CHAPTER 935. AN ACT in relation to the Louisville, New Albany and St. Louis Railway Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Louisville, New Albany and St. Louis Railway Company, a corporation formed and existing under the laws of the States of Indiana and Illinois, be, and it is hereby, made a corporate-body within this Commonwealth, with all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities conferred or imposed upon other railroad companies incorporated by the laws of this Commonwealth. § 2. That said company shall have the right to build and operate a railroad in the county of Jefferson, and in the city of Louisville, from the terminus of any bridge. now or hereafter built across the Ohio river, or from any railroad transfer landing on the said river to any station, or to a junction with any other railroad in the said county or city; and may purchase, lease, or make running ar rangements with the owners of any such railroad; and said company may carry and transfer its locomotives, cars, freight, and passengers across the Ohio river; it being the intent and purpose of this act to enable and authorize the said company to build, own, and operate a line of railway from some convenient point in the said city of Louisville to any such bridge or transfer landing; and so as to connect the same with a line of railway in the State of Indiana by bridge or river transfer; and the said company may establish and construct such depots, sidings, turn-tables, shops, and offices as may be deemed expedient; and it may purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire property for the said railroad depots, sidings, shops, offices, and other purposes of the said company; and for these objects may condemn property by proceedings in the Jefferson court of common pleas or Louisville chancery court; and in such proceedings the owner or owners, or claimants of the property sought to be condemned, shall be made defendants, and be summoned as in other actions. The actions shall be tried by a jury, unless a jury be waived; and the proceedings shall be according to the practice in cases of a traverse of the return upon a writ of ad quod damnum. § 3. The said company may issue and sell its negotiable bonds, bearing a rate of interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum, payable at such time and place as it may determine; and may secure the same or other obligations by a mortgage upon the property, rights, and franchises of the said company within this State, either separately or in connection with the property out of the State. § 4. The said company shall have the right to build or operate its railroad over and along such public ways in the city of Louisville as may be permitted by the general council of the said city: Provided, Said company does not interfere with the chartered rights of any other railroad or railroad company or companies. § 5. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 9, 1880. CHAPTER 936. AN ACT for the benefit of J. W. Gaines. WHEREAS, At the December term, 1879, of the Franklin criminal court, in a prosecution therein pending between the Commonwealth of Kentucky, plaintiff, and F. J. Wilson, defendant, charged with arson; and whereas, the said Wilson, by motion, objected to the sheriff of Franklin county, M. H. P. Williams, and his deputies, or any one of them, summoning a jury to try said issue; and whereas, the judge of said court appointed as elisor, as the law required in such cases, J. W. Gaines, who was duly sworn, and entered upon the discharge of his duties and summoned a venire of (70) citizens and house-keepers of the county of Franklin, and (19) nineteen witnesses; and whereas, a jury was accepted and sworn to try said. issue of guilty or not guilty, and the trial gone into, lasting three days; during all of said time they were remanded into the immediate custody of the said J. W. Gaines, elisor as aforesaid, who, during that period, continued in charge of them; and whereas, there exists no law for the payment of said services of said elisor; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That said J. W. Gaines be, and is hereby, allowed the sum of twenty dollars for his services above recited, and that the Auditor of Public Accounts is directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State of Kentucky for said sum, payable to said J. W. Gaines out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved April 9, 1880. CHAPTER 937. AN ACT to prevent any person or persons to play cards in any of the lots, pastures, shops, or outbuildings or stables, within one mile of the courthouse in Owingsville, in Bath county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to play cards within one mile of the court-house in Owingsville, Bath county, in any of the lots, pastures, shops, stables, or any outbuildings, without the written permission and consent of the owners of said lots, pastures, shops, stables, or outbuildings. § 2. Any person or persons so offending shall be subject to a fine of not less than three or more than ten dollars for each and every offense, recoverable before the police judge of said town or any magistrate of said precinct. § 3. That it shall be the especial duty of the marshal of said town to arrest all such persons so offending, and bring them before the police judge of said town or some magistrate of the precinct. § 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 9, 1880. CHAPTER 938. AN ACT to incorporate the Voigt Patent Water-wheel Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That Adolph Rentlinger, Ferdinand Voigt, Joseph J. Fischer, Gotheb Layer, and Adam Schuster, their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, created a body-politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Voigt Patent Water-wheel Company; and by that name, and as such body-corporate, are empowered to contract and be contracted with; to sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, and to alter and renew the same; to lease and purchase real estate to the extent of fifty thousand dollars in value, and the same to hold, sell, exchange, and convey; to employ agents; to borrow money as its business may require, and to secure the same by pledge of its real or personal estate; to make, execute, and amend such by-laws as may be necessary or convenient for its government, and not contrary to the law of Kentucky or of the United States. § 2. That said corporation is incorporated for the purpose of purchasing the patent right from the patentee of the wheel known as the Voigt Patent Water-wheel, manufacturing said water-wheel, and selling the same; selling throughout the United States territorial rights to manufacture and sell the same; receiving royalties for the manufacture and use of said wheel. § 3. That the capital stock of said company shall be $100,000, divided into 500 shares of $200 each. § 4. That the incorporators hereinbefore named shall constitute the first board of directors, who shall elect a president, vice president, and secretary; at the first meeting of the stockholders they shall elect from their number a directory consisting, of five members, who shall elect from their number a president, vice president, and secretary; that said board of directors and said officers shall remain in office one year, or until their successors are elected and enter upon their said office. In all elections each share of stock shall entitle the holder to one vote, It which may be cast in person or by written proxy. shall be the duty of the directors to manage and control all the affairs of the corporation, and to submit to the an nual meeting of the stockholders a full report of the management and condition of the company; and they shall have the power to fill by appointment any vacancy that may occur in their board. 5. The shares of stock shall be deemed personal estate, and be transferable on the books of the company, and the stock shall be paid in such installments and at such times as the board of directors may determine; and for default of payment, the company may, by its by-laws, authorize the forfeiture of stock. 6 That said corporation shall go into operation as soon as the said incorporators shall determine a sufficient amount of the capital stock to have been subscribed and paid. §7. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 9, 1880. CHAPTER 942. AN ACT for the benefit of Carroll county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That it shall be the duty of the sheriff of Carroll county to return the delinquent list for said county by justices' districts, placing the delinquents of each district under the number of said district, with his oath that he has called upon each delinquent on said list who is a resident of the county, and endeavored to collect his taxes. § 2. Said sheriff shall, on or before the 25th of December of each year, deliver a copy of said list to the judge and attorney for said county, and deliver to each justice of the peace for said county a list of the delinquents in his district. 3. Said delinquent list shall be passed upon by the County judge and justices of said county on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of each year, and no de |