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non-compliance, not exceeding the amount of stock delinquent, as may be deemed right and proper. Said board may appoint such officers and agents as may be deemed needful, and make such rules and regulations as to them may seem fit and best for the furtherance of the objects of the corporation, not inconsistent with the laws of the State. It may make contracts with any person or corporation touching the business or affairs of the company. It may require and take bond in the corporate name from any person or persons the corporation may contract with; and in event of the death, resignation, or vacancy in the directors or officers, the said board may supply the vacancy. After one fourth of the capital stock of said corporation shall have been disposed of by the incorporators herein named, it shall be their duty to call a meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of electing a board of directors as herein provided; and they shall give at least ten full days' notice to each stockholder of the time and place of said meeting, which shall be held in Covington, Kentucky; and the day so fixed shall be the day in each year thereafter for holding the annual meeting of stockholders; until such meeting, the incorporators herein named are constituted the board of directors of said corporation, with all the rights and privileges thereof; but in election of said board the said incorporators shall immediately deliver over all books. and papers in their possession pertaining to the affairs of the corporation to said board of directors. The said board of directors shall have power to dispose of the stock remaining, after the first stock to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars has been disposed of, in such manner as may be deemed best for the interests of the corporation, not inconsistent with the laws of the State: Provided, The entire board of directors concur therein, and not otherwise, at a meeting called for the purpose, and after thirty days' notice given to each stockholder: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as giving to said company any right to dispose of any

stock or other thing of value by lottery or distribution by chance.

§ 5. This act shall take effect from and after its pas

sage.

Approved May 5, 1880.

CHAPTER 1519.

AN ACT to change the boundary line of the town of Beaver Dam, Ohio

county.

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

§ 1. That the southern boundary of the town of Beaver Dam, in Ohio county, be so changed as to run with the present line of the Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad, and that the northern boundary line be so changed as to run with the Ceralvo road to where it intersects with the Hartford and Cromwell road; thence across said road, on the line between a lot known as the William Austin lot, and the school-house lot; thence with the line between lands of J. P. Barnard and Samuel Sanders, to the north and south line of said town of Deaver Dam; said change in the northern boundary of said town excluding only the William Austin lot and the lands of Samuel Sanders. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved May 5, 1880.

CHAPTER 1520.

AN ACT to authorize the Simpson county court to levy a tax for bridge purposes.

WHEREAS, The recent rains have caused the high waters in Red river, in Simpson county, to destroy and wash away the bridge over said river at a point known as Price's mill on said river; and whereas, the ford at said point is difficult to cross in time of high water, and the business interest of the county, and especially in that locality, demand a bridge over said river:

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

§ 1. That the Simpson county court, a majority of the

justices being present and concurring therein, are empowered to levy an additional tax of twenty-five cents on each tithable for the years 1880 and 1881, to be applied to the erection of the bridge aforesaid.

§ 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved May 5, 1880.

CHAPTER 1523.

AN ACT to regulate the fees of the clerk of the Jefferson circuit court, the fees of the clerk of the Jefferson court of common pleas, the fees of the clerk of the Louisville chancery court, and the fees of the clerk of the county court of Jefferson county.

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

§ 1. That hereafter the clerk of the Jefferson circuit court, the clerk of the Jefferson court of common pleas, the clerk of the Louisville chancery court, and the clerk of the county court of Jefferson county, shall receive the following fees for the services performed by them, viz: For issuing each summons, subpoena for witness, subpœna duces tecum, warrant of arrest, order of attachment or of arrest, or of delivery or of injunction, or supersedeas to inferior court, $0.25 Provided, That all of the witnesses or parties living in the same county, and ordered to be summoned at the same time, shall be included in one subpœna or summons, and the fee therefor shall not be increased.

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For each copy thereof, other than copy of subpœna
or of warrant of arrest for witness,
For entering and filing return of each process other
than of supersedeas or subpœna,

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For docketing any action or special proceeding at each term,

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For entering appearance of each party or parties

to a cause, to be charged for but once, and only when an appearance is actually entered, and is noted by the clerk,

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For filing in the clerk's office or in court any
pleading, whether original or amended, or an
attachment or appeal from a justice's court, a
deposition, or a batch of depositions coming
under the same certificate or in the same envel-
ope,
For filing in any cause all the exhibits or other
papers of each party (other than pleadings, pro-
cess, and deposition), once in each cause,
For each order of court,

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Provided, That there shall be but one charge for the entire entry; that any motion for or objection to an order, submission of the motion and exception to the order, if made in the same cause and at the same time, shall be included in the same order, and be charged for as one order; and, if the order is for the filing of any pleading or other papers for the filing of which a fee is allowed, no charge shall be made for the order as such.

For each copy thereof when ordered,

For entering a judgment by default, or upon an issue or issues of law only, or without a jury, For copy of judgment, when called for and actually copied,

For entering a judgment, and all entries and other services preceding it on the same day, upon the previous trial of an issue or issues of fact, without the intervention of a jury,

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For the same, when the issue is or issues of fact
are tried by a jury, including the empaneling
and swearing of the jury,
Provided, That the addition of words awarding
execution generally, upon any judgment for
money, shall not be charged for separately in
any way.

For taxing the cost of any party recovering a
judgment for costs,

For a copy of such taxation, if called for, there shall be charged,

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For recording an award or judgment in equity, for
a copy of either, or of any other judgment; for
copying a surveyor's report, or for entering at
large a commissioner's report, or any exhibit or
other paper being so ordered by the court; for
copying a special verdict, or for copying a record,
or part of a record, there shall be charged for
every twenty words, or fraction thereof,
Provided, That the least fee for the certified copy
of a judgment or final order shall be,
For copying any other paper, not specified, there
shall be charged for every twenty words,
For giving an official certificate, and affixing seal,
For giving an official certificate, without seal,
For copying a plat, for each tract laid down on it,
For issuing any execution, including indorsements
and return thereof, to be charged when issued,
For each writ of possession, -

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For the copy of an execution, with all indorse

ments,

For recording the same, and its returns and indorse-
ments, when land is sold under execution,
For recording release or redemption of land thus
sold, -

Provided, That the last two named fees shall be
included in the price of redemption.

For each bond (other than a replevin bond) taken in judicial proceedings, including the administering and certifying of surety's oath,

For a recognizance,

Provided, That when there are several recognizances taken in the same cause on the same day, there shall be but one charge.

For a replevin bond, or for recording a bond required by law to be recorded,

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For certified copy of bond, when called for, -
For entering satisfaction of judgment on order-

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book, otherwise than by return of execution or by order of court, to be paid when ordered,

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