1874. show himself entitled to said property as heir of said Malvina Blain. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 7, 1874. Additional tax only to be levied to pay off County debt, and there turnpikes to be levied by justices. after the tax for County judge not to issue bonds ex cept to Dry Run and Kinniconick Pike. assist in building per mile, on certain conditions. CHAPTER 213. AN ACT to amend an act authorizing the Lewis county court to levy an additional tax to pay off the debt of said county, and to aid in building turnpike roads in said county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the additional tax authorized to be levied by an act authorizing the Lewis county court to levy an additional tax to pay off the debt of said county, and to aid in the building of turnpike roads in said county, approved March 25th, 1873, shall not hereafter be levied for any purpose, except to pay off the present indebtedness of Lewis county, until the same shall all have been paid off, after which the Lewis county court, at the court of claims, a majority of the justices concurring, may continue to levy such additional tax, as now provided in said act of March 25th, 1873, for the purpose of aiding in building turnpike roads in said county as now provided by law. § 2. That the county judge of Lewis county shall not hereafter issue any bonds of the county in aid of any turnpike road or bridge, not begun at the passage of this act, except in aid of the Dry Run and Kinniconick Turnpike Road, or for any other purpose. 3. The county court of Lewis county shall still have County court to power to assist in building turnpike roads in said county, turnpikes to to the amount of one thousand dollars per mile, as hereamount of $1,000 to fore provided by law, but no part of same shall be paid till one mile of the road is completed, when the county judge shall order the payment of the one thousand dollars to the president or the treasurer of the said road, and so on as each mile is finished till the completion of the whole road. § 4. The county judge shall, at the May or June term Turnpike com- of the county court in each year, appoint some compecounty to be ap- tent and discreet citizen of the county to the office of pointed, his duties turnpike commissioner, whose term of office shall be for missioner for defined, &c. one year, and whose duty it shall be to inspect each mile of turnpike road hereafter built in the county in which the county takes stock; and no stock subscribed by the county shall be paid or ordered to be paid by the county. judge till said commissioner, under oath, shall have reported to the county court that said road is, in every respect, completed in accordance with the contract of the party building said road, and in accordance with the requirements of the county court. Said commissioner shall receive, as compensation for his services, a sum not exceeding two dollars per day, for the time actually engaged, to be fixed by the court of claims, and paid out of the county levy. sage. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its pas 1874. Approved February 7, 1874. CHAPTER 214. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Bank of New Castle," approved 20th December, 1873. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Bank of New Castle," approved 20th December, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. §2 Be it further enacted, That the board of directors of said bank, elected under the original charter on the 5th day of January, 1874, are hereby declared to be the legally elected board of directors for the year 1874. § 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 5, 1874. CHAPTER 215. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Danville Gaslight Company." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That section eight of an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Danville Gas-light Company," which was approved April the 23d, 1873, be so amended as to read as follows: When corporation may organ § 1. That when ten thousand dollars in stock shall have been subscribed, they shall advertise the same and call a ize. meeting of the stockholders, giving at least ten days' notice; and the stockholders so called may elect seven directors, who shall be citizens of Danville, and who shall choose a president amongst themselves, to whom, together with the directors, shall be intrusted the real and personal estate, business, property, funds, and financial concerns of said company, and the administration of its affairs; 1874. Term of office of directors. vacancies in their body. they shall serve until their successors are chosen, and after the first election they shall be annually elected on the first Monday in January of each year, of which election notice shall be given for ten days in at least one newspaper published at Danville. The president and diBoard may fill rectors shall fill all vacancies that may arise in their body from death, resignation, or removal from the city, or the failure to meet their engagements to the company with City of Danville promptness: Provided, however, That the city of Danville may subscribe shall have the right, upon subscribing ten thousand dol lars of stock, to appoint or elect two of the seven directors; and should said city of Danville subscribe fifteen thousand dollars in stock, then to have the right to appoint or elect three out of the seven directors, the residue of said directors to be elected by the individual stockholders. And that section fourteen of said act be so amended as to read as follows: stock. Question of sub scription of stock to be submitted to people. §2. That the city of Danville shall have the right to subscribe any or the whole number of shares in said company, and to pay for the amount so subscribed; but said subscription shall not be made until the question shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of said town and approved by a majority of the votes cast at said elecNotice of election tion, due notice of which shall have been given by ad to be given. to pay said subscription. Board may ap vertisement for at least twenty days in some newspaper published in said town of Danville. If said vote shall be in the affirmative, it shall be the duty of the mayor and city council or board of trustees to subscribe for the number of shares directed at said election; and to pay for the amount so subscribed, the mayor and council or board of May issue bonds trustees shall have the power to issue the bonds of the city, to bear any rate of interest, not to exceed ten per centum per annum; and shall make a separate levy of tax for the liquidation of such issue of bonds and interest as may be determined by said mayor and council or board of trustees, in such manner and on such terms as they may direct, and appoint a collector of said tax, who shall pont collector of be required to execute bond, with sufficient security, in an amount not less than five thousand dollars, conditioned as may be required by said mayor and council or board. of trustees. And said collector shall receipt separately for said tax, when collected, which receipt shall be transferable; and when an amount equal to one or more shares of stock in said Danville Gas-light Company shall be presented at any one time by any one individual, firm, or corporation, it shall be the duty of the mayor and council or board of trustees to transfer to said individual, firm, or corporation, the number of shares represented by the amount in gross of such receipt or receipts at its market value (not below par), and for any excess above taxes. Tax receipt to be taken or stock in said company. an even number of shares to give a certificate therefor to said individual, firm, or corporation for the amount in excess of the share or shares so transferred, which shall stand in lieu of a receipt for said amount, and to be good when presented with other tax receipts given for such purpose; and this privilege shall continue until the whole amount of shares held by said town have been exhausted and no longer. And if any individual, firm, or corporation shall, at any time before said, stock shall have been exhausted, present to said mayor or chairman of board of trustees one of the bonds of said town issued for said stock, and demand stock therefor, it shall be received in like manner as said tax receipts; and all bonds so redeemed shall be canceled by said mayor or chairman of the board of trustees. §3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 1874. Approved February 7, 1874. CHAPTER 216. AN ACT to empower the county court of Garrard to make additional subscriptions to the Lancaster and Buckeye Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the county court of Garrard county be, and they are hereby, empowered and authorized, a majority of the justices of the peace of said county being present and concurring therein, at any regular court, to make an additional subscription of stock to the Lancaster and Buckeye Turnpike Road Company: Provided, That said subscription shall not exceed six hundred dollars to each unfinished mile of said road. County court may mile in stock. take $600 per Each mile to be completed before made. § 2. That no money subscribed, as provided in the first section of this act, by said county court, shall be paid to subscription said turnpike road company until each mile of the road subscribed for shall have been completed, or until said court shall be fully satisfied in open court that the said turnpike road company are fully able to complete it with the aid of such subscription. 3. That said county court shall have power, a majority of the justices concurring, to levy an ad valorem tax upon all the taxable property in said county, not exceeding twenty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property listed for taxation, to raise a sum sufficient to pay off and discharge the said subscription of stock; and said tax may be imposed yearly until the debt is fully paid. is Court may levy ad valorem tax to paysaid subscrip tion. 1874. Sheriff to collect said tax § 4. The said tax shall be collected by the sheriff of said county in the same manner, and for the same comunder pensation, as is now fixed for collecting the State revenue; and said sheriff shall be responsible on his official bond for all money so collected. usual responsibility. § 5. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 7, 1874. commissioner abolished. road CHAPTER 219. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to create a special road law for Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That so much of an act, entitled "An act to create Office of road a special road law for Pendleton county," approved January 26th, 1869, be so amended as to repeal so much of said act as provides for and creates the office of road commissioner. Justices to be sioners in each commis district, and make report. to Penalty for failing to dis charge duty. County clerk to make out poll and tax books for each district. Fees of justices. port to justices. § 2. That in lieu of the office of road commissioner each justice of the peace for said county, by virtue of his office, shall, within their respective magisterial districts, perform all the duties required to be performed by said road commissioner, and report, in writing, how and in what manner they have performed said duties, at the regular court of claims in November of each year for said county; and for a failure to do so as required of said road commissioner in said act, shall be liable to all the pains and penalties denounced against said commissioner, and to be enforced in like manner as is in said act provided for. 3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county court of Pendleton county to make out and deliver to each of the justices of the peace of said county a copy of the poll and tax-books for their respective precincts, showing the amount of tax to be paid by each and every person so living or liable to pay tax in said precinct; and he is allowed not exceeding forty dollars, to be paid as in the original act to which this is an amendment. § 4. The justices of the peace shall be paid each the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per annum for their services under this act, to be deducted from their road tax, and in no other way. § 5. It shall be the duty of each overseer to report to Overseers to re- the justices of their respective precincts, on or before the first Monday in November of each year, and for a failure to do so they shall each, upon conviction, pay the sum of ten dollars. |