of said county, to the amount of one thousand dollars, to assist in building a court-house. § 2. Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum; said interest to be paid annually, and said bonds shall have two years to run, and may be issued in such sums as the court may direct, not larger than one hundred dollars. §3. The court shall prescribe the form of the bonds; they shall be signed by the judge, attested and stamped by the clerk with the seal of the court. 1872. Commissioner § 4. The court may appoint a commissioner to sell said bonds, and direct the price to be taken therefor, and the to sell bonds. time and manner and place where they shall be offered. Court to provide for pay § 5. It shall be the duty of said court to make the necessary arrangements for the payment of the interest on ment of bonds. said bonds, and for their final payment when due. § 6. The said court shall have power to make all orders necessary for carrying into execution the provisions of this act; and the county judge may, at any time, convene the justices of the peace for action under this act. § 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 13, 1872. CHAPTER 53. AN ACT for the benefit of Daniel Miller, late sheriff of Lincoln county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That further time of two years is given Daniel Miller, late sheriff of Lincoln county, in which to collect his uncollected taxes and fee bills, and that he have the right to distrain for the same, subject to all the penalties imposed by law for illegal distraints, or the collection of illegal fee bills. § 2. That this act to take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved January 13, 1872. CHAPTER 54. AN ACT for the benefit of Hopkins county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: ized. § 1. That the levying of a tax by the county court of Tax levy legalHopkins county, at its November term (court of claims), 1871, of fifteen (15) cents on each one hundred dollars' 1872. tional tax. worth of property in said county now taxed for State purposes, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness of the county and meeting the current expenses aforesaid for the year 1872, be, and the same is hereby, legalized; and the sheriff of Hopkins county is authorized and empowered to collect and distrain for the same in the same manner that he is authorized to do in the collection of the State revenue and other taxes of Hopkins county. §2. The county court of Hopkins county, at its levying May levy addi- term, is hereby empowered to levy a poll tax of not exceeding four (4) dollars on each tithable in said county, for the purpose of meeting the current expenses of said county for the year 1873, or any year thereafter, when, in the opinion of said court (a majority of the justices concurring), it is necessary to meet the indebtedness and to pay the current expenses thereof. how created. § 3. The county court of Hopkins county, at its said term, is authorized and empowered to levy a tax of fifty (50) cents on each one hundred (100) dollars of the property in said county taxed for State purposes, to pay the interest on the one hundred and fifty (150) thousand dollars in bonds of said county, issued and delivered to the Evansville, Henderson, and Nashville Railroad Company, in payment for stock in said company, and to create a Binking fund-sinking fund to pay said bonds at maturity, or to retire them before maturity. A sufficiency of the proceeds of this levy shall be first applied by the court to the payinent of the interest on said bonds, and cost of collecting the tax, and the remaining fund shall constitute a part of the sinking fund aforesaid; and the court may continue to levy said sum for a sufficient number of years to extinguish said indebtedness; and all sums of surplus money now in the hands of the officers of said court; arising from levies heretofore made for the purpose of paying interest on said bonds, shall be a part of said sinking fund. Said court is authorized to use the money of said sinking fund in purchasing and retiring the said bonds of the county, if any are on the market, or they may invest said fund in some other safe security, falling due before the maturity of said bonds; but said fund, and no part thereof, shall be used for any other purpose than those mentioned in this act. § 4. The said court may appoint a trustee of the sinkTrustee of ing fund aforesaid, and require him to execute a bond to ⚫ sinking fund to Abe appointed. the court, with two or more sureties, for the faithful discharge of his duties as said tru-tee, and may authorize him to make purchase of the bonds of the county, or make the other investments mentioned. Said court may order the sheriff of said county to pay said fund to said trustee, taking his receipt for same, and shall require said trustee to report his acts and exhibit a statement to the court at least once in each year, and may make to said trustee a reasonable allowance for his trouble and labor. § 5. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. 1872. Approved January 13, 1872. CHAPTER 55. AN ACT to change the time of holding the court of claims of Madison county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter the court of claims of Madison county shall be held at the court house in Richmond, on the 4th Monday in May of each year, and continue in session not exceeding six days; and so much of the law as requires said court to be held on the 3d Monday in June, is hereby repealed 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 13, 1872. CHAPTER 56. AN ACT for the benefit of the Dix River and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the road as at present constructed along and on the route of the Dix River and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company, be, and the same is hereby, legalized, and said company made capable and authorized to erect tollgates across said road, and collect tolls from all persons traveling thereon, as provided for in the charter of said company, enacted 17th of August, 1862. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 13, 1872. CHAPTER 57. AN ACT for the benefit of the town of Glasgow. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That any person who shall be fined for an infraction of an ordinance or by-law of the town of Glasgow, 1 1872. in any court of competent jurisdiction, and shall fail to pay or replevy the same at the time it is imposed, shall be adjudged by the court to work on the streets of Glasgow at the rate of two dollars per day, and be confined in the county jail at night until his labor shall amount to a sum equal to the fine and cost of confinement. The jailer shall diet said person, and be paid therefor, and the keeping of him in said jail, by the trustees of said town, out of its treasury. It shall be the duty of the marshal of said town to take charge of said person, and see that the judg ment of the court is complied with. 2. This act shall take effect from the time of its passage. Approved January 13, 1872. CHAPTER 58. AN ACT to increase the county levy of McLean county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That it shall be lawful for the county court of McLean county to levy an additional levy, not exceeding one dollar per tithe, for the years of 1872 and 1873, the majority of the justices of the peace for said county concurring. Approved January 13, 1872. CHAPTER 59. AN ACT for the benefit of Floyd county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the county court of Floyd county shall have the further time of two years in which to provide the fireproof vaults for the preservation of county records now required by law. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved January 13, 1872. CHAPTER 60. AN ACT in relation to taxes for road purposes in Henderson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the assessor of Henderson county to open a column in the assessor's book for said county, in which it shall be the duty of said assessor to list all persons in said county who are subject to the capitation tax for road purposes. § 2. That where the person subject to said tax is a minor, the tax shall be chargeable to, and collected from, the parent or guardian of said minor, or if he have neither parent or guardian, then from the person with whom said minor resides. § 3. It shall be the duty of said assessor to open and keep a column showing what property and persons are exempt from taxation for road purposes by reason of the property being situated, and the persons residing, in the city of Henderson. Approved January 13, 1872. 1872. CHAPTER 62. AN ACT to revise and codify the charter of the city of Covington. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Commission § 1. That John G. Carlisle, M. M. Benton, John N. Furber, William Ernst, and Napoleon B. Stephens, be, and ers appointed. they are hereby, appointed commissioners to revise and codify the charter of the city of Covington. to publish their § 2. That said commissioners shall perform said work Commissioner and publish the same in the Covington Journal, a news- action. paper published in said city, at least four consecutive weeks previous to the August election in eighteen hundred and seventy-two. §3. That said charter, as revised and codified by said commissioners, shall be submitted to the voters of said city for their approval or rejection at the said August election in 1872; and a majority of the votes cast for or against said charter shall decide whether the citizens of said city approve or disapprove of said charter. That those who approve of said charter shall vote yea, and those who disapprove of said charter shall vote no. Report to be submitted to qualified voters for approval." Duties of city clerk and tion. § 4. The city clerk of said city shall prepare, under the direction of said commissioners, suitable poll books, and officers of elecfurnish the same to the different precincts in said city; and it shall be the duty of the judges and clerks of the said August election to take the votes of all legal voters and record the same, and return said poll-books, certified in the usual form and manner, to said city clerk, who, within three days thereafter, shall, in company with a majority of said commissioners, examine said poll-books, and certify the result of said votes. |