adjacent to the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, heretofore rented for the use and cultivated by inmates of the asylum, a sum not exceeding twenty-eight thousand dollars, payable to the treasurer of the asylum, in the order of the board of managers.

$39. To A. P. Grover and J. M. Johnson, each, for expenses in visiting the Lunatic Asylum, by order of the Legislature, seven dollars and fifty cents.

§ 40. To D. C. Barrett, for making an index to the forthcoming Journals of the Senate and House of Representatives, two hundred dollars.

§ 41. To Geo. W. Gwin, for administering the oaths to members, ten dollars.

§ 42. To Mrs. Jane Shannon, for making and washing towels, and for making mail-bag and washing, two dollars and fifty cents.

§ 43. That the sum of five hundred dollars be appropriated to the Auditor of Public Accounts, for the purpose of paying Thos. S. Page for bringing up the business of the Auditor's office to the 1st day of January, 1860.

§ 44. To F. C. Smith, two dollars and thirty cents, for repairing stoves and pipes in the Capitol.

45. To the assistant clerk of the Senate, for extra services, eighty dollars.

46. To J. Russell Hawkins, for organizing the Senate the present session, twenty-five dollars.

§ 47. To John J. Roberts, clerk of the Senate enrolling committee, three dollars per day for fifteen days, and three dollars per day for two days same services in House of Representatives.

48. That the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer in favor of any person or persons who present accounts against the Senate for enrolling and engrossing bills: Provided, That such accounts are certified by the assistant clerk of the Senate as correct.

§ 49. To A. W. Vallandingham, for the services of his negro man in attending to the "back capitol," the sum of sixty dollars.

§ 50. To Wm. Brown, eight dollars and thirty-five cents, his expenses in visiting the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.

§ 51. To Isaac Wingate, jr., as clerk of the enrolling committee of the House of Representatives, three dollars per day for thirteen days, making thirty-nine dollars. Approved March 1, 1860.

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1860.

CHAPTER 825.

AN ACT to amend the act establishing the county of Metcalfe.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That it shall be the duty of the judge of the crimExaminers to inal and equity court of the 4th judicial district to appoint

be appointed.

three fit and proper persons to be examiners for said county, who shall enter upon the discharge of their duties upon taking the oaths required by law. The appointment of said examiners shall be entered upon the records of said criminal and equity court.

§ 2. That the clerk of the circuit court in and for said county, shall be clerk of said equity and criminal court. § 3. That so much of the boundary line between Adair and Metcalfe counties as lies between Pendleton's Mill and the Cumberland county line be, and the same is hereby, established as follows, viz: Commencing at Hiram Pendleton's mill, (leaving said Pendleton in Adair county,) thence a straight line to Herbert Kennaird's house, and from thence a straight line from Herbert Kennaird's to George W. Breeding's saw-mill, on the Burksville and Columbia road, including James Estes, Thomas Estes, William Penick, J. L. Yates, Jane Estes, the old farm of A. York, deceased, J. Hamilton, P. T. Ellison, Sebastian Bell, Z. D. Wheat's old farm, Herbert Kennaird, Harrison Kennaird, J. B. Dixon, Eliza Kennaird, William Hamilton, sr., Ed. Hamilton, and S. W. Marrs, all in the new county of Metcalfe; thence from said George W. Breeding's saw-mill, with the Burksville and Columbia road, to the Cumberland county line; thence with the same on to and with the line of the new county as mentioned in the act creating the same; and all that part of said act as conflicts with this act is repealed.

§ 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 23, 1860.

CHAPTER 830.

AN ACT authorizing the Court of Claims of Trimble county to increase the poll tax thereof.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§1. That the court of claims of Trimble county shall have power at its discretion, a majority of the members thereof concurring, to levy a tax of three dollars, or less, upon each tithe in said county, for the purpose of raising money to extinguish the principal and interest of the public debt of said county.

§2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 1, 1860.

CHAPTER 833.

AN ACT authorizing the County Court of Shelby to levy an increased poll tax and county levy in said county.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That the county court of Shelby county, a majority of all the justices of said county being present and concurring therein, are hereby authorized and empowered to raise a sum of money, not exceeding six thousand dollars, by levying an additional poll tax of fifty cents on each tithe of said county, to repair or rebuild the jail and jailer's house in said county; which tax shall be collected and accounted for to said 'county court by the sheriff of said county, in all respects as the county levy is now collected and accounted for.

Approved March 1, 1860.

1860.

CHAPTER 851.

AN ACT in relation to the school for feeble-minded children.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That the twenty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated during the present session to establish a school for feeble-minded children, be paid out of the treasury whenever the commissioners shall deem it necessary to appropriate the same for the purchase of land, and for building.

Approved March 1, 1860.

CHAPTER 872.

AN ACT changing the time of holding the Lincoln Quarterly Courts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That from and after the passage of this act, the judge of the Lincoln county court shall hold the quarterly terms of said court on the first Monday in January, April, July, and October, instead of the times as now fixed by law.

Approved March 1, 1860.

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1860.

CHAPTER 883.

AN ACT to furnish County Judges with necessary blank books.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That hereafter, when any of the county judges of this Blank books Commonwealth shall file his account with the Auditor of courts to be Public Accounts, properly authenticated by his own affipaid for out of davit, of the cost of such well-bound blank books as he

the treasury.

may need as presiding judge of the quarterly court, it shall and may be lawful for the Auditor of Public Accounts to draw his warrant on the Treasurer, in favor of such county judge, for the sum so paid by him; provided he shall not purchase more than one order book and one execution book at a time, which are to be considered a part of the public records of his office, and delivered over to his successor when such judge shall go out of office.

Approved March 1, 1860.

CHAPTER 902.

AN ACT for the benefit of Agricultural and Mechanical Fairs. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the president and managers of the agricultural Marshals of and mechanical fairs of this Commonwealth shall have the Agricultual & authority to clothe their marshal with the power of conmay be clothed stables, as conservators of the peace, during the continua constable dur ance of the fairs. ing fairs.

Mechan'l fairs

with powers of

To give bond and take oath.

§ 2. That before the marshals thus appointed shall proceed to act, they shall execute bond, with good security, in the county clerk's office in the county in which said fair is to be held, the bond to be approved of by the county judge or county court clerk. They shall likewise take the oath the constables are by law required to take, and be subject to all the laws now in force relating to constables; and they shall be entitled to the same fees that constables now are for similar services.

§ 3. This act to be in force from its passage.

Approved March 1, 1860.

CHAPTER 904.

AN ACT to authorize the Hancock County Court to levy a tax to defray county charges.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That the Hancock county court be, and is hereby, authorized to levy a capitation and ad valorem tax on all titheables and property in said county, subject to taxation for State or county purposes under existing laws, not to exceed in one year more than five cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of property, nor more than fifty cents on the head, in addition to what said court is now by law authorized to levy. This power is given for the purpose of defraying the expenses of building bridges and other necessary county charges. The power vested by this act in said court is to continue for only two years, and to be exercised annually.

§ 2. That said Hancock county court (the justices concurring) may, at the next April or May term, lay said additional levy, collectable in 1860.

lect.

§ 3. The sheriff of Hancock county is hereby empowered Sheriff to colto collect said tax, under the same rules, regulations, and penalties as now prescribed by law, and pay it over as the county levy is now paid.

§ 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 1, 1860.

CHAPTER 913.

AN ACT to change the time of holding the Lewis county Quarterly Court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That from and after the second Monday of March, 1860, the terms of the Lewis county quarterly court shall commence on the fourth Mondays of March, June, September, and December, and continue at each term until the business is disposed of, instead of the times now prescribed by law.

Approved March 1, 1860.

CHAPTER 917.

AN ACT regulating the time of holding the Circuit Courts in the Second

Judicial District.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§1. That the circuit courts in the second judicial district shall commence and be held as follows!