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is by law to collect each particular tax, to answer in open
court, under oath, the number of persons who have paid to
him any item of tax which it is made his duty to collect,
and the aggregate amount collected under each item, which
answers so made by the officer shall be recorded by the judge,
in blank places prepared for that purpose; and the several.
judges are hereby invested with power, by rule or attach-
ment, to compel the attendance of said officers to answer the
call of said revenue docket or account: Provided, That justices
of the peace, constables, and police judges, may report in
writing And provided further, That in case of the actual sick-
ness of any of the officers required to report in court, such
officer may also report in writing. Said reports shall be
made under oath, and read in open court.

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§ 4. That it shall be the duty of each judge of a circuit court; Duty of circuit in this Commonwealth to see that each officer in each county port made and in which he holds his court, at each and every term thereof, form to Auditor. makes a report, as required by this act. And it shall further be the duty of each judge, so soon as said report is made, to attest the same as a correct memoranda of the questions propounded to each officer, and his answers thereto, and to forward it to the Auditor of Public Accounts, and to have a copy thereof entered on the records of his court.

85. That the Auditor of Public Accounts shall not draw his warrant on the Treasurer of this State for the monthly salary of any circuit judge until the report referred to in section four of this act, or a copy, attested by the judge, is filed in his office, for all the courts held in his district, for the month next before the one for which the salary is to be drawn: Provided, That if a rule is issued against any officer or officers required to make report under this act, and is returned by the proper officer "not found," a copy of said rule and return shall be accepted as a return for that officer for that term of the court for all the purposes of this section of this act; but it shall be the duty of the judge to issue a rule against the officer not reporting, returnable to the first day of the next term of the circuit court, at which time the officer shall be required to report from the date of his last report.

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§ 6. It shall be the duty of each officer authorized by law to collect moneys due the State to pay them over to the officer after each term of or officers as now directed by law, and to settle immediately after each term of the circuit court in his county, as now directed by law. And it shall be the further duty of each and every officer, whose duty it is by law to collect the values found due on such settlement, to collect the same immediately; and if not paid, to give notice and take judgment for such balances, at the first term of the court having jurisdiction which shall convene not less than twenty days after such settlement is made.

$7. That the provisions of this act shall be held to extend and not to repeal any of the provisions of the laws of this Commonwealth, except those laws inconsistent herewith, which are hereby repealed.

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8. This act shall take effect on the first day of September,

Approved February 23, 1874.

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Pendleton.

Harrison.

CHAPTER 481.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to change the time of holding the circuit, chancery, and criminal courts in the twelfth judicial district."

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§1. That the circuit, criminal, and chancery courts in the twelfth judicial district shall be held as provided in an act, entitled "An act to change the time of holding the circuit, criminal, and chancery courts in the twelfth judicial dis trict," approved April 16th, 1873, except that the term of circuit court in the counties of Kenton, Pendleton, and Harrison shall be held as follows: the Kenton circuit court at Covington, commencing on the first Monday in January, third Monday in April, and first Monday in September, the first and last named terms each twenty-four juridical days, and the April terin eighteen juridical days; at Independence on the third Monday in June and the second Monday in December, and continue each six days, if the business requires; Pendleton circuit court, commencing second Monday in March and third Monday in October, each term to continue twelve juridical days, if business requires; Harrison circuit court, commencing on the second Monday in May and the first Monday in November, each term to continue eighteen juridical days, if business requires.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of Aug ust 1874.

Approved February 23, 1874.

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CHAPTER 483.

AN ACT to provide for the conveyance of pauper lunatics to the various asylums in this Commonwealth.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That all expenses for the conveyance of pauper lunatics to the asylums of this Commonwealth shall be paid to the persons so conveying said lunatics, by warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts upon the Treasurer of the State; the sum for conveyance to be certified by the Superintend ent of the asylum to which the parties is carried: Provided, That but one person shall be paid for conveying such lunatics, the costs in no case to exceed six cents per mile going, for guard and patient each, and six cents per mile for guard,

returning; distance to be estimated by the nearest usual route of travel.

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§ 2. That patients denied admittance, or not received by Sanie compensaSuperintendents of asylums for want of room, shall receive tion for returning the same compensation returning to their homes what they tient. are entitled to under the foregoing section of this act for going to said asylums.

§3. Where a certificate has been issued by the Superintendent of any lunatic asylum since the fifteenth (15th) day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1873), for the conveyance of a pauper lunatic to the asylum, it shall be lawful for the Auditor to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the amount of such certificate, not exceeding the amount due upon the certificate under the law in force on the first (1st) day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1873).

§ 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.

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certificate issued after 15th Octo

ber, 1873, and the amount to be

paid.

Approved February 23, 1874.

CHAPTER 488.

AN ACT to change the time of holding the Pulaski circuit court.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. Section fifth of article five of chapter twenty-eight of the General Statutes is hereby so amended that Pulaski circuit court shall be held on the fourth Mondays in March and September, and continue the same number of days as now provided by law.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from and after the passage of

this act.

Approved February 23, 1874.

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Court.

CHAPTER 494.

AN ACT to amend chapter eighteen of General Statutes, entitled "Coinmon Schools."

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

utes, page 204.

§ 1. That the word "trustees," wherever it occurs in said See General Statchapter, and the sense requires it to be in the singular number, shall read "trustee.'

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§2. That article two, section six, be so amended as to refer to "article seven, section fourteen," instead of "article seven, section sixteen."

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§3. That article three, section five, be so amended as to substitute "trustee " for "district school boards," in the two places where it occurs.

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§ 4. That article five, section two, be so amended as to substitute "eighteen hundred and seventy-four" for "eighteen hundred and seventy-three," and to add to the section the words, "the commissioners now in office shall occupy the office for the full time for which they were elected."

§ 5. That article one, section ten, be so amended as to substitute "the tenth day of January" for "the fifteenth day of November," and article five, section eight, as to substitute "the tenth day of January" for "the fifteenth day of November."

§ 6. That article five, section fourteen, be amended by substituting "January" for " November."

§ 7. That article five, section fifteen, be amended by sub. stituting "eighteen hundred and seventy-four" for "eighteen hundred and seventy-three."

§ 8. That article seven, section one, be amended so as to read, "the qualified white voters of the district," instead of "county."

§ 9. That article seven, section eight, be amended so as to read "after the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, if a majority of the white qualified voters of such district."

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§ 10. That article seven, section eight, be so amended as to read thirty cents," instead of "forty cents," and "section nine," instead of "article seven."

11. That article seven, section fourteen, be amended by adding thereto: "And said trustee shall not take the census of any children who have recently removed into the district, and who have, previously, been reported in the census of pupil children, for the year, in the district from which they have removed."

12. That article seven, section fifteen, be amended so as to read, "in full or one half the session, by the fifteenth of February, fifteenth of May, and first of July, or for one half of the session, by January fifteenth," and by substituting "section sixteen for "section fifteen.'

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§ 13. That article eight, section one, be amended by adding after the words: "County Board of Examiners," the following words: "or two members of the State Board of Examiners."

§ 14. That article eight, section eight, be amended by adding after the word "examiners," the words "of a county."

15. That article nine, section one, be amended by substituting for "in July or August," the following words: "at such season of the year as may seem to him most convenient to the teachers, and productive of the best results to the school of the county."

§ 16. That article eleven, section three, be amended by striking out all after the word "June."

817. That article twelve be amended by striking out the word "act," wherever it occurs, and substituting the word "chapter."

§ 18. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved February 23, 1874.

CHAPTER 519.

AN ACT to increase the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in the counties of Warren, Edmonson, Carter, and Madison.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§1. That in civil actions and proceedings, the courts of justices of the peace in the counties of Warren, Edmonson, Carter, and Madison shall have jurisdiction for the recovery of money or personal property, when the matter in controversy, exclusive of interest and cost, does not exceed one hundred dollars in value, and the pleadings therein may be oral; but before any summons is issued, the plaintiff shall file, as now required by section eight hundred and seventytwo of the Civil Code, the account or written contract or statement of the facts on which the action or proceeding is founded; and appeals may be taken by either party to the court of common pleas or circuit court, when the amount in controversy is of the value of ten dollars or more, exclusive of interest and cost. Before any summons shall be issued on a claim exceeding fifty dollars, a tax of fifty cents shall be paid to the justice, who shall report and account for the same, as in case of fines paid to a justice of the peace.

2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved February 23, 1874.

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AN ACT to establish a uniform system of common schools for the colored children of this Commonwealth.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

System of common schools for

§ 1. That there shall be a uniform system of common schools for the education of the colored children of this Common-colored children wealth.

established.

School fund, from whence de

§ 2. That the school fund for this purpose shall be known as the colored school fund, and shall consist of the following pro- rived. visions, viz:

1. The present annual revenue tax of twenty-five cents, and twenty cents in addition, on each one hundred dollars in value of the taxable property owned or held by colored persons, which tax shall be devoted to no other purpose whatever.

2. A capitation tax of one dollar on each male colored person above the age of twenty-one years.

3. All taxes levied and collected on dogs owned or kept by colored persons.

4. All State taxes on deeds, suits, or on any license, collected from colored persons.

5. All the fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed upon and collected from colored persons due the State, except the amount thereof allowed by law to attorneys for the Commonwealth.

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