that time William Durrett has supported and maintained said pauper, who is now, and, since said inquest, has continued to be, a lunatic. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the Auditor of State is hereby directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasury in favor of said William Durrett for the sum of three hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty cents, being for the support of said pauper lunatic from March 28, 1872, to October 15th, 1873. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. CHAPTER 374. AN ACT to authorize the Liederkrantz Society to issue additional stock. §1. That the Liederkrantz Society, of the city of Louisville, be, and it is hereby, fully authorized and empowered, by vote of a majority of its board of directors or managers, to increase its capital stock in a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) by the issue of additional stock, in shares of twenty-five dollars ($25) each; and said board shall have full power and authority to do all things necessary therefor. § 2. That the private property of the stockholders of said society shall not be liable for corporate debts. § 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. CHAPTER 375. AN ACT to amend the charter of Pembroke, in Christian county. § 1. That so much of the charter of the town of Pembroke, in Christian county, as fixes the boundary of said town, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and in lieu thereof the boundaries of said town shall hereafter be as follows, viz: beginning at a small sassafras tree, red oak and sassafras pointers, north of R. Y. Pendleton's residence; thence south seventy-one degrees east one hundred and four poles to a stake, two post oaks and one red oak pointers; thence south twenty-one degrees west one hundred and ninety-five and one half poles to a stake; thence north seventy-one degrees west one hundred and 1874. 1874. four poles to a stake, red oak pointers; thence north twenty-one degrees east one hundred and ninety-five and one half poles to the beginning. § 2. The present jurisdiction of the police judge of said town, in criminal cases, shall extend to offenses committed within one half mile of the boundaries of said town. §3. The trustees of said town shall have authority to impose a reasonable tax or license (not exceeding those allowed by law to be imposed by the board of common council of Hopkinsville, Kentucky), on merchants, grocers, druggists, livery stable-keepers, tobacco-buyers and stemmers, draymen, teamsters, doctors, lawyers, tinners, shoemakers, blacksmiths, carpenters, painters, coopers, and all other kinds of business done in said town, for the purposes for which they are authorized to raise money in their charter; and the trustees of said town shall have full power to regulate, tax, control, or prohibit the liquor traffic in said town; but all ordinances and regulations on the subject shall be uniform and equal. Approved February 21, 1874. CHAPTER 376. AN ACT for the benefit of Robert Barlow, colored pauper idiot, of Hart county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for forty dollars and seventy-nine cents in favor of Harvey Barlow, committee of Robert Barlow, colored pauper idiot of Hart county, for the support of said idiot from the 6th day of January, 1873, to the 28th day of October, 1873. § 2. This act shall be in force and effect from its pas sage. Approved February 21, 1874. CHAPTER 377. AN ACT for the benefit of the commissioners of the turnpike fand in Henry county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the commissioners of the turnpike fund of Henry county shall receive any fractional part of road completed in accordance with the turnpike law of said county, and draw his voucher for the pro rata of one thousand dollars per mile: Provided, That said fraction shall not be less than one half mile; and shall require the same duties of officers, under the law, as is now required per mile. § 2. And the commissioners shall hereafter receive five dollars per day in lieu of two dollars now allowed by law. § 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. 1874. CHAPTER 378. AN ACT repealing an act, entitled "An act repealing an act creating the office of town marshal of Independence, and concerning the police laws of said town." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act repealing an act creating the office of town marshal of Independence," approved March 2d, 1867, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the act repealed thereby is hereby re-en- . acted. § 2. That the police judge of said town shall have the civil jurisdiction and the same fees that are allowed to justices of the peace of Kenton county, and shall have power to appoint an agent to execute any process issued by him, which, when executed, shall be as binding and effectual as though the same were done by an officer. He shall be subject to the same liabilities and receive the same fees that are allowed to officers for similar services: Provided, That no such appointment shall be made unless in the absence or inability of an officer authorized by law to execute the same, and that said authority shall be indorsed on the process. § 3. That the jurisdiction of the judge and marshal of the town of Independence shall extend over said town, and one mile beyond and outside of the limits of said town. § 4. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. CHAPTER 379. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Princeton. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the charter of the town of Princeton, in Caldwell county, be, and the same is hereby, so amended that any person otherwise qualified shall be competent to hold 1874. either the offices of police judge or town marshal of said town, after a bona fide residence within the corporate limits thereof for a period of thirty (30) days prior to his election to such office. § 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. CHAPTER 380. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Concord, in Lewis county. 1. That no license shall hereafter be granted by the trustees of the town of Concord to any one to retail either spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within the corporate limits of the town of Concord, till the person so applying shall have first paid into the town treasury of said town the sum of fifty dollars. § 2. That all moneys hereafter collected as license for the sale of liquors under section one of this act shall be used only in employing teachers to teach the common school in said town; and all such moneys so collected shall be held by the treasurer of said town subject to the order of the school trustee for the school district in which the said town of Concord is situated. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. CHAPTER 381. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Ohio River Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Ohio River Valley Railroad Company," approved on the 26th day of March, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: that the said company may commence the construction of their road from such point on the branch road now being built from Louisville to Cecilia, in Hardin county, as the two companies may agree upon, and operate their road from the said point of connection so long as they may elect to do so without extending the same to Louisville. § 2 That so soon as one hundred shares of bona fide stock subscriptions shall have been made to the capital stock of the said Ohio River Valley Railroad Company the persons subscribing the same shall have the right to organize the said company, and to exercise all the rights conferred upon the same by its charter. § 3. That so much of the said charter of the said Ohio River Valley Railroad Company as is in conflict with these amendments be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 4. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. 1874. Approved February 21, 1874. CHAPTER 382. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Planters' Bank of Kentucky. 1. That said Planters' Bank of Kentucky shall be under the control and direction of seven directors instead of five; and that the present board of directors shall elect two directors to serve until the next regular election, and afterwards the said board shall be elected in the same manner and have the qualifications prescribed by the charter of said bank. § 2. The board of directors shall have power to receive subscriptions for so many of the shares of the stock of said bank, prescribed by the charter of said bank, remaining unsold, as they may at any time choose to sell; and the calls on said subscriptions shall be paid in such time and manner as may be determined by the board of directSaid subscriptions, however, shall be paid in installments of not less than five dollars per month on each share of stock so subscribed for; and should any of the subscribers fail to pay for their subscriptions of stock, the same may be forfeited or resold in the manner prescribed in the original charter of said bank. ors. Seven directors instead of five. Directors authorsubscriptions of ized to receive stock, &c. on deposits not cent. § 3. Said bank may pay interest on deposits of gold, May pay interest silver, bank notes, and other notes which may be lawful exceeding ten per circulation as money, and repay the same in such manner and at such times, and with such interest, not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, as may be agreed upon with the depositors by special or general contract.. 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. |