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An Act to incorporate the town of New Castle. 1850 vol. II 430 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0682 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1851. impanneled before the police judge; and to a fee of twen- ty five cents for all other penalties, and forfeitures, and debts, to be tried before the police judge, without a jury ; to a fee of twelve and a half cents for summoning a xvit- ness, and to the same fees from the state, to be paid out of the treasury and county levy, for serving felony warrants and warrants against slaves for misdemeanors, as consta- bles are for -like services. He shall collect all executions and final process placed in his hands for collection, in the same manner constables are required by law to do; he shall be subject to the same proceedings, and liable to the same penalties that sheriflf and constables are in like cases, for the non-performance of any of the duties enjoined in this act. § 5. That the general assembly reserves to itself the power, at'all times, to repeal this act. § 6. That whenever a vacancy shall occur in said office of police judge, by death or otherwise, the citizens of said town shall elect another judge for the residue of said term ; the time and place of said election to be fixed by said trus- tees, and adverfised ten days previously thereto. Approved March 20, 1851. CHAPTER 492. AN ACT to incorporate the town of New Castle. § 1. Be it enacted by the General. Assembly of the Common- Former aCtS wealth of Kentucky, That the different acts and existing laws amended, in relation to the town of New Castle be and the same are hereby so amended as that the said town of New Castle , in the county of Henry, as laid off and described in a plat, and the additions thereto, now of record in the clerk's office of the Henry county court, is hereby declared to be the extent and limits of said town; and that, hereafter, the fiscal and municipal concerns of said town be and they are hereby vested in seven trustees, who shall be elected annually on the first Saturday in May of each year, by the free white male inhabitants over twenty-one years of age, who may have resided in said town for twelve months next preced- ing the election ; which seven trustees shall hold their of- fice for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and that, in case a vacancy shall take place in Paid board of trustees, the remaining members thereof shall have power to fill said vacancy by appointment: Provided, that no person shall be eligible to the said office of trustee, who is not at the time, and has not been for twelve months a citizen of said town, and who may not be a bona fide owner of real estate situated in said town. § 2. That said trustees, and their successors in office, corpor te shall be a body corporate and politic, with full power to powers.

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