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CHAPTER 6.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled An act to regulate elections in this
Commonwealth, approved June 30, 1892.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That section 1, article 3, of an act entitled, "An act to regulate elections in this Commonwealth," approved June 30, 1892, being section 1486, article 4, chapter 41, of the Kentucky Statutes, be, and the same is, hereby amended by adding after the word "fourth," in the second line of said section, the words "fifth and sixth," se that said section, as amended, shall read as follows:

§ 1. In all cities and towns of the first second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth classes there shall be a registration of all the qualified voters of the respective cities and towns, which registration shall be held and conducted as herein provided.

That section 3 of the said act, being section 1488, article 4, chapter 41 of the Kentucky Statutes, be, and the same is, hereby amended, by adding to the end of said section the following:

"The officers of registration shall issue a certificate of registration to each voter registering at the time he registered, showing that he has registered, and the date of his registry, and no person who is required to register under the provisions of this act shall have the right to vote at any election held in this Commonwealth until he shall have presented to the election officers his certificate of registration.

"Any person who has registered and whose certificate of registration has been lost or otherwise destroyed after the registration books, containing his registration,

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have been filed with the clerk of the county court, may upon filing his affidavit before the county court clerk showing that fact, obtain a duplicate certificate of registration, and, upon filing such an affidavit before the county court clerk, it is hereby made the duty of the said clerk to issue said certificate, for which he may charge the applicant a fee of fifty cents, and said certificate shall entitle the person named therein to vote as if issued by the officers of registration, and for the purpose of better enabling the officers of registration to carry out the provisions of this act, it is hereby made the duty of the county court clerk to furnish with the registration book, as in this act required, a sufficient number of printed certificates of registration to meet the requirements of this act and for which he shall be paid a reasonable compensation out of the county levy of the county," so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows:

§ 3. Officers of registration shall have the same $ power to preserve order at the places of registration as is exercised by sheriffs of election at the polls. If the officers of registration entertain any doubt as to whether or not any person offering for registration is entitled to such registration, or if any one's right to register is challenged, citizens may be called in, not exceeding three in number, who shall be examined touching the qualifications of such person or persons who offer to register. The officers of registration shall issue a cer tificate of registration to each voter registering at the time he registers, showing that he has registered, and the date of his registering, and no person, who is required to register under the provisions of this act, shall have the right to vote at any election held in this Commonwealth until he shall have presented to the election officers his certificate of registration.

Any person who has registered and whose certificate of registration has been lost or otherwise destroyed, after the registration hooks containing his registration have been filed with the clerk of the county court, may, upon filing his affidavit before the county court clerk, showing that fact, obtain a duplicate certificate of registration, and upon filing such an affidavit before the county court clerk, it is hereby made the duty of the said clerk to issue sáid certificate, for which he may charge the applicant a fee of fifty cents, and the said certificate shall entitle the person named therein to vote as if issued by the officers of registration, and for the purpose of better enabling the officers of registration to carry out the provisions of this act, it is hereby made the duty of the county court clerk to furnish with the registration books, as in this act required, a sufficient number of printed certificates of registration to meet the requirements of this act, for which he shall be paid a reasonable compensation out of the county levy of the county.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved February 11, 1904.

CHAPTER 7.

AN ACT for the benefit of the Kentucky Children's Home Society.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen toka TUCKрer annum payable

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Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants upon the treasury annually in favor of the Treasurer of the Kentucky Children's Home Society for the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.

Provided, no part of said appropriations shall be paid until there has been executed on the part of said Society, a bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, with good and sufficient security, stipulating and providing that all of said sums of money so appropriated shall be applied to the purposes of the charter of said Society, that is, to the care, support and maintenance of homeless and destitute children in this Commonwealth, and providing homes for same, and a failure to do so to be a forfeiture thereof. Said bond to be approved by the Auditor of Public Accounts, and kept as a record in his office. If any part of said appropriations be not so applied then all of such part thereof as may be unexpended shall be returned to and covered into the State treasury. Said Society shall, by its proper officers, make an annual verified statement and settlement with the Auditor of Public Accounts showing when, where, and how said funds or appropriations have been applied and disbursed.

$2. The said Auditor is authorized and directed to draw his warrants upon the treasury in favor of the Treasurer of the Kentucky Children's Home Society, on the 1st day of June, 1904, and annually on the same day and date thereafter, for the sum of fifteen thousand dollars each.

Approved February 20. 1904.

CHAPTER 8.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Confederate Home to be a charitable institution of the State of Kentucky, and providing for the care and maintenance of the infirm and dependent Confederate soldiers of the State of Kentucky, and to provide under proper conditions for the admission and care of soldiers who may have wives, and for those who may have rendered. service to the Confederate cause," approved March 27, 1902.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That section four of said act which reads as follows:

84. "That said board of trustees are required to elect a president, treasurer and secretary from among their number and to fix the amount of bond which the treasurer shall be required to give, which bond shall be approved by the Governor of Kentucky and deposited with the Secretary of State. The Governor, at the time of appointing the Board, shall designate five of its members who shall hold their office for four years, five who shall hold their office for three years, and five who shall hold their office for two years; and thereafter every two years the Governor shall appoint five members of the said board of trustees. Vacancies occurring before the expiration of the term of any of the trustees shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. The nembers of said board of trustees shall perform the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this act without compensation for their services. Said board of trustees shall, on the second Monday in January of each and every year, furnish a detailed report of all receipts and expenditures and of all property owned by the corporation, and a financial statement shall be made

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