tion; and J. M. Morgan, Wm. Parker, J. Loyd Young, 1874. John Harris, and A. W Tarvin, or any three of them, are hereby authorized to hold said election; and the three persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared by said judges to be duly elected trustees. Within sixty days after the first trustees are elected and qualified, they shall proceed, with the assistance of a surveyor, to lay off the corporate limits of said town, which shall not exceed one mile square; and within ten days after it is laid off they shall cause it to be recorded in the clerk's office of the county court clerk's office of Campbell county a complete map of said town. Trustees to lay off town, & have map recorded. Duties & powers § 3. The said trustees shall select one of their number chairman, who shall preside at their meetings, and have of trustees. power to convene the board; and they shall have power to levy a tax of not more than one dollar on each poll within its corporate limits, and a tax of not more than twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property in said town subject to taxation; and all forfeitures and taxes collected under the laws of said town shall be paid into the treasury of said town to be used by the trustees for the public good thereof. When and how police judge and marshal to be elected, and their powers. § 4. On the first Monday in August, 1874, and on the same day in every fourth year thereafter, an election may be held in said town to select a police judge; and on the same day that the first election for police judge is held, and on the same day every two years thereafter, an election may be held in said town to select a town marshal; and in addition to the jurisdiction conferred by the general laws, the police judge shall have the same jurisdiction in civil actions and proceedings within the limits of said town that justices of the peace have in districts. § 5. Trustees authorized by this act must reside within Qualifications of the town limits; but persons who reside outside the town limits, and own real estate in the town, shall have the right to vote in all elections. § 6. In all matters not inconsistent with this act, the general law relating to towns in the General Statutes shall apply to the said town of California. § 7. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 7, 1874. trustees & voters. CHAPTER 223. AN ACT for the benefit of Samuel Biggerstaff, late sheriff of Madison county. WHEREAS, It appears that Samuel Biggerstaff, late sheriff of Madison county, has settled with the Auditor, and ac 1874. Given two years to collect uncol lected taxes, &c. counted for all taxes which were collectable by him during his term of office as sheriff of Madison county, but paid a part of the amount due from him out of his own means, and has not yet collected all of the taxes that were due and payable during his term of office; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the further time of two years is given to Samuel Biggerstaff, late sheriff of Madison county, in which to collect his uncollected taxes, and that he bave the right to collect same as now prescribed by law, subject to all legal penalties. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 7, 1874. CHAPTER 224. AN ACT for the benefit of J. M. Barnett, of Whitley county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of J. M. Barnett, committee for Franklin Barnett, for eighty dollars and fifty-three cents, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 7, 1874. CHAPTER 225. AN ACT to provide for holding a term of the Carter circuit court for the trial of equity causes and motions triable by the Court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter a term of the Carter circuit court Special term for shall be held for the trial of equity causes and motions triable by the court, commencing on the first Monday in December in each year, and continue nine days at each term, if the business of the court shall require it. equity causes established. § 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1874. CHAPTER 226. AN ACT to establish an additional justices' district in the county of Harlan Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1874. district. § 1. That for the purpose of establishing an additional Boundary of new justices' district in Harlan county there shall be taken from districts numbers one, five, and six, such parts and portions thereof as shall be included in the following boundary, viz: Beginning at the top of the Pine Mountain opposite the head of Beech fork; thence running on the divide between Wolf branch and Beech fork to the top of the Kentucky Ridge; thence running with the dividing waters between the Beech fork and Laurel to the Clay county line; thence running with the Harlan and Clay county line to the Bell county line; thence running with the Bell and Harlan county line to the top of the Pine Mountain; thence with the top of the Pine Mountain to the beginning. §2. That the territory embraced in the foregoing boundary shall constitute justices' district number eleven in said county. establish voting place. § 3. That it shall be the duty of the county judge, at County judge to least one month before the first Saturday in May next, to establish one voting place in said district number eleven, and to readjust the lines of districts numbers one, five, and six in such manner as may be made necessary by this act. When justices & constable to be § 4. That said district number eleven shall be entitled to elect two justices of the peace and one constable at elected. an election to be held for such officers on the first Saturday in May, 1874, whose offices shall expire on the first Saturday in May, 1875; and said officers shall be elected thereafter as now provided by law. 5. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1874. CHAPTER 227. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to establish an additional justices' district in Bath county." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: tices in said dis election for justricts. § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to establish an addi- Sheriff to hold tional justices' district in Bath county," approved April 21, 1873, be, and the same is, so amended that it shall be the duty of the sheriff to open a poll in district No 7, known as the "Peeled Oak" district, and also in the district known as the "Polksville" district, in Bath county, on the first Saturday in May, 1874, for the election of an additional justice of the peace in each of said districts, who shall hold their offices till the next regular election on the first Saturday in May, 1875 § 2. That it shall be the duty of the present officers of election in said districts, respectively, to hold said election and conduct the same as required by law; and it shall be the duty of the county court clerk to furnish the sheriff a list of said officers of election, and said sheriff shall notify them according to law of their duties under this act at least five days before said election. § 3. That on the first Saturday in May, 1875, and on that day every four years thereafter, each of said districts shall elect two justices of the peace; and on that day, and every two years thereafter, each of said districts shall elect one constable. § 4. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 6, 1874. Allowed two years to collect fee bills, &c. CHAPTER 228. AN ACT for the benefit of Haywood Gilbert, late sheriff of Clay county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Haywood Gilbert, late sheriff of Clay county, be allowed two years further time to list and collect his fee bills and tax receipts for the years 1868-'9. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1874. CHAPTER 229. AN ACT for the benefit of B. J. Hobbs, an idiot, of Graves county. WHEREAS, It appears from an examination of the books in the Auditor's office, that B. J. Hobbs, a pauper idiot, of Graves county, from oversight in his committee in not having said idiot examined as required by law, said idiot has not drawn his annual allowance of fifty dollars a year for an interregnum from May 30th, 1872, to June 23d, 1873; and whereas, it appears that said idiot is still living, and is still a pauper; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth 1874. 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 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, payable to Charles Hobbs, committee for B. J. Hobbs, a pauper idiot, in Graves county, for the sum of fifty-three dollars and twenty cents, for the benefit of said idiot. §2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 6, 1874. CHAPTER 232. AN ACT to incorporate the Society of Friends, of Garrard county, and authorize them to issue bonds to purchase a burial ground. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Corporators' 1. That Wm. Miller, Harry Mullins, Harry Hoffman, Allen Sheness, and Robert Henning, and their associates names. and successors, are hereby created a body-corporate and politic, in and under the name of the Society of Friends Name and style. of Garrard county, and by such corporate name may sue and be sued in all the courts of this Commonwealth, and may contract and be contracted with, in regard to the objects of the society; have and to use a common seal; and have perpetual succession. powers. § 2. The objects of this society shall be to render aid to Object. the needy members thereof while living, provide for the support and education of the children of deceased members, and provide a decent burial for such members as may die. 3. That said corporation be authorized and empowered, in order to carry out the provisions of the second section of this act, to purchase and contract for any number of acres of ground in Garrard county, Kentucky, not exceeding ten acres, for the purpose of a cemetery or burial ground, to acquire and possess the title to the same: Provided, That the said lands shall not be purchased within the corporate limits of the town of Lancaster. Corporate May purchase lands for burial purposes. members. 4. The members of this society shall be composed of Qualifications of colored male persons between the ages of eighteen and seventy years. May make bylaws, rules, and § 5. That said Society of Friends may make rules and by-laws regulating the amount of fees to be charged to regulations. persons on becoming members of the society, and the amount of monthly dues to be paid to the society by each LOC. L.-18 |