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past year, and his fees therefor. Said officer may appoint oneor more deputies to assist him in the performance of his duties herein prescribed.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of said officer to take charge of the standard weights and measures for Jefferson county, and to safely keep the same; to examine, test, and seal all scales, weights, and measures in use, or intended for use in said county (including the city of Louisville), once in each year, and if they are inaccurate, he shall require that they be made correct: Provided, That all dormant scales exposed to the weather or out doors, of the capacity of eight thousand pounds and over, shall be inspected twice in each year.

§ 3. Upon complaint of any responsible person, or the request of the owner, it shall be the duty of the said officer to make additional inspection of any scales, weights, or measures designated: Provided, That if, upon such complaint, the scales, weights, or measures be found substantially correct, the complainant shall pay the fee.

$4. If any person shall refuse to permit any scales, weights, or measures used or about to be used by him or them to be so inspected, or upon its being inspected and found materially incorrect and condemned by said officer, shall continue to use the same without correcting it, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction before the Jefferson circuit court, if he resides in the county, or the city court if he resides in the city of Louisville, he shall be fined ten dollars, and it shall be the duty of said officer to prosecute all persons who violate the provisions of this act, or the provisions of section five, chapter one hundred and twelve, of the General Statutes.

5. As a compensation for his said services, the said officer shall be paid by the owner or user of the scales, weights, or measures inspected, the following fees: For inspecting, testing, adjusting, and sealing dormant scales of thirty thousand pounds capacity and over, six dollars. For inspecting, testing, adjusting, and sealing dorinant scales of sixteen thousand and up to thirty thousand pounds 'capacity, four dollars. For inspecting, testing, adjusting, and sealing dormant scales of eight thousand and up to sixteen thousand pounds capacity, three dollars and fifty cents. For inspecting, testing, and sealing dormant scales of four thousand and up to eight thousand pounds capacity, three dollars. For inspecting,

testing, and sealing dormant and platform scales of two thousand and up to four thousand pounds capacity, two dollars. For inspecting, testing, and sealing platform scales of one thousand and up to two thousand pounds capacity, one dol lar. For inspecting, testing, and sealing platform scales of four hundred and up to one thousand pounds capacity, fifty For inspecting, testing, and sealing beam scales of one thousand pounds capacity and over, seventy-five cents.. For inspecting, testing, and sealing beam scales of two hundred and up to one thousand pounds capacity, fifty cents For all other scales, balances, and patent balances, twentyfive cents each. For inspecting, testing, and sealing weights of fifty pounds and over, ten cents. For weights of five pounds and up to fifty, five cents each. For pyramid piles of weights, fifteen cents a pile. For all wine and dry measures, five cents each. For yard measures, two and one half cents each.

§ 6. All acts and parts of acts within the purview of this act are hereby repealed.

§ 7. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved March 3, 1882.

CHAPTER 355.

AN ACT to establish a new charter for the town of Bellevue, in Camp

bell county.

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

§ 1. That the inhabitants of the territory within the boundary hereinafter designated are hereby continued corporate, by the name and style of the town of Bellevue, with power to govern themselves by such ordinances and resolutions for municipal purposes as they may deem proper, not to conflict with this charter, nor with the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, nor the Constitution of the United States; with power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, defend and be defended, in all courts; and the jurisdiction of the town of Bellevue shall be concurrent with the State of Kentucky over the waters of the Ohio river opposite to and bounding said town on the north. Said town may acquire property for municipal purposes by purchase or

otherwise, and hold all property now belonging to said town for the purposes and interests for which the same was granted or dedicated; to use, manage, improve, sell, and convey, rent or lease the same, and have the same power over property hereafter acquired; to have a common seal, and to alter and change it at pleasure, and to act with or without a seal.

Boundary.

§ 2. The boundary of the town of Bellevue shall remain as now constituted by the several acts of the General Assembly of Kentucky in relation thereto.

Streets, etc., and control of them.

§ 3. Said town of Bellevue is hereby vested with all the rights, titles, interests, powers, and authority which were vested in, possessed, or held by the trustees of the town of Bellevue under the incorporation of said town by act of the General Assembly of Kentucky, approved March 15th, 1870, and the several amendments thereto, and that said town shall have complete power over all the roads, lanes, streets, alleys, ways, commons, public spaces, squares, public buildings, landings, wharves, river frontage, and all other public property in said territory; and all roads, or streets, etc., passing through said town, shall be under the control of said town for such portion of such road, street, etc., as shall be inside of said corporate limits, and shall be improved as other streets are improved, and constructed as herein provided.

§ 4. There shall be in said town of Bellevue a legislative executive, and judicial department.

Legislative Board of Trustees.

5. The legislative power of the town of Bellevue shall be vested in a board of trustees, to be called "The Board of Trustees of the Town of Bellevue;" the members of which body shall be citizens of the United States of America, residents of the town of Bellevue for at least one year next preceding their election, housekeepers or owners of real estate in said town; shall not directly or indirectly be interested in any contract in which said town is a party, nor in any appli cation for a contract, nor hold any office or employment for pay in any corporation or company, or under any individual. applying for any contract with said town, nor be in arrears for money collected or held, without a settlement and quietus

therefor. Members of the board of trustees shall have attained the age of twenty-five years before their qualification; any person wanting in any of the requisites above enumerated, or lacking in any of said qualifications, shall be ineligible to the office of trustee; and if any such ineligible person should be elected, the board of trustees shall proceed to inquire into the fact, and if they should find any such person ineligible, they shall declare the seat vacant, and proceed to order an election to fill the vacancy for the whole term unex. pired. The board of trustees shall consist of six members and a president of the board, all of whom shall be elected by the qualified voters of said town, and shall hold their office for two years from the time of their election; and at the regular March election, 1882, three trustees shall be elected who shall serve for two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and the three trustees elected at the regular municipal election in March, 1881, shall serve until March, 1883, and until their successors are elected and qualified, at which time, March, 1883, three trustees shall be elected to serve for two years, and continuing in this manner so that there shall be three members holding over at each municipal election.

Powers and Duties of Board.▾

6. The board of trustees shall judge the eligibility and election returns of its own members, and the election returns of all town officers; and may prescribe the duties of all town officers by resolution or ordinance; and may require bond from all town officers, in such an amount as to them shall seem best for the office and the interests of the town; may adopt rules for their own proceedings; may punish its mem-bers for disorderly conduct; and two thirds of the members elect concurring, may expel a member for any act involving moral turpitude. A majority of the members elect shall form a quorum, or three members and the president; but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time, and the attendance of members may be enforced by rules or ordinance, with appropriate fine, not exceeding five dollars. The board shall preserve order and decorum among its own members and among the by-standers, by fine not exceeding five dollars, or by ejectment from the room of any person offending, upon the order of the president, by the marshal or sergeant-at-arms. The board shall keep a complete record of all their proceed

ings, and the minutes of the last meeting shall be signed by the president, if they are approved, at the next meeting of the board.

Regular and Special Meetings-Salary.

§ 7. The board of trustees shall hold their meetings on the first and third Thursdays of each and every month, at such hours as they may from time to time establish, by rule or otherwise; and they may adjourn from time, and to another place than the usual hall, if the usual hall cannot be used: Provided, That all meetings shall be held in the corporate limits of said town; and when not held in the usual hall, a notice shall be posted on the door of the hall, or in some conspicuous place near said hall, naming the place to which the board have adjourned. Special meetings may be called at any time by the president, or, upon the request of any two members, the marshal or other person may serve the notice of the special meeting, and the proceedings of such meetings. shall be as valid as if held at a regular meeting.

Salary.

$8 The members of the board of trustees shall each receive the sum of one dollar for each regular meeting they shall attend, but shall not be paid for special meetings, nor for regular meetings if they are not present thereat.

Trial of town officers.

9. Said board, for police purposes, and for the good gov ernment of said town, are hereby constituted a court for the trial of all town officers upon charges preferred against them by any two members of said board. Said board, when thus sitting as a court, shall sit under oath or affirmation, and may, if they deem proper from the evidence, remove any officer for malfeasance or misfeasance in office. Said trial shall be had only after ten days' notice thereof shall have been served upon the officer or officers to be tried, and no officer shall be removed unless two thirds of the members elect shall concur in voting for such removal. Such trials shall be conducted in all respects according to the law of the State of Kentucky.

Salaries of Town Officers, etc.

§ 10. No member of the board of trustees shall vote upon any measure in which he is directly or indirectly interested personally, except in the allowance of salaries as herein pro

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