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An Act to reduce into one, amend, and digest the acts and amendatory acts incorporating the city of Lexington. 1850 vol. II 81 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0675 and id is 1 raw text is: I AWS (IF KENTUCKY. CHAPTEH 107..10. AN ACT to re.llet' irt,, ,w,, an., !. n-l ,liZ.-t the acts and arnendatnry llt' - . t Z i r a ii hhe ettyv of' Lexiil tol. § 1. Bc it Ciaclrd b,/l th G.',-rra! Assembly oJ the Common- Poundary 'e. wealth o Kentucky, That so mue:h of the county of Fayette fined. as is contained within the following bounds, to-wit: one mile from the court house in every direction, shall be and hereby is declared to be a city, and the inhabitants thereof are created a body corporate and politic, with perpetual Corp rate succession, by the name and style of the city of Lexing- po ,rt. ton, and as such. by that name, shall be capable, in law, of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and be- ing sued, pleading and being imple:,ded, answering and being answered unto, in all courts and places, and in all matters whatsoever; and may have and use a corporate seal, and change, alter, and renew the same at pleasure. § 2. That the fiscal, prudential, and municipal concerns Mayorand of the said city, with the government and control thereof, pointow, & shall be vested in one principal officer, to be called the may- term of office. or, and one city council, consisting of twelve persons, to be denominated the board of councilmen, who shall be elect- ed on the first Saturday in January next, in the way they have heretofore been elected; anl the councilmen shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors shall be duly elected anti qualified : and the mayor shall hold his oflic e for one year, and until his successor shall be so elected and qualified ; all of whom shall have resided in said city two years next preceding the election, and be citizens of this state. § 3. That it shall be the duty of the mayor and council- City'tobe lait men, that shall be first elected under this act, to lay off the GA' Into wards. said city into four wards, for the purposes herein named, as nearly equal as possible as to number of inhabitants, im- provements, and permanent bomndaries, each of which wards is to be entitled to elect three councilmen, to be mem- hers of the board of councilmen ; and it shall be the duty of the said mayor and councilmen, from time to time, to al- ter the boundaries of the wards so as to equalize the num- ber of inhabitants in each as nigh as may be but such al- teration shall not be made except on a general census of all the inhabitants being previou.ily taken. § 4. That on the first Saturday in January, in each year When elections to be held,qulil- succeeding the first election, the free white male inhabi- ctoll ofvo- tants, over twenty-one years of age, of said city, who at the ter*. time being are citizens of the state of.Kentucky and inhab- itants of said city, and have either paid their poll tax to said city for the year next preceding the election at which they claim to vote, or have arrived at the age of twenty- one years since the last assessment of tax, and who shall have, bona ide, resided therein for the space of six calen- dar months previous to said election, shall meet in the

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