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An Act to increase the powers of the Trustees of the town of Versailles, and to establish a Police court in said town. 1839 257 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0355 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. vict, during his confinement at the house of said Rankin, in 1840. the months of December and January last, in consequence of wounds inflicted on said Blasingen, in the effort to re-capture him, he having escaped from the penitentiary. And the Com. missioners of the Sinking Fund are directed to charge Thomas S. Theobald with his fair proportion of said sum, in the settle- ment of his accounts as Keeper of the penitentiary. Approved February 20, 1840; 04Ar. 406.-AN ACT to increase the powers of the Trustees of the town of Ver- sallies, and to establish a Police Court in said town. S jc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Corn- Corpotat monwealtk of Kentucky, That the town of Versailles, as now powers. established by law, within the boundaries defined in the limits of said town, shall be, and is hereby declared to be the town of Versailles; and as such, by that name, shall be capable in law of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, of answering and being answered, in all matters whatsoever, and in all courts and places. SEC. 2. That the fiscal, prudential and municipal concerns Fiscal con- of said town, with the government and control thereof, shall terns of town be vested in one principal officer, to be styled the Chairman vested in Chair man and six of the Board of Trustees of Versailles, and six Trustees, all of Trustees, &cJ whom, for the first time, shall be elected on the last Saturday of February, 1840, and after this year, annually, on the first Saturday in January, who shall hold their office for one year, and until their successors shall have been qualified. The Chair- man shall be elected, and hold his office for one year, and un- til his successor shall be duly qualified; all of whom shall have resided in said town one year next preceding their election. SEc. 3. That on the last Saturday of February, 1840, and in When annu- each succeeding year, on the first Saturday in January, an- al elections are nually, t white male inhabitants in said town, over to be held, and the free qualifications twenty one years of age, who have resided therein six months of voters, &c., next preceding the time of the election, and who shall have paid, up all arrearages due said town for his poll and other tak for the preceding year, (which, upon being questioned, must be satisfactorily shown,) may vote for a Chairman and six Trustees, naming who they vote for as Chairman, and who as Trustees. The Chairman and Trustees shall, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of their office, be qualified be- fore some Justice of the Peace, to support the constitution of the United States and the State of Kentucky, and discharge their duties as Chairman and Trustees (to which office they may have been severally elected) to the best of their ability during the time they continue in office. SEC. 4. That the Clerk of the Board of Trustees shall enter 251

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