Jefferson county court, by taking an oath, and giving 1874. bond, with approved security, to discharge faithfully the duties of the office of a patrolman. The commissioners shall have power to discharge any of said patrolmen at any time, and nominate to the county court others in their stead. Said patrol shall have the common law and statutory powers of a policeman; and shall, as early as practicable, after making an arrest, take the party arrested before a justice of the peace of Jefferson county, which justice shall have the same power to dispose of the offender as two justices have under the general laws. The pay of the common patrolmen shall be not more than two dollars and fifty cents per day, and the pay of the captain shall be not more than two dollars and seventy-five cents per day. When on duty the patrolmen shall wear such uniformis or badges as the commissioners may direct, and said patrolmen shall patrol on foot or horseback, as the commissioners may direct. The Record to be kept by commis sioners, and may employ clerk and pay him $300 salary. § 12. The commissioners shall keep a record of their proceedings, and are authorized to employ a clerk, who shall be compensated out of the fund herein created, not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300) per annum. commissioners shall meet as often as once a month, and shall require of the captain of the patrol, as often as reports from once a month, a report, in writing, of the actings and doings of the patrol. 13. The county court for Jefferson county shall have jurisdiction over all questions and powers arising out of this charter.. § 14. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. Shall require patrol. Jefferson county diction of all mat court has juris ters concerning this charter. CHAPTER 257. AN ACT to legalize certain orders of the Larue county court of claims. WHEREAS, At the October term, 1873, of Larue county court (the presiding judge and a majority of the justices sitting), it was ordered by the court that an ad valorem tax of fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in the county be levied for the purpose of erecting and constructing a jail in the town of Hodgenville in said county, and for other purposes for public use in said county; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That all the acts and orders of the judge of said county, and the court of claims, held in their October term, in the year 1873, in accordance with the above Order levying tax legalized. 1874. preamble, be, and the same are hereby, legalized, and said taxes shall be collected as the revenue proper of the State is now by law collected. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. CHAPTER 258. AN ACT to authorize the judges of the Bourbon and Elliott quarterly courts to appoint clerks of said courts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That sections (10 and 17) ten and seventeen of article thirteen (13) of chapter twenty-eight (23) be so amended that the judges of the Bourbon and Elliott quarterly courts shall have the power to appoint clerks of said courts, who shall have the same powers as, by section seventeen of said article and chapter, the county clerks would have if empowered by said judges to act as clerks of said courts; the said clerks appointed to take the same oath of office, to perform the same duties, to receive the same fees, and be subject to the same responsibilities as in said section, article, and chapter, provided. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. CHAPTER 259. AN ACT for the benefit of L. D. Padgett, of Pulaski county. WHEREAS, Henry Owens, of color, was adjudged by the Pulaski quarterly court to be a lunatic, and confined in jail of said county, and was, by a proclamation dated day of -, 1873, by His Excellency, P. H. Leslie, ordered to be sent to the lunatic asylum at Anchorage, Kentucky; and whereas, W. S. Shepperd, jailer of said county, summoned L. D. Padgett to convey and guard said lunatic to said asylum, which he did on the 17th day of October, 1873, and the superintendent of said asylum refused to receive said lunatic, whereupon said Padgett returned said lunatic to the jail of said county; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of L. D. Padgett, of Somerset, Pulaski county, for the sum of 1874. ($48 32) forty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents, being the amount of expenses and compensation incurred in taking Henry Owens, a colored lunatic, to the asylum at Anchorage, Kentucky, by order of the Pulaski quarterly court, the same to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. CHAPTER 260. AN ACT to prohibit the use of intoxicating liquors in Lawrence and Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Made unlawful to sell, loan, or election days. § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give, loan, or otherwise procure for another, on the day give liquors on of holding any State, county, or municipal election in the counties of Lawrence and Elliott, held under the laws of this Commonwealth, any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or the admixture of any of them, or either of them, or any other intoxicating liquors, at the place of holding said elections, or either of them, or within five miles thereof, to be drank or that shall be drunk at the place of holding said election or elections, or within five miles thereof: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to apply to practicing physicians in the bona fide practice of their profession, or church purposes on sacramental occasions. § 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of the Penalty. preceding section of this act shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered on indictment by the grand jury of said county. §3. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. CHAPTER 261. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of the Cynthiana, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the board of directors of the Cynthiana, Paddy's Run, and Lair's Station Turnpike Road Com. 1874. pany be, and they are hereby, authorized to collect tolls at the same rate authorized by the act to which this is an amendment, until said road is out of debt. § 2. That this act take effect from its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. Paris and Mt. CHAPTER 262. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Cincinnati, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the act named be, and is hereby, amended as follows, to-wit: 1. That said company be, and is hereby, authorized to Road between begin the construction of that part of their road between Sterling to be Paris, Kentucky, and Mount Sterling, whenever they procure a bona fide subscription of two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars. commenced when $200,000 is subscribed. § 2. That the gauge of said road may be such as shall President and be adopted by the president, directors, and company, by directors to adopt gauge of road. order on their books. 3. That the board of directors of said company may change the name and style of said company by order entered upon their company books, and by publishing the same in the public prints. § 4. That said company may extend their road from Paris to a point on the Ohio river opposite Vevay, or other point at which the Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad strikes the Ohio river; but not further west than a point opposite Madison, Indiana. § 5. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved February 11, 1874. Trustees to elect building committee for said town. CHAPTER 263. AN ACT to authorize the creation of a building committee for the town of Versailles, in Woodford county, and to define the powers and duties thereof. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be the duty of the board of trustees of the town of Versailles, in Woodford county, at their first regular meeting after the passage of this act, and annually thereafter, to elect a building committee for said town, to consist of three discreet property-holders, who shall be residents of the said town. 1874. Term of office. Committeemen Powers and duties of commit § 2. The said building committee shall hold their offices. for the term of one year from the date of their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and every person selected as provided, as a member of said building committee, shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties as such, take an oath faithfully and to take oath. impartially to discharge the duties pertaining to his office. §3. It shall be the duty of said building committee to examine carefully into the character and description of tee. every building which it is proposed to erect, add to, or remove into the corporate limits of said town of Versailles, and estimate the dangers and risks to be incurred by reason of fire, or other casualty, to neighboring or adjacent property; and the said committee shall have power and authority to grant or refuse, in their discretion, permits for the building, adding to, or removing into the corporate limits of said town such building as it may be proposed to erect, add to, or removed Persons building or adding to buildto obtain license therefor. 4. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to erect, add to, or remove into said corporate limits of said ings town, or to move from one point within said town limits to any other point within said town limits, any other house or other building, without first obtaining from the said building committee a permit therefor. Every person violating the provisions of this section shall for each offense be liable to indictment in the circuit court of Woodford county, and vision. subjected to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and the board of trustees for the said town of Versailles shall have authority and power to have such building torn down or removed. Penalty for violating this pro Committee to report in writing to trustees quarterly. § 5. Reports shall be made, in writing, by said building committee, to the trustees of the said town of Versailles, at least once in every three months, setting forth and particularly describing each building for the erection, adding to, or removal of which a permit shall have been granted. §6. The 'said building committee shall be elected, as mittee to be provided for in the first section of this act, annually. Building comelected annually. Committee may order any build or demolished. § 7. It shall be the duty of said building committee to order the removal or destruction of any building within ing to be removed the limits of said town when, in their judgment, an unusual risk is incurred by adjacent buildings in consequence of the proximity of such structure, and a proper regard for the sanitary welfare of adjoining property shall require it. Any person or persons failing or refusing to obey such order, when given, shall, for each failure or with order. refusal, incur the penalties set out in the fourth section of this act. § 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 11, 1874. Penalty for refusal to comply |