which may by law be had against sheriffs and constables. in similar cases, and to the payment of the same damages, penalties, and costs for the non-performance of his duties to which sheriffs, constables, and their securities are liable in similar cases. He shall serve and execute all orders and notices issued or made by the chairman and board, and make due return thereof; he may have one or more deputies by and with the consent of the chairman and board, for whose misconduct, malfeasance, or other fault he and sureties shall be liable to the same extent as if committed by himself. He shall, under the direction of the chairman and board, have the care, management, and control of the watch-house and work-house, unless the said chairman and board shall designate some other person for such position. He shall have the same power in all cases throughout the county of Scott which is given by law to constables. He shall perform such other duties, not inconsistent with this charter, and make such other returns and reports of his acts, as may be prescribed by the chairman and board. He shall be entitled to the same fees and commissions for collecting fines and forfeitures as constables are in like cases. He shall have the same fees as constables for like services; but all the fees which shall be taxed in any cause in the police court for the services of marshal, except in felonies and civil causes, when collected, shall be paid into the town treas ury, and held as the property of the town. He shall make, once in each month, to the chairman and board, a written report of all fines and penalties and moneys by him collected, from whom and when collected, and of costs taxed for their benefit, and of all uncollected demands which, when collected, would be the property of said chairman and board; and his failure to make such report is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, punishable as may be determined by an ordinance of the chairman and board. He shall receive a salary of not less than four hundred dollars nor more than eight hundred dollars, to be fixed annually by the chairman and board at their regular June meeting, said salary to be paid quarterly, when, and as the salary of police judge is paid. Said salary shall be in lieu of all costs which would otherwise be due to said marshal from defendants, who shall receive judgment for their costs against the chairman and board in any penal prosecution before the police court, and in lieu of all costs which would be due to the marshal by said chairman and board in all cases. § 4. For any malfeasance or willful neglect of his official duties, the marshal may be suspended from exercising the duties of his office, for a period not greater than fifteen days at any one time, by the chairman and board, and thereupon said chairman and board shall cause a summons to issue from the police court, directed to the marshal, commanding him to appear in said court at any time not greater than five days from the service of such summons, to show cause why he should not be broken of his office; and should said marshal fail to appear, said marshal shall, by a judgment of said court, be broken of his office; and should the marshal appear and show cause, and should said cause by said board be deemed insufficient, the police court shall cause a jury to be summoned by the sheriff of Scott county, which jury, after hearing the evidence offered by either party, shall say in their verdict whether said marshal is guilty as charged, and whether he should be broken of his office; and should their verdict be against the marshal, he shall be broken of his office, and the court shall so adjudge. The trial shall be conducted as by general law trials by jury are conducted. This section is not intended to except the marshal from the operation of the general laws governing malfeasance and misfeasance of officers. ARTICLE IV. held. § 1. The elections provided for in this charter shall be How held at some place or places in the town designated by the board, and they shall appoint suitable persons as officers of election at the voting place or places, two persons as judges, and one as sheriff and one as clerk. Said officers shall be governed, in all matters not inconsistent with this charter, by the laws of the Common. wealth governing the elections of State officers, and subject to all the penalties imposed by said law for any violation thereof. elect ons 1 legal voting. § 2. All laws in force in this Commonwealth punishing Penalty for it illegal voting at the State elections shall apply to all illegal voting in the town of Georgetown at the elections provided for in this charter. § 3. Every male citizen over twenty-one years of age, who has resided in Georgetown for six months next preceding the election, and who shall have paid all poll-tax due from him, and all legal voters of Scott county, who shall, for the six months next preceding the election, have been the owners of real property in said town, shall be qualified voters at all elections held under the provisions of this charter. § 4. The officers of said election shall return their pollbooks to the chairman and board of trustees, who shall declare the result of said elections, and they shall certify to the Governor of the State the person elected police. judge; and when any two or more persons shall receive an equal and highest number of votes, the election shall be determined between them by the chairman and board by lot. § 5. The chairman and board shall judge of the qualifications, elections, and returns of its members; and any case of contested election for any city officer shall be heard and determined by the chairman and board, under such rules as they prescribe. 6. All vacancies in elective offices shall be filled by the chairman and board, at their next stated or called meeting after such vacancy shall have occurred, and such appointee shall hold his office until the next general election for the chairman and board, at which time the office by an election, which election the chairman and board shall advertise by a proper order. § 7. The present chairman and board, and all other officers of Georgetown, shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified under the present charter; and are hereby invested with all the powers, rights, and privileges which the chairman and board, and officers to be elected under this charter, will possess, and shall be governed by this charter from and after the day fixed herein on which the same shall go into effect. ARTICLE V. Miscellaneous Provisions. §1. The words " Chairman and Board" in this act shall mean Chairman and Board of Trustees of George. town." The words "Police Court" shall mean "Police Court of Georgetown." The words" Police Judge" shall mean "The Judge of the Police Court of Georgetown." The ordinances now in force shall remain in force until changed by the chairman and board. The passage of this act shall in nowise abridge, lessen, or impair any property rights of the chairman and board, or of the town, or of any person who has contracted with them in their corporate capacity. § 2. This charter shall go into effect, and be in full force as a law, on and after its passage, and thereafter to be the charter of the town of Georgetown, except so much of it as relates to the salary and the fees of the marshal; and such part shall go into effect on and after the first Monday in August, 1880; and all acts and parts of acts heretofore enacted, coming in conflict with this act, or any provision thereof, are hereby repealed. § 3. The officers of the elections provided for in this charter shall know that every person whose vote they receive and record shall have paid his poll-tax or polltaxes required in this charter to be paid, and that such payment of said taxes shall have been made five days. prior to the day of election; and the chairman and board, in examining the poll-books of any such election for the purpose of determining the result of said election, shall count only the votes of those persons whose poll-tax shall have been properly paid as herein required; and every person who shall vote, knowing that his poll-tax has not been paid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and on being prosecuted by the chairman and board before the police court, shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. § 4. That the officer designated in this charter as the marshal of the town of Georgetown is in no name the marshal of the police court of Georgetown; and that the marshal of the town of Georgetown shall not be deemed ineligible on account of any number of terins next pre ceding the one for which he shall be elected. § 5. The chairman and board shall have power to erect and maintain public scales in said town, and charge for weighing the same and manage the same through any agent or officer they may select; and they shall have pow er to levy a tax on any person who shall, in said town, weigh on his scales for other persons for hire or reward, or in lieu of said special tax, they may license all such persons weighing for hire, and may, by ordinance, determine the amount of the tax or license, which shall not exceed one hundred dollars; and may prescribe the fine that may be imposed on any one violating such ordi nance. § 6. The chairman and board, unless otherwise provided in this charter, shall have power to make the punishment for any breaches of any ordinance by them enacted, to carry out the powers granted by this charter, a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. Approved March 6, 1880. suspended. CHAPTER 393. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Mutual Bene. fit Association of the Western Virginia Conference of the M. E. Church, South," approved February 14, 1876. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That article two be amended by adding an additional Member may be section, viz: Sec. 6. That when any member of the association indulges in the use of alcoholic or other liquors, the use of chloral, opium, or any narcotic, so as, in the judgment of the local board, to endanger his health, or shall engage in any business deemed extra hazardous, the board, after reasonable notice, may suspend or expel such member. If suspension is had, such member may be thereafter restored upon such terms as the board may deem proper. § 2. That section three of article four be amended by striking out all of said section after subsection one, and inserting in lieu thereof the following, viz: Second. To his grandchild or children. Third. To his mother and sisters. Fourth. To his |