CHAPTER 925. AN ACT for the benefit of J. F. Peyton and O. H. McRoberts, of Lincoln county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasury, payable out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to J. F. Peyton and O. H. McRoberts, for the sum of twenty dollars for making a post mortem examination by order of court. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 9, 1880. CHAPTER 926. AN ACT for the benefit of John W. Burton, of Warren county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That John W. Burton, of Warren county, be relieved of the disabilities of an infant to the extent and for the purpose of allowing him to practice law, as though he were of the full age of twenty-one years: Provided, He shall first obtain license as now required by law. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 9, 1880. CHAPTER 927. AN ACT for the benefit of Sarah A. Spalding. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be lawful for the Auditor of Public Accounts of Kentucky to pay to E. H. O'Daniel, the committee of Sarah A. Spalding, a pauper lunatic of Marion county, Kentucky, the usual allowance for the support of said pauper under the statute, upon the order of the Marion county court, properly certified, the same as if the order emanated from the circuit court of said county. Said allowance to be paid for six months from the first day of July, 1879, to the first day of January, 1880, and amount to thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. § 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the same, and it shall be allowed to him in his settlement: 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 9, 1880. CHAPTER 928. AN ACT for the benefit of Mary McTaggart. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That in order to repay to Mary McTaggert money collected from her by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, upon a judgment of the Fayette court of common pleas, which judgment was afterwards reversed by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and to which money the State was not entitled, and which it ought not to keep, the Auditor of Public Accounts shall draw his warrant in favor of said Mary McTaggert for the sum of ninety-one dollars and ninety-five cents, to make said repayment as above indicated. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 9, 1880. CHAPTER 929. AN ACT to repeal an act for the benefit of the educational interest of the white citizens of Bowling Green. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That an act for the benefit of the educational interest of the white citizens of Bowling Green, approved March 16, 1878, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 9, 1880. CHAPTER 930. AN ACT for the benefit of J. W. Parker, of Lewis county. WHEREAS, By an omission or mistake of the trustees of school district No. 30, of Lewis county, for the year 1877, forty-two scholars, in the pupil age, was omitted in the census report to the commissioner, and the district deprived of the right to draw from the State the amount legally due forty-two scholars for said year, which was eighty-one dollars and six cents; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Superintendent of Public Instruction be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Auditor of Public Accounts in favor of J. W. Parker (who taught the common school in said district for said year), for the sum of eighty-one dollars and six cents, payable out of the unbonded surplus remaining to the credit of Lewis county, if any; and the Auditor will draw his warrant in favor of said Parker on the Treasurer for said sum. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 9, 1880 CHAPTER 931. AN ACT to incorporate the Dry Ridge, Lawrenceville, and Owen Turn pike Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: poration. 1. That a company is hereby created, under the name Name of the corand style of the Dry Ridge, Lawrenceville, and Owen Turnpike Road Company, for the purpose of making, constructing, and maintaining a turnpike road in Grant county, from the Owen county line, at a point thereon near the Beech branch, and by the way of Lawrenceville, Location of road. to the Dry Ridge Turnpike Road in said county, at some point between Bracht's school-house and the farm of Leonard McGlasson, to be located by the president and directors of said company on such line as they may deem Capital stock. Commissioners. for the best interest of the said company, having due regard to stock subscribed, costs of construction, as well as costs of keeping up repairs, &c. §2. That capital stock of said company shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars, and divided into shares of twenty-five dollars per share. §3. That books of subscription shall be opened at such times and places for the subscription of stock in said company, and under the direction and management of Dr. W. T. Mozee, Lawrence Cavenagh, Dudley Starnes, E. H. Smith, J. H. Musselman, and Pat. Bannord, any one of whom is authorized to take and receive subscription of stock to said company; and the subscription of stock to said company shall be in substance and form as follows: We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do severally and respectively agree to pay to the Dry Ridge, Lawrenceville, and Owen Turnpike Company, the sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every share of stock in said company set opposite our names, as shall be required by the president and directors of said company. 4. The book or books for the subscription of stock may be opened as soon and as often as said commissioners may think proper, and remain so until a sufficiency of stock has been subscribed to insure the completion of said road; and when said company shall be organized, if the whole of said stock is not taken, the president and directors of said company may, from time to time, receive such additional subscriptions as they may think necessary, until the whole amount of the capital stock shall be subscribed. § 5. That as soon as two thousand dollars ($2,000) of When may com- said stock has been subscribed, it shall be the duty of mence business. the said commissioners, or some one of them, to give notice of the time and place of a meeting of the stockholders of said company, at some convenient point, for the purpose of electing officers of said company, which shall, by notices put up at three of the most public places along the line of said road, for at least ten days before the day of the meeting; and at said meeting at least two of said commissioners shall attend and superintend the election. There shall be elected a president and five directors of said company, and who shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. managed. § 6. That the said president and directors of said com- Business- h • w pany are hereby vested with full power and authority to manage, superintend, and direct the location and construction of said road; to make such contracts for the construction of said road and for the rights of way, stone, earth, wood, or other material for said road as they may think best, and to manage and control and superintend and keep the same in repair after it shall be completed, as they may deem for the best interest of said company. They shall elect a treasurer and such other officers and agents as they may think necessary; and the said treasurer shall, before entering upon his duties, execute bond, with good security, to be approved by the directory, to the effect that he will perform the duties of his office. voted. § 7. The stockholders at all elections shall be entitled to Stock-how one vote for each share of stock in said company, which vote or votes may be given in person or by proxy in writing. land. § 8. That it shall be lawful for the president and direct- May condemn ors, by themselves, superintendents, engineers, and workmen, with their tools, instruments, carts, wagons, and other carriages, with their beasts of draught or burthen, to enter upon the lands in and over, contiguous and near to where said road shall pass, having first given notice to the owners or occupants of said lands or their agents of their intention to do so: Provided, That if the president and directors of said road shall not agree with the owners of said lands, over or through which said road will pass, as to the damages the owner or owners may sustain by reason of said road passing through or over their lands, or for any wood, stone, earth, gravel, or other material they may desire for said road, the president and directors shall apply to the Grant county court for a writ of ad quod damnum to assess the damages aforesaid; and on the payment of the damages thus assessed, or upon the tender thereof in said court to such owner, it shall be |