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An Act to reduce into one the several acts regulating the town of Madisonville. 1850 vol. II 418 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0681 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1851. CHAPTER 485. AN ACT to reduce into one the several acts regulating the town of Madi. sonville. § 1, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- Trusteestobe wealth of Kentucky, That, hereafter, the prudential, fiscal, Ilecte annually and municipal concerns of the town of Madisonville, as now laid out and defined, shall be vested in five trustees, who shall be elected annually, together with a town mar- shal, on the last Saturday in April, by the persons at that time entitled to vote in said town for state officers. Said trustees, when elected, shall hold their offices for the term of one.year. and until their successors are elected and duly qualified; and before they enter upon the duties of their office, they skall take an oath before some justice of the peace, that they will faithfully, and without partiality or affection to any one discharge the duties of trustees of said town during their continuance in office. § 2. That said trustees shall proceed, after their qualifi- May elect cation, to elect one of their number chairman, who shAll chairman, hia preside at their meetings, and have power to convene the dutiesapoWers board, when, in his opinion, the interest of the town de- mands it. It shall be his duty to see that all the ordinances and by-laws of said town are duly executed and put in force. § 3. The said trustees, and their successors in office, shall To be abody be a body politic and corporate, and shall be known by the corporate, name and style of the board of trustees of the town of Madisonville; and, by that name, shall be capable in law of contracting and being contracted with, of suing arid being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of answering and being answered, of defending and being defended, in all courts and places, and do all acts, matters, and things which a body politic or corporate, having perpetual succes- sion, can lawfully and rightfully do. § 4. The said trustees, or a majority of them, shall have Powersor power to make or receive all necessary conveyances in re- thetrustes. lation to said town ; they shall have power over the streets, alleys, and side walks of said town, or which may hereaf- ter be opened, and may direct the improvement of the same as they shall deem most beneficial to the interests of said town; they shall have power to levy and collect an ad va- lorem tax upon the property of said town, not exceeding fif- teen cents upon the one hundred dollars in any one year, and a poll tax on each white male over the age of twenty-one years, not exceeding one dollar; they shall have power to tax shows and exhibitions for money or profit, such sum as they, by their by-laws, may declare ; they shall have power to fine all those who may violate their by-laws, any sum not exceeding five dollars; they shall have power to re- move all disorderly itenerant free persons of color from within the limits of said town; they shall have power to

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