PICKENS COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - City of Clemson
1901 Calhoun Charter


**********************************************************************
SCGENWEB NOTICE: 
These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit 
or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations 
desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain 
the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of 
the submitter, and contact the listed SCGenWeb archivist with proof of 
this consent.
**********************************************************************

City of Clemson
1901 Calhoun Charter


THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
By the Secretary of State 

WHEREAS, a petition was filed on the 15th, day of April 1901, by ten freehold 
electors in the precinct in which the town of Calhoun is situated,setting 
forth the corporate limits the number of inhabitants of the proposed town, 
and that they desired to be incorporated. 

AND WHEREAS, a commission was issued in the 15th, day of April, 1901 to 
J.H. Burgess, E.F. Leaville and J.W. Smith, empowering them to provide for 
the registration of all electors within the proposed corporate limits of 
said town, and to appoint managers to hold the election, and to have them 
to certify the result under oath to the Secretary of State. 

AND WHEREAS, J.T. Fennell, W.N. Cochran and E.M. DuPre, managers of 
election duly appointed to hold the election for the purpose of determining 
the incorporation of the town of Calhoun, did, on the 13th, day of August, 
1901, file with the Secretary of State a written declaration of the result 
of said election under oath signed by themselves, setting forth: 

FIRST: In favor of corporation. 

SECOND: The name of the proposed town to be CALHOUN. 

THIRD: That J.H. Burgess was duly elected Intendant, and J.T. Fennell, 
E.M. DuPre, J.W. Smith and W.N. Cochran were elected Wardens. 

NOW THEREFORE, I, M.R. Cooper, Secretary of State, by virtue of the 
authority vested in me by an Act of the General Assembly, entitled 
"An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Towns of Less Than One 
Thousand Inhabitants" do hereby issue to the Intendant and Wardens 
elect this Certificate of Incorporation, with the privileges, powers 
and immunities, and subject to this limitations prescribed in the said Act. 

Given under my Hand and Seal of the State, this the 13th day of August 
in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and One and in the 
One Hundred and Twenty-sixth year of the Independence of the United 
States of America. 

(Seal) M.R. Cooper, Secretary of State.
State of South Carolina
Executive Department 



****************************************************************

USGENWEB NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in
any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,
must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal
representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied
for personal use only.

****************************************************************