1874. If prohibition carries, then act to be of full force. Election to be held on three weeks' notice in newspaper. of said county, under the same regulations and requirements as hereinbefore set forth; and if a majority of the votes cast in said last election should be for prohibition, then this act shall be in full force and effect; but a second election shall not be ordered or held in less than one year after the first election, nor unless the petition therefor to the county court be signed by at least one hundred qualified voters of said county. 9. That no election under this act shall be held until the same shall be thrice published in a newspaper having the largest circulation in Fulton county, for three several weeks immediately preceding said election. 10. That the expense of said publication, and all other Petitioners to expenses pertaining to said elections, shall be paid for by pay expenses of the parties petitioning the county court for the holding of the said elections. election. Approved February 16, 1874. ferable by written CHAPTER 300. AN ACT regulating the transfer of stock in the real estate associations of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of § 1. That the stock certificates, or other evidences of Stock to be trans- the ownership of stock in said associations, shall be asassignment, designable and transferable by the written indorsement, and delivery thereof by the owner, and by a record of the assignment and transfer upon the books of the association. livery, and record in association. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 16, 1874. County court to order election on hibiting sale of liquors. CHAPTER 301. AN ACT to prohibit the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in Garnettsville, Meade county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the county court of Meade county, at its April term, 1874, shall order an election to be held by the question of pro- sheriff of said county on the first Saturday in May, 1874. within the precinct of Garnettsville; and to hold said election, said court shall appoint the place of voting, and appoint two housekeepers within said precinct to be judges of election, and a clerk of election; and the sheriff shall appoint a sheriff to attend said voting place; and said election shall be held, returns thereof made, and the poll-books examined in all respects as in other elections. At which election all persons who are legal voters shall be entitled to vote, and persons voting illegally at said election shall be punished in the same manner as other illegal voters, under the laws of this State. 1874. Election to be held under gen eral laws. Voters to vote "for" or prohibition. § 2. At the election provided for in the preceding section, the voters shall be called upon to vote "for" or "against" "against" the prohibition of the sale of liquor; and if a majority of votes taken shall be for the prohibition, it shall be unlawful for any one to sell, in less quantity than one barrel, any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within said precinct Provided, That any regular druggist may sell the same for medicinal purposes, upon the written prescription of a practicing physician. §3. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 16, 1874. CHAPTER 302. AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Louisville Cement and Waterpower Company, approved January 13th, 1866. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the second section of said act of incorporation of January 13th, 1866, be, and is hereby, so amended as to divide the capital stock of said company into shares of one hundred dollars each, instead of one thousand dollars, as provided in said act of incorporation. § 2. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 16, 1874. Shares of capital stock to be $100. CHAPTER 303. AN ACT for the benefit of Green Ridge Churches, in Logan county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or a mixture thereof, within one and a half miles of Green Ridge Churches, in Logan county. §2. Any person violating this act shall be subject to all fines and penalties now imposed by law for unlawfully selling or dealing in spirituous or other liquors. §3. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 16, 1874. Made unlawful to sell liquors within one and a churches. half miles of Penalty. 1874. CHAPTER 304. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to establish tram-tracks or railways to navigable streams and railroads in Rockcastle county." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to establish tramtracks or railways to navigable streams and railroads in Rockcastle county," approved April 21st, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the words. "navigable streams or railroad," in the fourth section of said act, the words " or coal or other mines." § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 16, 1874. names. Name and style. CHAPTER 305. AN ACT for the benefit of the Union Mills Turnpike Company. WHEREAS, The Union Mills Turnpike Company made a mortgage of its rights, credits, and franchises to Thomas J. Robison and others, to secure an indebtedness incurred in the construction of said turnpike, and said mortgage has been foreclosed; and at the judicial sale made of the same John E. Patton, Jas. H. Bronaugh, Geo. S Mitchell, James M. Gregg. Elijah B. Muir, and Jacob McConathy became the purchasers thereof; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That John E. Patton, James H. Bronaugh, George Corporators S. Mitchell, James M. Gregg, Elijah B. Muir, and Jacob. McConathy, and their successors, are hereby created a body-corporate, and, under the name and style of the Union Mills Turnpike Company, may sue and be sued, Corporate contract and be contracted with, hold, enjoy, possess, sell, convey, and dispose of real and personal estate, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in value. powers. § 2. That the original act incorporating the Union Mills Original act Turnpike Company, approved the 17th day of February, 1866, is hereby 'adopted as a part of this act. made applicable. § 3. That the county court of Jessamine county, a maCounty court and town of jority of the magistrates composing the court concurring, Nicholasville and the trustees of the town of Nicholasville, are authorized and empowered to subscribe and take stock in the company created by this act. may take stock. § 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 16, 1874. AN ACT to revise and amend the charter of the city of Newport. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 61. That the territory of Kentucky included within the Boundary. following boundary, to-wit: beginning at the junction of the Ohio and Licking rivers; thence eastwardly with said Ohio river to the eastern line of the Manufacturing Company's addition; thence with the eastern and southern lines of said Manufacturing Company's addition to a point where the western line of Taylor's lane, if extended straight northwardly, would intersect the same; thence with the west line of said Taylor's lane south fifty-four degrees east to a point on the Covert Run Turnpike; thence south thirty-nine and one half degrees east to said Taylor's post-and-rail fence at the foot of the hill; thence south thirty and one half degrees west to the eastern line of Monmouth street, the same being the southwest corner of said Taylor's turnpike addition; thence with said eastern line of Monmouth street southwardly to the line of division between Tibbatt's addition to the city of Newport and the hill lot of A. L. Berry, where the old Licking road formerly opened on the turnpike road; thence westwardly along the dividing line between said tracts to John street, if extended; thence northwardly along the west line of John street, if thus extended, to the center line of Liberty street; thence with said center line of Liberty street westwardly to the center line of Central Avenue extended; thence with said center line of Central Avenue extended southwardly to the dividing line between the Trustees' addition to the city of Newport and General James Taylor's house or Bellevue tract; thence with said dividing line westwardly to the Licking river; thence with said Licking river northwardly to the place of beginning, shall be, and the same is hereby, constituted the corporate limits of the city of Newport, and the inhabitants thereof are hereby declared and continued a bodycorporate and politic, with perpetual succession, by the name and style of the city of Newport; and in that name may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, and do all acts and things as municipal corporations may lawfully do; and may have and use a corporate seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure. And the jurisdiction of said corporation shall be concurrent with the State of Kentucky over the waters of the Ohio river opposite to and bounding said city on the north, and with the county of Kenton over the waters of the Licking river opposite to and bounding said city on the west, save and except, however, that the arsenal grounds of the 1874. all rights pertaining to town of Newport. United States, containing five acres and six square poles within said boundary [see act of the General Assembly approved December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and three (1803)], shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of said corporation so long as the same shall be so held and occupied. § 2. Said city shall have and is hereby vested with all City vested with the rights, titles, interests, powers, and authority which were vested in, possessed, and held by the original trustees of Newport and their successors, the board of mayor and trustees, the president and trustees, and the president and common council of said town or city, or in any other manner held for or by said town or city; but the said rights, &c., shall be held for the same purposes, and subject to the same trusts as heretofore. That all the streets, alleys, roads, lanes, commons, market spaces, public squares, public buildings, public landings, and wharves, and all other public property in said city, be, and the same is hereby, vested in said city as now established; and whenever any of the land bounding and adjacent to said city shall be added thereto, and made part thereof, the streets, alleys, &c., thereby dedicated to public use shall thenceforth be vested in said city, and be subject to the laws thereof; and certified copies of all plats of lots, streets, alleys, market spaces, wharves, and other grounds for public use heretofore recorded, and which may hereafter be recorded, shall be received as evidence in all the courts; and the recording of any plat shall be held to be a dedication of the streets, alleys, market spaces, and other grounds therein designated for public use. § 3. Said city shall be, and is hereby, divided and laid City laid off into off into six wards, to be known and designated as the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Wards, and bounded respectively as follows, to-wit: wards. first ward. First Ward. Beginning where the center line of York Boundary of street extended intersects the Ohio river; thence southwardly with said center line to the center of the intersection of said York and Madison streets; thence eastwardly with the center line of Madison street extended to the western line of Taylor's lane; thence northwardly with said western line of Taylor's lane extended to the southern line of the Manufacturing Company's addition; thence with the southern and eastern lines of said Manufacturing Company's addition to the Ohio river; thence westwardly with the Ohio river to the place of beginning. Boundary of second ward. Second Ward. Beginning where the center line of York street extended intersects the Ohio river; thence southwardly with said center line to the center of the intersection of York and Madison streets; thence westwardly |