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objectioas to the ordinance council desired that said objections be form ulated in a coimmunication and pre sented. This, said Col. Johnstone, had been done by his committee, and he had suggested to Acting Mayor Smith that he call a meeting of council to consider these recom mendations. Owing to the tempo rary absence of Mayor Earhardt and the absence of Alderman Brown in Atlanta, however, Acting Mayor Smith had thought it inexpedient to call a meeting before this but had promised to do so on next Monday night (last night.) For this reason the recommendations of the committee had not been submitted to council. Col. Johnstone then read the rec ommendations of his committe,, to be submitted to council, as fol lows: RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL. To the Honorable Mayor and Alder men of the Town of Newberry: Gentlemen: The undersigned committee appointed by the meet ing of the citizens of the town to confer with you and attempt to de vise a method by which the floating interest-bearing debt of the town can be taken care of without resort ing to the general license tax, pro pose the two following suggestions for your consideration: i. That the interest-bearing debt of the town, for which notes have been given, aggregating, we are in formed, some $24,000, be funded at four and one-half per cent. and cou pon bonds issued therefor, running twenty years. with the privilege of retiring them after ten years; that an annual tax of one mill be levied upon the taxable property of the town to pay the interest on the bonds, the excess of the revenues from the said tax after paying inter est to be set apart as a sinking fund for retiring the principal of the bonds and not be used for any other purpose 2. The floating debt of the town having been provided for as sug gested above, it is estimated that the revenues of the town from ordi nary sources, including the 6-mill levy, will be ample for an economi cal and efficient administration of the town government We respect fully recommend, therefore, that the license ordinance recently passed by you be suspended for twelve months from its date and that it shall not go into effect then unless after a fair test it has been shown that the revenues from the ordinary sources are not sufficient to pay the current expenses of the town. We trust that you will confer with the committee in reporting the foregoing scheme to the citizens of the town as a wise adjustment of the finances of the town. But if you agree to the first of the above suggestions and not to the second, we submit that a levy a levy of four mills for ordinary purposes will be ample and we ask that the levy be reduo'd from six mills to four mills. Respectfully, Geo. Johnstone, Ch'n. Geo. B. Cromer. F. H. Dominick. B. F. Griffin. E. C. Jones. T. C. Pool. W. E. Pelham. Col. Johnstone explained that the committee, by its last suggestion. did not propose to council that it should adhere to the license or dinance, but if council did adhere to the license ordinance, then that the present 6-mill levy should be reduced to 4 mills,-thus deducting from the revenue now received from the 6-mill levy about the same amount which council estimated the license would bring in, that is $3, 500. It had been estimated by a number of gentlemen, however, that the license ordinance would bring in not a cent less than $5.ooo The communication of the com mittee was adopted as the sense of the meeting, the following motion by Mr. ||Alan Johnstone being unanimously carried:'"Thaat it is the sense of this meeting that the sug gestions of this committee incorpor ated in its communication to the mayor and aldermen of the town of Newberry represent the sense of the citizenship of this town assem bled at this meeting; and that the I chairman of this meeting address a respectful note to the town council asking their co-operation in carry ing these recommendations into ex ecution." Col. George Johnstone said that he favored the adoption of the com munication as the sense of the meet ing onoy - the basis of an expecta tion that a scheme which the com mittee had devised for preventing a recurrence of these debts be adopted. Otherwise he would be op posed to it. A rising vote was taken on Mr. Alan Johnstone's motion, at his request, and as stated, it was unanimously adopted. REPORT OF PELHAM COMMITTER. Mr. Alan Johnstone then moved that the report of the committee known as the Pelham committee, in which it had been submitted.that the license ordinance was desired and desirable, be laid on the table. The motion was adopted. TO AMEND THE CHARTER. Col. George Johnstone then sub mitted a further report embodying the views of all the committee which could be got together, by which it was proposed to amend the charter of the town so as to prevent the re currence of another floating indebt edness. It would be seen that it would be useless to be eternally providing for debts made when the public knew nothing of them. The plan was to make their continual recurrence impossible. Many o the best lawyers in the State did not think that any public officer could contract any debt unless specifically directed to do so. When lights, water and sewerage were wanted, the citizens themselves had to vote the funds by which they were to be secured. All that a public officer could do was to forestall the incom ing of the taxes but he could not contract a debt without authority. Continuing, Col. Johnstone, set ting forth the views of the portion of the committee mentioned, said: Your committee finds in Section 377 of the Criminal Code the follow ing: "It shall be unlawful for any public officer, State cr county, auth orized to so contract to enter into any contract for any purpose what soever, in a sum in excess of the tax levy or the amount appropriated for the accomplishment of such pur pose, or to divert or appropriate the funds arising from any tax levy and collect it for any one fiscal year, to the payment of any indebtedness contracted or incurred for any pre vious year. And on violation of the provisions of this section he shall~ be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,ooo and not less than $5oo and by imprisonment at hard labor in the State penitentiary for a period not exceeding five years nor less than one year or either or both, in the discretion of the court." And at Sections 6o6, 607 and 609 of the Civil Code the following: "It shall be unlawful for any public officer, State or county, au thorized by law to so contract, to enter into or contract for any pur pose whatsoever, in a sum in ex cess of the tax levy or the amount appropriated for the accomplish ment of such purpose." "It shall be unlawful, for any public officer, State or county. to divert or appropriate the funds aris ing from any tax levied and collect ed for any one fiscal year to the payment of any indebtedness con tracted or incurred for any previous fiscal year." "It shall be unlawful for any State or county officer to issue any certificate of indebtedness. T.zis provision shall not apply to the is suing of tickets to- jurors or wit nesses for attendance on the circuit courts. Nor shall it be lawful for any State or county officer to draw a warrant or check for any public debt except upon money then ac tually to his credit on that account in th'e hands of some bank or public officer." And in the 16th Section of the Odiary Supply Bill npaeb the State legislature we find the follow ing: "All contracts made in violation of the above provisions shall be void." Why should not these provisions be made applicable to municipal of ficers? MANNER OF AMENDMENT. In Section 1996 of the Civil Code we find the following: "The charter or articles of in coroporation of any city or town in this State, whether such city or town was originally incorporated by Act of the general assembly or un der the general law of the secretary of State, may be amended in any particular, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State, in the following manner: A peti tion shall first be submitted to the town or city council by a majority of the freeholders of such town or city, praying that an election be or dered, to ascertain whether such amendment or amendments ought to be made or not; whereupon, the said council shall order an election, after not less than ten days' public advertisement. At such election each amendment shall be voted upon separately, and the tickets or ballots shall be prescribed by the said council in such ways as to plainly express the will of the voter as to each question submitted. At such election the qualified electors of the municipality shall be allowed to vote on the question or qnestions of the proposed amendment or amendments, at the usual voting places, in a box provided for the purpose at each voting place. If a majority of the votes cast be ascer Itained and declared to be in favor of any or all of the proposed ameud mn.-ts, then the said council shall publish the result of said election, and declare the adopted amendment or amendments to be a part of the charter of incorporation of such city or town, plainly showing the read ing of the parts involved as amended, and shall forthwith file with the secretary of State a copy of such declaration; whereupon such adopt ed and declared amendment or amendments shall stand as a part of the charter of incorporation of such city or town.'' "Why," said ColJohnstone, con tinuing his report, "should not the foregoing provisions of our statute law be made the law governing our municipality, as well as a pro vision preventing the diversion of the funds raised under the law for one specific purpose to purposes other than that for which they were raised." Continuing his -remarks, Mr. Johnstone said: "Looking to this end I move you tha.t a committee of three be appointed by the chair man to see that they are incorporated into law, and to phrase appropriate petitions covering these amend ments, to be signed by a majority of the freeliolders and submitted to the town council praying them to order an election on the ques tion as to whether they shall be incorporated into our town charter." The motion was seconded and after some little discussion, in which Mr. Alan Johnstone referred to the fact that even more stringent safe guards were placed around the funds handled by the board of trus tees of the graded schools, of which he was a member, and were not considered by them a reflection upon themselves, the motion was unanimously adopted: Chairman Cromer appointed the following committee of three pro vided for in the resolution: George Johstone, W. H. Wallace, and IE. C. Jones. The meeting then adj.>urned. Wallace Plantation. TVE MILES FROM WHITMIRES, 91 Eres of good cotton land, on be bought cheap asturneas teMay Apply to E. H. AULL, Newberry, S. C. A S1LK PURSE IS NOT FOUND in asow's ear, but you can get your money's worth when you buy horses, mules, buggies, wagons, har 'ness, etc., from Quattlebaumi & Schumpert, Prosperity, S. C BLOCKADED Every Household in Newberry Should Know How to Resist It. The biazk achus beausv!- the kidiey., are b:oca-- d. 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