with the president or vice president, shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, unless the association shall fix on and require a different number.

5. That said association, in its corporate capacity, with all the estate belonging thereto, shall be liable for any debts that may be contracted by it or by its authority; but the individual property of the stockholders shall be exempt.

§ 6. That all the real estate of said association, improvements thereon, or which may be put there on, as well as the income and proceeds thereof, and the entire control and management of the same, shall belong to, and be controlled by, the stockholders of said association, according to the provisions of the constitution of said association. Each stockholder shall receive a certificate of stock, which may be transferred as other estate.

§ 7. The board of directors shall have the power to select a police force to preserve good order upon the grounds of the association during the holding of any exhibition or fair; which police force so selected shall be clothed with the same jurisdiction as constables in this Commonwealth.

§ 8. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved May 6, 1880.

CHAPTER 1568.

AN ACT to incorporate the Vine Grove Seminary, in Hardin county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That John M. Watts, V. B. Nelson, John G. Hall, and S. L. Moreman, and their associates and successors, shall be a body-politic and corporate, by the name and style of the President and Board of Council of the Vine Grove Seminary, and as such shall have perpetual succession.

§ 2. That there shall be an election held on the first Monday in July, 1880, and on the same day of each year thereafter, at Vine Grove, Hardin county, at which each

stockholder in the association shall be entitled to participate, according to the amount of his stock, in electing five persons, who shall constitute a board of council for said seminary, and who shall elect from their number one who shall act as president.

§ 3. Said board shall have the power to appoint such other officers as they deem necessary; employ professors, make rules and regulations for their government, and the government of said seminary, and do all other things necessary to secure a thorough course of English and classical education in said seminary.

§ 4. They shall have power to confer degrees, and grant diplomas signed by the board and faculty of said seminary.

§ 5. The persons named in the first section shall act as a board of council till the first election provided for herein, and shall appoint and direct some one of their number to hold the election provided for herein. § 6. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved May 6, 1880.

CHAPTER 1569.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to establish and maintain a graded free school in Harrodsburg, Kentucky," approved March 15th, 1876, and the acts amendatory thereto, approved April 10th, 1878. WHEREAS, The subscriptions by private persons to enable the graded free school in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to purchase property, on account of non-payment, through insolvency and other causes, has proved inadequate to pay in full for the building and grounds known as the Presbyterian Academy in said town, purchased by the trustees of said graded school, in consequence of which the amount already paid will surely, in time, be swallowed up by the interest on the unfound debt; and whereas, said trustees of said graded tree school has no means to pay said debt; for remedy whereof,

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

1. That the trustees of the graded free school in Har

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rodsburg, Kentucky, are hereby authorized to submit to Tax submitted to the qualified white voters of said town of Harrodsburg the question whether the property subject to taxation for State revenue purposes of white persons owning property in said town shall be taxed a sum sufficient to relieve said property purchased by said school trustees from debt, to an amount not exceeding one thousand dollars, to be paid in one or two levies, as a majority of the white voters of said town may determine at the same time the question of tax or no tax is submitted. Said trustees are authorized to submit this question to the qualified white voters of said town at any time they may deem proper; and if said tax is not carried when submitted, then said trustees may submit said question as often as they may deem proper, not exceeding twice a year, until said tax is carried. Said tax shall be deemed carried when a majority of the qualified white voters of said town voting shall vote for said proposition at any election held and called for that purpose by said trustees. At any election held by said trustees for the purpose aforesaid shall be at the court-house in Harrodsburg, and shall be after notice thereof is given by printed notices posted in said town for at least two weeks before such vote or election is held, and also by two insertions in any newspaper published in said town, if any there published. The trustees aforesaid shall appoint the officers of election for the vote aforesaid, who shall be sworn to discharge their duties as other officers of election. The poll-book of said election shall be returned to the county clerk of Mercer county by said officers of election, which shall remain in his office as other poll-books. He and the judge of the Mercer county court shall, within five days after said election, examine said poll-books, and spread the result of the vote on the order books of the Mercer county court. If, from any cause, either of said examiners of the polls cannot act, the nearest justice of the peace shall act in his stead. If it appear, from said examination, that a majority of the qualified white voters of said town voting are in favor of said tax, then said tax shall be deemed carried; LOC. L, VOL. 11-75

and said school trustees are then authorized to lay and have collected said tax in one or two years, as the majority of said voters may have indicated at said election, in the manner provided in the acts to which this is an amendment.

§ 2. If the white voters of said town shall vote against said tax, then said school trustees, if a majority deem proper, are authorized to sell any and all of their said property, and pay off their indebtedness, and pay back to the subscribers for the purchase of said property (ratably) such sums as they may have paid in until they are paid; and any residue that said property may bring shall be held by said trustees for common school purposes in said town; but nothing in this act shall be authorized to release any subscriber from his subscription in the payment thereof; nor shall this act be construed to release any person or corporation, pro rata or municipal, from any obligation or obligations, verbal or written, that they may be under to trustees of said graded school. § 3. This act to be in force from its passage.

Approved May 6, 1880.

CHAPTER 1571.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the White Haven and Richwood Turnpike Road Company," approved April 8, 1880. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the act to incorporate the White Haven and Richwood Turnpike Road Company, in Boone county, approved April 8, 1880, be so amended that as soon as one hundred shares of the stock of said company is subscribed as provided in said original act, the commissioners named in said act may call a meeting of the stockholders of said company, and proceed to the election of the officers of said company as provided in said original act.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved May 6, 1880.

CHAPTER 1572.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Allensville, in Todd county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1 That the board of trustees of the town of Allensville, in Todd county, shall have the right to increase the rate of taxation on real and personal property in said town to any rate not exceeding fifty cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property: Provided, That said rate shall not be increased until the question shall have been submitted to the legal and qualified voters of said town, at an election called for that purpose by said board of trustees, of which ten days' public notice' has been given, nor unless at such election a majority of those voting shall have voted in favor of said increase.

§ 2. That the town marshal of said town of Allensville shall have the right to levy upon and sell real estate in said town for taxes now due, or hereafter to become due the corporation of Allensville, in the same manner, and upon the same terms and conditions, that sheriffs are by law permitted to levy upon and sell real estate for taxes due the Commonwealth.

§3. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved May 6, 1880.

CHAPTER 1573.

AN ACT for the benefit of the Mayslick and Murphysville Turnpike Road Company, in Mason county.

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

§ 1. That Sallie Laytham, Azubah Laytham, Trovia Laytham, Mark Brannen, Dan. Bien, J. J. Yancey, Joseph Luman, O. S. Mitchell, Eneas Wyatt, Frank Laytham, Wm. H. Fowler, Joel Laytham, Michael Branner, C. S. Fowler, B. R. Fowler, Jno. Bannon, W. R. Fowler, M. W. Bannon, and A. Laytham, be, and they are hereby, assigned to work out their road tax as prescribed by law, on the Mayslick and Murphysville Turnpike Road,