Digest of the Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston, from the Year 1783 to July 1818: To which are Annexed, Extracts from the Acts of the Legislature which Relate to the City of CharlestonA.E. Miller, printer, 1818 - 325 pages |
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Digest of the Ordinances of the City Council of Charleston from the Year ... Charleston South Carolina No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 267 - Society ;" and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be -answered unto...
Page 204 - ... as aforesaid before her departure from port; and whenever a pilot having a right to carry out a vessel is apprehensive that his fees of pilotage may not be paid by her master, owner or consignee, he shall have a right to demand his fees in advance, or such security for the payment thereof as shall be reasonable and satisfactory, and on failure thereof may refuse to carry her out.
Page 10 - ... thousand dollars, one moiety thereof to the use of any person or persons who shall sue for and prosecute the same to effect.
Page 24 - ... require more frequent returns of deaths, and also such additional information as they may think proper. SEC. 7., omitted. SEC. 8. Every undertaker who shall omit or refuse to furnish any certificate or return as aforesaid, or who shall violate any provision of the 4th, 5th, 6th, or 7th sections of this ordinance, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for each offence. SEC. 9. The City Registrar shall cause an abstract of the returns of deaths made to him, to be published in all the newspapers...
Page 24 - Any person who, having been summoned in the manner above directed, refuses or neglects to attend and testify, unless prevented by sickness or unavoidable necessity, shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered, with costs of suit, by the party at whose instance the subpoena was issued, and for his use, by an action of debt...