priate such amounts of money as they may deem necessary to secure suitable property to be used for poor house purposes; but the number of acres so purchased shall not exceed four hundred. And said county court may levy a tax for the purpose of paying for said property and providing for the poor of the county. §3. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved January 19, 1872. 1872. CHAPTER 88. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Winchester. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Trustees bare power to open, tend streets, &o. May license taverns, coffee § 1. That the board of trustees of Winchester shall have full power and authority to open, widen, or extend any widen, or er street or alley in the mode now prescribed by law in cases of turnpike and plank roads, chapter 103, Revised Statutes. § 2. Said board shall have full power and authority to license and tax taverns, coffee-houses, and to grant merchants license; said tax not to exceed two hundred dollars per year for each; but no tavern license is to be granted to any person, excepting to such as have first obtained a license from the county court. This tax is in addition to the State tax. 3. Said board shall have full power and authority to prohibit the sale of spirituous and malt liquors on such days or occasions as in their judgment the peace and good order of the town may require, and may inflict suitable penalties for a violation of any ordinance under this section. § 4. Said board shall have full power and authority to enact any ordinance, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States, as they may deem necessary for the peace and good order or welfare of the town, and may affix any suitable penalties for the breach or violation of any ordinance so established. houses, &c. May restrict ale of liquors cases. in certain May enact laws and ordi nances for said town, and affix penalties. May tax 5. Said board shall have full power and authority to tax all performances or exhibitions for pay, of every sort shows, &e. or description, that shall be exhibited or performed within two miles of the limits of said town. 6. Said board shall have full power and authority to license and tax billiard saloons, stores, &c., livery stables and butchers, and also to license and tax and regulate the use, for hire, in carrying any freight or passengers, any wagon, cart, dray, or other vehicle, running within the limits of the town, or from the town to the fair grounds or railroad depot, and to affix suitable penalties for any violation of such ordinance. May license livery stables, billiard s loons, &c. 1872. § 7. The town marshal shall be a competent witness in any case of any violation of any ordinance of said town. 8. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 24, 1872. County may lege. CHAPTER 92. AN ACT to enable the county of Madison to subscribe to, and to provide means for, an institution of learning in Richmond. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be lawful for the people of Madison Madison county to donate whatever part of the stock owned by raise funds to Madison county in the Louisville and Nashville Railroad endow a col- Company is over and above so much of it as will amply secure the payment of the interest annually, and of the principal at maturity, of all unpaid bonds of said county issued in the building of the Richmond Branch Railroad, to the Synod of Kentucky, connected with the Presbyterian Church in the United States, commonly known as the Southern Presbyterian Church, for founding and maintaining a college for boys, or a university, in the town of Richmond. Said donation or subscription to be made subject to the following conditions and restrictions, namely: That the said Synod of Kentucky shall bind itself to establish and maintain perpetually such proposed college or university, in the town of Richmond; and to provide from other sources, within one year from the date of such covenant, one hundred thousand dollars for the permanent maintenance of such proposed institution of learning; and to instruct perpetually, without charge for tuition, in any departments of the institution, but subject to such rules as shall apply to other students, such youth of the county as shall be thereto appointed by the county court of Madison, to the number of twentyseven, so admitted and present at one and the same time. thorized, then § 2. That the Madison county court, a majority of the justices being present and concurring therein, is empowered, by vote of said court, to make the subscription aforesaid, upon the conditions set forth in section first of this act. § 3. That if said county court, a majority of the jusIt majority of tices being assembled, shall decline to exercise the power justices decline to act as au- to make said subscription, as herein before provided, it they shall sub- shall be the duty of said court forthwith to enter an order mit the ques proposing for, and on behalf of, the county, to subscribe of the people to the Synod of Kentucky, connected with the Presbyof said county. terian Church in the United States, commonly known as the Southern Presbyterian Church, that part of the tion to a vote stock owned by the county named in the first section of this act, upon the conditions and restrictions therein set forth; and after the order is entered, it shall be the duty of the county court to order a vote of the qualified voters of the county to be taken within twenty days after the order is entered, on a day to be named in the order, at the several election precincts in the county, to ascertain the sense of the voters upon the proposition. The election held under such order shall be governed and conducted as required by laws regulating elections. The vote shall be taken for and against the subscription, and the return thereof shall be made to the clerk of the county court within three days after said election shall be held; and within one day after the return thereof the vote shall be counted by the county judge, the sheriff, and the county court clerk, and the county judge shall order the vote for and against the subscription to be entered upon the record of the county court; and if a majority of the votes shall be in favor of the subscription, the court shall order its clerk forthwith to make the subscription upon the conditions prescribed; and if the subscription is accepted by the Synod, it shall be obligatory upon the county. 1872. If majority vote for said subscription, the court shall make it. Stocks now held shall be vested. § 4. That in case the subscription shall be made in either of the modes herein before provided, it shall be the sold and retaduty of the county court to cause the stock of the county not donated to be sold by the commissioners of the sinking fund, and the proceeds to be invested in other good and solvent securities: Provided, That the amount of bonds or other securities purchased with the proceeds of the stock sold, and retained by the county as a sinking fund for the payment of the outstanding bonds of Madison county, shall exceed, in principal, at maturity, the outstanding Madison county railroad bonds at maturity by five thousand dollars: And provided, That the annual interest upon the bonds or other securities purchased shall exceed the annual interest upon the outstanding Madison county bonds; and the residue of the county stock shall be transferred by the commissioners of the sinking fund to the aforesaid Synod or their authorized agent, and the certificate of transfer of said commissioners shall entitle the Synod to the stock in the railroad company; and the company shall make the transfer on their books when the certificate shall be presented. § 5. That all bonds or securities purchased by the commissioners of the sinking fund under the provisions of section fourth of this act shall be held in the name and for the benefit of the county, and the interest accruing upon the same shall be received and applied by the commissioners, first, to the payment of the interest on the outstanding 1872. county railroad bonds; and if a surplus shall accrue after the payment of such interest, they shall apply such surplus to the purchase of said bonds as a sufficient amount shall accumulate; and until an amount sufficient to purchase a bond or bonds shall accumulate, the surplus thus arising shall be invested in some safe and profitable manner, as shall be directed by the county court; so that when, at any time, it shall be wanted for the purchase of county bonds, it can speedily be converted into cash; and after the entire railroad debt of the county is discharged, any surplus of bonds or money, or securities, which shall remain from the proceeds of the sale of stock, or acquired in any way therefrom, and constituting a part of the sinking fund, may, by appropriate order of the county court, be transferred to the credit of the aforesaid Synod, subject to the restrictions and conditions named in the first section of this act. 6. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved January 24, 1872. take stock in railroads. for said stock. CHAPTER 95. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act revising the charter of the city of Paducah." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That an act, entitled "An act revising the charter of City of the city of Paducah, Kentucky," approved 11th February, Paducah may 1871, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to authorize the city of Paducah, Kentucky, to take stock to an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, upon such terms and conditions as said city may, by ordinance, prescribe, in one or more railroad corporations created by the Legislature of the State of Illinois, and terminating on the Ohio river, opposite said city, May issue or within said city limits, and to pay for said stock at bonds to pay par in the bonds of said city, payable at such time and place, and in such amounts, and bearing such rate of interest, not exceeding eight per cent. per annum, as the city council of Paducah may, by ordinance, determine; said bonds to have coupons attached representing the interest, payable semi-annually, at such time and place as said city council may, by ordinance, determine; and to further the objects and purposes of this amendment, the said city council are hereby vested with full power and authority to appoint such agents as they may deem necessary to effectuate and fully accomplish the objects and purposes of this amendment; all such agents to be appointed by ordinance or resolution; and the said city 1872. May levy tax to pay off said council of Paducah is hereby vested with power and authority to levy and collect, from the property-owners of said city, and upon all property now, or which may bonda hereafter be, assessed for revenue purposes for the State, an amount sufficient to pay the interest on all and any bonds issued by said city under this amended charter, as the same matures, and the principal of said bonds at maturity; and before any such ordinance providing for a subscription of stock to any railroad corporation under tion to be subthis charter shall become valid and binding on said city, mitted to vothe same shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said city. city, and receive a majority of all the voters of said city voting at said election; and that all that part of said act to which this is an amendment, which is inconsistent herewith, is hereby repealed. Approved January 24, 1872. Question of such subscrip ters of said CHAPTER 96. AN ACT to prevent the destruction of fish by fish-nets in Cumberland river, within the limits of Trigg county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to spread a fish-net in the Cumberland river, or any of its tributaries, within the limits of Trigg county. § 2. Any person or persons violating this act shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars for the first offense, and not less than fifteen nor more than fifty dollars for the second offense, to be recovered before any justice of the peace in whose district said offense may be committed. §3. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved January 24, 1872. CHAPTER 97. AN ACT for the benefit of Thomas Hunt, of Pike county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Thomas Hunt, of Pike county, Kentucky, be, and he is hereby, authorized to erect and keep a mill and dam in and across Pond creek, in Pike county, at or near his residence and on his farm, at such place as he may select. |