having purchased the Bullitt County Turnpike Road, are hereby incorporated in the name of the Bullitt County Turnpike Corporation; and as such may own and operate said road with all the rights, privileges, and franchises, and subject to all the laws, rules, and obligations of the Bullitt County Turnpike Road Company; and may divide their capital stock into shares as they may deem. proper, and the same may be transferred according to the by-laws of the company. Approved February 20, 1874. 1874. CHAPTER 355. AN ACT to revive an act to incorporate the Springfield and Harrodsburg -Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Springfield, Maxville, and Harrodsburg Turnpike Road Company," be, and the same is hereby, extended and continued in its operation; and in addition to present commissioners the following named persons are appointed: James McMullen, Samuel Bottoms, John Robinson, T. J. Montgomery, Wm. Smith, and Henry Fenwick § 2. This act shall be in force from and after its pas sage. Approved February 20, 1874. CHAPTER 356. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the town of ·Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section (5) five of an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Glenville, in Adair county," be amended by substituting the word "three" for the word "five" where it occurs in said section, so that the fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of said town shall be managed and controlled by three trustees instead of five. § 2. That an act to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Glenville, in Adair county," which was passed by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on the 21st of April, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. §3. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved February 20, 1874. 1874. CHAPTER 358. AN ACT for the benefit of J. G. Whitt, of Elliott county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1 That from and after the passage of this act James G. Whitt, of the county of Elliott, shall not be deemed ineligible to the office of clerk of the Elliott county court, by reason of his being guardian for infant or infants, or administrator of the estate of deceased persons; nor by his election and acceptance of said office of clerk of the Elliott county court shall he vacate his offices of guardian and administrator: Provided, however, That this act shall not apply to the acceptance of the offices of guardian and administrator by said Whitt to which said Whitt shall hereafter be appointed. § 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. tion may organize. CHAPTER 359. AN ACT for the benefit of the Maysville Manufacturing Association. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section four of the act to incorporate the When associa Maysville Manufacturing Association, which became a law March 27, 1873, be so amended that upon the subscription of five hundred shares of stock said corporators. may publish notice of the time and place of holding the first meeting of the association, and proceed to elect a board of control, and proceed in the organization and business of said association, instead of the previous subscription of one thousand shares, as required by said fourth section of said act. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. CHAPTER 360. AN ACT for the benefit of the Minerva and Beasley Creek Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the Minerva and Beasley Creek Turnpike Road Company, in Mason county, be, and they are here by, authorized to erect another toll-gate on their said turnpike road, and collect toll thereat for the distance traveled on said road. The gate to be located at any point on said road outside of the corporate limits of the town of Minerva that the company may select. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 1874: Approved February 20, 1874. CHAPTER 361. AN ACT for the benefit of the creditors of the Institution for the Education and Training of Feeble-minded Children. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That for the purpose of liquidating the indebtedness of the Institution, formerly known as the Institution. for the Education and Training of Feeble-minded Children, contracted prior to the 1st day of May, 1873, for provisions, clothing, and other supplies for the support and maintenance of the inmates of said Institution, being the full amount of unpaid claims to that date, the sum of five thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents ($5,867 64) is hereby appropriated, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of the treasurer of said Institution, as now organized, for said amount, payable out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. That the further sum of thirteen hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-three cents ($1,378 53), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to said Institution to enable it to settle and liquidate a claim set off by John Haly against it: Provided, however, That the Auditor of Public Accounts shall not draw his warrant on the Treasurer for said amount, or any part thereof, until he first investigates the validity and justness of said claim, and is satisfied that the whole or a part of it should be paid, and he then shall draw his warrant only for so much of the same as may be just and equitable, and which shall be in full settlement of said claim. §3. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. 1874. CHAPTER 362. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Hustonville and Bradfordsville Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the original charter of the Hustonville and Bradfordsville Turnpike Company be so amended as to allow the president and directors of said company to complete the unfinished part of their road with metal fifteen feet wide, instead of eighteen, as required by the original charter: Provided, To the metal shall be placed in the center of the grade of said road. § 2. That hereafter the president and directors of said. company shall only be required to keep up the metal on said road fifteen feet in width. §3. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. CHAPTER 363. AN ACT to supply the General Statutes to the justices of the peace of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Secretary of State is hereby directed to furnish to the county clerk of Trigg county three copies. of the General Statutes of this Commonwealth, to supply the deficiency in the distribution of said books to the justices of the peace of said county. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. Allowed $250. CHAPTER 364. AN ACT for the benefit of Henderson Conlee, of Powell 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 Henderson Conlee for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, payable out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being compensation to said Conlee for arresting and placing in jail, in the State of Virginia, one James Johnson, an escaped convict from the Kentucky Penitentiary and his expenses attending his services in arresting said Johnson and placing him in jail, &c. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. 1874. Approved February 20, 1874. CHAPTER 365. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Maysville, Paris, and Lexington WHEREAS, There was an enactment by the General Assembly to amend the charter of the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company, and for other purposes, approved February 24, 1834, fixing and regulating tolls to be paid by persons going to and returning from church, and to and from mill; and whereas, said enactment was repealed by an act approved March 1, 1860, leaving said company (its name having been changed by enactment to the "Maysville and Lexington Turnpike Road Company ") without legislative provision on these subjects: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. In the precise language of the old provision on these subjects, that hereafter there shall be no exemption from the payment of tolls on the "Maysville and Lexington Turnpike Road" under pretense of going to or returning from any place of public worship, except on the Sabbath day, and to the usual neighborhood churches; and hereafter persons going to and returning from their usual neighborhood mills, with a single horse and bag, shall be exempt from paying toll on said road. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. CHAPTER 366. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate and reduce into one all acts in regard to the town of Richmond." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That an act approved January 18th, 1868, entitled “An act to incorporate and reduce into one all the acts in regard to the town of Richmond," be amended as follows: |