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An Act to amend an act, entitled An act to reduce into one the several acts in relation to the town of Harrodsburg. 1859 vol. I 241 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0796 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 33. 1860. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled An act to reduce into one the several acts in relation to the town of Harrodsburg. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwcalth of Kentucky: § 1. That the judicial power of said town shall be vested Judicial pow- ers vest'd in po- in and exercised by a court, to be styled the Police Court lice court. of Harrodsburg, which shall be held by a single judge, to be elected and qualified and hold office as prescribed in the Judge to be constitution of this Commonwealth. The police court of elected. Harrodsburg shall be a court of record, and shall have the Jurisdietion of power of a quarterly judge over slaves and free negroes, polic court. and to require security of all persons for good behavior and to keep the peace; and in all matters of penalties for a violation of the laws of this Commonwealth shall have concurrent jurisdiction, with the circuit courts and justices of the peace, of prosecutions for misdemeanors committed in the town where the punishment of a free person is a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and imprisonment for fifty days, or of a slave in any number of stripes not exceeding thirty-nine, and exclusive jurisdiction of all prosecutions and actions for an infraction of the by-laws or ordinances of the town. Said court shall exercise the power and jurisdiction of an examining court, shall have concurrentjurisdiction with the circuit court to try vagrants; and shall have power to take recognizances and bail bonds from persons charged with offenses cognizable before said court to appear and answer, and a like power to enforce a compliance with the same that circuit courts have; and all recognizances and bail bonds entered into to appear before said court, where the amount of the penalty does not exceed one hundred dollars, may be forfeited, and other proceedings had thereon in said court to forfeit and collect the same, as are directed by-law in similar cases in the circuit court. The jurisdiction of said court, and the judge thereof, in civil cases, shall be the same as that of a quar- terly court and the judge thereof. § 2. The police judge shall issue his process in criminal, Policejudgeto penal, and civil cases in the name of the Commonwealth, issueproessi the name of tho and make the same returnable before him as police judge Common,'h, & of Harrodsburg; and the same shall be directed to the edwhomdirect- sheriff, marshal, jailer, coroner, constable, or policeman of any town, city, or county of Kentucky, and shall be exe- cuted and returned by any of said officers, under the same penalties as other similar process from circuit and quar- terly courts; and all proceedings in criminal, penal, and civil cases in said court shall be the same as directed by law in similar cases in the circuit and quarterly courts: Provided, however, That it shall not be necessary that an indictment be found by a grand jury for the trial of any 31

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