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An Act to amend an act incorporating the town of Raywick. 1845 231 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0494 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. SEC. 2. That B. Spalding, B. J. Cooper, William R. Mitch- 1846. ell, John Buckman, and Henry Bicket, are hereby constituted Trustees. and appointed Trustees for said town, who ahall continue in office for twelve months, from and after the first Monday in May next, any three of whom may form a quorum to do bu- siness. SEC. 3. That said Trustees may fix the metes and bounds of Trustees may lay out streets, said town, with the consent of the proprietors of the lands &e. included, and have the same surveyed and platted, laid out into streets and alleys and cross streets, as they may direct, which plats of the survey of said town shall be recorded in the Clerk's office of the Marion County Court, within eight months from the passage of this act. SEC. 4. That it shall and may be lawful for the free male Qualifica- inhabitants of the town of Raywick, who shall have attained tions of elec- tors who may the age of twenty one years, and who are entitled to vote choose Trus- for county representatives, and all other persons who have at- tees. tained the age aforesaid, negroes, mulattos and Indians except- ed, who own a lot or town lots in said town, to meet at some convenient house in said town on the first Monday in May, 1S46, and on the first Monday in May, in every year there- after, and elect five Trustees for said town, to serve for one year thereafter and until their successors shall be duly elected. SEC. 5. That no person shall be elected Trustee or qual- Qualifications ifled to act as such, unless he shall have attained the age of of Trustees. twenty one years and resided within the limits of said town or own real property in said town. SEC. 6. That the Trustees appointed by this act and their Oath of Trus- successors hereafter to be elected, before they act as such, shall tees. take the following oath, to be administered by any Justice of the Peace in Marion county : You do swear or affirm, as the case may be, that you will well and truly discharge the du- ties of a Trustee of the town of Raywick, and that you will, so far as comes within your knowledge, cause all persons to be proceeded against who violate the by-laws or ordinances of said town of Raywick, without favor, partiality, or affection. SEC. 7. That if the citizens of said town shall, at any time Special elec- hereafter, fail to elect Trustees on the day appointed by this tion of Trus- ~tees, if regu- act, that then, and in that case, the Clerk of the Board, or elections any Trustee, by giving ten days previous notice, may have an Jail. election held for Trustees, which shall be legal. SEC. 8. That the said Trustees shall, on the first Saturday President after their election, meet at some convenient house in said and Treasurer town, and at such other times and places as they may deem to be chosen. necessary for the internal policy of said town, and that they shall, at their first meeting, choose a President of the Board, who shall hold his office until the next annual election; they shall also appoint one of their own body a Treasurer, who shall, before he enters upon his duties as such, give bond and good security, payable to the President and his successors, in the penalty af $150, conditioned for the faithful discharge of

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