thorefor at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per centum per annum, and pledge the stock of said city or cities, in said bridge or bridges, for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds; but after the expiration of ninety days after said books shall have been opened, as aforesaid, the whole or any part of said capital stock, which has not been subscribed by said cities, may be subscribed by individuals or corporations. The said board may appoint a clerk, treasurer, and such other officers and agents as they may deem needful, and allow them such compensation as they may deem proper, and make such rules and regulations, in order to enforce a faithful discharge of their duties, as to them may seem fit. The said board may make contracts with any person or corporation touching the business or affairs of the company, and do all things needful for the erection and completion of said bridge or bridges. They may require and take such bond or other security, in their corporate name, from any person or persons they may so appoint or contract with; and in the event of the death, resignation, or vacancy of a director, or of the president, said board may supply the vacancy. § 4. The said board shall have power to purchase and Sites for bridge. receive the conveyance of a site or sites for said bridge or bridges, abutments and piers. § 5. That the president and directors shall have the right to fix the rates of toll for passing over said bridge or bridges, and to collect the same from all and every person or persons passing thereon, with their goods, carriages, and animals of every description and kind; and the rates of toll shall be posted up in some conspicuous place where the toll is demanded. §6. If any person or persons shall willfully do any act or thing whatever, whereby the said bridge or bridges, or any part thereof, or any thing attached thereto, is injured or damaged, the said person or persons, so offending, shall each forfeit and pay three times the amount of the damage thus done or sustained, with costs of suit, recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction, by suit in the name of said company, and shall likewise be subject to fine or imprisonment, upon an indictment of a grand jury, in any number of days, in the discretion of a petit jury; and if any person shall pass or attempt to pass such bridge or bridges without paying the toll, if there be any person present to receive the same, he or she shall forfeit and pay three times the amount of the tolls, recoverable before any justice of the peace, mayor, or police judge. And if any person or persons shall willfully set fire to said bridge or bridges, or either of them, or any part thereof, or cause the same, or either of them, to be burned, in whole or in part, such person or persons, so offending, shall be held and deemed guilty of arson, and punished accordingly. Rates of tolls. Penalty for injuring bridge; therefor. and proceedings 1852. of land. §7. If the owners of any land necessary for the abutments, the site, or any avenue leading thereto, so as to connect the said bridge or bridges with the streets of said cities, on either side of said river, shall object to sell said land, at such price as the board may think reasonable, it shall be lawful for said board to apply to the mayor of the Condemnation city of Newport, should the land be situated in the city of Newport, or to the mayor of the city of Covington, if situated in the city of Covington, for a writ of ad quod damnum to issue, and which may be issued, directed to the marshal of the city in which the land may be situated, requiring him to summon a jury of freeholders of the city, who shall be disinterested; and said marshal shall have power to supply, by summons, other persons to act as jurors, if needed, qualified as aforesaid; and the said jurors shall be sworn by the said marshal, well and truly to inquire the value of the land to be condemned, and the damage thereby resulting to the owner thereof, according to the facts and evidence submitted to them by the parties. The verdict of the jury, when rendered, signed and sealed by said jury, shall be forthwith returned to said mayor, and if no legal and valid exception be taken thereto, the same shall be entered of record by him; and if, at any time within one year thereafter, the amount so assessed shall be paid, the title to the land applied for and thus condemned, shall vest in said company; and the mayor aforesaid, who shall have issued the writ, shall execute a deed of conveyance thereof, which shall pass the legal title. buy out stock after ten years. § 8. The cities of Newport and Covington, or either of Said cities may them, the other refusing to join, may, at any time after ten years, be at liberty to purchase the said bridge or bridges, by paying the original cost thereof, with six per centum interest thereon, should the stock in said company be subscribed, in part or in whole, by individuals or other corporations than said cities. Obstruction of navigation. § 9. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to give to said company power to erect a bridge or bridges which will obstruct the free and common navigation of said Licking river. Approved January 1, 1852. CHAPTER 223. AN ACT to amend an act establishing Morgantown Seminary, in Butler county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That an act for the benefit of the Butler seminary lands, entitled, an act to amend the act establishing the Morgantown seminary, approved March 22, 1851, be and the same is hereby so amended as to invest the title of said lands in the trustees of said seminary, and their successors in office, in the same manner that, by said act, it was vested in said trustees; and that said trustees, and their successors in office, shall have all the privileges and rights to and concerning said lands, and all the rights, privileges, and powers granted by said act, in the same manner as said trustees had, by virtue of said act. Approved January 1, 1852. 1852. CHAPTER 225. AN ACT to change Magistrates' Districts No. 1, in Crittenden county, and § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the boundaries of magistrates' district No. 1, in Crittenden county, be and the same is hereby changed so as to run from Goings' old mill, down on Crooked creek, to the mouth of the Long branch, near the Anderson ford; thence up said branch to Madison Dean's; thence up the Salem road to the Sulphur Springs; thence up Hurricane creek to James Brice's, on the old Morganfield road. §2. That the line of justices' district No. 1, in Madison county, be so changed as to run as follows: from Samuel Williams' to Lemuel Green's, including him; thence to the mouth of the Geyer road; thence to Taylor's fork of Silver creek; and thence to James A. Ballard's. Approved January 1, 1852. CHAPTER 226. AN ACT to change the line of the Burlington and Taylorsport election precinct, in Boone county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the line of the Burlington and Taylorsport election precincts, in Boone county, be so changed as, instead of keeping the Anderson ferry road to Gunpowder, that the road be line from said ferry to the noth-east corner of Zedadiah Foster's land, on said road; thence westwardly so as to strike Joel Garnett's line; thence with said line to the old North Bend road, so as to include John J. Crigler, with all south of said Garnett's line, in the Burlington district. Approved January 2, 1852. 3 AN ACT to incorporate the Maysville Literary Institute. §1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Rev. Joseph W. Warder, Rev. W. W. Gardner, Abijah Casto, Samuel S. Miner, John L. Kirk, Fred. M. Weedon, Thomas Wise, Robert W. Lane, Robert S. Power, John P. Dobyns, Eli N. Metcalfe, John McDaniel, Thomas Y. Payne, and George W. Orr are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the Style of corpo- name and style of the trustees of the "Maysville literary institute." ration. May hold real estate, &c. Election. ulations. §2. That the said trustees, and their successors, shall have perpetual existence, by the name and style aforesaid; shall have the power to acquire, by gift, purchase, or otherwise, any estate, real, personal, or mixed, and hold, sell, or convey the same for the benefit of said institute; to make any contracts or agreements, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, and do and perform all other acts which similar corporations may of right do, not incompatible with the laws of this state or the laws and constitution of the United States. §3. That said trustees shall have power, annually, to elect from its own body a president, secretary, and treasurer, fill all vacancies occurring in the board and in said offices, appoint such professors or teachers, enact such rules and regulations for the government of the institute, as they may deem best, and confer upon those pupils they may deem worthy all such literary honors and degrees as are conferred by like institutions. §4. That three-fourths of the board of trustees shall, at all times, be members of the Untied Baptist church, and connected with the Bracken association, so long as the said association shall hold to the doctrines now recognized by the United Baptists of Kentucky. § 5. That the said trustees may adopt such regulations Rules and reg and by-laws for their own government as they may deem expedient, and that a majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. § 6. The legislature hereby reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this charter. Approved January 1, 1852. CHAPTER 228. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Lexington. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That an act, entitled, an act to amend the charter of the city of Lexington, approved January 24, 1850, be so amended as to require the mayor and council of said city, hereafter, to pay of its debt, therein described, only the sum of five thousand dollars each year; and that the residue of the sum of ten thousand dollars, required by said act to be paid annually, be appropriated to the benefit of common schools in said city; but nothing in this act shall be construed as obstructing creditors of the city in their collection of their debts. Approved January 2, 1852. 1852. CHAPTER 229. AN AOT to change the time of holding the Garrard County and Quarterly Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That, hereafter, the terms of the Garrard county conrt shall commence and be held on the first Monday in each month; and the judge of the county court shall commence and hold the January terms of his quarterly courts on the second Monday in January in each year, instead of the third Monday, as now provided by law. Approved January 2, 1852. CHAPTER 230. AN ACT to provide for the erection of a suitable monument over the grave of Col. Thomas Dollerhide. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the sum of seventy-five dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the erection of a suitable monument over the grave of Col. Thomas Dollerhide, late a senator from Pulaski county; and that Joel W. Sallee, of said county, Isaac N. Shepherd, of Wayne county, and George R. McKee, of Garrard county, be authorized to contract for the erection of said monument, with a suitable inscription; and upon their certificate to the auditor of public accounts, that the work has been properly done, he is hereby directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer, for the above sum, to the person producing said certificate, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved January 2, 1852. CHAPTER 231. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, "an act incorporating the Crab Orchard and Crews' Knob Turnpike Road Company." Amendment of § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the eleventh section of an act, charter. entitled, an act incorporating the Crab Orchard and Crews' 4 |