CHAPTER 1274. AN ACT for the benefit of common school district No. 88, in Owen county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be lawful for the judge of the election to be held in common school district No. 88, in Owen county, for the election of a school trustee for said district on the first Saturday in June, 1880, to open a poll-book separate from the one on which candidates for the office of school trustee are voted for, on which separate pollbook two columns may be opened, one headed, “In favor of the present district school tax ;" and the other, " Opposed to the present district school tax." § 2. It shall be the duty of the judge of said election to ask each voter voting at said election whether he is in favor of or opposed to the district school tax in said common school district, and to record on said separate pollbook the vote as cast. § 3. The judge of said election shall return a fair and true record of the votes taken for and against said district school tax, certified and sworn to by himself before some officer authorized to administer an oath, to the clerk's office of the Owen county court; and if it shall appear, from said separate poll-book, that a majority of the qualified voters voting for and against said tax is opposed to the tax, then it shall be illegal to levy and collect the same. § 4. It shall be the duty of the chairman of the board. of trustees of said common school district to post up, at least two weeks previous to said first Saturday in June, 1880, in not less than three of the most public places in said district, written notices that a vote, as herein provided for, will be taken on that day. § 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 28, 1880. CHAPTER 1275. AN ACT to prevent hogs from running at large along certain turnpike roads in Bracken 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 let hogs run at large along the line of the Germantown and Chatham and the Germantown and Brooksville Turnpike Roads, in Bracken county, unless such hog or hogs have rings in their snouts sufficient to keep them from rooting the ground. § 2. For a violation of the provisions of this act, the owner of such hog or hogs thus running at large shall be fined not less than twenty-five cents nor more than one dollar for each day such hog runs on said roads; said fine to be recovered before any justice of the peace or police judge in Bracken county. §3. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved April 28, 1880. CHAPTER 1276. AN ACT fixing the compensation of the railroad tax collector of Marion county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the collector of the railroad tax of Marion county be, and he is hereby, allowed for his services in collecting the tax levied by the county court of Marion county, for the purpose of paying the interest and creating a sinking fund to retire the bonds of said county issued in aid of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad, the same commission as the sheriff of said county is now allowed by law for the collection of the county revenue of said county. § 2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved April 28, 1880. CHAPTER 1277. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Railway," approved April 1, 1880. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway Company," approved April 1st, 1880, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding the following proviso to the second section thereof: Provided, That no contract or arrangement made under authority of this act shall take effect until the same shall have been approved by a majority of all the stockholders of said railway company, at a meeting of said stockholders called to consider such contract or arrangement, and until said stockholders shall, by proper action, authorize and require its president, by proper deed, to be duly acknowledged and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county court for Jefferson county, convey and put in lien all property, rights, and franchises to the several trustees in the mortgages for the benefit of bonds now outstanding against said railway company, and for the security thereof, which may be in any wise acquired under such contract and arrangement, in lieu of the lien now held upon the property, rights, and franchises of said railway company in, upon, or along Jefferson street, and its depot and grounds on Jefferson street, between Brook and Floyd streets; said trustees consenting to such substitution of liens. Said conveyance to said trustees for substituted lien and security to secure the rights of lien-holders in order of present rights and priorities, and when accepted by said trustees, the same to operate as a release of their lien upon said property and franchises on Jefferson street, and the depot and grounds adjacent thereto. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 28, 1880. CHAPTER 1278. AN ACT to regulate the granting of merchant's license within the counties of Nelson and Adair. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That in all applications for merchant's license to sell spirituous liquors in Nelson and Adair counties, the county court may judge of the propriety of granting such license, and may refuse to grant the same if, in its judg ment, it may deem proper to so do. § 2. No license shall be granted except at the regular county court, and unless ten days' notice of the intended application shall have been given, by posting written or printed notices at the door of the court-house and at least four of the most public places in the neighborhood of the contemplated place of business. § 3. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved April 28, 1880. CHAPTER 1279. AN ACT to amend chapter 350, section 2, of Acts 1876, concerning Mill creek and its tributaries, in Jefferson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. Be it enacted, That section 2d of an act concerning Mill creek and tributaries, in Jefferson county, chapter 350, of the Acts of 1876, be so amended as it shall be the duty of all land-holders through whose land said creek or tributaries run, between where the Valley Turnpike and Gravel Road crosses said creek and the mouth of Mill creek, and all the tributaries of said creek west of said turnpike and gravel road, to remove all drift-wood, brush, dams, or other obstructions from said creek and tributaries on their respective lands; and when said creek or tributaries, or either of them, shall be the division line between the adjoining land, then each land-holder shall remove such drift-wood, brush, dams, or other obstructions on his land; and such removal shall be made in each year between the first day of May and first day of November in each succeeding year; and when such removal is made, the drift-wood, brush, dams, or other obstructions, shall be removed to a distance of not less than one hundred feet from the main channel of said creek or tributaries. § 2. Any person or persons failing to remove drift-wood, brush, dams, or other obstructions, as above required, shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars for any such offense, recoverable before any justice of the peace of the county of Jefferson; the fines herein imposed to be applied to removal of the obstructions in said creek and tributaries. Approved April 28, 1880. CHAPTER 1280. AN ACT to empower Logan county to retire the bonded indebtedness of the county at or before maturity, to create a sinking fund for that purpose, to provide for a commissioner of the sinking fund and collector of taxes levied, and to prescribe the duties and powers of said officers. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That for the purpose of creating a sinking fund to enable Logan county, in this State, to retire, at or before maturity, the outstanding bonds of said county issued in aid of the construction of the Owensboro and Russellville Railroad, it shall be the duty of the county court of said county, composed of the county judge and justices of the peace, or a majority of said justices, to levy, annually, on all the property of said county subject to taxation for State revenue purposes, an ad valorem tax sufficient to promptly meet the accruing semi-annual interest upon all outstanding bonds of said county, and to create a surplus sufficient to provide for the retirement of the entire debt at any time before, and at least by, the maturity thereof; and for the purpose aforesaid said county court, a majority of the justices of the peace concurring, may, in their discretion, levy an annual capitation tax not to exceed one dollar a year. County court shall levy a tax annually. |