lien thereon until after the expiration of two years from the time such taxes became due. 39. The right of redemption in all cases of sales of real estate for taxes shall exist to the owner or his heirs, vendees or assignees, for two years from the date of sale, on payment of the amount for which the same was sold, with twenty-five per cent. per annum added thereto, and all taxes accrued subsequent to the sale. If the owner, at the time of the sale, be an infant or person of unsound mind, the right to redeem shall exist for two years after the removal of such disability, and such person so disabled shall not pay more than legal interest and taxes due. If not redeemed within the time specified, the board of trustees shall, on presentation of the certificate of sale, convey such real estate to the purchaser. § 40. All fines, forfeitures, taxes, and assessments herein contemplated and provided for shall be appropriated exclusively to the use of said town. All fines recovered in any court of Oldham county for an offense committed within the corporate limits of said town shall, by order of the court, be paid to the treasurer of said town for the use thereof, except in cases indicted for felony, and found guilty of a misdemeanor on trial under the indictment. 41. The trustees shall make such rules and regulations concerning the assessment of property as they may see proper, and also for revising and correcting the lists returned. by the assessor. $42. The board of trustees shall hold stated meetings at least once in every month, and the chairman, or, in his absence, the town clerk, may call other meetings by notice in writing to each of the members. A majority of the members elected shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of the chairman, any member of the board may be selected to discharge his duties for the time. § 43. The board of trustees shall have power to make, ordain, and publish all such ordinances, by-laws and regulations, not contrary to the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, for the good government of the town, and to promote health, security, trade, and commerce, as they may deem necessary or expedient. They may enforce the observance of all ordinances, by-laws, and regulations made in pursuance of this act, by penalties not exceeding one hundred dollars fine and fifty days imprisonment. But said trustees shall not attach to any offense recognized by the statutes of this Commonwealth a penalty either greater or less than is provided by the general laws. 44. The board of trustees shall have the management and control of the finance and of all the property, real, personal, and mixed, belonging to the town; to provide for the erection, repair, maintenance, and government of all public buildings for the town. They shall have power within the corporate limits to restrain and prohibit all descriptions of gaming and fraudulent devices; to license, tax, regulate, or prohibit billiard-tables, pool-tables, pigeon-hole tables, nine or ten-pin alleys, or like alleys; to license, tax, regulate or prohibit all concerts, exhibitions, shows, circuses, theatrical performances, and all like exhibitions and amusements; to restrain or suppress disorderly houses, groceries, saloons, balls, and houses of prostitution; to restrain, suppress, and punish indecent language or conduct, and to punish vagrants and prostitutes; to restrain, regulate, or prohibit the running at large of horses, swine, or other animals, and to impose penalties on the owner of any such animal for a violation of any ordinance in relation thereto; to prohibit the running at large of dogs, and to authorize their destruction when found at large contrary to ordinance, and to impose penalties on their owners for permitting them to be at large; to appoint watchmen or policemen, and to prescribe their powers, duties, and pay; to establish and maintain a jail or watch-house, hospital, work-house, and market-house, and make rules and regulations for the government thereof; to authorize the clerk to issue license, to direct the time and manner of issuing and registering the same, and the fees to be paid him therefor; but no license shall be granted for more than on e year, and the clerk's fee for issuing the same shall not exceed fifty cents. Said trustees may license, tax, and regulate auction sales, auctioneers, teamsters, and peddlers; they may declare what are nuisances, provide for the abatement thereof, and impose penalties for the creation and maintenance of the same; they may license, tax, and regulate within said town and within one mile thereof, hotel or tavern-keepers, saloon or coffee-house keepers, grocers, merchants, or druggists who sell spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, and restrain and pun ish the sale of such liquors or any of them without license; they may provide for the security of said town against fire by the purchase of fire engines or other apparatus, and the organization of one or more fire companies, appoint officers, and make rules for the government of such companies, and do all other acts necessary to the maintenance of an effective fire department; they may acquire and hold, by donation or purchase, land either within or without the limits of the town, for a cemetery not exceeding ten acres, and for a poor-house or pest-house not exceeding one acre each; they may make and receive all conveyances relating to the property of the town, and may receive and hold any estate, real, personal, or mixed, for the use, benefit, or ornament of the town. § 45. The board of trustees shall have power to grant the licenses for which provision is made by this act; but this act shall not be construed as excusing the persons obtaining such license from paying to the State any tax, and procuring from the county, court or clerk any license required by law; nor shall the trustees have power to refuse license to any bona fide tavern-keeper who has obtained license from the Oldham county court, unless he shall fail or refuse to pay the amount due the town for the license. § 46. The amount to be paid the town for license to any hotel or tavern-keeper for the privilege of selling spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors therein shall not be less than twentyfive nor more than fifty dollars, and the amount to be paid by any saloon or coffee-house keeper for such license shall not be less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars. Any merchant, druggist, or grocer may be licensed to sell spirituous liquors, not less than a quart, upon payment of such sums as the trustees may fix, not less than twentyfive dollars; but such person shall be subject to all the provisions of the general laws in regard to keeping tippling. houses. Nothing in this act shall be construed as preventing a bona fide druggist from selling liquors upon the prescription of a regular practicing physician. Before any person shall have the right to sell liquor in said town as herein provided,. he shall present to the treasurer of said town a certified copy of the order of the board of trustees granting him license, and pay him the amount therefor as required by ordinance. Any person who shall sell spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or any of them, within the town limits, in vio lation of the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of unlawfully retailing liquor or of keeping a tipplinghouse, as the case may be, under the laws of Kentucky, and persons so offending may be tried in the police court. § 47. The board of trustees shall have authority and control over the streets, sidewalks, alleys, public squares and grounds now in said town, or which may hereafter be laid out, with full power to grade, construct, repair, protect, and ornament the same as they may deem most convenient and beneficial to the town. § 48. It shall be the duty of the trustees, at all times, to keep the streets, alleys, public squares and places in good order, and for every failure to do so, as well as for every other willful failure to efficiently exercise the powers or perform the duties herein imposed on them, they shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, to be paid out of their estates, share and share alike. § 49. The owners in front of or upon whose premises the board of trustees shall order any curbing or sidewalks to be constructed, repaired, or relaid, shall construct, repair, or relay such curbing or sidewalks at their own cost, in the manner, with the material, and within the time prescribed by the trustees. If not so done, the trustees may cause such work to be performed, and assess the expense thereof, which shall be a lien upon the premises, and may be collected by warrant and sale as in the case of taxes. Suits may also be maintained by the trustees against the owners of such premises for the collection of such assessments and the enforcement of the lien. $50. Any ordinance, by-law, or regulation enacted by the trustees shall, before it takes effect, be published at least one time in a newspaper of said town, if there be one published therein, and written or printed copies of such ordinance, by. law, or regulation shall, for at least five days, be posted up in not less than four public places in the town. The publication required by this section shall be made by the clerk of the town. 51. The trustees shall receive no compensation for their official services. $52. This act shall not affect or invalidate any act heretofore done by the trustees or any of the officers of said town, nor divest any person of any right of property acquired or liability incurred prior to its passage. § 53. All other acts in relation to the town of Lagrange are hereby repealed. § 54. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 1, 1882. Boundary. Style. Trustees. Election. Terms. CHAPTER 118. AN ACT to organize and establish a system of public schools in the city of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That all the territory embraced within the limits of the city of Bowling Green, or which may be hereafter embraced in said city, shall be, and is hereby, incorporated as a school district, which shall be under the control and management of a board of trustees elected by the citizens of said city as hereinafter directed. § 2. The persons so elected shall constitute and be styled "The Board of Trustees of the Bowling Green Public Schools;" and by that name shall be a body-politic and corporate, and may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with; may buy and sell and convey real and personal estate, and the title of all public school property in said district shall vest in said board, and their successors forever. § 3. The number of trustees for said district shall be six, and the first election under this act shall be held on the first Saturday in December, 1882, and the trustees then elected shall be divided by lot into three classes, to hold their offices for one, two, and three years respectively; that is, the two trustees who shall by lot be assigned to the first class, shall hold their offices for one year, and their successors shall be elected on the first Saturday in December, 1883, and shall hold their offices for a term of three years from that time, and the two trustees who shall by lot be assigned to the second class shall hold their offices for two years, and their successors shall be elected on the first Saturday in December, 1884, and hold their offices for a term of three years, and the two trustees who shall by lot be assigned to the third class shall |