Barnett v. Caldwell

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

Section 1847 of the Kentucky Statutes as it appeared in Carroll’s 1915 Edition of that work provided for the method of putting into effect in a county the commission form of government. By chapter 65 of the Acts of 1916 this section 1847 was amended first by a slight change of verbiage of the section; secondly, by providing that the elections authorized by the section should be held not oftener than once every two years instead of eight years, as that section originally provided; and, thirdly, by adding to the section “subsection 2,” which…