CHAPTER 764.

AN ACT to establish a road law for the county of Boyd.

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

§1. That the provisions of an act to amend and reduce into one the several acts in relation to the road laws of Greenup county, approved January 24th, 1871, as amended by the subsequent acts, approved April 16th, 1873, and March 22d, 1878, with the exception of section 37 of the first act, be, and the same is hereby, declared to apply to the county of Boyd, and shall be the road law in and for the county of Boyd, except as hereinafter provided; and the county court of Boyd county, at its next February, March, or April term, shall appoint a road commissioner, as provided in said act, and amendments thereto, as above referred to, who shall hold his term for two years, or until bis successor is appointed; and shall perform the duties. and be under the responsibility provided for in said act and amendments aforesaid.

2. The said commissioner shall appoint road overseers in Boyd county, according to said act, who shall perform the duties, and be under like responsibilities, as is provided in said acts and amendments aforesaid.

3. This act shall not alter or change the laws or charters of the city of Ashland or town of Catlettsburg in relation to the streets and alleys therein; but the municipal authorities of either of said municipalities may, in their discretion, require every able-bodied male person over twenty-one and under fifty years of age, residing therein, to work upon the public roads running into their respective corporate limits for not exceeding one half mile therefrom, or pay in lieu of such work, for each day they shall fail so to work, two dollars, which may be recovered by warrant, in the name of the said city or town, before the mayor or police judge thereof, which money shall be used for the improvement of such roads, and a capias pro fine may issue upon such judgment. 4. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 765.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Campbell Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That the charter of the Campbell Turnpike Road Company, of Campbell county, Ky., be, and the same is, so amended as to authorize said company to construct, operate, and maintain along the line of their turnpike road a telephone line from Newport to Alexandria, in said county, and the said company is hereby so authorized and empowered.

§ 2. The said company shall keep at each of its tollhouses, and also at some public place in Newport and Alexandria, telephone instruments connected with said line, which said instruments shall at all reasonable times be open to the public for the transmission of messages; and the said company may charge for the use of said line a sum not to exceed fifteen cents a message: Provided, however, That if more than ten minutes are required in sending a message, then the company may charge, in excess of said fifteen cents, a sum not exceeding five cents for each additional five minutes, or fraction part they require.

§ 3. Said company may contract with any person or corporation for the furnishing of them with telephonic communication in connection with said line; and for that purpose may construct any branch lines within said county.

§ 4. Said company may acquire rights of way for such branch lines in the same way provided by law for turnpike companies in acquiring rights of way for turnpike roads.

§ 5. Said company may contract with any other telephone company for connection or continuation of lines, or for retransmission of messages.

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

sage.

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 766.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Coal Road Construction Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the county of Menifee, any precinct or precincts, city or town therein, is hereby authorized and may vote a subscription and subscribe to the capital stock of the Coal Road Construction Company, under the same provisions and restrictions as they, or either of them, are by act of April 9th, 1878, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Mt. Sterling Coal Road Company," authorized to subscribe stock to the capital stock of the Mt. Sterling Coal Road Company.

2. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 767.

AN ACT to incorporate the Carpenter and Hustonville Station Turnpike
Road Company.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

1. That a company shall be, and the same is hereby, Location of road, incorporated to construct a road on the macadamized plan, from Hustonville Station to Carpenter's Station, in Lincoln county, commencing at the Hustonville Station, on the Danville and Hustonville road, and running west and southwest to the Hustonville and Bradfordsville road, at or near Carpenter's Station; the name and style of "Carpenter and Hustonville Station Turnpike Road Company;" and by that name and style may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with. plead and be impleaded.

12. The capital stock of said company shall be five Capital stack. thousand dollars, to be increased or diminished at the

pleasure of the company, and to be divided into shares

of fifty dollars each.

opened.

3. That books for the subscription of stock in said Books shal be company shall be opened on first Monday in April, 1880, or as soon thereafter as convenient, and be kept open

Commissioners.

Form of obligaticn.

stock in the road.

until the capital stock is subscribed. The books will be opened in Stanford, Kentucky, under the direction of John O. McAllister, John K. Baughman, A. O. Chenault, Charles S. Carter, James Russell, James Prewitt, J. W. Hocker, and James W. McAllister, who are hereby appointed commissioners; and any two or more of said commissioners may open the books and receive subscription of said stock at the above named place. The subscribers of said stock shall enter into the following obligation, viz:

We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay the president and directors of the Carpenter and Hustonville Station Turnpike Road Company the sum of fifty dollars for each and every share of stock in said company set opposite our names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times, as shall be by them required under the law incorporating said company, to be collected as other debts. Witness our hands, this 1880." Notice shall be given in the Stanford papers of the time and place of the opening of said books.

§ 4. That the county court of Lincoln, a majority of County may take the justices concurring therein, may take stock in said road to the extent of five hundred dollars to the mile, and to pay the same may levy a tax on each one hundred dollars' worth of property in said county subject to taxation, as will be sufficient for that purpose.

may be held.

§ 5. That as soon as two thousand dollars of said stock When election is subscribed, the commissioners shall then give ten days' notice, by two insertions in the Stanford paper, of the time and place of the meeting of the stockholders, for the purpose of electing a president and five directors for said company, a majority of whom shall be competent to do business, and do all things authorized by this act to be done by the president and directors of said company; and the management of the fiscal and prudential affairs of said company shall be confided to said president and directors, and their successors in office, to be chosen annually, at such times and places as the said president and directors, from time to time, may appoint, and who shall continue in office for one year, and until their successors in office are elected and qualified.

§ 6. That no person shall be eligible as president or director who is not the owner, in his own name, of one or more shares of stock in said road.

point officers.

$7 The president and directors shall have the power Board may ap of appointing a treasurer, gate-keeper, and other offi cers or agents necessary to effect the purposes of this act, and renew the same at pleasure. They shall have power to require the treasurer, and all other officers or agents appointed by them, to give bond and security, in such penalties as they may require, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties incumbent on them as such.

the road.

§8. That said road shall not be less than thirty feet Specification of wide; the width of the grade shall be twenty feet wide, and the metal not less than twelve feet wide, and shall be graded to an elevation not exceeding four degrees in any part thereof.

§ 9. That whenever three miles of said road is completed, it will be entitled to the benefit of one gate; and the corporation is authorized to erect gates on said road, and receive toll thereat at the rate not exceeding that now authorized by the law on roads made by the general turnpike laws of the State.

how acquired.

10. That the president and directors of said road shall Right of wayhave the right and power to acquire the right of way for said road, to locate and lay out the same, and may take steps authorized by the general laws of the State to condemn the land over which said road is to run, and material from adjacent lots.

11. When the stockholders shall have made full payment of their stock, it shall be the duty of the president, over his signature, to issue certificates of said stock to all persons entitled to the same, attested by the secretary of said company.

12. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved April 2, 1880.