or by some safe loan or investment as they may deem for the interest of the county. § 12. That an act, entitled "An act to authorize and provide for the erection of a new court-house and clerks' offices in Fayette county," approved March 21st, 1871, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. 13. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 1, 1882. CHAPTER 683. AN ACT for the benefit of the public roads in Barren, Metcalfe, and Mon roe counties. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That each of the magisterial districts in the counties of Barren, Metcalfe, and Monroe, as now located, are declared. to be road districts for the purposes of this act. § 2. It shall be the duty of the officers of the election, in August, 1882, to open a poll at each voting place in the coun-ties of Barren, Metcalfe, and Monroe, and to ask each voter whether he votes for or against working the county roads in the district in which he votes, by taxation, and to record the votes; and if a majority of those voting upon this question in any district vote in favor of working the roads by taxation, then the provisions of this act shall be in force in said district; otherwise the present law in relation to public roads shall be in force; and in any district not voting the tax, are, if voting, shall vote against working the public roads by taxation, the question shall be again submitted to the voters thereof, as herein provided, at the next general election, or at any general election thereafter, upon the petition to the county judge of not less than fifty voters residing in any such district. § 3. In every district voting to work the roads by taxation, the levy courts of the county in which such district is situated shall, at its first meeting after the tax has been voted, elect, by a majority of the votes cast, a superintendent of county roads in said district, who shall hold his office for two years, and whose duty it shall be to oversee all county roads within his district, keep them in good repair, remove all obstructions. that may be placed upon them, and open or change any road that the county court may direct, as provided in chapter nine. ty-four of the General Statutes. 4. The superintendent shall hire as many hands as may be necessary to work, in a proper way, the county roads in his district, and oversee them while at work; shall pay the smallest wages possible to secure good hands, and require them to work nine hours each day; may hire the necessary teams, wagons, and plows, and purchase all tools and implements necessary to aid in working the roads, which, when purchased, shall belong to the district: Provided, That the amount expended in any district in one year under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed the amount raised in that district by taxation for this purpose. § 5. The superintendent shall annually make to the county levy court a full report, showing the amount of money received by him, the roads he has worked, the number of hands employed by him, and wages per day paid; the names of those who worked out part or all of their taxes, the kind and character of tools and implements purchased, and prices paid therefor; the amount expended for the hire of teams, etc.; the number of days he was actually employed, and all other expenses actually incurred by him in the discharge of his duty, and he shall be paid a reasonable compensation for his services, to be fixed by the levy court. § 6. The levy court shall, when they fix the county levy, assess a tax not exceeding ($2) two dollars on each male person over twenty-one (21) years of age, and a tax of not more than ten cents on each ($100) one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in every district voting the tax. § 7. This tax shall be collected by the sheriff at the same time and manner as the county levy; and he shall pay the tax collected under this act, as soon as collected, to the superintendent, out of the district in which it was collected; and he shall be liable on his official bond for all failures to collect or pay over, as herein provided, the same as in actions against him concerning the collection and payment of the county levy; and if the office of sheriff in any of said counties shall become vacant, the county judge shall have power and authority to appoint a collector for the county, or for any district thereof voting the tax; and such collector, when ap pointed, shall execute bond, and be liable the same as sheriffs are in similar cases. § 8. Each superintendent, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall execute, with good security, in the county court, a bond, conditioned for the faithful performance of all the duties imposed upon him by this act. Said bond shall be of the same character as the bonds executed by the sheriffs, and shall be recorded by the county clerk in his office; and he and his sureties shall be liable on said bond to any person aggrieved by a breach of its conditions. 9. The superintendent shall, in working roads, give the preference first to leading roads in the order that they are most traveled and necessary for the convenience of the public. § 10. It shall be the duty of the superintendent in each district to give the refusal of employment upon any of the roads he works to the persons resident in the voting precinct. where the work is being done, and who have been assessed for taxation by virtue of the provisions of this act: Provided, Such persons can be employed at the same price as other hands of equal efficiency, and the certificate of the superintendent given to such persons shall be taken by the sheriff in payment of, or as a credit upon, the road tax due by such persons. The certificate must show the number of days' services rendered, and the price per day. He shall also hire teams, etc., to aid in working roads from tax payers under this act: Provided, He can get them as cheap as from other persons, and shall give them a certificate in payment of such hire, which certificate shall be taken by the sheriff in payment of or as a credit on the road tax due by such persons. The certificate must show what was hired, and the price paid therefor. $11. The superintendent shall not buy or speculate, directly or indirectly, in claims due persons for services or articles furnished under this act; and he shall take from every person to whom he pays money a receipt showing the actual amount paid, and for what so paid, and said receipt shall accompany his report to the court. 12. The county levy court, before paying the county levy in any year, shall first ascertain the amount necessary to be raised for county purposes, exclusive of road claims; and shall only levy on persons living in districts that have voted the road tax, a sufficient tax to pay their pro rata part of the necessary expenses of the county, exclusive of road claims. 13. It shall be the duty of the judges of the county court of each of said counties to have at least five hundred copies. of this act printed in plain legible type, and posted at the most conspicuous places in their respective counties. §14. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 1, 1882. CHAPTER 684. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of Henry Smith,. of Warren county." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of Henry Smith, of Warren county," approved February 3, 1880, and all acts amendatory thereto, are hereby repealed. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after the first day of January, 1883. Approved April 1, 1882. CHAPTER 685. AN ACT for the benefit of Thomas Greer, assessor of Trigg county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealthof Kentucky: § 1. Thomas Greer, assessor of the county of Trigg, shall have further time until the first day of June, 1882, to com plete the list of taxable property in said county, and return his tax-book to the county clerk of said county. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 1, 1882. CHAPTER 687. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Steele's Turn pike Road Company." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Steele's Turnpike Road Company shall have the right to erect across its line of road two toll-gates, and. collect toll at both of said gates for the distance traveled on said road, in proportion to the rates now fixed by the charter; that is, one gate in addition to the one now on the road. The county judge shall have power to erect a third toll-gate on said road. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 1, 1882. CHAPTER 688. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Wolf Run and Farrow's Mill Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the charter of the Wolf Run and Farrow's Mill Turnpike Road Company, granted by the county court of Mason county, be, and the same is, amended as follows: § 1. Said company is authorized to build a bridge over the North Fork of Licking at a point near to and above Farrow's old mill, and to extend its road on the east side of said stream to or beyond the turnpike leading from Maysville to the town of Burtonsville; but said company shall not build its road farther east than the town of Tollsboro, in Lewis county. § 2. The county courts of the counties of Mason, Lewis, and Fleming are hereby authorized to subscribe to the capital stock of said company, an addition to the sum subscribed per mile towards its construction, a sum sufficient to build the bridge across the North Fork of Licking, near Farrow's mill. §3. Said company is authorized to build a branch road from Farrow's mill up Farrow's creek to the Maysville and Mt. Carmel Turnpike, or from Farrow's mill, by some suitable route, to the town of Mount Carmel; but it shall not be allowed to undertake to build any extension or branch to its road until money enough is subscribed to complete so much as is undertaken without creating a debt, as said company shall not be allowed to create or incur any debt that cannot be fully paid with money collected, or subscribed which can be collected. 4. Said company is authorized to establish toll-gates and collect tolls according to the rates established by the General. Statutes of the State. |