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An Act authorizing the County Judge of Ohio county to submit to the qualified voters of said county the propriety of voting a tax for road purposes. 1857 vol. I 334 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0772 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1858. § 6. The Board of Trustees shall have power and an- May cause thority to cause the streets and alleys of said town to be streets & alleys kept open, clean and in repair. They may, by their or- to be kept clean, ce. f ders, require the owners of lots in said town to construct pavements or sidewalks, and plant shade trees in front of their respective lots, and enforce the same by their by- laws and appropriate penalties thereunder. They may also construct roads or wharves from the streets in said town to the water's edge in the Ohio river. § 7. They may also appoint such other inferior officers, Inferior offlcers within and for said town, as they may by their laws maybeappoint- create, as they may deem necessary for the proper police d. and regulation of said town. Approveo February 9, 1858. CHAPTER 287. AN ACT authorizing the County Judge of Ohio county to submit to the qualified voters of said county the propriety of voting a tax for road pur- poses. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the County Judge of Ohio county may, by order entered on the books of his court, submit to the qualified voters of said county, at the next general August election in 1858, whether they will tax themselves to the amount of seventy-five cents on the head of each person and slave who, by law, is now compelled to work the roads; and if the tax is so voted those who, by law, are com- pelled to work shall pay to their overseers said sums on demand, unless they prefer to work, and on their failure to do the one or the other they shall be subjected in man- ner and form to the penalties now denounced by law on their failing to work. The Sheriff is hereby directed, un- der the penalty of twenty dollars, to be recovered by in- dictment or presentment in the Circuit Court, for each of- fense, to stick up one notice in each voting district of said county, specifying the object of the vote. The Clerks of the different election precincts, under like penalties in last preceeding section, and recoverable in like manner, shall open two columns, one for and one against the tax; and the several Sheriffs shall propound to each voter, are you for or against the tax? Which vote shall be re- turned and compared as the returns for representatives are now, by law, directed to be returned; and if a ma- jority have voted for the tax this act shall immediately take effect. The several overseers shall expend the sums of money collected in the improvement of the roads.in their respective districts, and shall report to the County Courts, semi-annually, the amounts of money thus col-

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