Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1916-08-31
5 MAGISTRATES OR
8 commissioners
Question Will Be Submitted To The
Voters Of Crittenden Co,
Next November.

commissioners or eight magls'
| trates?
Petitions are now being CIR
culated TO have this question
submitted to the people at the
coming election. The election
will be ordered if $50 voters re-
questit il.
The time has come for the
people to decide whether the
present magistrate system OF
eight members or a commission
consisting Of three members is
best fitted to finance the county
and see that the affairs OF the
county are judiciously and eco
nomically administered.
The law with reference to the
kNopost d change in county fiscal
hiAirs. as amended by the last
legislature is as follows:
but any county in the Common
wealth Of Kentucky 50 desiring It may
have three commissioners 10 be elect
ed from the county al large, who. to-
ge,her with the Judge Of the county
court. shall constitute the fiscal court
Of said county. Toascertain whether
county desire fiscal cour, composed
of three commissioners and a county
Judge. the County Ju0ge Of said
county upon application by written
petition signed by three hundred and
fifty of the legal voters Of said county,
Is hereby authorized. empowered and
Greeted 90 submit to the qualified yot'
ers Of the county. at the next general
Aect,on hereafter 20 be held. the ques-
ion, Whether the fiscal court OF the CO,
thali he composed n three commission
ers. 10 be elected from the county at
large. ard the Judge Of the county
court. Ii Is hereby made the duty oi
the county Judge. after receiving said
petition. 10 make an order on his order
book. directing the officers Of the elect
ion in all the voting precincts in the
county TO open poll to take the sense
Of the legal voters IN ths county upon
the question above set forth, and 10
see that the officers Of the election at
The respective voting precincts in the
county are furnished With poll books at
said election for the purpose thereof.
The clerk OF the county court shall
furnish the sheriff Of said county with
COPY II the order made By the judge
OF said county court on the order book,
I.,L the sheriff shall cause the same to
w uhIished in all The county papers
no' lcss than four weeks previous to the
election. and also to advertise the same
by printed handblls posted not less
ih.u two weeks before said election In
conspicuous place In each Of the vot.
ing precincts in said county.
In counties wherin no news.
papcrs are published the handhn.
shall be sufficient notice Of the election
the voting to be by ballot. each ballot
to have printed thereon the question
Are YOU in favor Of the fiscal court OF
th- county being composed Of thrS,
commissioners to be elected from th,
county az large and the judge Of III,
county court?'
said election shall be conducted, IN,
returns made. and the result Thereof
ascer,aned and determined in uccor
dance. with the provisions Of the Law
govpSng general elections. Tn,
couu,y Judge shall determine the suf
feiency Of the petition presented from
the poll book Of the last previous gen
eral election.
I, q majority Of the legal votes cas-
at saii election are IN favor Of the lis
cal court Of said CO., being composed ~
three commissioners TO be elected from
the county at large and the Judge o
the count, court, it shall be the du,!
OF ,ue county judge, before the mex
general election for county officers, t.
divide the county into three district
as ueh Seoual In population as posi-
bic; an rgtsaii election thcre shall b
el,e,t y Ia,i county by the qlaliae
vo,trF hereof, and every four year
thereafter, three commissioners. on
from each district, who, with the mdr
of the county court, shall constitut
the fiscal court of the county unit
otherwise changed by law.
The election provided for therei
shall not be held in any county in thi
Commonwealth oftener than once ever