on a separate sheet from all other ballots to be used in any election. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of any county in which a city of the third class is located to cause to be printed on said ballot the names of all candidates for membership of the board of education of said city, in whose behalf he may be petitioned so to do in writing by not less. than twenty-five legal voters of said city. The petition must be filed in the office of the county clerk not more than sixty and not less than fifteen days before the day of election and each petition must be signed by the requisite number of qualified persons and shall show the place of residence of each person signing it, and no person shall sign more petitions that the number of offices to be filled. If the nomination is to fill a vacancy, the petition shall so state. When the same person shall be nominated for a full term and to fill a vacancy, he shal be accepted as a candidate for the full term.

Said ballot shall be in the form prescribed for ballots by the general election law of the State, except that no party emblem or other emblem or distinguishing mark shall be placed upon said ballot, save the words "School Ticket" at the head thereof; and that the names of all candidates for membership in the board of education shall be printed in a single column. The names shall be printed upon the first fifty ballots as arranged in alphabetic order. On each of the succeeding fifty ballots, the names shall be printed in the same order, save that the last name on the preceding fifty ballots shall be shifted to first place; and so thereafter throughout, a like change being made in the printed order of names for every fifty ballots, and these ballots shall be so bound that in the book of ballots for each voting precinct, each candidate's name will appear first on

approximately the same number of ballots as that of every other candidate. As many additional lines. shall be left blank as there are members to be elected. The provisions of the general election laws of the State of Kentucky as to the duties of county clerks and other public officers in the matter of printing and distributing ballots, of issuing them to voters, of receiving and depositing them in the ballot boxes, and of counting and preserving them, and in other particulars except as otherwise provided herein, shall be applicable in all respects to the election of members of the board of education; Provided, that it shall be the duty of the sheriff in each county in which a city of the third class is situated, to provide for each precinct in the said city a separate box for the reception of the ballots used in the election of the members of the board of education. And provided, further, that it shall be the duty of the judge of the election, of the opposite political faith to the clerk of election in each precinct, to issue the ballots in the same manner as other ballots are issued by the clerk of election, by writing the name and address of the voter upon the primary stub, and his registered number upon the secondary stub of the school ballot, and observing as to these ballots such other regulations for the issue and deposit of ballots, as may be prescribed for elections generally. It shall be unlawful for an election officer or other person within the election booth, to tell or indicate, by word of mouth or otherwise, to a voter what may be the political affiliation of any candidate, and a violation of this provision shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars. And, provided further, that upon the filing with the county judge of the county wherein a city of the third class is situated, of a petition signed

by a number of legal voters equal to twenty per cent. or more of the total number of votes cast in said city at the last preceding election, in which presidential electors were voted for, requesting that the election of members of the board of education in said city shall be held on a day other than the day for holding the general election therein, said county judge shall make an order, designating some day for the election of members of the board of education in said city, which day shall not be less than ninety nor more than one hundred and twenty days after the day whereon said order shall have been entered. Whenever such order shall have been entered by said court, the day so designated by him shall thereafter continue, unless changed by order of court as herein provided, to be the day for holding elections for members of the board of education, and all provisions of this act and of the law regulating elections in the Commonwealth, when not otherwise inconsistent, shall apply to and govern such elections, except that it shall be the duty of the clerk of said election to issue said ballots in said separate election in the same manner as other ballots are issued by him in general elections. Said petition to be filed with the county court as aforesaid, shall be filed not later than the first day of September of the regular year or years for holding said election and shall show the place of residence of each person signing it, and the order of the county judge with reference thereto shall be entered within fifteen days after the filing of the same. The expense of holding said separate election if ordered shall be paid for by the city wherein same shall be held, out of its general fund.

Each voter may vote for as many of said candidates as there are members to be elected, by mak

ing a cross in the square opposite the name of each candidate for whom he wishes to vote. The candidates, in number equal to the number of members to be elected, who have the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. If at any election a member is to be chosen to fill a vacancy and to fill out an unexpired term, candidates may be. chosen as above provided, but they shall be designated on the ballot as candidates to fill a vacancy, and the date of the unexpired term shall be stated.

Said board of education shall continue, and it is hereby declared, a body-politic and corporate, under the name and style of board of education, with perpetual succession, and by that name may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, have and use a corporate seal, the same to renew or alter at pleasure; may purchase, receive, hold, lease, sell and dispose of real and personal estate for public schools of the city, and the property and funds thereunto belonging, shall be, and is hereby, vested in said board, subject to the provisions of this law. It shall have power to make by-laws and rules, not in conflict herewith, necessary for the discharge of its duties and the government of its proceedings. It shall meet once in each month or oftener if necessary, and a majority elect of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the yeas and nays shall be entered on record. The meetings of said board shall be held in some public place, and a correct record of its proceedings shall be kept in a book provided for that purpose, which shall be a public record.

$ 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Neither approved nor disapproved,

CHAPTER 79.

AN ACT to amend and extend Chapter Seventy-one of the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, approved March 21, 1902, entitled, "An Act providing for the establishment and maintenance of Free Public Libraries in Cities of the First Class (which is also Section 2801b, Subsection 3 of Kentucky Statutes Edition of Anno Domini, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifteen (A. D., 1915) edited by Honorabie John D. Carroll), and to authorize Free Public Libraries of Cities of the First Class to mortgage property or to issue bonds thereon, and to authorize Cities of the First Class to guarantee the payment of any bonds issued by the said Free Public Libraries either the principal or interest or both.

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

That Chapter Seventy-one (71) of the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, of the Session of A. D. 1902, being also Section 2801b, Sub-section 3, Carroll's Edition Kentucky Statutes, be amended by adding thereto, the following:

"The Board of Trustees of The Free Public Library of any City of the First Class is hereby given authority to mortgage any or all real property or personal property owned by such library to secure any indebtedness due from the said Corporation.

The said mortgage however, not to exceed the sum of three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars ($325,000.00).".

So that said Section as amended shall read as follows:

3. The mayor of any such city shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this ordinance, name twelve trustees, three for a term of one year, three for a term of two years, three for a term of three years and three for a term of four years; and shall