1872. City council take stock in 5. That the council of said city of Augusta are hereby authorized, upon the reception of a petition signed by a majority of the bona fide tax-payers in said city, to take authorized to stock to the amount named in said petition in any turn- turnpike roads. pike road entering into said city, provided said stock shall not exceed $5,000, and the same shall be owned by said city; and said council are hereby authorized to represent the same, either by vote or otherwise, in the election of directors of such turnpike roads. § 6. This act is to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 8, 1872. CHAPTER 229. AN ACT to prohibit the sale of vinous, spirituous, or malt liquors in Nel son county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: ty. § 1. That it shall be unlawful, after this act takes effect, Made unlawful to sell liquors for the county court of Nelson county, or any person or in Nelson counpersons, to grant a license to any person or persons to sell, by wholesale or retail, any brandy, whisky, or intoxicating liquors, or any mixture thereof, within the limits or jurisdiction of said county, except as hereinafter provided. give liquors 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons Unlawful to to give to any other person or persons any whisky, brandy, under color of or other intoxicating liquor or mixture thereof, under pre- sale of other tense of selling other articles to such person or persons, within the jurisdiction or limits of said county. §3. That any person or persons violating the provisions of section one or section two of this act shall be deemed guilty of keeping a tippling-house, and for the first offense, under indictment of a grand jury, shall be fined sixty dollars, and for every subsequent offense shall be fined one hundred dollars, said fines to be collected as other fines are collected. Penalty for violation of law; and wholesale may § 4. That manufacturers and wholesale dealers in Manufacturers whisky and brandy in said county may sell same, to dealers be delivered at the time of sale, but not in less quan- sell and deliver in quantities tities than five gallons; and it shall be the duty of the over 3 gallons. circuit court to give this act in charge to the grand juries of said county at each term thereof. § 5. That this act shall take effect whenever it shall be ratified by a majority of the voters of said county voting thereon on the first Monday in August next, when a poll shall be opened in every election district in said county for its adoption or rejection; and the county court clerk of said county shall prepare a column in the poll-books in Act to be given in charge to grand jury. Act to be sub mitted to qual tied voters of said county. 1872. Licenses of those now sell be enforced. said county for taking said vote, and the examiner of pollbooks at elections in said county shall certify the result of said vote to the county court, and said court shall have the same entered upon its records. § 6. That nothing herein shall prohibit the sale of liquor ing to expire by those licensed at the time this act shall take effect until before act shall their license expires, nor to prohibit druggists or merchants Liquors sold from selling spirituous liquors for medicinal purposes, upon purposes not to the written prescription of any physician resident in said county. for medicinal be in purview of act. Approved February 8, 1872. public improvements. CHAPTER 230. AN ACT for the benefit of Greenup county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter the county court of Greenup county, County court a majority of the justices of the peace concurring, be, to levy tax for and hereby is, empowered and authorized, for the purpose of constructing bridges, and other public improvements necessary, to levy an ad valorem tax on the real and personal property of said county, as assessed for taxation for State revenue, not exceeding fifty cents per one hundred dollars of said property. § 2. The ad valorem tax levied by the Greenup county Former action court at its court of claims for 1871, to be collected in the of said court legalized. year 1872, is hereby legalized, ratified, and confirmed; but the entire ad valorem tax levied by said county court, to be collected in said county in the year 1872, shall not exceed forty cents on the one hundred dollars. lect said taxes, § 3. That said taxes shall be collected by the sheriff of Sheriff to col- said county of Greenup, and accounted for by him in the and be respon- same manner as the county levy is directed to be; and sible on his said sheriff, and his sureties in his bond for the collection of the county levy and taxes, shall be responsible for the faithful collection and accounting for by said sheriff of the taxes authorized by this act. bond therefor. § 4. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 8, 1872. CHAPTER 231. AN ACT to repeal the charter of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Louisville. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Twelfth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South; of the city of Louisville, Kentucky," approved 3d day of February, 1865, be, and is hereby, repealed. 2. This act to take effect on and after its passage. 1872. CHAPTER 232. AN ACT to authorize the county judge of Lincoln county to sell and convey the poor-house property in said county, and reinvest the proceeds. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the judge of the county court of Lincoln county be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to sell and convey all the poor-house property in said county, and reinvest the proceeds of the same in other property for like purposes, in a more convenient locality in said county: Provided, That no such sale or reinvestment shall be made by said county judge without first obtaining the advice and consent thereto of a majority of all the justices of the peace in and for said county. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 8, 1872. CHAPTER 234. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act to amend section six hundred and eleven, Civil Code of Practice," approved March 4, 1865. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That an act, entitled "An act to amend section six hundred and eleven, Civil Code of Practice," approved March 4th, 1865 (Myers' Supplement, page 27), be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1872. 1872. Boundary. ed. CHAPTER 236. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Boston Station, Pendleton county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the town of Boston Station, a station on the Kentucky Central Railroad, in the county of Pendleton, with the following boundary: Beginning at southeast corner of farm owned by Morris, on the Licking river; thence westerly with Morris's south line to the county road running to Meridian; thence southerly with said county road, and including same, to the north branch of Harris creek; thence with said north branch and Harris creek, following the meanderings thereof, to the Licking; thence with the Licking river as it meanders to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, incorporated and established as a town. § 2. That hereafter the fiscal, prudential, and municipal Trustees, po- relations of said town shall be vested in four trustees and lice judge. and marshal-when a police judge, who, by virtue of his office, shall be chairand how elect-man of the board of trustees, who, together with a town marshal, shall be annually elected on the first Saturday in February, by the male inhabitants over the age of twentyQualification one years, who shall have resided in said town three months previous to said election, and are qualified voters by the laws of this State. of voters. marshal. § 3. That the police judge, trustees, and town marshal Term of office shall hold their respective offices for the term of one year, of police judge, trustees, and and until their successors shall be elected and qualified, who, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take an oath before some legally authorized officer that they will support the Constitution of Kentucky, and faithfully, and without favor or affection, discharge the duties of their office during their continuance therein. of said officers. § 4. That no person shall hold the office of police judge, Qualification trustee, or marshal, who is not, at the time of holding the same, a citizen of said town, and has lived therein six months next previous to his or their election, and shall be at least twenty-one years of age. name and powers. §5. That said police judge, trustees, and their successors Corporate in office, shall be a body-politic and corporate, and shall be known by the name and style of the Board of Trustees of the town of Boston Station; and by that name shall be capable in law of contracting and of being contracted with, of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of answering and being answered, of defending and being defended, in all courts and places; and may use a common or private seal, and do all other acts, matters, and things which a body-politic and corporate having perpetual succession can lawfully and rightfully do within the limits of the powers herein granted. laws, rules and § 6. That said board of trustees shall have power over 1872. the streets, alleys, and sidewalks in said town, or which Trustees may hereafter be opened; may direct the improvement of may make bythe same in such manner as they deem most beneficial to regulations. the interests of said town; they shall have power and au- levy taxes, de. thority to make all necessary by-laws for the regulation and good government of said town, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State; they shall have power to levy and collect a poll-tax not exceeding, annually, two dollars on each tithable, and also an ad valorem tax on the property of the citizens of said town, both real, personal, and mixed, including every thing now taxed for revenue by the laws of this State; and on the real estate in said town, owned by non-residents of said town, not exceeding, annually, one dollar on each one hundred dollars' worth; they shall have the power to declare what are nuisances in said toren, and by their order direct the same to be abated and removed, and may impose a fine upon whomsoever may have committed the same; they shall have power to tax auction sales, shows, concerts, and exhibitions for money, when held within said town. May grant license to sell liquors in said town. Made unlawful without license to sell liquors § 7. That said board of trustees shall have power, and the exclusive control and right, to grant license for the sale, by retail, of all spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within said town, or within one mile thereof; and no person shall have the right to sell spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in said town, or within one mile thereof, without first having obtained a permit or license from said trustees, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding; they shall have power to tax all taverns, tippling-houses, merchants, license not exceeding two hundred dollars, and all ale and beer saloons not exceeding one hundred dollars: Pro- . vided, That nothing in this act shall excuse said persons from paying the tax to the State, and obtaining their license from the county court and executing bond, as now required by law. May tax taverns, tippling-houses, Trustees to appoint off scribe duties. 8. That it shall be the duty of all the trustees, annually (after their election), to appoint a clerk, treasurer, cers and precollector, assessor, and overseer of the streets and alleys, and such other officers as they may deem necessary; and take from the treasurer and collector bond, with approved security, payable to the trustees of the town of Boston Station, in such penalty as they may direct, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties; and for a violation thereof on the part of either of said officers, motion may be made, or suits brought, before any tribunal having jurisdiction, in the same manner, and under the same rules and regulations, that motions are made or suits brought against other officers for failure of duty; and the said trustees shall have the power to remove either of them for |