CHAPTER 430. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Mayfield." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That for the purpose of keeping the streets repaired and in good order, the city council shall have power to levy a poll-tax, not exceeding two dollars, on all males of the city from eighteen to fifty years old, to be levied, assessed, and collected as other taxes in said city. 2. That the boundary or corporate limits of the city. of Mayfield be, and the same are hereby, extended as follows: beginning at a stake one half mile east of the southeast corner of said city; running thence north three fourths of a mile to a stake; thence west one and a half miles to a stake; thence south one mile to a stake; thence east one and a half miles to a stake; thence north to the beginning. §3. That all lands which may be included in the above extension of the corporate limits of the city of Mayfield, which shall be used exclusively for farming purposes, shall not be subject to taxation for city purposes. § 4. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved February 21, 1874. 1874. CHAPTER 431. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Evansville and Jackson Railroad Company," approved March 28, 1872. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Amendment to second section, § 1. That section two of the act to which this is an amendment be amended by striking out all of said sec- original act. tion after the words "as a natural person;" also that the word "seven" in section six be stricken out, and the words "not less than seven nor more than thirteen" substituted therefor; also that section seven of said act be so amended as to allow the directors to elect, as secretary and treasurer, some suitable person or persons not belonging to the board of directors; also that section twenty-six of said act be amended by striking out the words "from any point south of the city of Henderson." Treasurer and secretary may be side board. e ected from cut Sections 27 & 28 of former act re § 2. Be it further enacted, That sections twenty-seven. and twenty-eight of the act to which this is an amend- pealed, and this ment be, and the same are hereby, repealed; but in lieu of said section twenty-eight the following is substituted: 1874. Route of road. "said company shall be subject to and governed by the General Statutes of this State relating to and governing railroad corporations." §3. Be it further enacted, That the Evansville and Jackson Railroad Company may construct their road from Dixon's ferry or its vicinity, on the Ohio river, opposite the city of Evansville, Indiana, by way of the city of Henderson, to any point on the line of the State of Tennessee west of the Tennessee river: Provided, That the gauge of said road between the starting point and the city of Henderson shall be four feet eight and a half or nine inches, and none other, until said company have prepared their road-way ready for the iron to Tradewater river, and have procured the necessary iron to lay the track on the same, and are ready, in good faith, to lay the track to said Tradewater river, then said company may commence at the starting point and lay down a five-feet track continuously to the line of the State of Tennessee. The track between the starting point and the city of Henderson first provided for in this section to be and remain four feet eight and a half or nine inches gauge: And provided further, That if said company so desire they may construct a three-feet track on any or all of their line of road, in addition to or in lieu of the five-feet track above authorized, or they may lay a track of four feet eight and a half or nine inches in lieu of any or all of said five-feet track: And provided further, That said company shall not have the right to run on, nor the right to run over, nor the right to contract with any railroad company whose road is now built to the city of Henderson to run on or over their track a greater distance than two miles south of the city of Henderson: Provided, That no tax shall be imposed upon the people on the line of said road from the city of Henderson to Dixon's ferry. 4. Be it further enacted, That the present name and Title road style of the company be, and is hereby, changed to that of Evansville, Jackson, and New Orleans Railroad Company. changed. § 5. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. CHAPTER 432. AN ACT for the benefit of the Paducah Savings Bank. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the act amending an act incorporating the Paducah Savings Bank, approved March 28, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, re-enacted: Provided, Said corporation shall be organized within one year from the first day of April, 1874. 2 This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. 1874. CHAPTER 433. AN ACT to incorporate Harmony Lodge, No. 125, Independent Order of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That M. M: Black, W. W. Garnett, and their associates, be, and they are hereby, created a body-corporate, by the name and style of Harmony Lodge, No. 125, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and they and their associates and successors shall so continue and have perpetual succession; and by that name are made capable in law as natural persons to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, answer and be answered, in all courts of law and equity in this Commonwealth; to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, or amend at pleasure. They may make and ordain regulations and by-laws for their government, and those now in force in said Lodge to alter when deemed proper, and may change and renew the same at pleasure: Provided, They be not in contravention of the Constitution, laws, and regulations of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, incorporated by an act of the Legislature of Kentucky, approved February 16th, 1838, nor in contravention of the Constitution and laws of the United States or of this State. § 2. That the said corporation shall have power and authority to acquire and hold real estate, not exceeding in value ten thousand dollars, and, from time to time, if deemed expedient, sell and convey the same, or any part thereof, and to reinvest and dispose of the proceeds. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby reserved to the General Assembly of Kentucky. § 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 21, 1874. LOC. L.-31 1874. may take stock. CHAPTER 434. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Mt. Sterling Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That if the Mt. Sterling Coal Road Company shall, Menifee county at any time within not less than sixty days before any regular election, but within five years from the passage. hereof, through its proper officers, request the county. judge of Menifee county to subscribe, upon specified conditions, a specific amount to the capital stock of said company, the county judge aforesaid may forthwith assemble the members of the county court, to ascertain whether a majority be in favor of the submission of said proposition; and if a majority of the county court justices assent thereto, it shall be the duty of the county judge forthwith to order a poll to be opened at the several voting places in said county, at the next regular election, to take the sense of the qualified voters of said county upon the proposition to subscribe for stock in said Coal Road Company, under the direction of and by the same officers appointed to conduct the said regular election; and of the opening of said poll notice shall be given as is required in the case of other elections: Provided, however, That said county shall in no event subscribe a greater sum to the capital stock of said road company than forty thousand dollars. County judge of sub Menifee, if stock bonds of county. § 2. That the board of examiners of said county, when counting the vote of said county as now provided by law, shall count also the vote provided to be taken in the first section hereof; and if it shall appear that two thirds of the qualified voters of said county voted in favor of the subscription of stock as proposed, the county judge shall order the result of the vote to be entered on the record, and a subscription to be made by the clerk on behalf of the county on the terms, and in the amount specified in the order submitting the question to a vote, not exceeding the amount before specified; and it shall be the duty of the county court to make proper and timely provision for the payment of the subscription so made in the bonds of said county, and the interest thereon. § 3. The subscription by said county to said road shall To be paid in be paid in the bonds of said county, in denominations of not exceeding one thousand dollars each, bearing a rate of interest, payable annually, not exceeding ten per cent.; and no bonds shall be issued payable in less than ten years, nor shall any of said bonds be issued until said road is graded, and ready for the iron thereon, to the Menifee county line; and none of said bonds, when de livered to said company, shall be sold by said company at § 5. Upon the application, in writing, by the said Mt. Sterling Coal Road Company, through its proper officers, expressed to the mayor of the city of Lexington, the mayor and board of councilmen of said city may, by proper ordinances and proceedings, pledge the credit of the said city to and guarantee the payment by said city of the mortgage bonds of said Mt. Sterling Coal Road Company, and interest thereon, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in principal, upon such terms and conditions, and subject to such limitations, as may be made, expressed, and agreed upon in a written contract between said city and said Mt. Sterling Coal Road Company, which agreement shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the county court of Fayette county; and said company shall not afterwards issue its bonds to an amount greater than one hundred thousand dollars in all, including those already issued, unless with the consent of said city, as expressed by its mayor and board of councilmen. Approved February 20, 1874. 1874. Quantity of land the county may freights acquire rate of Lexington may take stock. CHAPTER 435. AN ACT for the benefit of common schools in Marshall, Livingston, and Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the common school commissioners of Marshall, Livingston, and McCracken counties shall each be, |