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An Act to amend the act, entitled, An act to regulate the town of Falmouth. 1859 vol. II 245 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0779 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY.

§ 3. That the police judges authorized to be elected by  1860.
this act, shall have all the powers conferred on them that is
intended to be conferred on said police judge in said char-
ter, approved 5th March, 1856.
§ 4. That it shall be lawful for the chairman and board
of trustees of said town, forthwith, to appoint a town mar-
shal to hold his office until the election on the first Mon-
day in August, 1860, at which time, and every two years
thereafter, on the first Monday in August, there shall be
elected a town marshal by the qualified voters of said town.
§ 5. That the marshal appointed and the marshals who
may hereafter be elected, from time to time, shall have the
same power and be governed by the same rules and regu-
lations, and be subject to all the penalties as is now re-
quired of' him in said charter.
§ 6. That all the acts and doings of the former and
present police judges and marshals of said town of Bowl-
ing-Green, that is not in conflict with the constitution and
laws of' this Commonwealth, is hereby legalized and made
binding, as though said police judges and marshals had
been elected at the time required by the provisions of this
act and the constitution.
§ 7. This act to take effect from and after its passage.
Approved February 25, 1860.
CHAPTER 557.
AN ACT to amend the act, entitled An act to regulate the town of Fal-
mouth.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky:
§ 1. That so much of the eleventh section of the act to
regulate the town of Falmouth, in Pendleton county, ap-
proved the 29th of February, 1836, as requires the direction
and assent of two thirds of the lot owners living on any
street to the levy of a tax for the improvement of such
street, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. The board of
trustees of said town, a majority of two thirds of all the
members of the board elected concurring, shall have power
to order any of the streets and sidewalks in said town, or
portions of the same, not less in extent than a square, to be
improved by grading and paving, the sidewalks with brick,
stone, or gravel, and the streets with stone or gravel, at
the expense of the owners of the lots of ground which may
front or abut on any such sidewalk or street; that said
trustees may have power to levy a tax upon the lots of
ground fronting on the streets, or portions of streets pro-
posed to be improved as aforesaid, equal to the cost of the
improvement in front of said lots respectively.

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