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An Act to amend an act incorporating the town of Murray, Calloway county. 1857 vol. II 281 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0762 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 281 CHAPTER 703. 1858. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating the town of Murray, Calloway county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That from and after the passage of this act, the Trustees may Trustees of the town of Murray shall have power and li cofee- authority to grant coffee house license, and tax the same in a sum not less than seventy-five dollars, nor more than one hundred and fifty dollars; and it shall be the duty of said Trustees, as soon after the passage of this act as may be, to fix amount of tax as aforesaid by an order on the record of said town, and on the first day of January of each year the tax for the ensuing year, and upon presenta- tion and payment of the tax so fixed, by any person or persons, a license to keep a coffee house for one year shall be issued and signed by the Chairman, and counter- signed by the Clerk of the board: Provided, That on granting such license the applicant or applicants shall take an oath before the County Judge or Police Judge of said town, that he will not, during the period his. license remains in force, sell or give, or cause to be sold or given, to any slave of which he is not the owner and possessor, or which is not in his employ by contract, the person hav- ing the rightful authority to hire the slave, any wine, brandy, whiskey, or other spirituous liquors, or a mixture thereof, without an order in writing from the person own- ing or having authority over such slave for the time be- ing; and for a violation of such oath, the offender shall be subject to all the penalties prescribed by law. § 2. That a Police Court be and the same is hereby e4- Police Court tablished in the town of Murray, in Calloway county, established. which court shall consist of a Judge and Marshal, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of said town at the time, and in manner prescribed by law. § 4. In case of a tie the same shall be decided in the same manner, and under the same rules and regulations, as now prescribed by law in relation to a tie vote for County Judge; and all vacancies in either of said offices of Police Judge and Marshal shall be filled, until the regu- lar election, by the County Judge of Calloway county. § 4. The said Police Judge and Marshal shall reside Whero Poliee and keep their offices within the limits of said town; and Judge and Mar- shal to keep of- the Judge shall be commissioned by the Governor; and tce. each of them shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take the oaths prescribed by the constitution and laws, which oaths may be administered by any officer authorized to administer oaths. § 5. The Marshal shall, at the first County Court of Cal- Marsa1 to give loway county after he shall have received his certificate bond. of election, enter into bond with good security, payable

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