1874. CHAPTER 61. AN ACT legalizing an order made by the court of claims in Crittenden county. WHEREAS, An act of the General Assembly approved February 2d, 1871, empowering the court of claims of Crittenden county to levy and collect a tax for the purpose of rebuilding the court-house in said county, and to be used for no other purpose: said levy and collection were made, and payment for court-house completed in the year 1872. Upon settlement with R. N. Walker, then sheriff of said county, a balance of eleven hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty cents was in said Walker's hands, after full payment of all demands for building said court-house; and upon a further settlement with said Walker for collection made by him for county purposes, it was found that said Walker had paid out of his own money an equivalent sum, more than was due and collected by him from the county for that purpose. Upon which settlements the court of claims made an order, making one indebtedness rebut the other; and to make the order of said court valued, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an order made by the court of claims of Crittenden county, at its October term, 1873, using money collected for court-house purposes for the payment of county indebtedness to R. N. Walker, be, and is hereby, legalized. § 2. That this act be in force from its passage. Approved January 16, 1874. CHAPTER 62. AN ACT for the benefit of George Carter, committee for J. B. Salter, a lunatic of Lawrence 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 Treasurer in favor of George Carter, committee for J. B. Salter, a lunatic of Lawrence county, for the sum of two hundred dol lars ($200), being the amount due said Carter as aforesaid, up to and including the 22d of November, 1873. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. CHAPTER 63. AN ACT allowing netting for fish in Sinking creek, in Breckinridge county. §1. That all laws prohibiting netting for fish in Sinking 1874. Approved January 16, 1874. CHAPTER 64. AN ACT for the benefit of the administrators of William Simpson, late clerk of the Wayne circuit and county courts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Further time collect fee bills. § 1. That the further time of two years from and after the passage of this act is hereby allowed the adminis- granted to list trators of William Simpson, deceased, late clerk of the Wayne circuit and county courts, within which they may issue and collect the uncollected fee bills of said decedent as clerk aforesaid, and the same shall be distrainable for said time; and there shall be, within said time, the same power for the collection of the same that is granted by existing laws for the collection of fee bills; but said administrators shall be liable to all the penalties imposed by existing laws for the issuing of illegal fee bills. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage. Approved January 16, 1874. To be liable for illegal actions. CHAPTER 65. AN ACT to amend the town charter of Harrodsburg, Mercer county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the charter of the town of Harrodsburg be so amended that no person shall be a qualified elector for the municipality of said town who shall not, at the time he offers to vote, have paid all the taxes due against him to said town. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 19, 1874. 1874. CHAPTER 66. regulate sale of liquors. AN ACT to repeal sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten of an act, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the town of Monticello, and to regulate the traffic in spirituous liquors therein." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That sections one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and ten of an act, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the town of Monticello, and to regulate the traffic in spirituous liquors," approved March 22, 1873, are hereby repealed. § 2. That the chairman and board of trustees of the Trustees to town of Monticello shall have the power to regulate the sale of malt and spirituous liquors in said town; the license fee to sell malt or spirituous liquors shall not be less than one hundred and fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars per annum. License fee. § 3. No license shall be issued to any person to sell malt To whom license or spirituous liquors in the town of Monticello, unless the applicant there for shall have first obtained the license required by the General Statutes of the State. to be issued. selling witho u t license. § 4. Any person who shall sell spirituous or malt liquors. Penalty for in said town, without having first paid the license fee required by the board of trustees in conformity with this act, shall, upon conviction, be fined in the police court of said town in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. § 5. This act to take effect from and after its pas g Approved January 19, 1874. CHAPTER 67. AN ACT for the benefit of E. H. Hobson and J. J. Durham. WHEREAS, E. H. Hobson and J. J. Durham having become the purchasers of the Greensburg and Taylor County Turnpike Road, by transfer from D. P. White, who had previously purchased said road under a judg ment of the Green circuit court rendered at its November term, 1872; now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the said purchase and said transfer shall vest Hobson & Dur- in the said Hobson and Durham, their heirs or assignees, ham, purchasers, vested with all all right, title, interest, and ownership in and to said rights of original road; and that the said Hobson and Durham, their heirs corporation. or assignees, shall, by virtue of this act, be entitled to and allowed to exercise all the powers, rights, privileges, and immunities conferred upon the original company by chap- 1874. ter one hundred and three of the Revised Statutes, title "Turnpike and Plank Roads," the same under which said road was built; and that said Hobson and Durham, their heirs or assignees, be, and are hereby, permitted and allowed to operate said road under said chapter one hundred and three of the Revised Statutes, subject to the duties and responsibilities therein prescribed. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 19, 1874. CHAPTER 68. AN ACT for the benefit of David Wheeler, of Clinton county. WHEREAS, David Wheeler was tried before J. F. Stephenson, a justice of the peace for Clinton county, for a breach of the peace, and fined the sum of twenty-five dollars; and whereas, J. W. Stevenson, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, on the 23d day of March, 1869, remitted and released said Wheeler from the payment of said fine, except fees and costs; but before said Wheeler received the same, he had paid said fine; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the sum of seventeen dollars and fifty cents. be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the benefit of said David Wheeler, and the Auditor is directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of said Wheeler for said amount. 2. That this act take effect from its passage. Approved January 19, 1874. CHAPTER 69. AN ACT providing for the payment of money to Eliza A. Taylor, of Owen county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the sum of thirtysix dollars and fifty cents in favor of Eliza A. Taylor, committee of Susan Jameson, pauper idiot of Owen county. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage. Approved January 19, 1874. 1874. CHAPTER 70. AN ACT to repeal an act empowering the county court of Mercer county to make subscriptions to capital stock in turnpike roads in said county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to empower the county court of Mercer county to make subscriptions to capital stock in turnpike roads in Mercer county," approved April 15th, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage. Approved January 19, 1874. School sur plus to be drawn on order of county court. sioner to dispose of said fund. Commissioner may lend funds CHAPTER 71. AN ACT relating to the surplus school fund belonging to Logan county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the surplus school fund belonging to the county of Logan shall be drawn out of the Treasury upon the order of the county court of that county at its December term, 1873, or January term, 1874, a majority of the justices being present, and concurring therein. § 2. The common school commissioner for Logan counSchool commis- ty shall distribute this fund for the purposes, and in the manner now prescribed by law, unless he shall deem it of more advantage to the interest of common schools in the county to put the same out at interest; and in that event, he shall have power to lend it to the Logan county court, taking bond for the amount, payable to the commissioner out at interest to of common schools in said county, or his successor in office, for the use of the common schools of said county, in ten years after its date, and bearing a rate of interest not less than eight and not more than ten per cent. per annum, which interest shall be paid annually to the commissioner of common schools, and be by him distributed and accounted for as the law directs other school funds in his hands to be distributed and accounted for. Logan county court. ་ How courty ceed in regard to §3. It shall be the duty of the county judge, upon being informed by the common school commissioner that he judge shall pre- wishes to loan the fund drawn from the Treasury under joan of said funds. the first section of this act, to make an order designating the person to whom the money shall be paid on behalf of the county, and to require of such person a bond, with approved security, to account for the same so paid to him according to the orders of said court. |