duty of the clerk of the Fulton county court, in preparing the poll-books for the August election, 1888, to mark at the head of one column on each page, "Are you for the road tax?" and another column marked "Are you against the road tax?”

§ 14. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said elecDuties of officers. tion to propound to each individual who offers to vote, "Are you for or against the road tax?" and his vote shall be recorded according to his answer. If it shall appear from a comparison of the polls that a majority of votes cast at said election are for the road tax, then the board to examine the polls shall make a certificate of the fact, which shall be filed with the county clerk, who shall record the same in his office, and then this act shall be in full force and effect.

15. Notice of said election shall be by written or printed notices, posted by the sheriff at not less twenty public places in said county, for twenty days before such election.

§ 16. For the purpose of equal distribution of the benefits of the tax levied under this act, the tax paid by the inhabitants of any incorporated town shall be so expended that the roads in the county will receive same in the same proportion that the whole length of the streets bear to the whole length of roads.

§ 17. This act to take effect from and after its pas

sage.

Approved April 14, 1888.

CHAPTER 1069.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Corydon, in Henderson county.

WHEREAS, The citizens of the town of Corydon, in Henderson county, declare by petition to this General

Assembly that the corporation or charter of said old town has become obsolete; therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

ARTICLE I.

§ 1. That the town of Corydon, in Henderson Limits. county, be, and the same is hereby, reincorporated, and the corporate limits shall be the same included in the previous corporation, and set out and defined in the act incorporating said town, approved March 8, 1876, on page 184, volume 2, Acts of 1876.

ARTICLE II.

§ 1. The fiscal, prudential and municipal concerns Government. of said town, with the government and control thereof, shall be vested in six trustees, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum to transact business, and all of whom shall have resided in said town one year next preceding their election, be freeholders therein, and qualified voters under the general laws for county and State officers.

§ 2. The chairman and trustees of said town now in Trustees. office, to-wit: Dr. M. Rice, Geo. W. McClure, Charles Harness, James M. Crawford, Fred Alhorn and W. B. Penticost shall remain in office, and may exercise all the powers granted to the trustees of said town by this act, shall discharge all the duties imposed by this act, and subject to all the liabilities thereunder, in the same manner as if they had been elected under it so long as they shall continue to hold said office, and until their successors are elected and qualified as hereinafter provided.

33. That three of the present board of trustees shall remain in office until the first Tuesday in June, 1888, and the other three until the first day of June, 1889, and until their successors are elected and qualified. That on the first Tuesday in June, 1888, and annually thereafter, upon the same day, three trustees

shall be elected, whose term of office shall be for two years and as heretofore provided from the day of their election. They shall, before they proceed to act, take an oath before a justice of the peace, examiner, notary public, or circuit or county court clerk, or other person authorized by law to administer oaths, that they will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of their offices to which they have been chosen agreeably to the laws and Constitution of this Commonwealth; and the officer administering such oath shall certify the fact to the board of trustees, and such certificate shall be spread on the record of the board.

§ 4. That in the event a vacancy shall occur in the board of trustees, the remaining members thereof shall have power to fill said vacancy by appointment, and the person so chosen shall have the same qualifications and take the same oath as is prescribed in the fourth section of this act.

§ 5. That said trustees and their successors shall be, and are hereby, created a body-politic and corporate, and shall be known and styled the "Board of Trustees of the town of Corydon ;" and by that name shall be capable in law of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of answering and being answered, of defending and being defended, in all courts and places; of taking, holding, leasing, purchasing, and conveying such real, personal and mixed estate as the purposes of the town may require, whether within or without its corporate limits; may have and use a common or private seal, and do all other acts, matters and things which a body-corporate and politic, having perpetual succession, may lawfully and rightfully do and perform.

§ 6. Said trustees shall be elected, as provided in section 4 of this act, by the qualified voters of said town, who shall have paid their poll-tax for the preceeding year, and all arrearages and taxes by them

due to said town, which payment, on being ques tioned, shall be satisfactorily shown; and all elections held under the provisions of this act shall be, after five days' previous notice of same shall have been given, by printed or written notices, over the signature of the town clerk or chairman of the board of trustees, posted in at least three public places in said town; and said elections shall be conducted by officers--a sheriff, judge and clerk appointed by said board-which said officers shall be duly sworn before proceeding to act, and who shall enter in a book to be kept by them the names of all voters, and of all persons voted for, for any elective office; and at the close of said election shall certify the result thereof in said poll-book, and return same to the board of trustees, who shall, if found to be correct, cause the same to be recorded in the book of official proceedings, and the poll-book to be placed on file in the keeping of the clerk of the board; and in the event of a tie, as between two candidates for the same office, the board of trustees may, in their discretion, choose as between said candidates, have the candidates to decide by lot, or re-submit the same to a vote of the people.

§ 7. That the other officers of said town shall be a clerk, a police judge, town marshal, treasurer, attorney and assessor, and such other officers as the board of trustees may, from time to time, direct and appoint.

8. The police judge and town marshal shall be Police judge. elected by the qualified voters of said town as here. inafter provided, and shall hold their office for the term of two years from and after their election. The clerk, treasurer and assessor, and such other officers as the board may create, shall be appointed by the board of trustees, and hold their offices for one year, or until after the next general election succeeding their appointment a new board is organized, and their successors are chosen and qualified.

Appointed.

Elections.

Chairman.

§ 9. That an election shall be held annually on the first Tuesday in June; that in June, 1888, a police judge, a town marshal, and three trustees shall be elected, who shall hold their offices for two years, and that thereafter said officers and their successors shall be elected as hereinbefore provided-the test of election being the highest number of legal votes cast between contesting candidates; the result of 1 elections to be declared and determined by the board of trustees, and the newly elected officers to be notified thereof by the clerk.

§ 10. Officers appointed to fill vacancies shall respectively hold for the unexpired term only, and until the election or appointment and qualification of their successors; if there should be a failure by the people to elect any of the officers herein required to be elected, the board of trustees may appoint such officers or forthwith order a new election.

ARTICLE III.

Officers and Elections.

§ 1. That the municipal government of said town shall consist of the trustees of Corydon, composed of six persons, to be elected and qualified as heretofore and herein provided, one of whom shall, at the first regular meeting after their election, be by them selected to preside over their meetings, and he shall be styled "Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Corydon," and shall hold their regular meetings first Monday in each month.

§ 2. That the chairman of the board of trustees shall preside at all meetings of said board; shall sign their proceedings; shall see that the laws of the Commonwealth, the charter, by-laws and ordinances of the town are duly enforced, respected and obeyed, and that all the other executive officers of the town discharge their respective duties. The chairman shall likewise have the power to perform the duties of police judge in all criminal and penal