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An Act incorporating the Town of Livermore, in Ohio county, and for other purposes. 1849 231 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0642 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 233. 1850. AN ACT incorporating the Town of Livermore, in Ohio county, and for - - other purposes. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Corn- monwealth of Kentucky, That the town of Livermore, in the Townbounda- ries name and county of Ohio, as the same is laid out and of record in the ste.:na Ohio County Court Clerk's office, be and the same is here- by established and incorporated, with the several streets, alleys, and lots, as respectively laid out and numbered by said plat; and said town, so incorporated, shall be govern- ed by the general laws now in force in this Commonwealth upon the subject of incorporated towns. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the free white male Trustees, how inhabitants of said town, over the age of twenty one years, e eete may meet at some convenient house in said town, on Wed- nesday after the first Monday in May next, and vote for and elect four Trustees for said town, who shall remain in office for one year, and until their successors are duly qualified; and said Trustees shall have full power to fill all vacancies that may occur in said Board; to elect a Clerk, and pass such by-laws, rules, and regulations, for the government of said town, as they may see proper, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That said Trustees shall Trustees may have power to levy a tax on the citizens and property of levy atax, &c. said town, sufficient to pave the sidewalks in said town, and sufficient to build a wharf fronting in said town, on Green river and Rough creek: Provided, that the amount of tax, so levied, shall not exceed the sum of $50 in any one year, unless the citizens of said town shall vote to increase the taxes to a larger sum, in which event the same shall be increased for the purposes aforesaid to any amount author- ized by a majority of the votes in said town. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for Annual elec- tions or True the voters of said town to meet at such place as may be tees to be held. designated by the Trustees thereof, on the 1st Monday in in May, in each year hereafter, and elect four Trustees for said town-whichelections, including the election in the 1st section of this act, shall be held by any Justice of the Peace for Ohio county, who shall qualify said Trustees by adminis- tering to each of them an oath, that they will, to the best of their judgment, perform the office of Trustee for the town of Livermore. SEC. 5. The Legislature of the State of Kentucky re- Power to al. serves the right to change, alter, modify, or repeal this serrrepel,re. charter. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the powers of the Trustees of Madisonville al- Trustees of the town of Madisonville, Hopkins county, and lowed to levy & their successors in office, be so extended as to permit them collect tax, &c. to levy and collect a tax of not more than fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars worth of property in said town,

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