act as police judge until the next regular election for a police judge.

14. That the trustees shall appoint two persons to act as judges, and said judges and the clerk of the board shall hold the election of officers of said town, aud determine the qualifications of the voters, to declare the persons elected, and report the same to the chairman and board.

15. That all officers of said town and the trustees, before entering upon the duties of their offices, shall take the constitutional oath, before an officer authorized to administer an oath, to well and truly perform the duties of their respective offices.

§ 16. That all former acts that conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

17. That this act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved March 25, 1882.

CHAPTER 569.

AN ACT to incorporate the Grier's Creek Turnpike Company, in Woodford county.

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

1. That a company be, and is hereby, created, under the Style.. name and style of the Grier's Creek Turnpike Road Company, which shall be a body-corporate and politic, for the purpose of constructing a turnpike or macadamized road from a point on the Versailles and Shryock's Ferry Turnpike Road, in Woodford county, at W. J. Frazier's, along or near the line of the old Scott's road to a point on the Versailles and Nicholasville Turnpike Road, in Woodford county, where the said Scott's road intersects the said last named turnpike road. Said company shall have the power to change the above route if they so desire, by order of the board of directors provided the terminal points are not materially changed. The said company shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in and by its said corporate name, and shall have power to acquire and hold land for corporate purposes, and to make contracts in its corporate name, and to adopt a corporate seal, and alter or amend the same at pleas

ure.

Commissioners.

Capital stock.

§ 2. That Simeon Scearce, W. J. Frazier, B. M. Hieatt, R. W. Keene, and S. E. Booth, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to solicit and receive subscriptions for stock in said company, and they shall open books for said purpose at such place or places as they may elect.

3. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed twelve thousand five hundred dollars, and shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each.

§ 4. As soon as two thousand dollars are subscribed to the capital stock of said company, the commissioners named in the second section of this act shall call a meeting of the stockholders at some convenient point for the purpose of electing officers, notice of which meeting shall be given by written or printed handbills, posted up at three or more public places on the contemplated route of said road at least ten days previous to the meeting. There shall be elected a president and four directors, who shall hold their offices until the first Monday in April, 1882, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The annual election of officers shall he held on the first Monday in April of each year. The board of directors shall elect or appoint a treasurer and such other officers as they may deem necessary, and shall take from them a bond with good security for the faithful performance of their duties. Said officers may be elected from the board of directors. The stockholders shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock owned by them respectively up to and including five shares, and for all shares. over and above that number one vote for each five shares so held, and shall have the right to vote in person or by written proxy.

§ 5. The said company, by its president and board of di rectors, shall have power to acquire or condemn all land or lands that may be necessary for right of way, toll-houses, and quarries as is now prescribed by the General Statutes of Kentucky, and all amendments thereto; and said company shall have all the rights and privileges that are now given to turnpike road companies by the general laws of this State.

§ 6. So soon as two and one half miles of said road are completed and ready for public travel, said company shall have the right and power to erect and establish a toll-house and gate, and to collect such tolls from persons traveling over said road as are now prescribed by the general laws of Ken

tucky, collecting for the two and one half miles only one half as much as the general law allows for five miles, and at the same rate for a greater or less distance traveled upon said road.

7. The stockholders of said company shall be exempt Exemptions. from working on any public road in said county.

§ 8. That any person who subscribes to the capital stock of said company and fails to pay his or their subscription, or any part thereof, when due and when called upon by the officers of said company so to do, shall be subject to suit in any court of said county having jurisdiction, and shall pay interest thereon from the date of such call until paid.

§ 9. The president and board of directors of said company may pass or adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem proper for the best interests of the company: Provided, The same are not inconsistent with, or in contravention of, the general laws of this State.

10. The private property of the stockholders of said company shall not be liable for the debts of said company.

§ 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 25, 1882.

CHAPTER 570.

AN ACT to authorize the city of Maysville to subscribe and pay for stock in the Columbus and Maysville Railroad Company.

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

§ 1. That the board of councilmen of the city of Maysville, a majority of the members elected concurring, shall have power and authority to subscribe, in the name and on behalf of said city, for stock in the Columbus and Maysville Railroad Company, any sum not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no such subscription shall be made until after the question shall be submitted to the quali. fied voters of said city, and a majority of all the votes cast shall be in favor of such subscription. The board of councilmen shall designate the time when said election shall be held, and make such orders in relation to public notice of the election, and all other matters in relation thereto, as shall, in

their judgment, be necessary to obtain a fair expression of the popular will upon the question. In the exercise of their own discretion the council may at any time order said election; and it shall be their duty to order it whenever the petition of one fourth of the voters of said city shall request it.

$2 That said subscription of stock, when made, shall be under the charter or rights granted to said railroad company by the Legislature of Kentucky to receive stock and extend their road into, and to operate the same within the city of Maysville, and shall not be payable until the road is completed into and within the city of Maysville, as stipulated and accepted by the board of councilmen; at which time the subscription is to be paid in cash, and for which the city shall receive stock in said railroad company.

§3. That to enable the city to pay said subscription, the board of councilmen shall have power and authority to issue the bonds of the city, at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, payable annually or semi-annually, and sell the same at not less than par, the bonds to be for such amount, and to run for such length of time, as the council, in their discretion, shall determine.

§ 4. That it shall be the duty of the board of councilmen, each year, to levy and collect a tax to pay the interest on said bonds; and they may, in their discretion, levy and collect a tax sufficient to pay off the bonds and the interest within a certain number of years, not exceeding fifty cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable property in any one year. This tax shall be levied and collected at the same time and in the same way, and under the same responsibilities, as the other taxes of the city are levied and collected; and the official bonds of the treasurer and marshal and deputy marshals shall be made and taken to cover their and each of their duties under this act the same as they now cover their duties under the charter and ordinances of the city; and the city council and the said collecting officers shall have the same power of enforcing collection and payment of said taxes as they now have for enforcing the collection and payment of the other taxes of the city; and a failure by the board of councilmen to do what is required of them under this section, shall subject the members thereof to the same liabilities as are incurred under the act amending the city charter, approved February 13th, 1863.

§ 5. That the taxes thus levied and collected shall be set apart and exclusively appropriated to the purposes for which they are levied, and for no other purposes whatever.

6. That the failure of the popular vote to authorize the said subscription of stock shall not prevent a subsequent submission of the question in the same manner by the city council, or with such additional conditions as they may deem proper to the subscription for stock in said company: Provided, That not more than two elections shall be ordered. § 7. That this act shall be in force from and after its pas

sage.

Approved March 25, 1882.

CHAPTER 571.

AN ACT re-districting the county of Laurel into magisterial districts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the county of Laurel be, and the same is hereby, re-districted into seven magisterial districts as follows: London district or precinct to remain unchanged, and to be No. 1. Raccoon precinct to remain unchanged, and to be No. 2. Bush's precinct to remain unchanged, and be No. 3. McHayne's precinct to remain unchanged, and to be No. 4. Newcom's precinct to remain unchanged, and to be No. 5. Independence and Rock-house together to be No. 6, their boundaries to remain unchanged. Stepping Rock and Kemper's together shall constitute precinct No. 7, their boundaries to remain as they now are.

§2. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to change the number of voting places in said county; but the same shall remain as now established by law.

§ 3. An election for justices of the peace and constable of each of the seven precincts formed by the first section of this act, shall be on the first Monday in August, 1882, and every four years thereafter for the election of justices of the peace, and every two years thereafter for the election of constable, as now provided by law. In districts where there are two voting places the poll-books from each shall be properly certified by the officers of the election, and forwarded to the county court clerk, to be compared, and certificates of elec