1872. eligible for second term. per cent. per annum, payable semi annually; for the payment of which, interest coupons may be attached to said bonds. The said bonds shall be signed by the mayor of said city, under the corporate seal, and countersigned by the auditor of said city. The auditor shall also sign each of the coupons thereto attached. 7. That the following provision in section nineteen of Mayor made the charter of the city of Louisville, approved 3d March, 1870, to-wit: "And he shall be ineligible to that office for the ensuing three years" be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Council may increase salary of city attorney provements on §8. That the general council of said city shall have power to increase the salary of the city attorney of said city to any sum which, in the aggregate, shall not exceed the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars per annum. 9. The general council shall have power to provide, May order im- by ordinance or resolution, for the improvement of public property, not ways where the contiguous territory is not defined into squares by principal streets; but in the ordinance providing for the improvement of such public way, the depth on both sides fronting said improvement to be assessel for the cost of said improvement shall be stated, and the apportionment, when made, shall be according to the number of square feet owned by the parties respectively within the depth as set out in the ordinance. off into squares. have property ouncil fix. may § 10. That the following part of section 12 of the charter of said city, approved 3d March, 1870, to-wit: “But the owner or owners of lots liable to be assessed for the improvement of public ways, shall have the right to make the same or have the same done by private contract: Pro Owners may vided, The same be done by permission of the general improved council, and under an ordinance prescribing therefor acder direction of cording to the plans and specifications, and under the in such time as approval of the city engineer. If not so done, and within reasonable time, as determined by the mayor, it may be done by public contract," be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and in lieu thereof, it is provided that the general council may, in its discretion, upon the petition of a najority of property owners on the part of the street proposed to be improved, grant them permission to improve said public way under the supervision of the city engineer, and within such time as may be fixed by the general council. § 11. That for the purpose of enabling the water-works Council may company to extend its mains to Portland and other porcity to water- tions of the city, the general council of said city is authorworks company ized to give or loan the bonds of said city to the amount to extend of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to said water loan bonds of to enable them mains. works company. The bonds so provided shall be made payable not exceeding thirty years from date, and at such place as shall be designated in the ordinance authorizing their issue, not to bear interest more than the rate of seven 1872. CHAPTER 386. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating the Public Library of Kentucky. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section nine of an act to incorporate the Public Library of Kentucky, which became a law March 16th, 1871, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [This act became a law by reason of the failure of the Governor to return the same within the constitutional period.] CHAPTER 387. AN ACT to amend and reduce into one the several acts in relation to the town of Calhoon. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the corporate limits of the town of Calhoon, in McLean county, be, and the same are hereby, changed and enlarged; and instead of the present, that the following boundaries shall hereafter comprise the corporate limits of the town, to-wit: Beginning at low-water mark Boundary. on Green river, the southeast corner of the original corporate limits of the town, for a starting point; thence with the course of the east line of the original corporation north eight degrees west to the northeast corner thereof; thence the same course three hundred and ninety-six yards or seventy-two poles for a northeast corner of the town; thence north eighty-two degrees west, the course of the north line of the original corporate limits, to where said line will intersect the continuation of Ferry street; thence north seventy-five degrees west a straight line, the course of the north boundary to Humphrey's reserve, to the intersection of a line running the course of Branch street; thence north eighty-five degrees west a straight line, to a point where the west line of the original corporate limits continued will intersect for the northwest corner of the 1872. eligible for second term. per cent. per annum, payable semi annually; for the payment of which, interest coupons may be attached to said bonds. The said bonds shall be signed by the mayor of said city, under the corporate seal, and countersigned by the auditor of said city. The auditor shall also sign each of the coupons thereto attached. § 7. That the following provision in section nineteen of Mayor made the charter of the city of Louisville, approved 3d March, 1870, to-wit: “And he shall be ineligible to that office for the ensuing three years" be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Council may increase salary of city attorney May order im provements on property not laid off into squares. der direction of ouncil fix. may §8. That the general council of said city shall have power to increase the salary of the city attorney of said city to any sum which, in the aggregate, shall not exceed the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars per annum. 9. The general council shall have power to provide, by ordinance or resolution, for the improvement of public ways where the contiguous territory is not defined into squares by principal streets; but in the ordinance providing for the improvement of such public way, the depth on both sides fronting said improvement to be assessel for the cost of said improvement shall be stated, and the apportionment, when made, shall be according to the number of square feet owned by the parties respectively within the depth as set out in the ordinance. § 10. That the following part of section 12 of the charter of said city, approved 3d March, 1870, to-wit: "But the owner or owners of lots liable to be assessed for the improvement of public ways, shall have the right to make the same or have the same done by private contract: Pro Owners may vided, The same be done by permission of the general improved unun council, and under an ordinance prescribing therefor accity engineer, cording to the plans and specifications, and under the in such time as approval of the city engineer. If not so done, and within reasonable time, as determined by the mayor, it may be done by public contract," be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and in lieu thereof, it is provided that the general council may, in its discretion, upon the petition of a majority of property owners on the part of the street proposed to be improved, grant them permission to improve said public way under the supervision of the city engineer, and within such time as may be fixed by the general council. § 11. That for the purpose of enabling the water-works Council may company to extend its mains to Portland and other porcity to water- tions of the city, the general council of said city is authorworks company ized to give or loan the bonds of said city to the amount to extend of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to said water loan bonds of to enable them mains. works company. The bonds so provided shall be made payable not exceeding thirty years from date, and at such place as shall be designated in the ordinance authorizing their issue, not to bear interest more than the rate of seven 1872. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating the Public Library of Kentucky. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section nine of an act to incorporate the Public Library of Kentucky, which became a law March 16th, 1871, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [This act became a law by reason of the failure of the Governor to return the same within the constitutional period.] CHAPTER 387. AN ACT to amend and reduce into one the several acts in relation to the town of Calhoon. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the corporate limits of the town of Calhoon, in McLean county, be, and the same are hereby, changed and enlarged; and instead of the present, that the following boundaries shall hereafter comprise the corporate limits of the town, to-wit: Beginning at low-water mark Boundary. on Green river, the southeast corner of the original corpo. rate limits of the town, for a starting point; thence with the course of the east line of the original corporation north eight degrees west to the northeast corner thereof; thence the same course three hundred and ninety-six yards or seventy-two poles for a northeast corner of the town; thence north eighty-two degrees west, the course of the north line of the original corporate limits, to where said line will intersect the continuation of Ferry street; thence north seventy-five degrees west a straight line, the course of the north boundary to Humphrey's reserve, to the intersection of a line running the course of Branch street; thence north eighty-five degrees west a straight line, to a point where the west line of the original corporate limits continued will intersect for the northwest corner of the 1872. voters. town; thence south five degree east with the course of the said west line of the original corporation to where it intersects with Second street; thence north eighty-five degrees west, the course of Second street, a straight line, to the middle of Long Fall's creek; thence down the same with its meanders to the mouth; thence up Green river, including the Calhoon mills, with meanders of Green river, to the place of beginning. This boundary may be surveyed, plotted, and laid off into streets and alleys by the proprietors of the lands therein; but the said lands shall not be subject to town taxes until so laid off, or otherwise improved as town property. § 2. All male inhabitants of the town bona fide, of the Qualified age of twenty-one years or over, within the limits herein established, not disqualified by law, shall be deemed qual ified voters in all municipal elections held in said town. §3. An election shall be held in said town on the first Election of Saturday in April, 1872, for a police judge, a board of five trustees, police judge, and mar- trustees, and a town marshal. The present trustees may appoint one judge, a clerk, and sheriff to hold said election. shal. several offices. tion. election. § 4. The police judge and trustees shall hold office for Term of their the term of four years; the town marshal shall hold office for the term of two years; and they shall each continue in their respective offices until their successors shall be duly elected or appointed and qualified to supersede them, though it extend beyond the terms of office herein preDuties of scribed. The clerk of the town elections herein provided clerk of elec- for shall keep a poll-book in the same manner and form as provided by law that poll-books shall be kept in all State elections; and the polls shall be opened and closed on the day of election as provided for in State elections. The Duties of julge, clerk, and sheriff of election shall count the vote judge, clerk, & sheriff of said and certify to the board of trustees the parties elected, and that an election has been held by them according to law. Manner of The trustees shall then count the vote, and if the count counting votes. of the officers of election is found correct, they shall give certificates to the officers elect, and cause the same to be recorded; but if the count is found to be incorrect to the extent that a change in the result of the election would occur upon making the correction, the clerk, judge, and sheriff of the election shall be summoned, and, together with the board of trustees, correct any mistake in the count, ani certificates shall be given in accordance with the result of the election so ascertained to the officers elect; and upon the p esentation to the Governor of a certified copy of such certificate, signed by the clerk and chairman of the board of trustees, he shall cause & commission to be granted to such elected police judge; and upon executing the bond required by law, and taking the |