1874. When examiners §6. The examiners shall grant all applicants who shall be found, upon examination, to possess a fair practical knowledge of the branches named in section four of this act a certificate of qualification, signed by at least three members are to grant cerof said board, which shall entitle the holder thereof, for the tificate. time specified, to practice any or all of the branches named in said certificate anywhere in said district or adjoining dis trict. § 7. The members of the several boards shall receive, as a compensation for their services, all of the fees paid by applicants for examination before said board. Certificates shall designate the time and the branches the holder thereof shall be entitled to practice, and shall not be granted for a longer period than five years nor a less period than one year. Fees of board of examiners. § 8. Any person living in this State, or any person coming Penalty. into this State, who shall practice medicine, or attempt to practice medicine, in any of its departments, or who shall perform, or attempt to perform, any surgical operation for or upon any person within the limits of this State for reward or compensation, in violation of the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined fifty dollars, and upon each and every subsequent conviction be fined one hundred dollars and imprisoned thirty days, or either or both, in the discretion of the jury; and in no case where the provision of this act has been violated shall the person so violating be entitled to receive compensation for services rendered. § 9. Provided, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to apply to persons practicing dentistry. § 10. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 23, 1874. CHAPTER 474. AN ACT to secure the payment into the Treasury of all fines, taxes, and license fees collected by trustees of the jury fund, clerks, and other officers. WHEREAS, It is made the duty of the trustee of the jury fund in the county for which he is appointed to collect all the fines which may accrue and be assessed by the judgment of the circuit or county courts, justices of the peace, or police judges of the several cities or towns, also ali jury fees; and whereas, it is made the duty of the circuit court clerk in each county in this Commonwealth to collect a tax of fifty cents on each suit, appeal, or traverse filed in the court of which he is clerk; and on the granting of a certificate, under the seal of his office, a fee of fifty cents; and whereas, it is made the duty of the clerk of the county court in each county in this Commonwealth to collect a tax of fifty cents on each suit filed in court of which he is clerk; and on each certificate, to which he attaches the seal of his court, a tax of fifty cents; and on each deed, mortgage, or power of attorney, for the sale of real estate filed in his office for record, a tax of fifty cents; also to collect from each person licensed to keep a tavern, ten dollars, and if licensed to sell spirituous liquors in connection therewith, fifty dollars; from each person licensed to keep a coffee-house, fifty dollars; from each merchant licensed to sell spirituous liquors, or if a firm, for each member thereof, twenty-five dollars; from each person licensed to sell playing-cards, twenty-five cents for each pack sold; from each person licensed to keep billiard-tables, thirty dollars for the first table kept by such person, and twenty dollars on each additional table; from each person licensed to keep a nine or ten-pin alley or bowling saloon, the tax imposed by section six, article two, of chapter ninety-two, of the General Statutes; to collect, upon granting of a license to the keeper or owner of any itinerant or other menagerie, circus, or theatrical performance, the tax imposed by section seven of the article and chapter last above named; to collect, upon granting a li cense to the owner or keeper of any stud horse, jack, or bull, the tax imposed by section eight of the article and chapter above named; to collect, upon granting a license to a broker or exchange dealer, the tax imposed by section two of article three of the chapter above named; from each person licensed to peddle, the tax imposed by section five of chapter eighty-four of the General Statutes; to collect from each person who may sell drugs, medicines, or nostrums, not made in or owned by persons of this State, five per cent. on the gross sales made; and whereas, it appears from the Auditor's reports that these special taxes have not been paid in many instances; now, for remedy thereof, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be the duty of the Auditor of Public Ac counts, so soon as this act is approved by the Governor, to make out, in good and convenient form, a blank to meet the requirements of this act, which blank shall show the several items of revenue referred to in the preamble of this act, or any other sources of revenue, except that for which the sheriffs of this Commonwealth are directly responsible; and the taxes payable by corporations directly into the Treasury under the head of each officer charged by law with the collection thereof. He shall cause three thousand copies thereof, and three thousand copies of this act, to be printed, and a like number each year thereafter. § 2. That it shall be the duty of the Auditor, so soon as this act takes effect, and on the same day of each succeed. ing year thereafter, to send by mail to each trustee of the jury fund, clerk of the circuit and county courts, county judge, and county attorney, three copies of said circular and act, and to each circuit judge in this Commonwealth one copy for each county in his district. §3. It shall be the duty of each circuit judge in this Commonwealth, immediately after the grand jury is empanneled and instructed, and before they are sent to their rooms, to call over each item in the account made out and referred to in the first section of this act, and to have the officer, whose duty it is by law to collect each particular tax, to answer in open 1874. court, under oath, the number of persons who have paid to him any item of tax which it is made his duty to collect, and the aggregate amount collected under each item, which answers so made by the officer shall be recorded by the judge, in blank places prepared for that purpose; and the several judges are hereby invested with power, by rule or attachment, to compel the attendance of said officers to answer the call of said revenue docket or account: Provided, That justices of the peace, constables, and police judges, may report in writing: And provided further, That in case of the actual sickness of any of the officers required to report in court, such officer may also report in writing. Said reports shall be made under oath, and read in open court. $4. That it shall be the duty of each judge of a circuit court in this Commonwealth to see that each officer in each county in which he holds his court, at each and every term thereof, makes a report, as required by this act. And it shall further. be the duty of each judge, so soon as said report is made, to attest the same as a correct memoranda of the questions propounded to each officer, and his answers thereto, and to forward it to the Auditor of Public Accounts, and to have a copy thereof entered on the records of his court. judge to have re Duty of circuit port made and form to Auditor. forward same in Salary of circuit judge not to be paid until report is made to Audit or. 5. That the Auditor of Public Accounts shall not draw his warrant on the Treasurer of this State for the monthly salary of any circuit judge until the report referred to in section four of this act, or a copy, attested by the judge, is filed in his office, for all the courts held in his district, for the month next belore the one for which the salary is to be drawn: Provided, That if a rule is issued against any officer or officers required to make report under this act, and is returned by the proper officer "not found," a copy of said rule and return shall be accepted as a return for that officer for that term of the court for all the purposes of this section of this act; but it shall be the duty of the judge to issue a rule against the officer not reporting, returnable to the first day of the next term of the circuit court, at which time the officer shall be required to report from the date of his last report. $6. It shall be the duty of each officer authorized by law to collect moneys due the State to pay them over to the officer after each term of or officers as now directed by law, and to settle immediately after each term of the circuit court in his county, as now directed by law. And it shall be the further duty of each and every officer, whose duty it is by law to collect the values found due on such settlement, to collect the same immediately; and if not paid, to give notice and take judgment for such balances, at the first term of the court having jurisdiction which shall convene not less than twenty days after such settlement is made. 7. That the provisions of this act shall be held to extend and not to repeal any of the provisions of the laws of this Commonwealth, except those laws inconsistent herewith, which are hereby repealed. Officers to settle circuit court. § 8. This act shall take effect on the first day of September, 1874. 1874. Approved February 23, 1874.. Kenton. Pendleton. Harrison. CHAPTER 481. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to change the time of holding the circuit, chancery, and criminal courts in the twelfth judicial district." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the circuit, criminal, and chancery courts in the twelfth judicial district shall be held as provided in an act, entitled "An act to change the time of holding the circuit, criminal, and chancery courts in the twelfth judicial district," approved April 16th, 1873, except that the term of circuit court in the counties of Kenton, Pendleton, and Har. rison shall be held as follows: the Kenton circuit court at Covington, commencing on the first Monday in January, third Monday in April, and first Monday in September, the first and last named terms each twenty-four juridical days, and the April term eighteen juridical days; at Independence on the third Monday in June and the second Monday in December, and continue each six days, if the business requires; Pendleton circuit court, commencing second Monday in March and third Monday in October, each term to con tinue twelve juridical days, if business requires; Harrison circuit court, commencing on the second Monday in May and the first Monday in November, each term to continue eighteen juridical days, if business requires. § 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of Aug ust 1874. Approved February 23, 1874. Amount to be paid for convey tic to asylum, & ner of paying it. ing pauper luna mode and man CHAPTER 483. AN ACT to provide for the conveyance of pauper lunatics to the various asylums in this Commonwealth. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That all expenses for the conveyance of pauper lunatics to the asylums of this Commonwealth shall be paid to the persons so conveying said lunatics, by warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts upon the Treasurer of the State; the sum for conveyance to be certified by the Superintend ent of the asylum to which the parties is carried: Provided, That but one person shall be paid for conveying such lunatics, the costs in no case to exceed six cents per mile going, for guard and patient each, and six cents per mile for guard, returning; distance to be estimated by the nearest usual route of travel. § 2. That patients denied admittance, or not received by Superintendents of asylums for want of room, shall receive the same compensation returning to their homes what they are entitled to under the foregoing section of this act for going to said asylums. §3. Where a certificate has been issued by the Superintendent of any lunatic asylum since the fifteenth (15th) day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1873), for the conveyance of a pauper lunatic to the asylum, it shall be lawful for the Auditor to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the amount of such certificate, not exceeding the amount due upon the certificate under the law in force on the first (1st) day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. (1873). §4. This act shall take effect on its passage. Approved February 23, 1874. CHAPTER 488. AN ACT to change the time of holding the Pulaski circuit court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. Section fifth of article five of chapter twenty-eight of the General Statutes is hereby so amended that Pulaski circuit court shall be held on the fourth Mondays in March and September, and continue the same number of days as now provided by law. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after the passage of this act. Approved February 23, 1874. Pulaski circuit court. CHAPTER 494. AN ACT to amend chapter eighteen of General Statutes, entitled "Coinmon Schools." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: utes, page 204. §1. That the word "trustees," wherever it occurs in said See General Statchapter, and the sense requires it to be in the singular number, shall read "trustee." § 2. That article two, section six, be so amended as to refer to "article seven, section fourteen," instead of "article seven, section sixteen." §3. That article three, section five, be so amended as to substitute "trustee " for "district school boards," in the two places where it occurs. |