1872. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 328. AN ACT for the benefit of Montgomery Lodge, No. 23, of Free and Accepted Masons. WHEREAS, Montgomery Lodge, No. 23, of Free and Accepted Masons, owns no property except twelve thousand dollars stock in the Montgomery Masonic Temple building, in the town of Mt. Sterling : Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the stock owned in said Montgomery Masonic Temple by Montgomery Lodge, No. 23, of Free and Accepted Masons, shall be exempt from taxation for any purpose whatever. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 329. AN ACT for the benefit of the heirs of R. M. Biggs, deceased. WHEREAS, Satisfactory evidence has been adduced to this General Assembly that the estate of R. M. Biggs, deceased, was improperly charged, for the year 1869, by the assessor of Carter county, with twenty-four thousand acres of land lying in said county instead of nine thousand and forty acres, which should have been valued at thirty-six thousand dollars instead of seventy-five thousand dollars, as valued by said assessor; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to credit the estate of R. M. Biggs, deceased, with the difference between seventy-five and thirtysix thousand dollars on the taxable property of said estate for the year 1869, and all damages and penalties assessed by law thereon, that amount of difference being the sum with which said estate was improperly charged for said year in consequence of the erroneous assessment made by the assessor of Carter county. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 330. AN ACT to pay Bullitt county for keeping pauper lunatics. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the sum of five hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy cents be hereby appropriated to Bullitt county, for the purpose of paying to said county the amount paid by her for keeping pauper lunatics of said county that could not be received at either of the Asylums. § 2. That the Auditor of Public Accounts shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State, payable to the county judge of said county, for said sum of five hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy cents, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. §3. This act shall take effect after its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 331. AN ACT for the benefit of certain turnpike roads in Bath county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the county court of Bath county shall have power to subscribe to the capital stock of the Owingsville and McIntyre's Ferry Turnpike Road Company, in Bath county, any sum not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars to the mile for each mile of road in said county; and shall have the further power to subscribe to the capital stock of the Owingsville and Frenchburg Turnpike Road Company any sum not exceeding two thousand dollars to the mile for each mile of said road in said county: Provided, however, That before said county court shall have power to make said subscription, the presiding judge of the county court aforesaid shall, at the next August election, submit said question to a vote of the qualified voters of said county; and if a majority of the votes cast on said question shall be in favor of said subscription, then the court shall have power to make the subscription, but not otherwise: Provided further, That the amount levied for this purpose shall in no one year exceed the sum of fifty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property listed for revenue purposes; and that no levy shall be made until a sufficient amount of stock shall have been taken by private subscription to enable the company, with the aid of said subscription allowed by this act, to complete said roads as 1872. 1872. far as they run in said county; but a proper proportion shall be paid as each mile is completed. § 2. If said question should not be submitted at the next August election, then the county judge may order said question to be submitted at some general election. §3. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 333. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Lawrenceburg. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the charter of the town of Lawrenceburg be so amended, that the trustees of said town are authorized to erect a work-house, in which persons guilty of a violation of the ordinances of said town may be confined at labor until they shall have discharged or paid off any fine that may be assessed against them by the police court for such violation; and the police judge of said town may, upon conviction of any offender, require him or her to labor on the streets or alleys of said town, under the supervision of the town marshal, until he or she shall have discharged or paid off any fine, including costs, that may be assessed against such offender, at the rate of two dollars per day: Provided, That the defendant shall not, in any case, be confined or required to work on the streets of said town, if he shall pay or replevy the fine and costs against him. 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 334. AN ACT for the benefit of Henry G. Black, of Ballard county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasury for sixty dollars, in favor of Henry G. Black, of Ballard county, for his services as surveyor, in the case of the State of Missouri against the State of Kentucky, in the United States Court, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 335. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act exempting salt wagons from paying toll on the Wilderness Turnpike Road, in Knox and Josh Bell counties." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That sections one and two of an act, entitled "An act exempting salt wagons from payment of toll on the Wilderness Turnpike Road, in the counties of Knox and Josh Bell," approved March 13th, 1871, be, and the same are hereby, so amended that said wagons shall be exempt from the payment of toll on said road only on their return from the Goose creek and other salt works in Clay county when loaded with salt, but shall be required to pay the same toll that other wagons are required to pay in going over said road to the said salt works. § 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. 1872. CHAPTER 338. AN ACT to amend the first section of an act, entitled "An act to prevent the destruction of fish in Clover creek, in Breckinridge county." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the first section of an act, entitled "An act to prevent the destruction of fish in Clover creek, in Breckinridge county," be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read: That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to haul or stretch a seine, net, set-net, trap, or any fish-net of any description, in Clover creek, in Breckinridge county, during a rise or flood of said stream, within ten miles of its mouth, or in the Ohio river within one quarter of a mile of the mouth of said creek. §2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 339. AN ACT for the benefit of Henry county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter, if, under the provisions of the char ter of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad Company, any vote shall be ordered in said county, for the purpose of building said road through Henry county, the tax receipts for taxes levied to pay for the same shall be received by 1872. said company in payment for charges for transportation of CHAPTER 340. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Alexandria and Flagg Spring Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth. of Kentucky: 1. That the Alexandria and Flagg Spring Turnpike Road Company be, and it is hereby, authorized to borrow a sum, not exceeding twelve thousand dollars ($12,000), to enable said company to complete said road. § 2. That to enable said company to borrow said money, its board of directors is hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said company, not exceeding, in the aggregate, the said sum of twelve thousand dollars, and to sell the same at such prices as they may deem expedient. 3. That said board shall make said bonds of such denomination as it may deem expedient, none of them, however, to be for a less sum than twenty dollars ($20), or a greater sum than one thousand dollars. Said bonds to bear a rate of interest to be determined by said board, but not to exceed ten per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, at such time and place as the board shall specify on the face of the bonds, and for which coupons may or may not be attached as the board shall determine. Said bonds shall be sealed with the corporate seal of said company, and signed by its president, and attested by its secretary. § 4. In order to secure the payment of said bonds, said corporation is hereby authorized to mortgage or convey, in trust for the security of said bonds, any part or all of said road, conditioned to pay the principal and interest of said bonds. § 5. That said company is hereby authorized, if it shall elect to do so, to redeem any part or all of the bonds they may issue under this act, at any time after the expiration of five years from their date, by paying the principal and all interest due thereon at the time of redemption; but the bonds are not to run longer than ten years. § 6. That said mortgage is not to interfere with or re-. lease any liabilities of said company now existing. § 7. That this act take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. |