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1062); a county indexer, with the consent of a majority of the circuit
judges, in counties having a population over 75,000 and constituting a
. separate judicial district (ibid., sec. 908); three members of the county
— library board (ibid., sec. 958d-1); probation officers (ibid., sec. 55le-
5); from six to ten persons to serve as an advisory board”t8 the juvenile
court (ibid., sec. 55le-19); in counties having a city of the first or
second class, a stenographer for the juvenile court (ibid., sec. 55le-17);
with the school superintendent, three or five members of the county chil-
drens' bureau (ibid., sec. 551L-16); inspectors for inspection warehouses
(ibid., sec. 2l88)?`procossioners of land for the county (ibid., sec.
2567); a public administrator (ibid., sec. 5905); and a manager of the
workhouse (ibid., sec. h868). __`_—
(6) Additional appointments which the county judge is authorized to make
include; patrols for each patrol district of the county (ibid., sec. 5780);
three persons as a board of water cormdssioners (ibid., secsT·958g-1, -2),
who shall appoint a legal advisor, elect a chairman, secretary, and treasur-
er, and appoint a superintendent of water districts (ibid., secs. 958g—h,
-18, -21); a board of viewers where ditches, drains, et75;tora, are to be
constructed (ibid., sec. 2580-2); a board of drainage commissioners (ibid.,
secs. 2580-7, 2380b-l2);¢i Crmtauiua police commissioner (ibid., sec."52Ha—
` 2); three commissioners to divide the county into justicesT“districts (ibid.,
secs. 1079, lhhh); a physician to vaccinate the poor (ibid., sec. h6lh);
three commissioners to assess damages in railroad condemnation proceedings
· (ibid., sec. 855); one or more deputy surveyors on the recommendation of the
i county surveyor (ibid., soc. L675); and personal representatives, guardians,
`Q trustees, committees? curators, and other fiduciaries (ibid., sec. 1057).
(7) He may also appoint a judge pro tempore (ibid., sec. l0h9), and may
fill temporary vacancies in the majority of ¤OEE¥§*¤rri¤ss (ibid., secs.
151, 1526, 1527, h0h2a-6). Except in counties having a city of the first
or second class, the county judge is a member of the county building com-
mission (ibid., sec. 188la-1).
IV CIRCUIT COURT
(1) The present constitution established the circuit court in every coun-
ty and gives the general assembly power to divide the state into a number
of judicial districts (Const. of 189l, secs. 125, 128). The circuit judge,
the presiding officer d27HT$—clrcuit court, is elected for each judicial
district (ibid., sec. 129).
(2) The circuit court is a court of record and has original jurisdiction
over all matters both in law and equity, which jurisdiction is not exclu-
sively delegated to some other tribunal. It also has jurisdiction in all
cases where the title to land is involved or in which it is sought to en-
iforce a lien upon or to subject land by provisional remedy to the payment
of debt (Carro1l's Kentucky Statutes, 1956 cd., soc. 966). The circuit
court has—cEgniEaneE—8f—a11—persbnZ1`actions involving over $50 (ibid.,
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