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An Act to amend and reduce into one the several acts concerning the town of Glasgow. 1834 80 (1834)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0258 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY.

1835     the southern part of Christian county, is inconvenient
to the citizens of the surrounding country: and for
remedy whereof,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com-
inonwealth of Kentucky, That the place of voting in
said election precinct shall hereafter be at the house
of Robert C. Dunlap, in the village of Lafayette, and
that it shall be the duty of the county court of Chris-
tian county, to appoint judges and a clerk of the elec-
tion, who shall meet at the house of said Dunlap, in
the village of Layfayette, and conduct the elections
according to the laws of this commonwealth regulating
elections.
[Approved February 9, 1835.]
CHAP. 645.-AN ACT to amend and reduce into one the several
acts concerning the town of Glasgow.
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Trustees for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and
said town to be may be lawful for the free male inhabitants of the
elected annual- town of Glasgow, who shall have attained to the age
ly-their qual- of twenty-one years or upwards, and all other male
ifications, and
who entitled to persons, who have attained the aforesaid age, (negroes,
vote for trus- mulattoes and indians excepted,) who own a town lot
iees.       or lots in said town, to meet at the court house in said
town, on the first Monday in January, in each and
every year, and to elect five trustees for the said town;
which trustees shall possess the qualifications hereafter
mentioned, and a majority of them, so elected, shall
be sufficient to constitute a board, who shall be, and
Authorized to they are hereby authorized to make such by-laws for
enact by-laws. tie government and regulation of said town, as to
them shall seem proper, not inconsistent with the con-
stitution and laws of this commonwealth. The said
trustees, or a majority of them, shall have full power
To levy and and authority to impose a tax, annually, on any prop-
collect taxes on
the real and erty, real or personal, and upon each white male per-
personal prop- son, twenty-one years old or upwards, within said
erty and tithe- town, as to them shall seem proper and just: Provided,
ables in said
town.       That they shall not, in any one year, levy a tax upon
Proviso.  property in said town, to exceed fifty cents upon each
hundred dollars worth of property, nor levy any poll
tax to exceed one dollar per head; the said tax so laid
e      appopriated shall be by them appropriated for keeping the streets
in good repair, within the town aforesaid, one half of

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