Police judge. the town until their taxes are paid, at the rates of one dollar a day for their work; and if such delinquent tax-payer fail orrefuse to work when summoned to do so by the marshal, he shall be summoned to appear before the police judge, and shall be liable to a fine for such failure of five dollars and costs, to be collected as other fines due the town. § 12. The police judge shall, at such times as the town council may require, make settlements with the council, and pay over to them or the proper person all moneys collected by him for the town from fines or other sources. § 13. The town council shall have power to license livery stables, town wagons, carts and drays, peddlers, tradingboats, shows of all kinds, circuses, menageries, theaters, and all similar institutions or public amusements carried on in the town, or one half mile thereof, billiard and other like tables, nine and ten-pin alleys, and the like. They may lay off and rent out the landings in front of the town, and license wharf-boats, coal-yards, and the like. They shall, by the enactment of suitable ordinances, provide for the protection of those licensed hereunder, and impose penalties upon those prosecuting these callings without license so to do; and the licenses hereinprovided for, and the penalties authorized to be imposed, shall be in addition to those provided for by the State laws. 14. The town council shall, by appropriate enactments, provide for the punishment of the officers of the town who fail or refuse to perform their official duties, which punishments shall not exceed a fine of fifty dollars and thirty days' imprisonment, either or both, and shall not be in lieu of the punishments now provided by the laws of the State for official misconduct. § 15. The town council shall have power, in the exercise of their discretion, to build or otherwise provide a suitable house or room for the holding of the police court and meetings of the council; to pay the town clerk and marshal suitable salaries as a reward for faithfulness in office, and it shall be the duty of the council to provide a secure and suitable calaboose or town prison. Said council shall have power to adopt quarantine regulations and enact ordinances for the protection of the health and to insure cleanliness of the town, and to fix and enforce the same by appropriate penalties. § 16. Offenses committed within the limits of the town of Jurisdiction. which the police judge and police court have jurisdiction, shall be prosecuted, when before said judge or court, in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, for the use and benefit of the town council of Caseyville, when the offense is one against the laws of the State; and the town council shall have the benefit of all fines and forfeitures accruing from such prosecutions, and the town attorney shall be under the same obligation to prosecute in such cases as in cases for the violation of town ordinances; but where imprisonment is assessed as part of the punishment for offenses so tried, the imprisonment may be either in the county jail or in the town prison, and when the convict is to do labor as part of his punishment, the same may be upon the streets of the town as the court may direct. 17. The town council shall have power to pass all ordinances necessary for the improvement of the streets, walks, and other public property of the town, and for keeping the same in repair, and may direct what kind of such improvements shall be made, what material shall be used, and whether the same shall be at the expense of the town or at the expense of the owners of property lying on the streets, alleys, walks, or ways to be improved. The council may require the streets, gutters, or sidewalks to be paved, curbed, or graveled, or otherwise improved, as the council may deem best, and may direct within what time said work shall be done, and shall have the right to receive or reject the same if not done according to the requirements. § 18. Ordinances adopted in pursuance of the last section Ordinances. shall be published, or written notices thereof posted in the usual way, at two or more public places in the town, and when so done shall be considered notice to all persons whatever of the requirements thereof. $ 19. When the owner of any property ordered to be improved as aforesaid, or lying on such streets, alleys, walks or ways so ordered to be improved or repaired at the expense of the owner, fails or refuses, within the time required by the order and notice to do the work or improvement required, the town council may do or have said work done, and for the cost thereof shall have a lien upon the said property, with interest from the time of the completion of the work, and for Evidence. all costs attending the proceedings to perfect and enforce the lien. 20. The liens herein before provided for may be enforced. by appropriate proceedings in the police court of Caseyville, where the amount of the lien claimed, exclusive of interest and costs, does not exceed the jurisdiction of the court, and the town marshal or some other suitable person selected by the court shall make all sales of property decreed to be sold under the provisions of this act, and shall report to the said court, and make such conveyances of said property so sold and reported, as the court may direct. Where the amount of the lien claimed exceeds the jurisdiction of said court, the proceedings shall be instituted in the circuit court of the county, and shall conform to the practice in chancery cases in said court. 21. Property sold as herein before provided, to enforce said liens for work and improvements, may be redeemed by the owner, his heirs, representatives or assignee, at any time within two years next after the date of the sale, upon payment to the purchaser of the purchase-money and interest, and likewise for all buildings or other improvements put upon the property by the purchaser before redeemed. Non-residents of the State shall have five years in which to redeem, and infants shall have two years after arriving at the age of majority; the value of the improvements at the time of redemption shall govern in such cases. The town council may buy, hold, or sell, for the benefit of the town, property sold as aforesaid. § 22. Copies from the books of the town council of all orders, ordinances, and entries therein made, when certified. by the clerk of the council or by the president of the town council, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of the truth of the matters therein contained. Approved March 22, 1882. CHAPTER 531. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating the of Pineville, in Bell county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section eleven of said act be so amended as to road as follows, viz: That the trustees of said town shall have power to levy and collect a tax of one hundred to five hundred dollars on each hotel-keeper, coffee-house keeper, or other vendor of spirituous or malt liquors within the corporate limits of said town; and that before said board of trustees shall grant any hotel keeper, coffee-house keeper, or other person a license, a majority of a full board of all the trustees. authorized or required to act, or to be elected or appointed. for said town, shall concur in granting said license. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 22, 1882. CHAPTER 532. AN ACT to prohibit the selling, giving, or loaning of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in Walbridge, in Lawrence county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any one to sell, give, or loan any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or mixture thereof, in Walbridge, in Lawrence county, Kentucky, or within a radius of two miles thereof. Any persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of keeping a tippling-house, and shall be subject to the pains and penalties imposed therefor: Provided, however, That any person may give to a neighbor, when visiting his or her house, or a physician may administer a drink of either of said liquors, without incurring the penalties above imposed. 2. After the approval of this act, no license shall be granted to any person to sell any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within the boundary specified in the first section of this act. §3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 22, 1882. CHAPTER 533. AN ACT to incorporate the National Lodge of Reapers. WHEREAS, Certain persons, citizens of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois, have formed a corporation to promote benevolence, morality, industry, mutual protection, and assistance in said States and the United States; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That J. C. Dupoyster, R. N. Adams, George Mimnus, R. B. Smith, S. B. Penn, Charles Straughn, Thomas C. Marshall, W. J. Puckett, T. T. Gardner, R. R. Wakefield, Willis Ringo, W. H. Penn, jr., J. F. Holt, S. K. Hinchy, Simon Holt, W. H. Curd, J. A. Cummings, J. M. Roach, J. D. Ferguson, and their successors, be, and are hereby, created a body-politic, to be known by the name, style, and title of the National Lodge of Reapers; and by such name and title shall have perpetual succession, and be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, and of purchasing, leasing, holding, granting, and receiving, in its corporate name, property, real, personal, and mixed, and of instituting grand and subordinate lodges as it may see fit, under such by-laws, rules and regulations, as the corporation may enact, and not in conflict with the laws of this State and the United States. § 2. The objects of the corporation shall be to unite fraternally all acceptable white men of any reputable profession, business, or occupation, who are over eighteen years of age, to give all possible moral and material aid in its power to its members and those depending on its members, by holding moral and instructive lectures, and by distributing among its members general information resulting from a collection of statistics of every branch of agriculture and all other indus tries, and by encouraging each other in business. § 3. The said national lodge shall have a common seal for making and delivering all legal acts and proceedings, the same to break or alter at pleasure. § 4. The said national lodge may provide for holding annual, biennial, triennial or special meetings, at such time and place as a majority of its voting members may select. § 5. The private property of members of the corporation shall be exempt from the corporation debts. § 6. The said national lodge shall provide for the election of such officers as it may deem necessary to transact the business of the corporation and to further its objects, who shall hold office until their successors are duly elected, qualified, and installed into office. |