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§2. This act shall take effect from its passage, and the General Assembly reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal the same at pleasure.

Approved January 27, 1863

CHAPTER 744.

AN ACT for the benefit of J. E. Bacon, of Edmonson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be and he is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer in favor of J. E. Bacon, of Edmonson county, for the sum of fifty dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being amount of expenses incurred by said J. E. Bacon, in conveying a lunatic from said county to the Western Lunatic Asylum at Hopkinsville. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage.

Approved January 27, 1863.

CHAPTER 745.

AN ACT to amend the original and amended charters of the Versailles and Anderson turnpike road company.

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

§ 1. That in addition to the powers and privileges conferred upon the Versailles and Anderson turnpike road company, by their original and amended charters, said company is hereby authorized and empowered to construct a branch of their said road along the old dirt road leading from Frankfort to Lawrenceburg, commencing at the point where the same is now intersected by the Versailles and Anderson turnpike road, and terminating where said dirt road intersects the turnpike road leading from Lawrenceburg to Shelbyville.

§ 2. In the construction and government of said road, said company shall be governed in all respects by the provisions of their said original and amended charters.

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

Approved January 27, 1863.

CHAPTER 746.

AN ACT to repeal the charter of the Deposit Bank of Cynthiana. Whereas, it is represented to the present General Assembly that by authority of all of the stockholders in the Deposit Bank of Cynthiana, the directors thereof did, on the 30th of April, 1862, make an order transferring the assets of said bank to the Commercial Bank of Kentucky-therefore,

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

That the act, entitled, an act" to incorporate the Deposit Bank of Cynthiana," approved February 27th, 1856, be and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent said Deposit Bank from sueing for, and recovering any debt due the same, or instituting any proceeeings with a view to winding up its affairs, or from being held liable for any obligations and liabilities incurred by said Deposit Bank undischarged. Approved January 27, 1863.

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CHAPTER 749.

AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the city of Paris. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That so much of the county of Bourbon as was embraced in the corporate limits of the town of Paris, and the persons residing within said boundaries are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the city of Paris; and by that name may have perpetual succession; sue and be sued in all courts at law or in equity; may contract and be contracted with; may purchase and hold such lands and tenements and personal property as may be necessary for the use of said corporation, and may sell and convey the same; may have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; and may have and enjoy all the powers and privileges of a municipal corporation.

Corporate lim. its and powers.

Divided into

§ 2. Said city is divided into two wards, separated by Main street. So much as lies on the North side of said two wards. street, and on which the court-house stands, shall constitute the first ward, and that on the other side of said street the second ward.

Officers of said

§ 3. The officers of the city of Paris shall be a mayor, three councilmen from each ward, an assessor, marshal, city. treasurer, and clerk, and other officers which the common council may appoint in their discretion.

§ 4. The mayor, councilmen, (marshal, assessor, and treasurer shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city.

Officers to be elected.

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When and how election held.

Term of office.

officers

5. The mayor and other elective officers shall be elected on the first Saturday in April of each year. The elec tion to be held at the court-house, and the polls to be open from 7 o'clock, A. M., till 12 o'clock, M. The mayor and marshal to hold their offices for two years, and the other elective officers for one year. All officers shall take an oath faithfully to discharge the duties of their offices.

6. No person shall be eligible to the office of mayor Eligibility of who has not resided two years within the city limits, and who is not twenty-five years old; nor shall any person be eligible to any other office who has not resided one year within the city limits. In all cases the officer must also be a qualified voter under the constitution and laws of Kentucky. And no officer shall be eligible for re-election or re-appointment who has not, before such election or ap pointinent, received from the proper authority a discharge, in writing, for any money which may have come to his hands belonging to the city, and for which he is accounta ble to the city.

voters.

7. Every white male citizen over 21 years of age, who Eligibility of is sane, and not a pauper, who shall be a legal voter under the constitution and laws of the State, and has resided sixty. days next preceding the day of the election in the city, shall be deemed a qualified voter for city officers.

Mayor's duties and powers.

Common council.

To appoint el'k,

and duties.

§ 8. It shall be the duty of the mayor to preside at all meetings of the council, and he shall not vote unless there is a tie; he shall be a conservator of the peace; may ar rest offenders against the penal laws of the city and Commonwealth on view, and summon the posse comitatus to his aid; he shall exercise a strict supervisory control over the affairs of the city; see that the city ordinances are enforced, and that each officer discharge his duty properly, and to cause such officer as may be derelict in the discharge of his duty to be impeached; he shall take the necessary steps to suppress riots, insurrections, and disorderly meet ings; he shall sign all commissions, licenses, and permits granted by the city authorities; and he shall perform all such duties and exercise such powers as from time to time may be confided to him by the laws of the city, or which may otherwise pertain to the office of mayor.

§ 9. The three councilmen from each ward, together with the mayor, shall constitute the common council. The com mon council shall appoint a clerk the first meeting they and his powers shall hold after their election, who shall hold his office till the next election of councilmen, or until his successor is duly appointed. He shall keep a correct record of the proceedings of the cominon council, which shall at all times be open for the inspection of any citizen of the city; and he shall perform such other duties as shall be prescribed When conneit by the council. They shall meet on the first Tuesday after each election, and as often thereafter as the public busi

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ness may require. A majority of the members of the six councilmen shall be necessary to transact business. In the absence of the mayor, the council must elect one of their own body to preside during the meeting. The common council shall have full power to assess and collect annually, against each male inhabitant liable to taxation under the laws of the State of Kentucky, (slaves excepted,) a capitation tax not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per head, and upon all slaves and other property, real and personal and mixed, including merchandize, except such as is exempt by the State laws from taxation, and except rights, credits, and money, such ad valorem tax as they shall from time to time, deem expedient: Provided, such assessment shall not exceed fifty cents on the one hundred dollars worth of taxable property. Negroes hired in the city for one year or less, by persons or owners not residing in the city, shall be subject to taxation, to be paid by the owner of the slave, but the tax shall in no case be more than fifty cents per one hundred dollars on the hire The council shall cause to be made out, on or before the first be made out & Monday of February of each year, a copy of the assessment role of the previous year, and handed to the assessor, together with a precept commanding him, in the name of the city to make and return to the common council, on or before the first Monday in May thereafter, a list of all persons liable to poll tax as aforesaid, and of all lands and tenements, goods and chattels and slaves liable to be taxed as aforesaid with the name of the owner thereof, and a just valuation and a certain description of said property. The assessor shall execute and return said precept according to the command thereof; and every such assessment shall be taken as if made on the first Monday of March in each year, from which time the taxes of the current year shall be a lien upon the property so assessed, and a charge against the owner thereof until the taxes shall be paid.

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May have strets or turnpiked.

10. That the common council shall have power to cause and to procure all the streets and alleys in the city now es- and alleys pav'd tablished, or hereafter to be established, to be paved and turnpiked, at the cost and expense of the lot owners fronting such streets or alleys; and when the paving or turnpik ing shall be completed they shall apportion the cost and expenses thereof on the lot holders in proportion to the front of lot owned by each lot holder; and a lien is hereby given on the lots and parts of lots for the security of the payment of the same, which costs and expenses may be listed and collected by the city marshal as other taxes, but the marshal shall also have authority to sell and convey the lots and parts of lots for the same under the by-laws and ordinances of the common council: Provided, that the owner of any lot or lots, thus sold for paving and turnpik-. ing, shall have five years after the date of the deed of con

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May have side walka curbed &

paved.

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¡Owners may

veyance to redeem the same, on paying the purchase money and ten per centum interest per annum, and also all taxes and levies that may have subsequently accrued: And provided, that infants shall have one year after arriving at full age, on like terms.

§ 11. That the common council shall have power to cause the side-walks to be curbed and paved with stone or brick, and to apportion the cost and expenses thereof on the owners of lots fronting thereon; and a lien is given on the lots for the same, and such costs and expenses may be listed and collected in like manner as that of paving and turnpiking; and the marshal shall have like authority to sell and convey the same as is provided for in the preceding section, and subject to redemption in the same way.

§ 12. The owners of lots fronting on streets which the common council may require to be paved or turnpiked, and have sts. paved, also of side-walks to be curbed and paved, shall have the right to make the same at their own cost and expense, but in all cases to be done in accordance with the ordinance of the common council as to the manner and time.

walks & streets to be repaired.

§ 13. The common council may, in like manner, cause May cause side-side-walks and streets to be repaired or repaved at the cost and expense of owners holding lots fronting thereon, and with the same power to compel the payment of the cost and expense thereof, and with the same lien on the lots, and with the same power to cause said lots to be sold and conveyed to the purchasers thereof, and with like privilege of redemption to the owners of the same.

ances.

§ 14. In all cases of public nuisances of whatever kind, May abate nuis- the common council, after reasonable notice to the guilty party, may cause the same to be abated, and may sue such guilty party in any court of competent jurisdiction, and recover full compensation for the expense of such abate

Free negro to good behavior.

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§ 15. Every free negro, who shall hereafter remove to this city, shall file a bond to the acceptance of the mayor, give bond for in his office, conditioned for his or her good behavior for one year with a penalty of two hundred dollars, within ten days after his or her arrival. At the end of each year Penalty for said bond is to be renewed. In default of such bond being thus filed, or when filed thus renewed, by any free negro found in this city, who may have resided within its chartered limits ten days, he or she may be arrested and taken before the mayor, and if found guilty shail be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars and costs, and in default of payment of such fine he or she shall be advertised at least ten days and sold into servitude for the shortest term of time that will pay said fine and costs. May

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§ 16. The common council shall grant a license to any person who may have complied with the statute law of

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