town ordinances, or other misdemeanors committed within the corporate limits of the town, if not paid or replevied by the offender at the time of the assessment of same by said police judge, he shall direct that said offender be compelled to work upon the streets and alleys of the town until the said fine be satisfied, at the rate of one dollar per day; but said offender shall not be compelled to labor more than eight hours in any one day, under the control and supervision of the marshal; and when said offender is not engaged in labor, shall be confined in the jail of Edmonson county.

16. All fines and forfeitures prosecuted before the police judge and recovered for breaches of the peace, town ordinances, or other misdemeanors committed within the corporate limits of the town, shall be paid into the treasury; the treasurer's receipt shall be taken by the marshal or other collecting officer for all moneys paid into the town treasury.

17. The treasurer shall hold his office for two years, unless removed by the trustees. If he should be removed, they shall immediately appoint a successor; they may, by motion or suit in the police court, proceed against the treasurer and his sureties, at any term of said court, by first giving ten days' previous notice thereof to each of them, and take judgment by default if there is no defense made, for any sum or sums of money collected by the treasurer and not paid over under the provisions of

this act.

18. The trustees shall appoint a town attorney to Town attorney. prosecute offenders for any violations of this charter or any ordinances made in pursuance thereof, who shall hold his office for two years from the time of appointment, unless removed by the trustees; said town attorney shall be a resident of the town, a regular licensed attorney, and before he takes upon himself the duties of his office, he shall take the oaths required of county or circuit attorneys, and he shall be entitled to the same fees for similar services, and be subject to the same penalties.

§ 19. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 20 This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 744.

AN ACT authorizing the county court of Spencer county to increase the county levy.

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

§ 1. That the county court of Spencer county be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered to increase the county levy of said county to an amount not exceeding five dollars per tithable, and for not more than two years.

§ 2. That all money collected in said county as a county levy, over and above three dollars per tithable, shall be applied to repairing the county jail and court-house of said county, and for no other purposes.

§ 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 745.

AN ACT for the benefit of the Sulphur Well Branch of the Nicholasville and Kentucky River Turnpike Road Company,

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

§ 1. That the county court of Jessamine county is authorized and empowered, a majority of the members of the court concurring therein, to subscribe a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars to the mile to the capital stock of the Sulphur Well Branch of the Nicholasville and Kentucky River Turnpike Road Company, to be used in the completion of its road, and to be regarded as other stock.

§ 2. Said county court may levy on the taxable property in Jessamine county a tax sufficient to pay said sub

scription, if a special levy should become necessary, and said tax shall be collected and accounted for as other taxes are.

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

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 746

AN ACT for the benefit of Anton Ehret.

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

§1. That out of the funds in the Treasury the sum of fifty dollars be, and it is hereby, appropriated for the use and benefit of Anton Ehret, and that the Auditor be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer in favor of said Anton Ehret for said sum of fifty dollars.

2. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 747.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of the trustees

of the town of Danville, in respect to locating repair shops of the CincinDati Railway."

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

1. That section one of said act be so amended as to read: "Said bonds to be of the denomination of one hundred dollars, instead of one thousand dollars as provided in said act;" and that section two of said act be so amended as to read: The bonds shall be numbered successively from 1 to 120, inclusive, instead of from 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided in said act;" and that said section be further amended so as to read: "Ten of said bonds shall be pay11-7

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able one year after their date, and ten of the others on each succeeding year thereafter, according to the number of the bonds, instead of one, as provided in said act.

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

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 748.

AN ACT to amend an act to establish the People's Bank.

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

§ 1. That so much of an act, entitled "An act to establish the People's Bank," as relates or pertains to that description of bills known by the name of kites be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

§ 2. That this act take effect from and after its passage.

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 749.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Lebanon and Bradfordsville Turnpike

Road Company.

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

§ 1. That the charter of the Lebanon and Bradfordsville Turnpike Road Company be so amended as to authorize and empower the said turnpike road company to charge and collect toll for milling over said road, when done on wagons or other wheeled vehicles, at the same rates as for other travel of a like character.

§ 2. All milling over said road on horseback shall be free.

§ 3. Any and all acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 750.

AN ACT to authorize the Cumberland county court to levy an ad valorem tax for county purposes.

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

§ 1. That the Cumberland county court be, and it is hereby, authorized to levy an ad valorem tax of twentyfive cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in said county, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness of said county.

§2. This act shall be in force for three years from and and after its passage.

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 751.

AN ACT to provide for a deduction of time from the terms of sentence of prisoners confined in the city work-house of Louisville.

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

§1. That the board of commissioners of public charities for the city of Louisville shall have the power to authorize the keeper of the work house of said city to make a deduction of five days in each calendar month from the term of each prisoner who has been, or may hereafter be, committed to said work-house for a longer term than one month, on account of the good conduct of such prisoner while in said work-house.

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

Approved April 2, 1880.

CHAPTER 752.

AN ACT for the benefit of John D. Strong, of Breathitt 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 on the Treasury, in favor of John D. Strong, for the sum of one hundred dol