CHAP. 415.-AN ACT for the benefit of George Davis. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That George Davis be, and he is hereby divorced from his wife Elizabeth Dais; and the said George is hereby restored to all the privileges and immunities of a single man. Approved, February 29, 1836. 1836. CHAP. 416.—AN ACT to provide for the management of the and SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Hospital to be the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the hospital managed by erected in Louisville, by this state, and the land be- mayor longing thereto, shall continue to be denominated council. "The Louisville Marine Hospital," and shall hereafter be managed by the mayor and council of the city of Louisville, in trust for this commonwealth, for the purposes specified in this act. SEC. 2. That the mayor and council of the city of Trustees and Louisville, shall annually appoint a board of trus- other officers tees for the management of said hospital, and may to be appoint. ed by them. make such rules and orders for its government and management, employ a keeper, health officer, physicians, mates, nurses, and attendants therefor, and provide bedding, clothing, fuel, provisions, medicine, and such other articles as shall be requisite therein, or empower the trustees of said hospital to do so, and they shall have the general superintendance thereof. SEC. 3. That every sick person put to said hospital Afflicted maas a marine, who has paid hospital dues, shall be riners to be there kept and attended to with all necessary and kept there. proper care, and no such person shall leave the hospital, until the person authorized as a health officer shall grant a written discharge; nor shall any other person who has a contagious disease leave said hospital until discharged by the health officer of said hospital. SEC. 4. That the person authorized as a health of Persons elop. ficer may direct, in writing, any constable, marshal, ing may be or watchman, or any other citizen, to pursue and apprehended. apprehend any person not discharged, who shall elope from the hospital, and to deliver such person at the hospital to be there detained until regularly 1836 discharged; and it shall be the duty of the constable, marshal, watchman, or other citizen so directed, to obey such direction. SEC. 5. That the mayor and council of the city of Mayor and Louisville shall have the right to prescribe rules and council to regulations by which persons, other than those maprescribe rules as to dismis. rines who shall have paid hospital dues, shall be ension of sub- titled to the benefit of said hospital; and all persons jects. put to the said marine hospital, or any other hospital belonging to, or under the direction of said city, other than those who shall have paid hospital money, and such poor persons as the mayor and council of said city shall exempt, shall pay a reasonable sum for their board, medicine and attendance; and for the recovery of such sum, the city of Louisville may sue in her corporate name before any tribunal har ing jurisdiction of the sun. SEC. 6. The mayor and council of said citr shall What funds cause the funds now appropriated to the benefit of not to be ap- said hospital, to be applied to the aid and assistance plied to the of such persons as have paid hospital dues, and to the support of those who repairs and improvement of said hospital and lot, and have not paid to furnishing the same: and shall appropriate no part thereof to the benefit of such persons as have not paid hospital dues. And all such sums as the city of Louisville shall appropriate to said hospital, shall be applied to the benefit of those persons who have not paid hospital dues, under the regulations prescribed for said hospital. dues. Approved, February 29, 1836. Ji CHAP. 417.-AN ACT changing the time of electing Trustees for the town of Paducah. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com monwealth of Kentucky, That it shall, and may be lawful for the citizens of the town of Paducah, hereafter to elect the trustees for said town on the first Monday in April in each and every year; and should the citizens of said town, at any time hereafter, fail to have an election on the day appointed in this act, that then, and in that case, the clerk or any trustee, may, by giving ten days previous notice, have an election held for trustees, which shall be as legal as though the same had taken place on the day herein appointed. That all laws contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. 1836 Approved, February 29, 1836. CHAP. 418.-AN ACT to Incorporate the Franklin Fire and Capital. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Company inthe Commonwealth of Kentucky, That J. B. Bowls, corporated. R. J. Ward, Angeroe Gray, Isaac Stewart, W. H. Pope, E. Webb, James Anderson, Jr. D. S. Benedict, William Prather, and James Stewart, and their associates, shall be, and they are hereby created a body corporate, with succession, for the term of twenty years, from the first day of July, eighteen. hundred and thirty-six, under the name and style of the "Franklin Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Louisville," with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars; and no person or co-partnership shall hold more than one hundred shares of said stock; and said company, by the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law, of suing and being sued, contracting and being contracted with, pleading and being impleaded in all courts of judicature, and of having and using a common seal, and regulating their affairs by the establishment of proper by-laws; and shall have all the power and authority vested in "the Louisville Marine Fire Insurance Company," by an act entitled, marine an act to incorporate "the Louisville Marine and Fire fire insurance Insurance Company," approved January twenty- company. eighth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and the amendment thereto, except as herein otherwise provided, and subject to the like limitations and restrictions, to the same beneficial extent as if they were again repeated and enacted. Powers.. Same as the and How manag. Scale of vot SEC. 2. That the officers of said company and the management of its affairs, shall be under the direc- ed. tion and control of a president and eight directors, who shall be stockholders; and each share of stock in said company, shall entitle the holder to one vote; and no person but a citizen of the state of Kentucky, shall be authorized to hold stock in said company; and any stock taken by, or transferred to any person not a citizen or resident of Kentucky, shall operate ing, non-residents not to hold stock. 1836 Officers, when as a forfeiture of such stock, for the benefit of the oth er stockholders in said company. SEC. 3. That the persons named in this act, or Books, when any two of them, shall act as commissioners to open to be opened. books for the subscription of stock; and when the stock is taken, shall advertise a meeting of the subscribers at some convenient place in the city of Louto be chosen. isville, when a president and directors shall be chos en, and a code of by-laws adopted, and the time of the annual election of a president and directors fixed; and the form of certificates of stock, and the manner of transferring the same, regulated; and said May loan mo- company may loan their money, provided, that they shall not take a greater rate of interest than at the rate of six per cent. per annum, in advance, on notes discounted by them, or for money loaned by them. Approved, February 29, 1836. ney. CHAP. 419. AN ACT the better to protect the proprietors of SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall not be lawful for the owner or lessee of any ferry, established from the opposite side of the Ohio river to the Kentucky shore of said river, to the county of Jefferson within this state, by themselves or their ferrymen, to ferry or attempt to ferry, without the mutual agreement between the respective owners of such ferrys, from the Kentucky shores of said river to the opposite shores, any person or thing, with or without charge, not having a grant for a ferry from the Kentucky side, to the prejudice of a ferry on the Kentucky side, nor shall it be lawful to do so; and each person so offending shall, for each offence, forfeit and pay to the proprietor or lessee of the ferry, on the Kentucky side, the sum of fifty dollars, recov. erable by warrant before a justice of the peace; and when the warrant cannot be served on such owner or other person, it shall be lawful for the magistrate, on affidavit made of the fact, to endorse an order on the warrant, directing the constable to seize the ferry boats and skiffs of the party, and hold the same to enforce an appearance to the warrant; and if no appearance shall be entered in ten days and surety given to pay the judgment that may be rendered, it shall be lawful for the magistrate to proceed as on warrant executed, and on the rendition of judgment, to direct a sale of the attached effects; and no person who may be the owner, in whole or in part, of a ferry from the opposite side of said river, and not the owners, in whole or in part, of a grant of a ferry from the Kentucky side of said river, other than the persons actually engaged as ferrymen in the working the ferry from the opposite side of said river, shall have the right to pass from the Kentucky side of said river, in such ferry boats, to the prejudice of the ferries on the Kentucky side of said river; and the carrying such owners, or part owners, who are not in fact ferrymen, employed in working the ferry, shall be a violation of this act. Approved, February 29, 1836. 1836 CHAP. 420.-AN ACT to allow an additional Justice of the Whereas, it is represented to the general assembly, that an additional justice of the peace is much needed in the neighborhood of Hustonville, in Lincoln county: Therefore, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That there shall be allowed to the county of Lincoln, one additional justice of the peace. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the county of Oldham, an additional justice of the peace. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the county court of Graves county, or a majority of the justices of said county concurring, shall have the power to nominate one justice, and appoint one constable in addition, to said county; which constable shall reside some where on the waters of panther creek. Approved, February 29, 1836 CHAP. 421-AN ACT providing for a change of venue in the case of John U. Waring. May elect to SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of be tried in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be law- Shelby. |