shall, the day after said election, certify the same to the Board of Trustees, depositing the ballot box containing the ballots to the chairman of said board, and the persons so elected shall hold their office for two years and until their their successors are elected; and in addition to the duties and responsibilities now provided by law for trustees of school districts, shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To purchase and erect suitable buildings for the use of the public schools of said school district; (2) To elect and dismiss superintendents and teachers of the city schools, prescribe their duties, terms of office, and to fix their salaries, and to cause an examination of the said teachers to be made whenever necessary; also, to determine the class books and studies to be used in said schools, and to make rules and regulations for the government of said schools. (3) To determine the manner in which the tax heretofore authorized

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(and the two mills constitutional and poll tax provided by law) shall be expended in maintaining said public schools, and, (4) To fill all vacancies occurring in said Board of Trustees by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, during their term of office or service. (Act of 1893, page 642-3.)

SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of the chairman and secretary of said public meeting, within one week after said meeting has been held, to notify the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for said school district, and the Auditor of said county, of the amount of tax thus levied, and how it has been appropriated, and the County Auditor shall at once assess such tax on all real and personal property returned in said school district and the County Treasurer shall collect the same with the State and County taxes, and such tax shall be a lien on all property until paid, and defaulting tax payers shall be liable to like process and penalties as defaulters for State and County taxes.

SEC. 6. That the money collected from said tax levy and the constitutional poll and two mill tax to which the said district is entitled under the general provisions of the law, shall be held by the County Treasurer and paid out on warrants drawn by the Trustees of the said school district, countersigned by the County School Commissioner; and said treasurer shall be liable to said school district for the non-performance of his duty in respect to said money in the same manner and to the same extent and under like penalties as for non-performance of his duties in reference to State and County taxes: Provided, That the School Commissioner of said county and Trustees of said school district be, and they are hereby, authorized to apply to the fiscal year commencing Nov. 1st, 1885, so much of said money as may be necessary for the purchase or erection of suitable buildings to said public schools. (Act of 1885, pages 383-4.)

SEC. 7. SEC. 8.

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SEC. 9. That on and after June 1898, the special school tax herein provided for shall be collected by the Treasurer of the County of Greenville, at the same time and in the same manner as the State and County taxes are collected, and shall be protected by the bond of the said County Treasurer, and shall be paid out by him upon the warrant signed by the chairman and countersigned by the Secretary of the Board of School Trustees of said school district. (Act 1898, page 886.)

SEWERAGE.

AN ACT to authorize the City Council of Greenville to Ordain the Necessary Ordinance for the Establishment, Construction and Maintenance of a systen of sewerage, etc.

SEC. 1. That the City Council of Greenville in addition to the powers now vested in them by law be, and they are hereby, authorized to pass all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations for the establishment, construction and maintenance and enforcement of a system of sewerage in the streets, private lots and dwellings in the City of Greenville, and beyond its limits if it be necessary.

SEC. 2. That the said City Council be, and they are hereby authorized to contract with any person or corporation for the establishment, building, maintenance and use of a system of sewerage works in said city, and to pass all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations for the enforcement of the same.

SEC. 3. That the officers and other persons who may be appointed to execute the provisions of such ordinances, rules and regulations shall as far as may be necessary for the performance of their respective duties have the right to enter any building or premises in said city between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M.

SEC. 4. That for the purpose of establishing, constructing, and maintaining a system of sewerage in the said

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City of Greenville, the said city, by its City Council, is hereby permitted and authorized to issue ($75,000) seventy-five thousand dollars of six per cent coupon bonds, or so much thereof as in their judgement may be necessary, payable thirty years from their date, said interest on said bonds to be paid semiannually upon the first day of July and the first day of January : Provided, That a majority of the qualified electors of said city shall vote in favor of such issue at an election to be held for that purpose as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 5. That upon a petition presented to them by one-third of the real estate owners of said city to submit to the qualified electors thereof the question of the issue of said sewerage bonds in an amount to be therein specified, not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, the City Council of said city are hereby required to give at least three week's notice by advertisement in one or more of the papers of said city at the time and place of an election upon said issue, and of the names of managers appointed by them to conduct an election. Registration shall not be required as a qualification of an elector. At such election, those of said electors voting in favor of the issue of said bonds shall cast ballots with the words "Sewerage Bonds--Yes," written or printed thereon, and those opposed, with the words "Sewerage Bonds--No," written or printed thereon.

SEC. 6. That the coupons of said bonds shall be receivable for all taxes in said city; and for the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds semi-annually, as hereinbefore provided for, and the principal when due, it shall be the duty of the City Council to levy and collect the necessary amount upon the real and personal property in said city.

SEC. 7. That said City Council shall also have the power to condemn such private property as may be necessary for said sewerage, the same to be condemed and