Duty of town marshal. Elections. Vacancies. Eligibility. peace, which shall be filed and preserved in the county clerk's office, and shall be duly recorded by said clerk, for which he shall receive a fee of one dollar, and he shall also take the oath of office in the same manner required of a justice of the peace. 10. The town marshal of said town shall have the same power, authority and duties incumbent on him as is on constables of this Commonwealth, and shall receive like fees for like services, collectable in the same manner; and J. H. Mulhall is hereby appointed town marshal of said town, and he shall hold his office until the first Saturday in June, 1888, and until his successors is elected and qualified; and before he or any of his successor shall enter upon the duties of said office, he shall qualify in the county court by executing bond and taking the oath in the same manner required of constables. § 11. On the first Saturday in June, 1888, at the same time a board of five trustees shall be elected for said town, an election shall also be held for police judge and town marshal of said town, and they shall hold their office for two years, and until their successors shall be elected or appointed and qualified; and on every second year thereafter a similar election shall be held for the election of said judge and marshal, their term of office being two years each. § 12. If, for any cause, there shall become a vavancy in said board of trustees, or in the said offices of police judge or town marshal of said town, the said board of trustees, a quorum thereof being present, may appoint a person, a male citizen, to fill said vacancy, in either of said offices, until the next regular election, and a record of such appointment shall be made on the journal. § 13. No person shall be eligible to the office of police judge, town marshal or trustee of said town unless he be a citizen of said town, and a legal voter thereof, as prescribed in the next section hereof. 14. No person shall vote in any election in said voters. town unless he be a citizen thereof, and shall reside who are legal therein, and duly qualified to vote for Representative under the Constitution and laws of the State of Kentucky. whom held. § 15. All elections herein named shall be held by Elections, by the chairman and clerk of the said board of trustees, who shall, before holding any election, take an oath to faithfully discharge their duties. They shall certify the election, and give a certificate of election to the police judge and town marshal, and to the five persons receiving the highest number of votes for trustees, and shall make out and sign a general statement of the vote cast for each officer, and have the same recorded on the journal to be kept by the trustees. If, for any cause, the said chairman and clerk, or either, shall be disqualified from holding said election, the trustees of said town shall have the power to fill the vacancy by the appointment of any other citizen or citizens of said town. All returns of the election shall be made within ten days after the same has been made. board. 16. The proceedings of the said board of trustees Proceedings of of each meeting shall be publicly read, and shall be signed by the chairman and clerk present holding said meeting, and the records so made and signed shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes, the same as any other record. 17. All processes issued by the police judge of Process. said town for a violation of any by-law or ordinance thereof, shall be in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, for the benefit of the town of Clarkson, and all fines or punishments for a violation thereof, and for any breach of the peace or other misdemeanor committed within the corporate limits of said town, shall be for the benefit of said town of Clarkson, and shall be paid to the treasurer thereof. and alleys. § 18. It shall be the duty of the trustees of said Streets and town of Clarkson to keep the streets and alleys and public roads within the corporate limits of said town in good order, and to that end they may cause them to be worked in the same manner that the public roads of the county are worked; and any person who may be required to assist in said work, who shall fail to attend and do good work, after having been notified as in case of working roads, shall be liable to a fine of two dollars and fifty cents for each day he shall so fail to work, to be recovered before the police judge of said town. § 19. The said trustees shall appoint a street and Street surveyor road surveyor of said town, who shall be under all the responsibilities of road surveyors of Grayson county: Provided, however, Said trustees shall have the right to use any or all public money belonging to said town, arising from any source, towards the working of said streets, alleys and roads, by hiring labor to perform the same, under the supervision of the said surveyor of said town; and said trustees may levy and cause to be collected an annual tax, not exceeding one dollar on each poll, and not exceeding twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable real estate located in said town, and on all the personal property of every kind owned by the citizens of said town, for the purpose of aiding in keeping the said streets and alleys and roads in good order; and whenever the said work shall be done by means of the hire of labor as is herein provided, under the supervision of the surveyor, the latter shall be paid a reasonable compensation for his services, to be allowed him by the trustees. Assessor. 20. For the purpose of collecting said tax, the trustees may appoint an assessor to take a valuation of the taxable property of said town as of date January first of the year so taken, which list of property shall be returned to the board of trustees of said town, who shall have power to hear proof and revise the list, adding to or reducing the assessed value in any case wherein they think right and proper. 21. The marshal of said town, by virtue of his office, shall be the tax collector of said town, and he Tax collector. shall be responsible on his official bond therefor; and he is hereby given all power and authority to distrain and levy on and sell property, real and personal, for the payment of said taxes that is conferred by law on the sheriffs in the collection of the State revenue. exemption from. § 22. All persons living within the corporate limits Working of roads of said town of Clarkson shall be exempted from working the roads outside of said incorporated limits. § 23. This act to take effect from date of its passage. Approved May 1, 1888. CHAPTER 1394. AN ACT to authorize the present judge of Lawrence county to sign unsigned records of the Lawrence county court. WHEREAS, It has been made known to the General Assembly that the late county judge has failed to sign the orders of the county court; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the present county judge of Lawrence county be, and he is hereby, authorized to sign any and all unsigned records of the Lawrence county court, when he shall become satisfied that the same was made and entered at the proper time. § 2. That when the records so signed shall be offered in evidence or used in any other way, the same shall be as binding and legal in all trials or proceeding as if signed by the judge who presided at the time the same was made and entered. §3. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved May 1, 1888. CHAPTER 1395. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide for appointing and electing commissioners for the county of Boone, and defining their duties, and the duties of other county officers whose duties are connected with the duties of said commissioners," approved May 15, 188 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section twelve (12) of the act approved May 15, 1886, chapter 1184, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the following section substituted in lieu thereof: "It shall be the especial duty of the appointed and elective commissioners to take charge of the county buildings and property of every description; also all county roads and bridges in said county, and preserve the same from waste. Whenever it is necessary to build or repair any bridge or the approaches thereto on any county road, said commissioners shall immediately cause said bridges and approaches to be erected or repaired, and levy the cost of the same upon the county in manner as follows, to wit: At the time of making the annual levy as provided in section fifteen (15) of said act, the said commissioners shall levy an especial tax upon the real estate of the county not to exceed seventy-five (75) cents in any one year upon each one hundred ($100) dollars' worth of real estate within one (1) mile of the proposed site of said bridge or approaches; sixty cents (60) upon each one hundred ($100) dollars' worth of real estate in any one year within two (2) miles of said proposed site, and ten (10) cents in any one year upon each one hundred ($100) dollars' worth of real estate in the remaining portion of the county. The said especial tax, as assessed by the said commissioners, shall be collected by the sheriff of the county of Boone, or his deputies, in the same manner, and at the same time, and subject to the same laws for the collection of State |