of, be repealed and in lieu thereof the following be enacted as a substitute therefor:

Section 3606b. (11.) The first election for commissioners, if it does not occur at the same time as the election of mayor and police judge, shall be for a term expiring with that of the mayor and police judge, and thereafter the election of mayor, police judge and commissioner shall occur at the same time. Each commissioner shall receive an annual salary, for the first term under this act, of such sum as may be fixed in the question submitted to the voters provided for in Section 3 of this act, and thereafter, at least sixty days before the day for holding the primary election herein provided for, the mayor and commissioners then in office, or a majority of them, shall by proper ordinance, fix the salary of mayor, police judge and commissioners, to be elected at the next regular election as follows: That of mayor not to exceed twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars per annum nor less than the amount of the salary then being paid the mayor; that of the police judge at not to exceed one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars per annum nor less than the amount of the salary then being paid the police judge; and that of each commissioner at not to exceed one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars per annum nor less than the amount of the salary then being paid the commissioner, and in the event such salaries are not so fixed as herein provided, then the salaries of the mayor, police judge and commissioners, when elected shall be, for their term, such a sum respectively as is then being paid the mayor, police judge and commissioners.

The commissioner of each department shall keep a public office at the city building, at which place he may be found or communicated with during

stated hours, to be fixed by him for the convenience of the public, unless special duty shall call him elsewhere.

§ 4. That Subsection 15, of Section 3606b of the Kentucky Statutes in Carroll's 1915 Edition thereof, be repealed and in lieu thereof the following be enacted as a substitute therefor:

Section 3606b.

(15.) The board of Commissioners shall meet at least once each week for the transaction of its business. It shall fix by ordinance the times of holding its regular meetings. Any special meeting may be called by the mayor or by three commissioners. All meetings shall be public.

5. That Section 3606b of the Kentucky Statutes in Carroll's 1915 Edition thereof, be amended by adding Subsection 30 as follows:

At all elections, primary and regular, held under this act the ballots shall be on a different sheet from all other ballots to be used in any election and shall be in the form therein prescribed, except the words, "City Ballot'' shall be at the head thereof, and the names of all candidates shall be printed on said ballot in a single column. The names of the candidates shall be printed on the first fifty ballots as arranged in alphabetical order and on each of the succeeding fifty ballots the names shall be printed in the same order, except that the first name on the preceding fifty ballots shall be shifted to the last place on the next succeeding fifty ballots, which last name so shifted from the first place on said previous lot of fifty ballots shall be succeeded by the second name thereon at all times, and so on thereafter throughout, a like change or rotation being made in the printed order of names for every fifty ballots. Any violations of this requirement shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not

exceeding $1,000.00 and imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months.

The provisions for a general election law of the State of Kentucky as to registration of electors and as to the duties of the county clerk and other public officers in the matter of printing and distributing ballots, of the issuing of them to the voters, of receiving and depositing them in ballot boxes and of counting and preserving them, and in all other particulars except as otherwise provided herein shall be applicable in all respects to the election for county officers, provided that it shall be the duty of the sheriff of each county in which is a city of the fourth class operating under the provisions of this act, to provide for each precinct in said city a separate box for the reception of ballots used in the election of the municipal officers. And, provide, further, that it shall be the duty of the officers of election in each precinct to issue at said election, by writing the name and the residence of the voter upon the primary stub and his registered number upon the secondary stub of the city ballot, and by 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 any election officer or other person within the election booth to tell or to 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. At the opening of the polls at any election herein provided for, each judge shall appoint an inspector and challenger, whose duty it shall be to act as such in the precinct in which he is appointed, and said in

spector and challenger, in performing their duties, shall be governed by the provisions of the general election law with reference to inspectors and challengers.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 146.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4535h and Subsections thereof of the Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition of 1915, being Chapter 47 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky of 1912, approved March 12th, 1912, and entitled: "An Act qualifying and enabling women to vote for the election of school trustees and other school officers chosen by the people, except such officers as women may be disqualified from voting for by the Constitution, and upon school measures or questions submitted to a vote of the people and to hold common school offices, except such offices as women are disqualified from holding by the Constitution."

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

That Section 4535h and subsections thereof, of the Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition of 1915, being Chapter 47 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky of 1912, approved March 12th, 1912, and entitled "An Act qualifying and enabling women to vote for the election of school trustees and other school officers chosen by the people, except such officers as women may be disqualified from voting for by the Constitution, and upon school measures and questions submitted to a vote of the people and to hold common school offices, except such offices as women are disqualified from holding by the Constitution," be, and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. That all women possessing the legal qualifications required of male voters in any common school election, and who in addition are able to read and write, shall be qualified and entitled to vote at all primary and regular elections of school trustees and other school officers required to be elected by the people, and upon all school measures or questions submitted to a vote of the people; and all women possessing the the legal qualifications required as to males shall be eligible to hold any school office or office pertaining to the management of schools. Provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any election the qualifications of the voters. at which are otherwise prescribed by the Constitution nor to any office as to which the Constitution otherwise prescribes the qualifications of the persons eligible thereto.

Section 2. In all places where a registration of the qualified voters is now or may hereafter be required, women who are, by this act, qualified to vote, shall be registered at the same time and place and by the same officers and in the same manner as male voters, except as herein provided; their, registration, however, being made in a separate book to be furnished by the county clerk as is prescribed by law in the case of male voters. And all the provisions of law relating to the registration of male voters are hereby made applicable to the registration of women qualified to vote by this act: provided, however, that women shall not be required to declare any party affiliation nor shall any record be kept of any party affiliation.

Section 3. When the elections referred to in Section 1 of this Act are held on the same day with the State, county or city elections, separate ballots, similar to those required in other elections, except