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An Act to incorporate the town of Lockport. 1853 vol. II 287 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0731 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 716. 1854. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Lockport. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Incorporated of Kentucky, That the town of Lockport, in the county of boundary. Henry, be and the same is hereby incorporated, with such bonndaries, streets, alleys, and other public grounds, as is exhibited in the plat of' said town, including all the lots laid off by S. W. Hunt, and such other lots or lands lying within the limits of said plat, which plat or a copy thereof, shall be deposited for record in the office of the clerk of the Henry county court, on or by the first day of May, 1854. § 2. That, hereafter, the fiscal, prudential, and municipal Five trustees ho to be etectedo concerns of said town be invested in five trustees, who be eco . shall be elected, on the first Saturday in March, 1854, and on the first Saturday in March annually thereafter, by the free white male citizens over twenty-one years of age, and who have resided in said town at least three months previous to said election ; said trustees shall hold their Terr ooffic nd to take an office for the term of one year, and until their successors oath. are elected and qualified; the said trustees, before they enter upon the duties of their office, shall take an oath before some justice of the peace, that they will faithfully and without favor or affection discharge the duties of trustees while they continue in office. That in case a va- Vawncy. how cancy shall take place between the times of holding said filled. elections, the board shall have power to fill said vacancy. No person shall be a trustee of said town who is not a citizen thereof, and who has not been a resident thereof at least twelve months previous to his election. The said Shallbeabody trustees, and their successors in office, shall be a body corporate. politic and corporate, to be known by the name and style of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Lockport, and, by that name, shall be capable in law of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, of plead- ing and being impleaded, of answering and being dnswer- ed, of defending and being defended, in all courts and places; and may have and use a common seal, and do all things which a town politic and corporate may lawfully do. § 3. That said trustees may from time to time fix by Further po,. their by-laws, the times and places of holding their regu- era or the trus. lar meetings, and also prescribe the mode in which special ees meetings shall be had ; may inflict a penalty of not more than one dollar on any member for non-attendance, which shall go to pay the incidental expenses of said board, and may appoint one of their number president of the board. 4. That the board of trustees shall have the power Afaysellstreets anti authority to clear the streets, alleys, side-walks, and and aley&. pass-ways of all obstructions; and may compel persons to open any alley or street which they may have closed

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