Chapter 685. An act prohibiting the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or the mixtures thereof, within the town of Hadensville, in Todd county, or within a radius of two miles of said town --. Chapter 686. An act to enable Mason county to provide means to meet her railroad Chapter 689. An act to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Mechanics' Building and Loan Association of Lexington Chapter 690. An act for the benefit Ernest Tyler, of Shelby county.. Chapter 691. An act for the benefit of Timothy Ford, of Garrard county --- . Chapter 692. An act authorizing the Adjutant General of the State to furnish small arms and equipments, not exceeding sixty stand of arms, to the graded and military public school at Harrodsburg Chapter 693. An act to amend the charter of the Russellville District Turnpike Com- pany, and the acts amendatory thereto.___ Chapter 694. An act to amend an act, entitled "An act to authorize the trustees of common school district No. 50, in Mason county, to levy and collect a tax for the erection of school buildings," approved April 9th, 1878. 692 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, PASSED AT THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL THE CITY OF FRANKFORT ON WEDNES- CEMBER, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE. LUKE P. BLACKBURN, Governor. JAS. E. CANTRILL, Lieut. Gov'r and Speaker of Senate. CHAPTER 4. AN ACT to regulate the appellate jurisdiction of the McCracken circuit court over the judgments and final orders of the Paducah city court, being amendatory of the charter of the city of Paducah. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the McCracken circuit court shall have appellate jurisdiction over the judgments and final orders of the Paducah city court in criminal and penal cases, where the fine is ten dollars or over. § 2. That section 1 of this act shall apply to, and regulate jurisdiction of, said circuit court over the judgments and final PUB. L. -1 McCracken cirjurisdiction of apcah city court. cuit court given peals from Padu Jurisdiction ex- orders of said city court in all cases now pending by appeal tended to past pending. cases and appeals in said circuit court, or which may hereafter be appealed thereto, and shall allow appeals on all judgments unsatisfied rendered in said city court within one year last past. § 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. J. M. BIGGER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. Approved January 10, 1880. LUKE P. BLACKBURN. By the Governor: SAMUEL B. CHURCHILL, Secretary of State. Time for hold ing quarterly courts in Jessa mine county changed. CHAPTER 8. AN ACT to change the time of holding the quarterly courts in Jessamine county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the time of holding the quarterly courts in the county of Jessamine, as now fixed by law, be, and the same is hereby, changed to the first Mondays in February, May, August, and November, in each year; and that all process. returnable to the terms of said court, as now fixed by law, be, and the same is, by this act, made returnable to the terms of said court as fixed by this act. § 2. All laws within the purview of this act are hereby repealed. §3. This act shall take effect from and after the twentyfourth day of February, 1880. Approved January 15, 1880. Preamble CHAPTER 30. AN ACT to take the sense of the people of this Commonwealth as to the propriety of calling a Convention to revise the Constitution, and to regulate the manner of taking the list of qualified voters. WHEREAS, It is the sentiment of this General Assembly, and many good citizens of this Commonwealth, that experi ence has pointed out the necessity of calling a Convention with the view of amending the Constitution of this State; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be the duty of the sheriffs and other officers, at the next general election held for Representatives after the passage of this act, to open a poll for, and make a return to the Secretary of State for the time being of, the names of all citizens entitled to vote for Representatives who have voted for calling a Convention. Duty of sheriffs to open poll. and other officers Penalty for failure to pe:form § 2. Be it further enacted, That any sheriff or other returning officer failing to perform the duty imposed by the first duty. section of this act, shall be subject to a fine of six hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment by any grand jury in any court having jurisdiction thereof; and also be subject, upon conviction of such failure, to removal from office. Duty of Secretary of State to §3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to have this act advertised in the columns advertise this act. of one weekly newspaper in every county in this State, for two consecutive weeks immediately preceding the election, and in one of the daily newspapers in the city of Louisville for thirty days immediately preceding the election: Provided, however, There is no weekly newspaper in any one or more counties of this Commonwealth in which said advertisement can be made, it is made his duty to have posted a printed copy of said bill, in handbill form, at the court-house door of such counties, for at least two consecutive weeks preceding said election. Public Prineer to print ten thou §4. Be it further enacted, That the Public Printer shall, upon a separate sheet, print ten thousand copies of this act, sand copies. and deliver them to the Secretary of State, who shall send seventy-five copies of the same to the clerk of the county court of each county in the State at the time of forwarding the Acts of the General Assembly; and said clerks shall deliver the same to the sheriffs of their several counties. Duties of judges of election to pro voter. § 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerks or judges conducting the said general election to pro- pound question to pound to each voter the following question: "Do you vote for calling a Convention or not?" and if he answers in the affirmative, his name shall be recorded as having voted for calling a Convention. enroll. Penalty for unlawully enrolling § 6. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Assessors to assessors of tax to open a column in their assessor's books, and enroll therein the name of each citizen entitled to vote for Representative for the year 1881; but the assessor shall only enroll the names of those whom they shall know to be entitled, at the time, to vote for Representatives, such knowledge to be based-1. Either upon the personal knowledge of the assessor; 2. Or upon satisfactory information obtained by the assessor directly from the person whose name is enrolled; 3. Or upon satisfactory information obtained, under oath, from those who, of their own knowledge, testify to the facts which are necessary to such qualification; and for enrolling names without such knowledge or information, such assessor shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined twenty dollars for each and every name so improperly enrolled, which fine shall be enforced in any court of competent jurisdiction, and be for the benefit of the common schools of the Commonwealth; and they shall be governed, in all cases, in ascertaining who is entitled to vote, by the laws then in force to To be transmit prevent illegal voting; and this column, written in a fair and legible hand, shall be transmitted, with the assessor's books, to the Auditor, who shall make out a copy thereof, and deposit the same in the office of the Secretary of State for the time being, who shall transmit the same to the next Legislature as a list of those who are entitled to vote for Representatives, in order that the Legislature may have the means to ascertain whether a majority of the citizens of the State entitled to vote for Representatives have voted for a Convention. ted with assessors' books to Auditer amine on oath. 7. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of each assessor of tax, who shall be in office in the year 1881, as soon as be shall be advised of the passage of this act, to go before a justice of the peace and take the following oath: "I do solemnly swear I will, to the best of my ability, fairly ascertain the number of qualified voters in the district in which I was elected for the year 1881, and report the same, with my book made as assessor of tax, before the first day of May, 1881." § 8. Be it further enacted, That the assessors of tax may, Assessor to ex and they are hereby, required to examine, on oath, any person in relation to his right to vote for Representatives when he has doubt as to bis right to vote; and any person who shall knowingly swear falsely before the assessor, and shall |