1874. CHAPTER 362. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Hustonville and Bradfordsville Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the original charter of the Hustonville and Bradfordsville Turnpike Company be so amended as to allow the president and directors of said company to complete the unfinished part of their road with metal fifteen feet wide, instead of eighteen, as required by the original charter: Provided, To the metal shall be placed in the center of the grade of said road. § 2. That hereafter the president and directors of said company shall only be required to keep up the metal on said road fifteen feet in width. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. CHAPTER 363. AN ACT to supply the General Statutes to the justices of the peace of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Secretary of State is hereby directed to furnish to the county clerk of Trigg county three copies of the General Statutes of this Commonwealth, to supply the deficiency in the distribution of said books to the justices of the peace of said county. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. Allowed $250. CHAPTER 364. AN ACT for the benefit of Henderson Conlee, of Powell 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 Treasury in favor of Henderson Conlee for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, payable out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being compensation to said Conlee for arresting and placing in jail, in the State of Virginia, one James Johnson, an escaped convict from the Kentucky Penitentiary and his expenses attending his services in arresting said Johnson and placing him in jail, &c. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. 1874. Approved February 20, 1874. CHAPTER 365. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Maysville, Paris, and Lexington WHEREAS, There was an enactment by the General Assembly to amend the charter of the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company, and for other purposes, approved February 24, 1834, fixing and regulating tolls to be paid by persons going to and returning from church, and to and from mill; and whereas, said enactment was repealed by an act approved March 1, 1860, leaving said company (its name having been changed by enactment to the "Maysville and Lexington Turnpike Road Company ") without legislative provision on these subjects: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. In the precise language of the old provision on these subjects, that hereafter there shall be no exemption from the payment of tolls on the "Maysville and Lexington Turnpike Road" under pretense of going to or returning from any place of public worship, except on the Sabbath day, and to the usual neighborhood churches; and hereafter persons going to and returning from their usual neighborhood mills, with a single horse and bag, shall be exempt from paying toll on said road. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. CHAPTER 366. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate and reduce into one all acts in regard to the town of Richmond." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That an act approved January 18th, 1868, entitled "An act to incorporate and reduce into one all the acts in regard to the town of Richmond," be amended as follows: 1874. § 1. That section four of said act be so amended that the trustees of said town shall hold their office for two years instead of one year, as now provided by said act. § 2. This act to take effect from and after the first Saturday in June, 1874. Approved February 19, 1874. may organize & CHAPTER 367. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Richmond Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That when ten thousand dollars in stock shall have When company been subscribed, the persons named in the first section elect directors. of the original act to which this is an amendment shall advertise the same, and call a meeting of the stockholders, giving at least ten days' notice; and the stockholders so called may elect seven directors, who shall be citizens of Richmond, 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. 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 Richmond. The president and directors shall fill all vacancies that may arise in their body from death, resignation, or removal from the town, or the failure to meet their engagements to the company with promptness: Provided, however, That the town of Richmond shall have the right, upon subscribing ten thousand dollars of stock, to appoint or elect two of the seven directors; and should said town of Richmond subscribe fifteen thousand dollars in stock, then to have the right to appoint or elect three out of the seven directors; and the residue of said directors to be elected by the individual stockholders. take stock, and terms. §2. That the town of Richmond shall have the right Richmond may to subscribe any or the whole number of shares in said company, and to pay for the amount so subscribed; but said subscriptions 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 election, due notice of which shall have been given by advertisement for at least twenty days in some newspaper published in said town of Richmond; and if said vote shall be in the affirmative, it shall be the duty of the board of trustees of said town to subscribe for the number of shares directed at said election, and to pay for the amount so subscribed; and the board of trustees of said town shall have the power to issue the bonds of the town, 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 board of trustees, in such manner and on such terms as they may direct; and they shall appoint a collector of said tax, who shall be required to execute bond, with sufficient security, in an amount not less than five thousand dollars, conditioned as may be required by said 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 Gas-light Company shall be presented at any one time. by any one individual, firm, or corporation, it shall be the duty of the 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 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 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 board of trustees. §3. That sections third, fifth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh of an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Danville Gas-light Company," approved April 23d, 1873, be, and the same are hereby, adopted as amendments to the original act to which this act is an amendment, the same as if herein set forth at length, so far as the provisions of said sections are not in conflict with said act; and wherever the words "City of Danville" occurs, the words "Town of Richmond" shall be substituted; and wherever" Mayor and Council" occurs, "Board of Trustees" shall be substituted. § 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 20, 1874. 1874. Sections of Danplicable to this. ville charter ap 1874. CHAPTER 368. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Kentucky Land Company. WHEREAS, Thomas E. Wilson and J. T. Boyle, two of the parties named as incorporators of the Kentucky Land Company, died before any organization of said company was effected; now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That William R. Thompson, N. W. Warfield, and Jilson H. Payne, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to act, in conjunction with the commissioners heretofore appointed as incorporators, and to organize said company, and to do all things necessary and proper to carry into effect the provisions of the charter of said company. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved February 20, 1874. porators chosen. to be CHAPTER 369. AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Transylvania Street Railroad Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Transylvania Street Railroad Company," approved April 19th, 1873, be amended as provided in the following sec tions. § 2. That in addition to the corporators named in the Additional cor- first section of said act, the following other persons are named as corporators, to-wit: Henry T. Duncan, jr., Richard Valentine, and James S. Perkins; and in case of the death, removal, or refusal to act of either of the corporators named in this, or the act to which this is an amendment, the residue, or a majority of them, may fill the vacancies. instead of seven. §3. The number of directors for the management of Directors five the business of said company shall be five instead of seven, as provided in the original act; and the corporators may meet and organize the company by electing from their number five directors, who shall elect from their number a president; and said president and directors shall continue in office until their successors are chosen by the stockholders, as provided in the original act to which this is an amendment. Second section § 4. Section two of the act to which this is an amendof original act ment is repealed, and instead thereof it is provided that said company may construct and operate a line of street repealed, and this substituted. |