1874. of board. shall be chosen at each annual election thereafter to fill the vacancies provided for in this section. § 2. Said board shall be a body-politic and corporate, Corporate powers with power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, as a natural person, and have such other corporate powers as are necessary to effectuate the object of its creation. school district, & matters. §3. That the city of Paris, as defined by the act to City to constitute which this is an amendment, shall constitute the common beard to control school district of Paris, in the county of Bourbon; and the board of education of the city of Paris created by this act shall have exclusive control of the pro rata of said district from the common school fund, as well as of all other funds raised by taxation within said district for school purposes, and such funds shall be paid over by the collecting officer to the treasurer of the city of Paris, to be by him held separate and distinct from all other moneys in his hands, to be disbursed only under the order of said board. teachers, &c. § 4. Said board shall have entire control of the apBoard to appoint pointment and removal of teachers, regulation of discipline, course of study, examinations, and other matters pertaining to the economy of the public schools in said district: Provided, They shall not exclude from the benefit of said schools any person within said district who is embraced by the common school law of the State, except for violation of the discipline of said schools as prescribed or approved by said board. tax to be levied. § 5. In addition to the tax of twenty-five cents on the Additional school hundred dollars of assessed property, which the mayor and council of the city of Paris are now authorized to levy for public school purposes, they are hereby authorized to levy and collect a tax of not more than two dollars per capita on each voter in said city for the same purpose; and also to borrow the sum of five thousand dollars, issue the bonds of said city for the same, pledgcity bonds for ing its faith, property, and revenues for the redemption thereof, without taking a vote of the people to authorize the same, as now required by section twenty of act to which this is an amendment. Council may borrow money on school purposes. vide for payment bonds. § 6. Before borrowing said money they shall provide Council to pro- for the payment of the interest upon the same as it acof interest on crues, and of the debt as it matures. All of said bonds shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the treasurer of said city. None of them shall be sold for less than par, nor bear a greater interest than ten per cent., payable semi-annually. All money raised by sale of said bonds is to be paid over to the treasurer of said city, and by him held as provided in the third section of this act. 1874. $5,000 to be school property. 7. The five thousand dollars so borrowed is to be used by the said board only for the purpose of repairing, altering, or adding to the public school building in the city and district aforesaid; and no part of the money coming under used to improve the control of said board as pro rata from the common school fund shall be by them used for any other purpose than the payment of teachers in district aforesaid. § 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 23, 1874. CHAPTER 486. AN ACT to incorporate Franklin Colored Benevolent Society, of Franklin' Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Corporators' Name and style. § 1. That R. R. Burnley, president; William Butts, vice president; John H. Perdue, secretary; King Boisseau, names. treasurer; and W. H. Bogan, Anderson Baker, Zach. Haden, G. W. Wade, Wesley Neely, Thomas Diving, Lewis Dawson, jr., and their successors and associates, be, and are hereby, created a body-corporate and politic, under the name and style of Franklin Colored Benevolent Society, No. 1, of Franklin, Kentucky; and as such shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and have and at pleasure break and alter a common seal. § 2. The object and purpose of said society shall be the Object. intellectual, moral, and social improvement of its members, and works of benevolence and charity; and for those purposes shall have power to adopt a constitution and code of by-laws for the government of said society, not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Kentucky, alter and amend the same at pleasure; and may acquire, by purchase, gift, or otherwise, real estate, books, money, or other property, not exceeding two thousand dollars in value, and they may sell and dispose of the same at pleasure; and may do such other acts, not inconsistent with law, necessary to carry out the object of the society. § 3. That the number, name, and duties of the officers of the said society shall continue, in accordance with the present constitution and by-laws thereof, until the said constitution and by-laws are adopted under this act, or otherwise altered or amended. Officers. May adopt by § 4. That said society may organize other lodges or societies, and the same shall be governed by such consti- laws, &c. tution and code of by-laws as this society shall adopt under this act. 1874. § 5. That said society, and any lodge of the same, may, May fix penalties by suitable penalties or expulsion, enforce the observance of the rules, constitution, and by-laws. for officers. § 6. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 23, 1874. released. CHAPTER 487. AN ACT for the benefit of William Green and his sureties, late sheriff of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That William Green, late sheriff of Elliott county. Interest & dam- and his sureties, be, and they are hereby, released from ages on judgment the payment of that part of a judgment rendered against them at the August term, 1873, of the Franklin circuit court, that relates to damages for failing to pay over his revenue. The Auditor is directed to enter a credit in their favor for the same: Provided, That the sheriff and his deputies shall first make affidavit before the county court of his county, and present the same to the Auditor, that no part of the damages hereby released has been collected from the tax-payer, and that the relief hereby granted shall only apply to such part of the damages that has not been collected of the tax-payer. allowed. § 2. Be it further enacted, That the Auditor be, and he is Additional credit hereby, directed to credit said judgment with the amount of an order drawn by the Auditor on said Green for two hundred and twenty-two dollars and - cents, in favor of the trustee of the jury fund for Elliott county for the jury deficit, at the May term. 1872, of the Elliott circuit court: Provided, That said sheriff and his sureties shall be responsible for any amount due any juryman for serving on jury at the May term, 1872. §3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 23, 1874. CHAPTER 489. AN ACT for the benefit of common school district No. 1, known as Auburn district, in Logan county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1874.. Trustees may sell school proper § 1. That the trustees of common school district No. 1, known as Auburn district, in Logan county, be, and they ty to high school. are hereby, authorized to sell or lease to the Board of Managers of the Auburn High School the real estate and buildings thereon held by the common school trustees of said district for the benefit of the common school thereof: Provided, That the Board of Managers of the Auburn High School agree to and do issue to each person who holds a tax receipt or receipts for taxes paid in aid of the purchase of said real estate, or the erection of the buildings thereon, a certificate of stock in said Auburn High in high school. School, which shall state upon its face the amount of taxes paid by the persons to whom the certificate is issued, and shall secure to the holder thereof the right to one vote in the election of the board of managers of said high school; but nothing herein shall be so construed as to entitle any one person to more than one vote by virtue of holding such certificate of stock. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 23, 1874. Tax receipts to be good for stock CHAPTER 490. AN ACT for the benefit of the Garrard county court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Garrard county court are hereby authorized to issue one thousand dollar bonds in addition to the bonds already authorized by special enactment, according to the principles and under the restrictions heretofore announced in said special enactment. 2. This act takes effect upon its passage. Approved February 23, 1874. Court may issue additional bonds. CHAPTER 491. AN ACT to incorporate the Shelbyville Gas-light Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That J. T. Frazier, L. W. Smith, John A. Middle- Corporators ton, Dr. J. Baker, John A. Geary, Edward Dowling, and names. LOC. L.-35 1874. P. H. Roach, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, created a body-corporate and politic, by the name of the Name and style. Shelbyville Gas-light Company, for an indefinite period; and by that name shall have perpetual succession; and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all the courts of this Commonwealth; and by Corporate powers that name shall have power to contract and be contracted with; to have and use a common seal, to alter the same at pleasure; and to make all necessary by-laws and regulations for the government of the company and the conduct of its business, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State and of the United States. Office. and hold real estate. § 2. That said company shall keep an office in the town of Shelbyville; and its business shall be to construct and establish gas-works in the town of Shelbyville, and to supply said town with gas-lights; and it may borrow money. § 3. That said company may purchase and hold as May purchase much land as will be required for its office and the residences of its officers, agents, and laborers, and for sites for its gas-works, and for suitable engine and other houses for their works, and said company may sell or exchange the same and purchase again; and may hold such personal estate, machinery, &c., as will be necessary and convenient for the transactions and business of the company. works. §4. That it shall be the duty of said company, within. Shall erect gas- three years after its organization, to erect and establish in the town of Shelbyville a gas manufactory of sufficient extent and capacity to supply the town of Shelbyville and the citizens thereof with all such public and private lights as may, from time to time, be required. gas. &c. § 5. That the company have the exclusive privilege of Corporation to erecting, establishing, and constructing gas-works in the right to furnish said town during this charter, and of vending gas-lights. § 6. That to enable the company to construct and estabMay lay down lish gas-works in the town of Shelbyville, it is authorized gs pipes, mains, to lay down and extend pipes and conductors through any of the streets and alleys of the town, and for that purpose to take up the pavements and to replace the same, and shall be responsible to the town for any damage which may arise therefrom, or any unreasonable delay in replacing the same; and said company shall be. subject to the regulations of the city as to streets, and the same ordinances and penalties that individuals may be subject to. 7. That the corporators aforesaid, or any three of Corporators to them, shall be commissioners for opening books for the open books for subscription of stock; and they, or any two of them, may advertise the time and place of opening the books in the subscription of stock. |