Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-22

Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of the Commonwealth of Ken
lucky:
That an act entitled can act for
the government of cities of the third
class in the Commonwealth of Ken
tuck" which was approved June IA.
1898, and thereafter became law,
and the amendments thereto, which
act and which amendments do now
appear as article 4, of chapter SO of
the Kentucky statutes, in John d.
Carroll's edition thereof, in 1909. be
amended by adding thereto, at the
end thereof, the following provis-
ions:
Any city of the third class under the
laws of the commonwealth of Ken
lucky that may become organized and
be governed under the provisions of
this act shall not change the corpor-i
ate entity of any such city, but the
body polite and corporate entity shall
remain the same body that it now is.
All laws applicable to and govern
ing cities of the third class and not
inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act, shall continue to apply to
and govern each city that NAV or
ganize under this act. And all by
laws, ordinances and resolutions in
force in any such city and net incon-
sistent with the provisions of this
act, shall continue to be in farce un-
| til altered or repealed in the manner
provided for in this act.
1t shall be the duty of the county
Judge in the county in which is To-
Gated a city proposing to to take the
sense of its voters, as herein provided,
upon the question of organizing and
being governed under this act, upon
the application by written petition
signed by a number of the legal vot-
ers of said city equal to twenty per
centum of the votes cast in said city
at the last preceding general cleo
ton, to receive said petition, and at
the next regular term thereafter, to
make an order on his order book d.
recting an election to be held in said
city at the next regular election and
not earlier than sixty days after said
application is lodged with the said
Judge, which order shall direct the
sheriff, or other officer of said eoun-
ty who may be appointed to hold
said election, to open the polls at
each and all of the voting places in
said city for the purpose of taking
the sense of the qualified voters Of
said city upon the question as to
whether or not the citizens in said
city are in favor of the organization
and government of said city under
the provisions of this act. The ques-
ton to be submitted to the voters
shall be:
Are you in favor of the organiza-
ton and government of the city of
Greensboro. under the provisions of
an act to amend an act entitled. an
act for the government of cities of
the third class in the commonwealth
of Kentucky which was approved
June IA. 1893, and thereafter in due
course became a law, and as same
has since been amended, all of which
said act and amendments now APP
pear as article A, of chapter SO, of
the Kentucky statutes. in John d.
CAROLS edition thereof. in 1914.
which act was adopted by the gen.
eral assembly of Kentucky. at the
1914 session thereof, and under
which the members of the board of
commissioners shall receive salary
of $500 per year."
1t shall be the duty of the county
clerk to give to the sheriff of the
county or to such other officer as may |
be appointed to hold said election, a |
certified copy Of the order of the
county court. as it appears on the Or
der book. within five days after such
order Is made; ami it shall be the
duty Of said sheriff. or other such
officer, to have said order published