CHAPTER 1196. AN ACT for the benefit of the Springfield, Willisburg, Antioch, and Fox Creek Turnpike Road Company, of Washington county. WHEREAS, The Springfield, Willisburg, Antioch, and Fox Creek Turnpike Road Company, chartered by an act of the Legislature approved March 11, 1870, have built a turnpike road from Rogers' gate, on the Springfield and Macksville Road, to the Anderson county line; and whereas, from Rogers' gate to the Louisville and Macksville Road is four miles, and said road being built to said point and not connected with the balance of said road, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Springfield, Willisburg, Antioch, and Fox Creek Turnpike Road Company be, and the same is hereby, authorized to erect a full toll-gate ou said four miles of road between Rogers' gate, on the Macksville and Springfield road, and the Macksville and Louisville road, and shall be entitled to collect full toll; and said company shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges under the laws of this State as they would be if said road was five miles long. § 2. And said company shall have the power to build a branch road near Sharp's Mill, on the northern division of said road, out to said mill, and put one toll-gate on said branch, but shall not collect more toll at said gate than is now allowed by the laws of this State for turnpike roads. §3. This act shall be in force from and after its pas sage. Approved April 26, 1880. CHAPTER 1197. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide for the building of turnpike roads in Todd county, Kentucky, and to au horize the different magisterial districts or election precincts therein to vote a tax for that purpose," approved March 20th, 1876. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth 41 Kentucky: § 1. That all of the second section of an act, entitled "An act to provide for the building of turnpike roads in Todd county, Kentucky, and to authorize the different magisterial districts or election precincts therein to vote a tax for that purpose," approved March 20th, 1876, and so much of the first section of said act as requires one third of the tax therein specified to be by capitation and two thirds ad valorem, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. § 2. It shall be the duty of the voters mentioned in the first section of the act to which this is an amendment, in their petition to the presiding judge of the Todd county court, to specify what proportion of the amount desired to be raised by taxation shall be made by an ad valorem assessment, and what amount, if any, by capitation tax, and also the number of annual levies to be made. §3. If a majority of all the qualified voters of such district, voting at any election to be held under the act to which this an amendment, shall vote for the proposed tax, it shall be the duty of the presiding judge aforesaid to immediately levy upon said district the tax voted, in the way and manner specified in the petition, or proposition upon which the vote was taken; and the clerk of said county court shall, as soon as practicable, make out and deliver to the sheriff of Todd county a list of the taxable property and tithes of said district as shown by the returns of the assessor of the county for the last annual assessment. § 4. If, at any time before the list of taxable property and tithes is delivered to the sheriff, as directed in the third section of this act, as many as ten of the legal voters of the district to be taxed shall, by written petition to the presiding judge of the Todd county court, request that the tax be collected by a special collector, instead of by the sheriff, then, and in that case, it shall be the duty of said judge to make an order appointing a competent person, residing in said district, as special collector of said tax; and said person shall execute bond as required by the sixth section of the act to which this is an amendment, and shall have all the rights and powers thereby conferred upon the special collector therein named; and after said special collector shall have given bond as required, the list of tithes and taxable property shall be delivered to him instead of the sheriff; but if he fail or refuse to execute bond as required, then the sheriff shall collect the tax. § 5. Any district in said county, which may be bounded on one or more sides by a public road, shall have the same right to improve and turnpike said roads as if the same passed through the district. § 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from the date of its passage. Approved April 26, 1880. CHAPTER 1198. AN ACT for the benefit of John H. Shields, of Hickman 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, authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer, in favor of John H. Shields, of Hickman county, for the sum of thirteen dollars and twenty-five cents. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 26, 1880. CHAPTER 1199. AN ACT to regulate the sale of spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors in the town of Verona, in Boone county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, unless he be a graduate in pharmacy, a practicing pharmacist, or a practicing assistant in pharmacy, to sell any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, by retail, in the town of Verona, in Boone county, and no such sale shall be made unless upon the written prescription of a regular practicing physician as to each sale, dated and signed by said phy sician, specifying the amount to be sold, and the party to whom sold. § 2. Any person violating the first section of this act shall be fined any sum not less than twenty dollars for ech offense, to be recovered by warrant or upon indictment in any court of competent jurisdiction. § 3. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved April 26, 1880. CHAPTER 1200. AN ACT for the benefit of John P. Barrett, late sheriff of Ohio county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of John P. Barrett, late sheriff of Ohio county," approved February 14, 1876, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for the period of two years from the first day of March, A. D. 1880. § 2. This act shall be in effect from and after its pas sage. Approved April 26, 1880. CHAPTER 1201. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Alton and Camdenville Road Com pany, approved March 26, 1878. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the charter of the Alton and Camdenville Turnpike Road be so amended as to read: Beginning at a point on the Lawrenceburg and Frankfort Road, near Major John Draffin's, where the Harrisonville dirt road begins, instead of reading to begin at Alton. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved April 26, 1880. CHAPTER 1202. AN ACT for the benefit of George A. Burton, a pauper idiot of Pulaski 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, authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of Charles Durham, committee of George A. Burton, a pauper idiot of Pulaski county, in the sum of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($37 50), to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, said amount being due said George A. Burton for an interregnum of six months, from March, 1876, to September, 1876. § 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 26, 1880. CHAPTER 1203. AN ACT to incorporate the Paducah and Illinois Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That C. S. Marshall, J. R. Puryear, J. M Bigger, G. Corporators. W. Reeves, John R. Thomas, Oscar Turner, Green B. ration. Raum, and J. C. Gilbert, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared a bodycorporate forever, under the name of the Paducah and Name of corpoIllinois Bridge Company; with power to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and with all other powers, rights, and privileges incident to corporations. ration. § 2. Said Paducah and Illinois Bridge Company is Object of corpo hereby empowered and authorized to locate, build, construct, and maintain, under the laws of the United States, a bridge across the Ohio river for railway, wagon, street railway, and all other purposes, between the city of Paducah, in the State of Kentucky, and the State of Illinois, from any point in the limits of the city of Paducah, or within one mile thereof, if desired, to any point across |