surety payable to the Commonwealth for a faithful discharge
of the duties of his station. Upon which bond, for a viola-
tion of its stipulations, any person aggrieved, or the commit-
tee thereafter appointed by the court, may sue in the name of
the Commonwealth at their own costs.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Approved January 16, 1882.

CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT to amend sections 52 and 53 of the Civil Code of Practice.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

5253, amended.

§ 1. That if any of the parties upon whom summons is Civil Code, secs.
directed to be served by section 52 of the Civil Code is a
plaintiff, then it shall be served on the person who stands
first in the order named in said section, and who is not a
plaintiff; and if all such persons are plaintiffs, it shall, on the
affidavit of one or more of them showing that fact, be the
duty of the clerk of the court to appoint a guardian ad litem
for the infant, and the summons shall be served on such
guardian.

§2. That section 53 of the Civil Code of Practice be
amended by adding at the end of said section the following,
to-wit: Service of a summons, by delivering a copy of it to
the physician having change of a person of unsound mind,
shall have the same effect as a service on the person of un-
sound mind, if such physician gives a certificate, attested by
the officer delivering him the copy, that a personal service.
would, in his opinion, be injurious to such person of unsound.
mind.

$3. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved January 16, 1882.

CHAPTER 65.

AN ACT requiring surveyors to append to survey date of survey and

variation of needle from true meridian.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

§1. That it shall be the duty of each county surveyor of Surveyors. each of the counties of this Commonwealth to append to the

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field notes of every survey hereafter made by him the date of such survey, and the variations of the needle from the true meridian, at the time of making such survey.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after January 1st, 1883.

Approved January 19, 1882.

Circuit courts in 15th judicial district.

Knox.

Clay.

Owsley.

Jackson.

Laurel.

Whitley.

Bell.

Harlan.

CHAPTER 68.

AN ACT to regulate the time of holding the circuit courts in the fifteenth

judicial district.

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

1. That the time of holding the circuit courts in the fif. teenth judicial district shall be as follows:

Commencing in the county of Knox on the first Monday in March and second Monday in August, and continue twelve juridical days at each term.

In the county of Clay on the third Monday in March and fourth Monday in August, and continue twelve juridical days at each term, except when there are five Mondays in March or August, in which event said court will continue eighteen juridical days at each term of the court, if the business of the court requires.

In the county of Owsley on the first Monday in April and second Monday in September, and continue six juridical days at each term.

In the county of Jackson on the second Monday in April and third Monday in September, and continue six juridical days at each term.

In the county of Laurel on the third Monday in April and fourth Monday in September, and continue twelve juridical days at each term.

In the county of Whitley on the first Monday in May and second Monday in October, and continue twelve juridical days at each term.

In the county of Bell on the third Monday in May and the fourth Monday in October, and continue twelve juridical days at the spring term, and six juridical days at the fall term.

In the county of Harlan on the first Monday in June and first Monday in November, and continue six juridical days at

the spring term, and twelve juridical days at the fall term of said court.

In the county of Letcher on the second Monday in June Letcher. and third Monday in November, and continue six juridical days at each term.

In the county of Perry on the third Monday in June and Perry. fourth Monday in November, and continue six juridical days each term.

In the county of Leslie on the fourth Monday in June and Leslie. first Monday in December, and continue six juridical days each term, or twelve juridical days each term, if the business of the court requires.

§ 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

§3. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved January 19, 1882.

CHAPTER 83.

AN ACT to amend section 4, article 3, chapter 92, of the General Statutes.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

92, art. 3, sec. 4.

§1. That section 4, article 3, chapter 92, of the General Gen. Stat., chap. Statutes, be amended so as to read as follows: "Before selling playing cards in this State the owner, his agent, or the vendor thereof, shall obtain from the county clerk in which he proposes to sell a license to authorize him to sell playing cards. Said license shall be $5 for license for twelve months, and shall License. be collected by the respective county court clerks, and shall be placed to the credit of the common school fund. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be liable to an indictment by the grand jury of the county where the playing cards are sold without license, and shall, on conviction therefor, be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, which shall go to the common school fund, except that part which is allowed to the attorney for the Commonwealth.

charge, &c.

§ 2. The several circuit judges shall give this act in charge Circuit judges to to the grand juries of their respective courts at each term thereof.

§3. This act shall take effect from and after September 1st, 1882.

Approved January 24, 1882.

Thirteenth judicial district.

Bath.

Menifee.

Powell.

Estill.

Lee.

Breathitt.

Wolfe.

Morgan.

Eliott.

Montgomery.

CHAPTER 84.

AN ACT to regulate the terms and times for the holding of the circuit courts in the thirteenth judicial district.

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

§ 1. That the terms and times for the holding the circuit courts in the thirteenth judicial district shall be as follows:

Bath, first Mondays in March and September, and continuetwelve juridical days each term, if the business of the court requires it.

Menifee, third Mondays in March and September, and continue six juridical days each term, if the business requires it. Powell, fourth Mondays in March and September, and continue six juridical days each term, if the business requires it. Estill, on Monday succeeding the Powell circuit court, and continue six juridical days each term, if the business requires it.

Lee, on Monday succeeding the Estill circuit court, and continue six juridical days, if the business of the court requires it.

Breathitt, on Monday succeeding the Lee circuit court, and continue twelve juridical days, if the business of the court requires it.

Wolfe, on Monday succeeding the Breathitt circuit court, and continue six juridical days each term, if the business of the court requires it.

Morgan, on Monday succeeding the Wolfe circuit court, and continue six juridical days each term, if the business of the court requires it.

Elliott, on Monday succeeding the Morgan circuit court, and continue six juridical days each term, if the business of the court requires it.

Montgomery, on Tuesday succeeding the Elliott circuit court, and continue eighteen juridical days each term, if the business of the court requires it.

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

Approved January 24, 1882.

CHAPTER 86.

AN ACT to amend chapter 62 of the General Statutes, by striking out the word "white" in articles 1 and 3, prescribing qualifications of grand and petit jurors.

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

1. That section (1) one of article (1) one, chapter (62) sixty-two, be amended by striking out the word "white," in the second line of said section.

Gen. Stat, chap. 62, arts. 1 and 3, amended..

§ 2. Section (2) two of article (3) three of said chapter is Juries. amended by striking out the word "white," in the third line of said section.

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

Approved January 26, 1882.

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend and reduce into one the several acts organizing and regulating the lunatic asylums of the State," approved March 20, 1876, and all acts amendatory thereto.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

1. That an act, entitled "An act to amend and reduce into Lunatic asylums. one the several acts organizing and regulating the lunatic asylums of the State," approved March 20, 1876, and the acts amendatory thereof, be amended as follows: That all pauper idiots, epileptics, and harmless incurable lunatics that have been or may hereafter be returned by the asylums in which they may have been or may be confined, to the several counties, shall be delivered into the custody of their friends, if any; if not, then to the county judge thereof, if they be residents of and sent from the county of Jefferson outside of the city of Louisville, and to the mayor of the city of Louisville, if they be residents and sent from said city, who shall make suitable provision for their keeping out of the annual seventyfive dollars appropriation now allowed such persons by law. §2. This act shall only apply to Jefferson county and the city of Louisville.

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

Approved January 26, 1882.