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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SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to release or take away without proper authority any such animal as is named or covered by this ordinance.

SEC. 6. That any person or persons violating any provision of this ordinance, or any one of them, shall upon conviction be fined not more than $10 or imprisoned not more than 20 days, or either or both, at the discretion of the Mayor or acting Mayor. Done and ratified in Council assembled this 7th day of June, 1898. ------------------------------------------ AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING DOGS,

BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Greenville in Council assembled and by the authority of the same :

SEC. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any dog owned by a citizen of this city or kept by any person residing in said city to run at large in the streets of said city unless such dog shall constantly wear a collar with a badge or license attached thereto, which said badge or license may be obtained from the City Clerk and Treasurer upon payment to him of one dollar and twenty-five cents, and said license or badge shall remain the property of the city and be good for one year : Provided, That at any time it shall be deemed by the Mayor unsafe to permit dogs to go at large, he shall issue a proclamation forbidding the same, and any dog found going at large after such notice, and until such proclamation is revoked, or expires by limitation, may be killed.

SEC. 2. That any dog found running at large without such collar with badge or license thereto attached, shall be impounded three days, and unless the owner shall claim said dog and pay into the city treasury of the city a fine of one dollar on the same, it shall be the duty of the police to destroy said dog.

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be construed as applying to dogs of strangers passing through the city.

SEC. 4. That any person or persons suffering or allowing any dog owned or kept by them, to run at large contrary to this ordinance, or in any other way violate the same or any part thereof, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $5.00, or imprisoned not more than 20 days, at the discretion of the Mayro or acting Mayor.

Done and ratified in Council assembled this 7th day of June, 1898.

------------------------------------ ASSESSMENTS.

AN ORDINANCE Providing for a Special Assessment to Pay for Street Improvements.

SEC. 1. That whenever, in the opinion of the City Council of Greenville, any street, sidewalk, avenue, alley, lane or other public ground will be improved by grading, curbing, paving, graveling, ditching, macadamizing or otherwise, the City Council may, by resolution, designate the street, avenue or alley to be improved, directing the kind of improvement to be made and the manner in which it shall be done, as provided for by an Act entitled "An Act providing for the grading and paving of streets, public ways and alleys for the city of Greenville. " Approved Dec. 22d, A. D. 1891.

SEC. 2. After the completion of such work, or any part thereof, and upon the completion of the work now in progress on Main street, or any part thereof, it shall be the duty of the City Engineer, or other person acting in that capacity, to make a plat of the said street, or portion thereof so improved, with the name of each abutting property holder, together with his frontage and assessment ; that is to say, the said City Engineer shall assess one-third of the cost of such grading, paving, macadamizing or improving said street, public way or alley upon the abutting property owners on each side of said street, public way or alley, or part thereof so improved, so that said property holders, in the aggregate, shall pay two

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thirds of said cost and the said city the remaining onethird. Said assessment to be paid by said property holders pro ratio, according to the frontage of their property on said street, public way or alley, or part thereof so improved.

SEC. 3. When the assessment roll as aforesaid is completed, the City Clerk shall give notice through the city papers at least three times that the assessment has been completed and will remain in his office one week from the date of the first publication for the inspection of all concerned, during which time any person interested may file with said Clerk in writing such objections to the said assessment as he may desire.

SEC. 4. At the expiration of the aforesaid time the Clerk shall refer to Council the assessment roll, together with any objections to same, as may have been filed with him. Council shall then review said roll, consider the objec tions, if any, make such corrections as they may deem advisable, and ratify the same. Said assessment, when ratified, shall be a lien on the property assessed from the time of said ratification.

SEC. 5. That each property owner shall pay his or her assessment as follows : One-fifth thereof within thirty days after the ratification of said assessment roll as aforesaid, and the other four-fifths in ten equal annual installments, bearing interest from date of ratification, at 6 per cent, per annum, with the right, however, to any property owner to anticipate the deferred installment and pay all cash. SEC. 6. If any property holder shall fail to pay the assessment put upon him as aforesaid, or either installment as it may become due, the amount due shall be collected as the other taxes in the same city. Ratified eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. ---------------------------- BOND ORDINANACE.

AN ORDINANACE Authorizing the Registry of the Prin

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cipal of Seventy-five Thousand Dollars Sewerage Bonds Issued Under ordinance Passed 11th day of Febuary, 1892, and Ordinance Amendatory of the same, Passsed 30th day of Arpil. 1892.

SEC. 1. That the City Treasurer be required to keep a book called the "Bond Register." wherein shall be recorded the numbers, dates and amounts of the $75,000 sewerage bonds, issued under ordinance passed the 11th day of February 1892, and ordinance amendatory of same, passed 30th day of April. 1892.

SEC. 2. That whenever one or more bonds of said issue shall be presented to the Treasurer with the requrest that he register the principal of the same in the name of any person or persons, if said bond or bonds are at the time payable to the bearer or accompanied by a duly executed power of attorney, from its or their registered holder if registered, an endorsement shall be made on the back of said bond or bonds, which shall give simply the date of registry, name of the party or parties in whose name they are to be registered, and said endorsement shall be certified to by the Treasurer of the city. Thereafter the principal of said bond or bonds shall not pass by delivery, but shall be paybale only to the party of parties in whose name it or they may be registered, or to the party or parties to whom it may subsequently be transferred by asssignment on the books of the city by the registered holder or his duly authroized attorney under seal. But said bond or bonds may again be made payable be bearer when so transferred on books of city by registered holder or his attorney.

SEC. 3. That to facilitate the registry of these bonds as above, the City Treasurer shall provide a rubber stamp, made to fit the back of the bonds, with suitable columns and lines, the heading of the first column bearing "Date of Registry," heading of second column "In Whose Name Registered," and heading of third column being "Transfer Agent." Under these respective columns shall be filled in when the bonds are presented for registry, the

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date on which the same shall be so registered, the name of the person or persons in whose name it is intended the principal of the bonds shall stand, and the name of the C ity Treasurer, whose signature shall appear in the third column under the head of "Transfer Agent," to certify to the registration of the bonds as herein set forth. Another rubber stamp shall be provided containing in suitable letters the words, "Or if registered, to the party whose name is last registered on the back hereof," which stamp shall be upon the face of the bonds when presented for registry just after the words "or bearer," so as to make the bond read thus: "Know all men by these presents, that the city of Greenville hereby acknowledges itself indebted, and promises to pay to the bearer hereof, orif registered, to the party whose nam e is last registered on the back hereof, in current money of the Unied States, etc."

SEC. 4. That the registry of the principal of said bonds as above shall in no wise effect the payment to bearer, as at present, of the coupons from said bonds as they become due. Ratified the 4th day of October, 1892. -------------------

AN ORDINANCE to Provide for the Issue and Sale of Bonds for Paving the Streets of the City of Greenville.

SEC. 1. That under the provisions of Section 31 of the Charter of the city, and of an Actof the General Assembly of this State, entitled "an Act to provide for the grading and paving of streets. public ways and alleys of t he city of Greenville." approved December 22nd, 1891, the Mayor be, and he is hereby empowered to issue interest bearing coupon bonds of said city to the amount of Fifteen Thousand Dollars, to be known and designated as "Paving Bonds."

SEC. 2. Such bonds shall be of such donominations as the Mayor and Finance Committee shall determine; shall bear date the 1st day of March, 1893; shall run twenty