§ 8. That an act, entitled "An act revising the charter of the city of Paducah," approved January 24th, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

§ 9. That the revised charter of the city of Paducah, Kentucky, approved 11th, 1871, be, and the same is, so amended that hereafter the common council of the city of Paducah shall have the power to regulate the sale of spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors by druggist in the city of Paducah, and said council shall prescribe by ordinance such terms and conditions and penalties as they may deem best for the sale of said liquors by the druggist of said city, not in conflict with the Constitution and General Statutes of the State.

§ 10. That section one of an act to amend the charter of the city of Paducah, approved February 26th, 1878, be, and the same is hereby, so amended that hereafter no person shall be intelligible to any office to which such person may be elected to in the city of Paducah by reason of any, such person being on any license bond to said city, either as principal or security; and all of the provisions of said section one not in conflict with this act are to remain in full force and effect. § 11. That hereafter the trustees of the public schools of the city of Paducah shall be trustees of the Male University and Female Seminary of said city; and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this section of this act is hereby repealed.

§ 12. All laws in regard to said Male University and Female Seminary of the city of Paducah, except as provided in section eleven of this act, is to remain in full force and effect.

§ 13. That section sixty-six of the revised charter of the city of Paducah, Kentucky, be so amended that hereafter it shall not be required of any person elected to any office in said city to be released upon any bond executed to said city as surety before his election, but shall, before any such person elected to any office in said city qualifies to the office to which he is elected, to be released as such security, as provided for in section sixty-six; and all of the provisions of section sixty-six, not inconsistent with this section, is to remain in full force and effect.

Approved March 9, 1882.

CHAPTER 407.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend and reduce into one the several acts incorporating the town of Falmouth, in Pendleton county," approved April 5, 1878.

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

That an act, entitled "An act to amend and reduce into onethe several acts incorporating the town of Falmouth, Pendleton county," approved on the 5th day of April, 1878, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, viz:

1. By inserting the word "six," in lieu of the words 66 four," in the second line of section six of said act.

§2. By striking out all words beginning with the word "under," in the twenty-third line of subsection fourteen of section forty-seven of said act, and including all of the remainder of said subsection, and inserting in lieu thereof the following words: "And shall be subject to a fine of not lessthan twenty dollars nor more than sixty dollars, and said. fine to be recovered by summons or warrant in the Falmouth police court." All provisions in said subsection providing for indictment and fine in the Pendleton criminal court, are hereby repealed.

§3. That the outside and all party walls of all dwellinghouses, store-houses, or other buildings hereafter to be erected. or built within the limits of said town, as the same now exists or may hereafter be extended, shall be constructed of stone, brick, or iron, unless the builder shall obtain a permit from the board of trustees of said town to construct the same of other material; and that said board of trustees shall have power to pass and adopt ordinances regulating the construction of all buildings hereafter built in said town, and ordinances inflicting sufficient penalties to enforce such rules and regulations as they may adopt under this section.

§ 4. That said board of trustees shall have the power, by ordinance, imposing penalties to provide against fires from defective fire-places, flues, chimneys, furnaces, or other causes insecure walls and dangerous buildings of every kind, and repair or take down the same at the expense of the owner or owners of such building or flues.

5. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to dig a privy vault within the limits of said town for the purpose of constructing a privy thereon; and any one now

having a privy so constructed within the limits of said town shall, within six months from the passage of this act, fill up and disinfect said vault; and any person or persons who shall violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this sec tion shall, upon indictment and conviction in the Pendleton criminal court, be subject to a fine of not less than twentyfive dollars nor more than fifty dollars,

§ 6. The board of trustees of said town shall have the power and hereby authority to change or alter the name of any or all of the streets of said town, by an ordinance regularly adopted, signed, and recorded in the ordinance book of said town; but before such change or alteration shall be valid, the same must be recorded in the minute-book of the said board of trustees, together with a plat of all the streets of said town, and the names thereof; and clerk of said board of trustees furnish to the clerk of the Pendleton county court a copy of the proceedings changing or altering the names of said streets, and a copy of the plat of said town, and have the same recorded as the original plan or plat of said town is recorded in said clerk's office.

§ 7. All appeals from judgments of the police court of said town shall be prosecuted as and regulated by Code of Practice, and amendments thereto, regulating appeals from the judgments of police and courts of similar jurisdiction.

§ 8. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

§ 9. This act to take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 10, 1882.

CHAPTER 408.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Henderson Bridge Company," approved February 9th, 1872.

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

§ 1. That the Henderson Bridge Company be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered to have and exercise in the State of Indiana all the rights, powers, faculties, franchises, and privileges contained in and conferred by an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved April 8th, 1881, and entitled "An act supplemental to an.

act, entitled An act providing for the incorporation of companies formed for the purpose of constructing bridges for railway or common road-way purposes, or both, over rivers and streams forming the boundaries of the State of Indiana or a part thereof,'" approved March 2d, 1875, and also the rights, powers, faculties, franchises, and privileges contained in and conferred by the act to which the said entitled act is supplemental, so far as the same may, by the laws of said State, be had and exercised by the said company.

2. And whereas, the board of directors of the said Henderson Bridge Company, by resolution adopted on the 16th day of April, 1881, accepted the benefits of the said acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, in the first section of this act mentioned. Said action of the said board of directors is hereby approved, ratified, and confirmed. § 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 10, 1882.

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CHAPTER 409.

AN ACT to amend an act approved April 10th, 1878, incorporating the town of Bardwell, Ballard county.

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

§ 1. That the municipal government of said town shall consist of the board of trustees, composed of six persons and a police judge, who shall be ex officio chairman of said board.

§ 2. That said board of trustees and their successors shall be a body-politic and corporate, and shall be known and called the board of trustees of Bardwell, and by that name shall be capable in law, and for and in behalf of said town, of contracting and being contracted with, suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, defending and being defended, in all courts and places, and do all other acts, matters, and things which a body-politic and corporate, having perpetual succession, may lawfully and rightfully do within the limits of the powers herein granted.

§ 3. That the other officers of said town shall be as follows: A police judge, an attorney, a clerk, a treasurer, a marshal, an assessor, and a collector.

§ 4. That an election shall be held in said town annually, Election. on the first Saturday in December, at such place as the board of trustees may designate, and of which ten days' previous notice shall be given by printed notices, posted in at least five public places in said town by the town clerk.

§ 5. That at the annual election there shall be elected, by Police judge. the qualified voters of said town, four trustees, a police judge, and a marshal; and the person or persons receiving the highest number of votes in the whole town for either of said offices of said town shall be declared duly elected.

6. That the officers elected by the people under the pro- Term. visions of this act shall respectively hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified, respectively. All other officers mentioned in this act, and not otherwise specifically provided for, may be appointed by the board of trustees, at the first regular meeting thereof after the annual election, or as soon thereafter as may be, and respectively continue in office one year, and until the appointment and qualifications of their successors; but watchmen, policemen, and firemen may be appointed to hold office during the pleasure of the board of trustees.

§ 7. No person shall be eligible to any office in said town Qualification. who is not a citizen thereof and a qualified voter under the laws of the State; and no one shall be eligible to the office of judge, marshal, trustee, or attorney, who has not, at the time. of his election, resided in said town at least six months previous to such election.

§ 8. That every person elected or appointed to office under Oath. the provisions of this act, before entering upon the duties thereof, shall take and subscribe, before some officer authorized to administer oaths, the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution of this Commonwealth, and file the same, duly certified by the officers before whom it was taken, with the clerk of said town.

§ 9. That whenever a vacancy shall happen by death, re- Vacancy. moval, resignation, or otherwise, in any office filled by elec. tion, such vacancy shall be filled by an election, to be held within ten days after the board of trustees have notice of such vacancy. Any vacancy occurring in an office appointive by the board of trustees shall be filled by appointment.

§ 10. That when two or more candidates for any elective Ties. office shall have an equal number of votes for the same