Padgett, of Somerset, Pulaski county, for the sum of 1874. ($48 32) forty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents, being the amount of expenses and compensation incurred in taking Henry Owens, a colored lunatic, to the asylum at Anchorage, Kentucky, by order of the Pulaski quarterly court, the same to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 2. This act to be in force from its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. CHAPTER 260. AN ACT to prohibit the use of intoxicating liquors in Lawrence and Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Made unlawful to sell, loan, or election days. § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give, loan, or otherwise procure for another, on the day give liquors on of holding any State, county, or municipal election in the counties of Lawrence and Elliott, held under the laws of this Commonwealth, any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or the admixture of any of them, or either of them, or any other intoxicating liquors, at the place of holding said elections, or either of them, or within five miles thereof, to be drank or that shall be drunk at the place of holding said election or elections, or within five miles thereof: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to apply to practicing physicians in the bona fide practice of their profession, or church purposes on sacramental occasions. § 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of the Penalty. preceding section of this act shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered on indictment by the grand jury of said county. § 3. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. CHAPTER 261. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of the Cynthiana, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the board of directors of the Cynthiana, Paddy's Run, and Lair's Station Turnpike Road Com. - 1874. pany be, and they are hereby, authorized to collect tolls at the same rate authorized by the act to which this is an amendment, until said road is out of debt. §2. That this act take effect from its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. Paris and Mt. CHAPTER 262. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Cincinnati, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the act named be, and is hereby, amended as follows, to-wit: § 1. That said company be, and is hereby, authorized to Road between begin the construction of that part of their road between Sterling to be Paris, Kentucky, and Mount Sterling, whenever they pro$200,000 is sub- cure a bona fide subscription of two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars. commenced when scribed. § 2. That the gauge of said road may be such as shall President and be adopted by the president, directors, and company, by directors to adopt gauge of road. order on their books. 3. That the board of directors of said company may change the name and style of said company by order entered upon their company books, and by publishing the same in the public prints. §4. That said company may extend their road from Paris to a point on the Ohio river opposite Vevay, or other point at which the Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad strikes the Ohio river; but not further west than a point opposite Madison, Indiana. § 5. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved February 11, 1874. Trustees to elect tee for said town. building commit CHAPTER 263. AN ACT to authorize the creation of a building committee for the town of Versailles, in Woodford county, and to define the powers and duties thereof. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be the duty of the board of trustees of the town of Versailles, in Woodford county, at their first regular meeting after the passage of this act, and annually thereafter, to eleet a building committee for said. town, to consist of three discreet property-holders, who shall be residents of the said town. 1874. Term of office. Committeemen Powers and duties of commit § 2. The said building committee shall hold their offices for the term of one year from the date of their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and every person selected as provided, as a member of said. building committee, shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties as such, take an oath faithfully and to take oath. impartially to discharge the duties pertaining to his office. §3. It shall be the duty of said building committee to examine carefully into the character and description of tee every building which it is proposed to erect, add to, or remove into the corporate limits of said town of Versailles, and estimate the dangers and risks to be incurred by reason of fire, or other casualty, to neighboring or adjacent property; and the said committee shall have power and authority to grant or refuse, in their discretion, permits for the building, adding to, or removing into the corporate limits of said town such building as it may be proposed to erect, add to, or removed Persons building or adding to buildto obtain license therefor. §4. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to erect, add to, or remove into said corporate limits of said ings town, or to move from one point within said town limits to any other point within said town limits, any other house or other building, without first obtaining from the said build⚫ing committee a permit therefor. Every person violating the provisions of this section shall for each offense be liable to indictment in the circuit court of Woodford county, and vision. subjected to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and the board of trustees for the said town of Versailles shall have authority and power to have such building torn down or removed. Penalty for violating this pro Committee to report in writing terly. 5. Reports shall be made, in writing, by said building committee, to the trustees of the said town of Versailles, to trustees quar at least once in every three months, setting forth and particularly describing each building for the erection, adding to, or removal of which a permit shall have been granted. § 6. The said building committee shall be elected, as provided for in the first section of this act, annually. Building committee to be elected annually. Committee may order any build or demolished. 7. It shall be the duty of said building committee to order the removal or destruction of any building within ing to be removed the limits of said town when, in their judgment, an unusual risk is incurred by adjacent buildings in consequence of the proximity of such structure, and a proper regard for the sanitary welfare of adjoining property shall require it. Any person or persons failing or refusing to obey such order, when given, shall, for each failure or with order. refusal, incur the penalties set out in the fourth section of this act. § 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. Penalty for refusal to comply CHAPTER 264. AN ACT for the benefit of John N. Howard, sheriff of Harlan county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That John N. Howard, the sheriff of Harlan, be, and is hereby, released from the twenty per cent. damages assessed against him at the June term of the Frankin circuit court, 1873, for failure to pay into the Treasury the revenue of Harlan county for the year 1872: Provided, That said sheriff pay into the Treasury in ninety days from this date all of said judgment, except the twenty per cent. damages aforesaid. 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 12, 1874. est, and damages released. CHAPTER 265. AN ACT for the benefit of William Sword and Fleming Justice, of Pike county. WHEREAS, At the October term, 1867, of the Franklin circuit court, a motion was made, in behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, against William P. Johnson, sheriff of Pike county, and Fleming Justice and William Sword, his sureties on his official bond, for a judgment thereon for the revenue of 1866, upon which bond judgment was rendered against said Johnson and sureties for $2,922 22, at said October term, 1867; and whereas, at the fiscal term of said court, on the 27th of January, 1868, a bond of the said William P. Johnson for the year 1866 was filed in said court, purporting to be a bond for the collection of the State revenue and the county levy, and signed by said sureties, upon which bond motion was made and judgment obtained in behalf of the Commonwealth; and whereas, the said Fleming Justice and William Sword did not intend to sign said bond as a revenue bond, and it being now too late for him to take an appeal upon said judgment, or make a defense to the same; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the said Fleming Justice and William Sword Judgment, inter- be, and they are hereby, released from the payment of said judgment rendered at said October term, 1867, at the fiscal term of the Franklin circuit court, for the sum of $2,922 22 and interest upon same, and damages and costs: Provided, The co-sureties shall first enter their consent of record in the Pike county court to the release herein granted. § 2. All proceedings heretofore had for the collection of said judgment, so far only as they apply to said Justice and Sword, are hereby set aside and held for naught. § 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 12, 1874. 1874. Legal proceed ings set aside. CHAPTER 266. AN ACT for the benefit of Messrs. Mann & Rice and Miller & McDaniel, of WHEREAS, The owners of the Greenville Hotel, Messrs. Mann & Rice, also another firm, known as Miller & McDaniel, all of the town of Greenville, in the county of Muhlenburg, erected, under the old law, certain property for the purpose of opening and carrying on the saloon and billiard business; and whereas, section five of article thirteen of chapter ninety-two of the General Statutes of Kentucky has interfered with said business by closing the door to the billiard room; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That said Mann & Rice and Miller & McDaniel be permitted to open the door of their respective houses between the bar-room and the billiard saloon. 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER 267. AN ACT allowing the jailer of Clay county an assistant. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the jailer of Clay county be, and he is hereby, allowed an assistant. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 12, 1874. CHAPTER 268. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Garnettsville, in Meade county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Boundary of § 1. That the following boundary of land in Meade county, lying and situated on Otter creek, be, and is town given. |