1872. §14. The General Assembly shall have the right to examine the affairs of said bank by any committee appointed for that purpose, and hereby reserves the right to repeal, amend, or modify this act at pleasure. § 15. If any cashier, clerk, teller, or other officer, agent, or servant of said bank, shall appropriate any of the funds of said corporation to his own use, or shall willfully fail to make correct entries, or knowingly make false ones, on the books of said corporation, with intent to cheat or defraud the corporation or other person, such cashier, clerk, teller, agent, or other officer or servant, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be confined in the penitentiary of this Commonwealth for a period of not less than two nor more than ten years. § 16. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 1, 1872. CHAPTER 147. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Western Insurance and Banking Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. The charter of the Western Insurance and Banking Company, approved January 26, 1865, and amended by an act approved March 31st, 1870, be, and the same is hereby, further amended as follows: §2. The said corporation may, from and after the pas sage of this act, and the acceptance thereof by the said corporation, cease to be an insurance company; and it shall thereupon retain all the rights and privileges heretofore conferred, except the right to do an insurance busi ness. §3. The said corporation shall, from the day of the acceptance of this act, be known by the name of "The Western Bank;" and shall by that name succeed to all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities, of the said Western Insurance and Banking Company, except such rights and privileges, and such duties and liabilities, as appertain to the insurance busi ness. § 4. Section ten of the charter approved January 26, 1865, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect any obligation, liability, or contract, existing at the time of, 1872. Approved February 1, 1872. or before, the acceptance of this act by said corporation. § 6. This act shall take effect from its passage. CHAPTER 148. AN ACT to declare Morgan's creek, in Lawrence county, a navigable stream. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That Morgan's creek, in Lawrence county, from its mouth to James Adams' house, be, and the same is hereby, declared a navigable stream. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 1, 1872. CHAPTER 149. AN ACT revising the charter of the town of New Liberty, in Owen county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of the town of New Liberty, in Owen county," passed and approved March 7th, 1868, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 2. The election of police judge and trustees for said town, held on the first Saturday in May, 1871, be hereby declared legal; and further, that said trustees shall have power to fill all vacancies in their board until the next regular election after such vacancy shall occur. 3. An election for town marshal shall be held on the first Saturday in March, 1872, and thereafter on the same day appointed by law for the election of constables. The marshal shall have equal jurisdiction with constables in said county. 4. The original charter is hereby re-enacted, except so much as is repealed by this act. § 5. This act to take effect from its passage. 1872. CHAPTER 150. AN ACT to provide for appointing an assistant county attorney for the county of Kenton. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the county attorney for the county of Kenton, by and with the advice and approval of the county court of said county, shall appoint an assistant county attorney. § 2. That said assistant county attorney shall have the qualifications necessary for a county attorney, and shall take the usual oaths of office; and, in the absence of the county attorney, shall do any and all business required of the county attorney, and shall be entitled to receive the same fees and per centage on fines and penalties, includ ing forfeitures of bonds, that the county attorney is authorized to receive. § 3. Said appointment shall be entered of record in said county court, and said assistant shall hold his office until the expiration of the term of the said county attorney who appointed him. §4. Any act inconsistent with this act is hereby repealed, so far as it affects the county of Kenton, but no further. § 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 1, 1872. CHAPTER 151. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Owensboro Savings Bank. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the clause pertaining to this matter in section third of the charter of said bank be amended so as to read as follows: For the contracts of the corporation each stockholder shall be individually responsible to the amount of stock held by him in said corporation, and also to the full extent of his private fortune. 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 1, 1872. CHAPTER 152. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of D. C. Smith, of Barren county," approved January 30, 1866. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of D. C. Smith, of Barren county," approved January 30th, 1866, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after the time of its passage. Approved February 1, 1872. 1872. CHAPTER 153. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the act, entitled “An act to amend the charter of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad," passed March 15th, 1871, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. §2. That the number of directors of said company be increased from nine to eleven. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 1, 1872. CHAPTER 154. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the first section of an act, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Covington and Lexington Turnpike Road Company," approved January 17th, 1863, be amended by inserting after the word "hauling" the words "earth, sand," and before the word "quarries" the words "lands, banks." §2. That the keeper of gate No. 1, or superintendent of said road, are hereby authorized to demand and receive the tolls allowed to be collected by said section of said act, as amended; and upon the failure or refusal of any person or persons to pay said tolls when demanded as aforesaid, the said company shall have the right to sue for and collect the same, with costs of suit. 1872. § 3. That one hearse and five carriages, in funeral processions for neighborhood burials, shall hereafter be exempt from tolis, including the city of Covington. §4. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 1, 1872. tional tax to CHAPTER 155. AN ACT to provide for the improvement of the public roads in Butler county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That there shall be levied and collected, from each County court person in the county of Butler who, by law, is required may levy addi- to work on the public roads of said county, a tax of four improve roads. dollars annually, which shall be collected by the sheriff as other taxes, and shall be expended under the order of the county court only in the improvement of the public roads in said county. those liable to road tax. §2. It shall be the duty of the assessor of said county, Assessor to when he takes the list of taxable property for said county make out list of for each year, to rule a column and take a complete list of every male inhabitant of said county who is, by the general laws of the State, required to work on the public roads; which list shall be copied by the clerk on the book delivered to the sheriff. The sheriff shall settle, account for, and report the taxes collected under this act, and the delinquents of whom the same cannot be made, at the same time and in the same manner as is provided in relation to the ordinary county levy. 3. The tax provided for in the preceding sections of Those liable this act may be discharged in work and labor done upon the public road, within the proper district of each person I. y work out so assessed, under the direction of the surveyor of the road, at the rate of one dollar for each full day's work; and it shall be the duty of each surveyor of public road in said county to give to every person within the limits of his district a certificate showing the number of full days' work performed as aforesaid, which said certificate shall be receivable by the sheriff in discharge of taxes provided hereinbefore. § 4. The assessor and clerk shall be allowed the sum of one cent for each list taken under this act, and the sheriff shall be allowed the same commissions as are, by law, allowed for collecting the county levy. § 5. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 2, 1872. |