Mason, Fleming, Lewis, Greenup, Carter, Rowan and District. § 2. That the said county is hereby assigned to the 20th Circuit Court Twentieth Circuit Court District, and said district shall be composed of the counties of Carter, Boyd, Lawrence, Elliott, Morgan and Beckham. § 3. The time for holding circuit courts in said district shall be as follows: Boyd county, at Catletts burg, on the first Monday in January, second Monday in April and the first Monday in September, and continue eighteen juridical days each term. Beckham county, at Clive Hill, on the Monday succeeding the termination of the Boyd Circuit Court, and continue twelve juridical days each term. Carter county, at Grayson, on the Monday succeeding the termination of the Beckham Circuit Court, and continue twelve juridical days each term. Lawrence county, at Louisa, on the Monday succeeding the termination of the Carter Circuit Court, and continue eighteen juridical days each term. Elliott county, at Martinsburg, on the Monday succedineg the termination of the Lawrence Circuit Court, and continue twelve juridical days each term. Morgan county, at West Liberty, on the Monday succeeding the termination of the Elliott Circuit Court, and continue twelve juridical days each term. § 4. Any case or proceeding now pending in any of the adjoining circuit court districts, affected by the bill creating the county of Beckham, which, in the dis cretion of the circuit court of said districts, should be transferred to the Beckham Circuit Court by reason of the residence or convenience of the litigants or otherwise, may be transferred to said Beckham Circuit Court. § 5. The county court of said county shall be held on the first Monday in each month, and the quarterly Circuit court County court. Thirty-fifth Senatorial District. Representative Dis trict. Congressional Dis trict. court shall be held at such time and in such manner as is now prescribed by general law. § 6. Said counyt is hereby assigned to the ThirtyFifth Senatorial District, and said district shall be composed of the counties of Rowan, Bath, Fleming, Carter, Menifee and Beckham. $ 7. Said county is hereby assigned to the EightyNinth Representative District, and said district shall be composed of the counties of Lewis and Beckham. $ 8. Said county is hereby assigned to the Third Railroad Commissioner's District, and said district shall be composed of the counties of Boone, Kenton, Grant, Harrison, Bourbon, Clark, Estill, Madison, Jackson, Laurel, Rockcastle, Whitley, Knox, Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Perry, Letcher, Floyd, Pike, Martin, Johnson, Breathitt, Clay, Owsley, Lee, Powell, Montgomery, Bath, Nicholas, Fleming, Robertson, Pendleton, Brackeu, Campbell, Lewis, Mason, Greenup, Rowan, Carter, Elliott, Boyd, Lawrence, Morgan, Magoffin, Wolfe, Menifee, Knott and Beckham. § 9. Said county is hereby assigned to the Ninth Congressional District, and said district shall be com posed of the counties of Bracken, Bath, Royd, Carter, Fleming, Greenup, Harrison, Lewis, Lawrence, Mason, Nicholas, Robertson, Rowan and Beckham. § 10. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. § 11. Whereas the proper organization and the due conduct of business in the county of Beckham requires its immediate assignment to its proper districts, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved March 8, 1904. CHAPTER 24. AN ACT to provide additional clerical assistance for the auditor's office and the land office. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: assist ance. $3,000 appro § 1. That in addition to the amount now appro- Clerical priated for clerk hire for the conduct of the business of priated, the office of Auditor of Public Accounts proper, and the Land office, which is now a department of the office of Auditor of Public Accounts, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $3,000, annually, to be disbursed for additional clerk hire, monthly, as other salaries in said offices are now paid, and to be applied to the payment of the necessary additional clerical assistance in the Land office department and in the Auditor's office proper. § 2. The amount now allowed by law for the employment of clerical assistance in said department being inadequate for the transaction of the public business, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect and be in' full force from the date of its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved March 9, 1904. Boards of public works and safety. CHAPTER 25. AN ACT to amend an act for government of cities of the first class, approved July 1, 1893, and to repeal section 40 of said act, and to substitute a section for said section 40. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That an act entitled, "An Act for the Government of Cities of the First Class," approved July 1, 1893, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, to-wit: § 1. That section 40 of said act, which is the same as section 2802 in the compilation generally styled "Kentucky Statutes," be repealed. Said section so repealed is in words and figures as follows: "The following executive boards are hereby estab'lished in said cities: A Board of Public Works and a Board of Public Safety. The members of said boards shall be appointed by the Mayor, with the approval of the Board of Aldermen, in the month of December succeeding his election, for a term of four years. The members of said boards shall have the same qualifications as members of the general council. No member or officer of the general council shall be eligible in said boards." In lieu of section forty of the said act, hereby repealed as aforesaid, and as a substitute for the same, be it now enacted as follows: "The following executive boards are hereby established in said cities: A Board of Public Works and a Board of Public Safety. The members of said boards shall be appointed by the Mayor, in the month of December succeeding the election of the Mayor, and the members of the boards so appointed shall be removable at any time at the pleasure of the Mayor so appointing them, or of any of his successors in office, but not by any officer who may merely for the time be filling the office of Mayor in the absence or under the temporary disability of the regularly elected or appointed Mayor. The members of said boards shall have the same qualifications as members of the general council. No member or officer of the general council shall be eligible to membership in either of said boards. The first members of said boards shall be appointed by the Mayor, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, and the present boards shall cease to exist, and the terms of office of the present members shall cease and determine immediately upon the passage of this act, and the appointment of their successors, and all the powers and obligations and duties now vested in the present executive boards, together with all rights of action, shall immediately vest in the boards hereby created and the members appointed by virtue of this act, the same as though the aforesaid section forty had not been repealed." WHEREAS, It appears that there is a lack of responsibility and a conflict or authority among the members of said boards heretofore appointed for cities of the first class, and, WHEREAS, It is believed that the Mayor of the city should be responsible to the people for the good government of the city through the executive boards, and that he can be held responsible by the people only by virtue of his complete control of the boards appointed by him and his right to change the said boards and the members thereof, at pleasure, an emergency exists for the immediate enforcement of this act, and it is therefore enacted and provided that this act shall take force and have effect immediately upon its passage. Approved March 9, 1904. |