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sell said turnpike road, with all the rights, privileges, and franchises appertaining thereto or anywise connected therewith, including the right to take toll thereon, and to convey the same by deed to any purchaser or purchasers thereof; and said purchaser or purchasers shall be invested with a title to said road and its franchises in all respects as ample as the title of its present owner, subject to all the duties and restrictions now imposed by law upon the owner of said road with respect to keeping the same in proper repair and condition, and as to taking tolls thereon.

§ 2. Said Robert F. Johnson is further authorized and empowered to sell and convey said road, with the franchises. appertaining thereto, in two separate divisions, beginning at the respective termini of said road, and neither division to be less than five miles in length. He is empowered and. authorized to sell and convey either or both of said divisions, and to transfer to the purchaser or purchasers all the rights, privileges, and franchises, including the right to take toll on the part or parts so sold, and subject to the same limitations, duties, and responsibilities as to keeping said road in repair, and as to taking tolls thereon, as are now imposed by law on the present owner thereof.

§3. Upon the sale and conveyance of all or either section of said road by said Johnson, all the rights, privileges, and franchises of every kind connected with said road, or with the section or sections so sold, shall be transferred to the purchaseror purchasers thereof; and said Johnson, on completion of said sale and conveyance, shall be relieved of all his present duties. and responsibilities as the owner of said road, or of the part or parts so sold, and the said duties and responsibilities shall be imposed on the purchaser or purchasers thereof in like manner and to the same extent as on its present owner.

§ 4. If in any sale of the said road, or of either or both sections thereof, any portion of the agreed price shall be unpaid at the date of conveyance, said Johnson may retain a lien in the deed of conveyance for the unpaid portion of the purchase-money in like manner as liens are authorized by law to be retained in sales and conveyance of real estate; and in case the purchaser or purchasers shall make default. in the payment thereof, the owner of the obligation for the unpaid purchase-money may bring his suit in the Fayette circuit court or in the Fayette court of common pleas to

enforce his lien; and said court is authorized and empowered to enforce the said lien on the said road and its franchises, or on the part thereof on which the lien exists, and to have the same sold as an entire thing for the satisfaction of the unpaid purchase-money, and shall convey to the purchaser or purchasers thereof the title to the said road, or the section or sections so sold and all the franchises connected there with, including the right to take tolls thereon.

5. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved January 6, 1882.

CHAPTER 26.

AN ACT authorizing the county court of Daviess county to levy an ad valorem tax for county purposes.

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

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1. That the county court of Daviess county, the judge thereof and the justices of the peace, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to levy an ad valorem. tax of not exceeding ten cents on each one hundred dollars on all property in said county listed for taxation for revenue purposes, and said court may make such levy for the years 1882 and 1883.

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2. That the presiding judge of said court shall annually, Collector. or oftener, if necessary to fill a vacancy, appoint a collector of said county, who shall hold his office for one year from the Term. time of his appointment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified; and it shall be the duty of said collector to Powers. collect and pay over, under orders of said court, all taxes levied under this act, and to enable him to so collect he may make distress, levy, and sale of property, real and personal, as now provided by law for sheriffs in the collection of the revenue of this Commonwealth.

§ 3. Said collector shall execute bond, with good and ap- Bond. proved security, for the faithful performance of his duties, upon the same conditions, and in the same manner, as is now by law required of sheriffs of this Commonwealth for the collection of the county levy, and he and his sureties shall be liable on said bond for all failure of duty under this act, and subject to all the penalties now imposed by law for like fail

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ure of duty of sheriffs of this Commonwealth. The said collectors shall be allowed the same commission for collecting said taxes as sheriffs are allowed for collecting the revenue of this Commonwealth, and shall in all other respects be governed by the laws prescribed for the collection and payment of the county levy.

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

Approved January 6, 1882.

CHAPTER 30.

AN ACT authorizing Simpson county court to levy an extra tax for

county purposes.

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

§ 1. That the county court of Simpson county, Kentucky, be, and it is hereby, empowered and authorized to levy an additional ad valorem tax, of not exceeding ten cents on every one hundred dollars' worth of property, real and personal, in said county.

§ 2. That said court are empowered and authorized to levy an additional tax of twenty-five cents on each tithable in said county.

§ 3. These levies to be applied to county purposes.
§ 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage.

Approved January 7, 1882.

CHAPTER 31.

AN ACT to authorize the county court of Trimble county to sell the present poor farm of said county, and to re-invest the proceeds.

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

§ 1. That the county court of Trimble county, consisting of the county judge and justices of the peace of said county, be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered to sell and, by commissioner appointed for that purpose, to convey to the purchaser the present poor farm of said county. The pro

ceeds of such sale shall be invested in another farm, to be used for the same purposes.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 7, 1882.

CHAPTER 32.

AN ACT to amend and repeal in part an act, entitled "An act to amend the charter and change the name of the Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church of Louisville," approved February 14, 1876.

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

§ 1. That the name "Broadway Tabernacle Presbyterian Church," conferred upon the Chestnut Street Presbyterian. Church of Louisville by the act of the Legislature referred to in the title of this act, shall be, and it is now and hereby, changed to Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church of Louisville; and by that name it shall hereafter be known, and shall contract, sue and be sued, and conduct its business and affairs in said name.

2. The officers of said Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church of Louisville are hereby denied all power and authority to place any lien or encumbrance on the church property on the southwest corner of Broadway and Fourth Avenue for any purpose whatever.

§ 3. That sections 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the said act approved February 14, 1876, mentioned in the title of this act, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.

4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 7, 1882.

CHAPTER 33.

AN ACT to regulate the county levy of Boyd, and to authorize an ad valorem tax in said county.

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

§ 1. That the county levy in Boyd county shall not hereafter exceed in any one year one dollar and fifty cents on each tithable.

§ 2. The levy court of the county of Boyd is hereby authorized to levy an ad valorem tax, not to exceed in any one year fifty cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of property subject to taxation in said county for revenue purposes, which tax shall be assessed, levied, and collected as other taxes are required to be assessed, levied, and collected in said county.

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§ 3. All laws coming within the purview of this act are hereby repealed.

4. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved January 7, 1882.

CHAPTER 34.

AN ACT for the benefit of A. M. Feland, late sheriff of Lincoln county.

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

§ 1. That the further time of one year from the passage of this act be allowed A. M. Feland, late sheriff of Lincoln county, and his deputies, or such deputies as he may hereafter appoint, in which to collect, by distraint or otherwise, all uncollected taxes and fee-bills due him while acting as sheriff of said county under appointment of the county. judge, or by election, subject to all the pains and penalties now provided by law for collecting illegal fee-bills and back

taxes.

§ 2. Provided, That any tax-payer who has lost his tax receipt, who may make oath that he has paid the tax, shall be clear of said tax.

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

Approved January 7, 1882.

CHAPTER 35.

AN ACT to authorize the county court of Trimble county to levy an ad valorem tax of ten cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property for certain purposes.

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

§ 1. That the county court of Trimble county be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered to levy an ad valorem

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