§ 4. Said board shall continue in office one year, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified, at a meeting of the stockholders to be held annually for that purpose in Blandville, on such day and at such place in said town as the board may direct, of which due notice shall be given to the stockholders. 5. The board may appoint such other officers as they may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this act, and to carry on the business of the corporation; and may make all needful rules, regulations, and by-laws in regard to said company and its business, and shall require bond, with good security, from the treasurer, or others holding the funds of said company, to fully secure the same. § 6. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than five hundred dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars, divided into shares of ten dollars each. 7. Said company may acquire, hold, and convey and dispose of real estate as other corporations may do under the general laws of this State, to an amount not exceeding three thousand dollars in value; and may acquire, hold, and dispose of such personal property as may be necessary for the proper carrying on of their business. § 8. In no case shall the private property of stockholders be liable for the debts of the company. 9. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 22, 1882. CHAPTER 528. AN ACT to amend the articles of incorporation of the Chattaroi Camp meeting Association. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any one to sell, loan, or give spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or the mixture with either, to any one within the grounds of the Chattaroi Campmeeting Association, or within two miles thereof, during the days camp-meeting or other church, festival, or educational meetings are held on said camp-grounds. Any one so offending shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment or warrant in any court having jurisdiction, and every selling, loan ing, or giving shall be deemed and held a separate offense: Provided. This section shall not be construed to prevent licensed venders of liquors from selling same. 2. Be it further enacted, That for the purpose of putting said camp-grounds under more perfect police regulations and control, and carrying out and enforcing the provisions of this act, said camp-grounds are hereby placed under the police regulations of the town of Louisa; and during the camp-meetings or other church, festive, or educational gatherings on said grounds, it shall be the duty of the marshal of the town of Louisa to appoint one deputy, if required by the board of trustees of said association, to attend and remain on the camp grounds during such gatherings as named above, whose duty it shall be to preserve order and arrest all disturbers of the public peace, or violators of the laws of this State, or bylaws, rules and regulations of this association, or the provisions of the first section of this act, and bring them before the police judge of Louisa for trial or examination for further trial; and said marshal have the same fees now allowed by law for similar services, to be paid in the same way: And provided further, The board of trustees shall have the power to employ special police to patrol said grounds, and agree with them for compensation; but before any one shall be allowed to act under this provision, they shall take an oath to faithfully perform the duties required of them, and to give bond for the faithful discharge of their duties, which bond shall be given and oath taken before the police judge of Louisa, and entered of record in his court, and preserved among the records thereof; and all arrests made by said special police shall be turned over to said police judge for trial or examination. $3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 22, 1882. CHAPTER 529. AN ACT to authorize J. Thomas McFadden to enter as a pupil into the Kentucky Institute for Deaf Mutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That J. Thomas McFadden, of Hopkins county, is hereby authorized to enter as a pupil into the Kentucky Institute for Deaf Mutes at Danville, and when so received, shall be entitled to all the privileges of other pupils or inmates, and be subject to all the rules and regulations prescribed by law for the government of said institution. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 22, 1882. CHAPTER 530. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter all the powers now or heretofore vested in, all the rights belonging to, and the privileges exercised by, the board of trustees of Casey ville shall vest in, belong to, and be exercised by the present board and their successors, who shall henceforth be known and styled the town council Style. of Caseyville. § 2. The said town council shall consist of five members, Quorum... three of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any and all business coming regularly before the body. The members of said town council shall be elected on the first Monday in August in each year, and shall continue in office till their successors are duly elected or appointed and qualified, and shall be elected from qualified persons resident in the town. §3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the town council, Elections.. or of some other suitable person chosen by the town council, to hold all elections hereby provided for, such person being first sworn faithfully to perform the duties of his said office; it shall be his duty to open a poll at a convenient public place in said town, said poll to be kept open from a convenient hour in the morning until five o'clock in the evening, so as to give all persons entitled an opportunity of voting. He shall keep a fair and correct poll or list of all the votes cast, by whom, and how cast; and in cases of elections of members of the town council, shall return the same duly certified to the said council at the first meeting thereof next after the election; and the town council shall thereupon examine the poll, Voters. Tax. ascertain the result, and by appropriate entries on their minute book declare the same. § 4. A separate poll and list of votes cast for police judge and town marshal shall be kept by the clerk, which he shall certify in the same way, and shall, within two days after the election is held, return or cause to be returned and filed with the clerk of the Union county court, where the same shall be examined, the result ascertained, declared, and certified in the same way and by the same board as is required in case of elections of justices of the peace and constables. $ 5. No person shall be entitled to vote at elections held under this act who is not at the time a resident of the town and qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly. 6. In case of a failure to hold an election at the time required by law, upon a failure of a majority elected to quality, or where as many as three vacancies occur or exist, the county judge shall appoint a sufficient number to constitute a full board; but the said council shall fill other vacancies occurring by death, removal, resignation, or otherwise. § 7. The town council shall have power to levy and collect annually an ad valorem tax of not exceeding one dollar on the one hundred dollars' worth of property, real and personal, owned in the town, and a poll-tax of one dollar per capita on each legal voter in the town for town purposes, and for all said taxes shall have a lien on all the property so owned in the town, or if not a sufficiency of such property be found in the town, then any property owned elsewhere in the county of Union shall be subject to said lien for taxes; but such lien shall be subordinate to the lien in favor of the State and county for taxes due by the owner thereof to the State or county; and the lien herein provided for shall be enforced by levy, distraint, and sale anywhere in the county said property may be found, except that land shall be sold in Caseyville cr at the court-house door in Morganfield. Assessments shall be made as of the first of January in each year, and the assessor shall have the same rights and powers to enable him to dis. charge his duties that the county assessor has, and the town council shall have the same rights and powers in the matter of revising the assessments that are vested in the county board of supervisors. The assessor shall complete his lists and return the same to the town council by the first day of March in each year, and his compensation shall be fixed by the council. The assessor shall be chosen by the town council, and shall be sworn faithfully to perform the duties of his office. The same property shall be subject to taxation under the provisions of this act, that is subject to taxation for State and county purposes. § 8. On or before the first of April in each year the town council shall place the tax-books in the hands of the town marshal, whose duty it shall be to collect the same as it has heretofore been the duty of the tax collector for said town to do, and he shall have all the powers and authority that said collector has, and the sureties on his official bond shall be liable with said marshal in the same way, to the same extent, and enforceable in the same way as has heretofore been provided for the tax collector and his sureties. Should the marshal's office be vacant, the council may appoint a tax collector, who shall execute bond, perform the said duties of the marshal in the matter of collecting the taxes, and, with his sureties, be liable in the same way. The § 9. The marshal shall have the same power to garnishee for taxes due the town anywhere in the county that is given to sheriffs by the general laws of the State, and the proceedings shall be had before the police court of Caseyville. marshal shall also have the same power to assess voters and property subject to town taxation, and which he may find to have been omitted by the assessor, that the sheriff has in similar cases. § 10. The town marshal shall make a final settlement of his accounts for the preceding year with the town council, on or before the first of January in each year, and shall settle up and pay over to the council, or to the proper person, all taxes, fines, or other moneys collected by him for the town from all sources. The council shall examine and pass upon bis accounts and his report of delinquent tax-payers, and shall have the same power and discretion as to allowing or disallowing the same, and of putting the same out again for collection, that the county levy court has in such matters in settlements with sheriffs or collectors of State and county revenue. Said council may require him to make partial settlements at any time. 11. The town council may direct the marshal to work delinquent tax-payers on the streets or other public places of LOC. L., VOL. 1—60 |