Speed v. Crawford

JUDGE DUVALL

delivered the opinion of the court :

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Jefferson circuit court, declaring unconstitutional an act of the General Assembly, approved February 29, 1860, entitled “an act to provide a more efficient police department in the city of Louisville.” (2 vol. session acts 1859-60, page 510.)

The third section of the act provides, in substance, that the chancellor of the Louisville chancery court shall, within twenty days after the passage of the act, appoint two discreet persons, qualified voters of said city, as members of a police board for said city;…