days after a successor or successors shall have been recommended to the mayor by the committee provided for in section four of this act. hours. § 6. The hours of service of the police matron and Must be on the assistant matrons shall be so arranged by the duty at all chief of police, that at least, one of them, shall at all hours of the day and night be on duty at each of the places in which there shall be one or more female prisoners detained. The police matron shall have, subject to the control of the chief of police, the entire care of women and children under arrest in the station-house or Jail, designated for female prisoners, and she may call upon a police officer or a jailer, or his deputy for assistance. § 7. In every station, or jail, in which a police matron or an assistant police matron serves, sufficient and proper accommodation shall be provided therein for women confined under arrest. There shall also be provided at said Jail and at each station-house designated for female prisoners a comfortable and suitable room or rooms which the police matron or the assistant police matron, as the case may be, may occupy; and if, in the opinion of such matron, the accommodations are not sufficient, or proper, she shall notify the mayor, and he shall provide the necessary and proper accommodations; the expense necessary therefor to be paid by the city. § 8. Whenever in any city where a police matron should be appointed under this act, a woman or child taken to the station-house or Jail to which a police matron or assistant police matron is attached, and she shall not be present at the time said woman or Assistants un matron. child is received, the keeper of said station or jail shall immediately notify her that such female, or child was detained at said place. § 9. The police matron shall, subject to the chief der control of of police, have charge of the assistant police matrons and shall instruct them as to their duties and shall see that they give proper care to the female prisoners under their charge. To attend courts. Salary. § 10. The police matron or one of the assistant police matrons shall attend the circuit court and police courts in said city, whenever a female prisoner is brought before said courts, and she shall have charge of said women, subject to the orders of the court. § 11. The words, "police station," shall be construed under this act to mean any places where persons are temporarily under arrest; the word "woman," shall include any person of the female sex. § 12. Whenever it becomes necessary to search a female prisoner, it shall be done by or in the presence of the police matron, or an assistant police matron. The salary of the police matron shall be sixtyfive dollars per month, and that of each of the assistant police matrons forty-five dollars per month. The expense necessary for the providing the proper accommodations for the police matron and assistant police matrons at the Jail, and for sufficient and suitable accommodations for the female prisoners detained therein, as provided for in this act, and the salary of the police matron and the assistant police matron at the Jail, shall be borne by the city and county in which said Jail is located, jointly in the same way as other expenses are now apportioned between the county and city of the first class, and the expenses necessary for providing a suitable room or rooms at each of the station-houses designated for the detention of female prisoners and the salary of each of the assistant police matrons at said station-houses, and the expense for providing suitable accommodations for said female prisoners, shall be borne by the city of the first class as other expenses in the police department are provided. Approved March 10, 1898. CHAPTER 11. AN ACT to abolish the office of Register of the Land Office and consolidate with the Office of Auditor of Public Accounts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Office of Register of the Land Office of the State of Kentucky is hereby abolished and consolidated with the Office of Auditor of Public Accounts, to take effect at the end of the present term. trol. § 2. That said office, together with all books, records and fixtures belonging thereto, shall at the end Auditor to conof the present term, be turned over to the Auditor of Public Accounts, who shall take charge of the said Office, and perform all the duties pertaining thereto, that are now, by law, required to be performed by the Register of the Land Office. May em plov clerk. § 3. That for the purpose of more effectually carrying out the provisions of this act, power is hereby specially given to, and conferred upon, the Auditor of Public Accounts, to do and perform all acts and duties now, by law, required to be done and performed by the Register of the Land Office, for which he shall have the right to charge the same fees, and shall be governed by the same laws in relation thereto, as the Register of the Land Office. § 4. That the Auditor of Public Accounts upon taking charge of said office shall have the right to employ an additional clerk at an annual salary not to exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum, payable out the State Treasury. Approved March 11, 1898. Superintendent and trust an interest in contract. CHAPTER 12. AN ACT to regulate the repairing and building of School Housse in this Commonwealth. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1: That no county superintendent, board of eduees not to have cation, or member thereof, or trustees of any subdistrict, shall, directly or indirectly, become interested in any contract for building or repairing school houses in his or their district; and any county superintendent, member of such board or any trustee violating this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand. Plan of house to County Su § 2. That no school house shall be erected in any to be submitted sub-district, or county in this Commonwealth unless perintendent. the plan thereof shall have been submitted to the county superintendent, and approved by him, and it is hereby made his duty to acquaint himself with the principles of school house architecture, and in all his plans for such structures, to have due regard to economy, convenience, health and durability of structure. Approved March 11, 1898. CHAPTER 13. AN ACT to Further Regulate Elections. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: missioners to § 1. The General Assembly shall at its present ses- Election Comsion elect three Commissioners who shall be styled be elected. "The State Board of Election Commissioners." They shall hold office for a term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified; they shall be citizens and electors of Kentucky, and not less than twenty-five years old; in the year one thousand nine hundred and two, and every fourth year thereafter the General Assembly shall elect such Commissioners. Said Commisioners shall qualify by taking before the clerk of the Court of Appeals an oath faithfully to perform their duties according to law. Of such qualifications said clerk shall make a certificate, which shall be noted upon the record of |