1860. Union. Crittenden. Hopkins. Henderson. Livingston. Call terms. Judge and Commonwealth's attorney for said district, possessing the constitutional qualifications, who shall hold their respective offices until their successors shall be duly elected at the next August election and qualified. § 2. That the Union circuit court shall be held on the first Mondays in April and October, and continue each term twenty-four juridical days, if the business shall require it. That the Crittenden circuit court shall be held on the first Mondays in May and November, and shall continue twelve juridical days, if the business shall require it. That the Hopkins circuit court shall be held on the fourth Monday in May and, third Monday in November, and continue twelve juridical days, if the business shall require it. That the Henderson circuit court shall be held on the second Monday in June and first Monday in December, and continue thirty juridical days, if the business shall require it. That the Livingston circuit court shall be held on the second Mondays in August and February, and continue eighteen juridical days, if the business shall require it. §3. That the judge of said district shall have power and authority to hold a court in any of said counties for the trial of criminal and chancery causes, at such time as he shall designate and appoint. § 4. That all recognizances and process in any of said Process and courts shall stand and be made returnable at the terms of recognizances. said courts herein specified and directed to be held. § 5. The sheriffs of Union, Hopkins, Henderson, McLean, Com'ith Attor- Crittenden, and Livingston, shall cause a poll to be opened ney to be elect- at the several voting precincts in said counties, for an election of a judge and Commonwealth's attorney for said district, on the first Monday in August, 1860, and shall cause the vote cast at said election to be compared and certified, as now required by law for the election of such officers, under the pains and penalties therein prescribed. ed. §.6. That all equity and criminal cases now standing on the docket of the counties of Livingston, Crittenden, and Union, and cognizable in the equity and criminal court of the first district, shall be transferred to, and be docketed and cognizable in, the courts of said district. § 7. That the act creating the equity and criminal court Eq. & Crim. in the counties of Union, Crittenden, Livingston, and Lyon, Court repealed is hereby repealed, so far as it relates to said county. § 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 17, 1860. CHAPTER 292.. AN ACT to regulate the times of holding the Circuit, and Equity and Criminal Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1860. Time Circuit Courts in First Judicial Dis § 1. That the circuit courts for the several counties in the first judicial district in this Commonwealth shall commence in said counties at the times hereinafter specified, and be triet shall be held the number of juridical days allotted to each term, if the business of the court shall require it, viz: held. Hickman. Fulton. In the county of Hickman, the fourth Mondays in February and August, and continue each twelve juridical days. In the county of Fulton, the second Mondays in March and September, and continue each twelve juridical days. In the county of Ballard, the fourth Mondays in March and September, and continue each twelve juridical days. In the county of McCracken, the second Mondays in April McCracken. and October, and continue each thirty juridical days.. In the county of Graves, the third Mondays in May and November, and continue each eighteen juridical days. In the county of Calloway, the second Mondays in June and December, and continue each twelve juridical days. In the county of Marshall, the fourth Mondays in June and December, and continue each twelve juridical days. §2. That the terms of the equity and criminal court, in and for said district, shall be held and continued in the several counties of said district, as follows, if the business shall require it: In the county of Hickman, the second Mondays in November and May, and continue each twelve juridical days. In the county of Fulton, the fourth Mondays in November and May, and continue each eighteen juridical days In the county of McCracken, the first Mondays in January and July, and continue each thirty juridical days. In the county of Marshall, the second Mondays in March and September, and continue each twelve juridical days. In the county of Calloway, the fourth Mondays in February and August, and continue each twelve juridical days. In the county of Graves, the first Mondays in February and August, and continue each eighteen juridical days. §3. That the county of Lyon is, by this act, stricken from the first judicial district, and the equity and criminal court for said county is repealed, and the business of said court is, by this act, transferred to the circuit court of said county, and the clerk of said court is directed and required to place all of said business upon the appropriate dockets of the circuit court for said county; and all process returnable to the equity and criminal court is hereby required to be returned to the circuit court, and to have the same effect as ¡f originally made returnable to said circuit court; and the Ballard. Graves. Calloway. Marshall. Time of holding Equity and Crim. Courts in Hickman. Fulton. McCracken. Marshall. Calloway. Graves. Lyon county stricken from 1st District,and Eq. and Crim. ed, and busi ness to be trans ferred to Circ't Court docket. 1860. how to be re turned. circuit court of said county shall have full power and jurisdiction to try and dispose of all such business, as if the same had been originally brought in that court. § 4. That in all cases where process has been issued by Law process the clerks of the courts of the first judicial district, or which may be by them issued before they receive information of the passage of this act, and which are made returnable to the respective terms of said courts, as heretofore fixed by law, it shall be lawful and valid to return said process to the first succeeding terms of said courts respectively, as fixed by this act; and the sheriffs and other officers are so directed to return processes in their hands; and when such returns are made by them, they shall have the same effect as if issued returnable to the first terms of the courts as fixed by this act, and all such process is made valid and legal. Com'th Attor ney's duty. § 5. It shall be the duty of the attorney for the Commonwealth for said district to attend the circuit courts for Ballard county, for the purpose of discharging his duties as such in said county. This act to take effect from and after its passage, except as to the counties of Hickman and Fulton, to which counties it is not to apply till the second Monday in April, 1860: And provided also, That the clerks of the several courts in said judicial district shall be govin regard to ju- erned by this act in opening all jury lists, and the sheriffs in summoning the juries. Clerks and Sheriffs' duty ry list, &c. Approved February 18, 1860. Meade. Hardin. CHAPTER 316. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to regulate the Circuit Courts in the Third Judicial District." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That so much of the above recited act, approved February 6, 1860, as fixes the sittings of the Meade circuit court, and as fixes the number of days to the Hardin circuit court, be repealed. § 2. That the Meade circuit court shall, after the first day of June next, commence on the fourth Mondays in January and July, and continue twelve juridical days, if the business thereof require it. § 3. That the terms of the Hardin circuit court, fixed by said act to commence on the fourth Mondays in May and November, shall each continue eighteen juridical days, if the business thereof require it. § 4. By which arrangement the courts of the whole circuit will commence, and, if the business require, continue as follows: Meade county, fourth Mondays in January and July, twelve days. Hancock county, second Mondays in February and August, six days. Daviess county, third Mondays in February and August, eighteen days. McLean county, second Mondays in March and September, twelve days. Ohio county, fourth Mondays in March and September, twelve days. Breckinridge county, second Mondays in April and October, twelve days. Grayson county, fourth Mondays in April and October, twelve days. Larue county, second Mondays in May and November, twelve days. Hardin county, fourth Mondays in May and November, eighteen days. § 5. This act to take effect on the first day of June, 1860, as to the counties of Hancock, Daviess, McLean, Ohio, Breckinridge, and Meade; and as to Grayson, Larue, and Hardin, to take effect from its passage. Approved February 18, 1860. 1860. CHAPTER 322. AN ACT in relation to compiling and indexing the laws of a general nature of this Commonwealth. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the acts passed at the present session, of a general and not local or private character, be printed under the superintendence of the Attorney General, whose duty it shall be to prepare a full and accurate index of the same. He shall make the necessary side notes, referring to the chapter and page of the Revised Statutes and Code of Practice, or other book containing the statutes, where a former law has been altered, modified, or repealed. § 2. It shall be his duty to perform a like service during and immediately after each session of the General Assembly, in regard to the general laws which may be hereafter passed. General lawS to be printed under the suof Att's Gou'l. perintendence § 3. He shall receive for his services such compensation Compensation. as the Governor may deem reasonable, not exceeding, however, the amount heretofore allowed by law to the clerk of the General Assembly for making an index to his journal for each session. Approved February 18, 1860. roads in Carter proceeded a gainst. Revised Statutes, p. 290. AN ACT to change the law in relation to warrants against persons for failing to work on roads in Carter county, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter any person assigned to work on a Persons fail- road in the county of Carter, who shall violate the proviing to work on sions of section 23, article 1, chapter 84, of the Revised county, how Statutes, by failing to attend with proper tools, without a reasonable excuse, when required by the surveyor of his Stanton's precinct, or who shall fail to labor when in attendance, or to furnish a proper substitute, may be noticed and summoned to trial before any justice of the peace in and for said county, out of the regular time: Provided, The defendant shall have at least five days' notice of the time and place of trial: And provided further, That the warrant in such cases shall not be returned for trial out of the defendant's district without his consent in writing, signed by him and indorsed on the warrant. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 18, 1860. Office for re and other writ ed in Coving Covington. or within the first magistrates' district. CHAPTER 351. AN ACT to establish an office for the recording of deeds and mortgages at Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Kenton county court to record at his office in the city cording deeds of Covington, in suitable books to be procured for that purings, establish- pose, all deeds and mortgages for the conveyance of real ton, as to real estate situated within the corporate limits of said city, or estate lying in within the limits of the first magistrates' district in the county of Kenton and outside of said city; and such records are hereby declared to be public, and shall have the same effect in all respects whatever, and for every purpose, as the records of deeds and mortgages at Independence, in said county, now have under the existing laws of this Commonwealth. Deeds of trust, assignments, and mortgages of personal property shall be in like manner, if the property conveyed be at the time situated within the territory aforesaid, recorded in the office of said clerk at Covington; and such recording shall also have the same effect for every purpose as the recording of such instrument at Independence now has by law. § 2. That in all cases where the real estate conveyed by lies in said ter- any deed or mortgage is situated partly within the terri Where part |