| State of South Carolina
At a General Assembly begun to be
holden at Columbia on the Second Tuesday of February in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred-eighty and thence continued by?? ????, a ajournments
?????? day of February in the year of Our Lord One Thousand eight Hundred, and
eighty.
An Act To Incorporate the Town of
Cowpens in Spartanburg County
Section 1. Be it enacted by
the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina now met
and sitting in General Assembly and by the authority of the same; That from and
after the passage of this act all citizens of this state who have resided thirty
days in the Town of Cowpens shall be deemed and are hereby declared to be, a
body polite and corporate, and the said town shall be called and known by the name
of "Cowpens" and its corporate limits shall extend one half mile in every
direction from the railroad depot in said town.
Section 2. That the
said town shall be governed by an Intendant and four wardens, who shall be
citizens of this state and shall have been residents of said town for
sixty days immediately preceding their election, and who
shall be elected by the
qualified voters of said town on the first Tuesday in April A.D. 1880 and
on the same day in every year thereafter, ten days public notice thereof
being previously given, and that all the male inhabitants of the age of
twenty one years, citizens of this state who shall have resided in the
said town for thirty days immediately preceding the election, shall be
entitled to vote for the said Intendant and wardens.
Section 3. That the
said Corporation shall have the same powers and privileges, and be subject
in every respect to the provisions of the Charter granted to the Town of
Lewisville, South Carolina, by an act entitled An Act to Incorporate the
Town of Lewisville SC approved February 28th, 1872. Provided however
that the said Intendant and wardens of the said town of Cowpens shall not
be authorized, and they are hereby prohibited from permiting licenses for
the sale of any spirituous or intoxicating liquors or drinks within the
limits of said town during the existence of this charter.
Section 4. This act
shall be deemed, a public act, and continue in force for the term of
twenty years.
In the Senate House this
20th day of February in the year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hundred
eighty.
Thos B Jeter
President of the Senate
J C Sheppard
Speaker of the House of Reps
Approved the 20th day of February
AD 1880
Wm D Simpson
Governor
Cowpens was incorporated on July 30, 1900
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