Expenses. 22 All expenses of assessing, levying, and collecting and disbursing funds and taxes raised under this act shall be paid out of such funds and taxes. § 23. Before the said board of trustees shall purchase any Submission to real estate for school purposes, they shall submit the contract people. of purchase to the board of councilmen of said city for its ratification or rejection. § 24. No real estate shall be purchased for school purposes as authorized by this act in which any member of the board of trustees has any pecuniary interest whatever. $25. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 2, 1882. CHAPTER 119. AN ACT to amend an act establishing a new charter for the city of Louisisville, approved March 3d, 1870. 'Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the term of office of auditor of the city of Louisville is hereby extended to the first Tuesday in December, 1885, and that the term of office of said officer shall thereafter be four years. § 2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict or inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 2, 1882. CHAPTER 120. AN ACT for the benefit of W. D. Taylor, of Fulton county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be directed to draw his warrant on the Treasury in favor of W. D. Taylor, committee for Mary Short, of Fulton county, for the sum of sixty dollars and four cents. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 2, 1882. CHAPTER 121. AN ACT for the benefit of common school district No. 30, in Henry county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. The boundary of the common school district of No. 30, Boundary. in Henry county, is hereby so enlarged as to include all persons, lands, buildings, and property within the circumference. of a circle, the centre of which is the court-house, in the town of New Castle, in said county of Henry, the diameter thereof being four miles. § 2. The trustees of the Henry Male and Female College, Trustees. in said town, and their successors in office, shall be the trus tees of said common school district; their president shall be the chairman. fund. § 3. Said common school district shall be entitled to share Pro rata school in the benefits of the common school fund of Kentucky as all of the other common school districts in said county. § 4. The trustees of said common school district may levy Tax. an annual tax for periods of five years each on all the property in said district owned by white persons or corporations, resident or non-resident therein, not to exceed annually the one fourth of one per cent. of the value of said property; before doing so they shall obtain the consent thereto of a majority of voters voting at an election held for the purpose aforesaid once in every period of five years. § 5. The time, place, and manner of holding said elections, Elections. and the mode of certifying the result thereof, shall be fixed, and the officers thereof appointed, by the trustees aforesaid; the result thereof shall be certified to said trustees, who shall cause said certificate to be spread at large on their minutebook. All questions as to the validity of said elections, as to the truth of the result certified, and as to the qualifications of the persons voting thereat, shall be determined by said trustees, or a majority of them, sitting as a court. §6. Notice of the time and place of holding said elections Notice. shall be given by written or printed posters posted up at the court-house door in New Castle, and three other public places in the district, or by advertising the same in a newspaper printed in New Castle for at least two weeks immediately preceding each election. LOC. L., VOL. 1—22 Voters. Valuation. 7. Every white male of the age of twenty-one years or over that age, and every unmarried white female owning property taxable under this act, or who is the mother or guardian of children between the ages of six and twenty years residing in said district, shall be entitled to vote at said elections: Provided, Said male or female shall be resident in said district at the time he or she offers to vote. § 8. The lists of the taxable property in said district owned by white persons or corporations, as returned by the assessor of Henry county to the county court of said county in the year in which the tax is ordered by the trustees aforesaid to be levied, shall be taken and regarded as the true list of property and its true value subject to taxation under this act: Provided, That any property omitted in said lists may be, for the purposes of this act, listed and valued by the collector of taxes appointed by said trustees: And provided further, Said trustees may cause said property and its value to be listed by their collector aforesaid, in which event the lists and values so returned to them shall be by them revised, and such revised lists and values shall be taken and held as the true lists and values of said property subject to taxation under this act. 9. The trustees of said district may appoint a collector Collector's bond. Of taxes levied by virtue hereof, and agree with him as to his compensation, and take from him a bond, with surety, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty as collector aforesaid, and for the payment to their order of all moneys collected by virtue of any tax levied hereunder, or which could and ought to have been by him collected by virtue of any tax levied under the provisions of this act. Suit upon said bond may be commenced in the Henry circuit court in the name of the trustees of the Henry Male and Female College by any one damaged by any breach thereof, and such damages recovered therein as may be proper and right. Duties. § 10. Said tax so levied shall be due when levied, and the collector aforesaid shall, immediately after said lists are put into his hands, proceed to collect said taxes, and upon failure by the persons or corporations bound therefor to pay the same, said collector may distrain the lands, goods, and chattels owned by or in the rightful possession of the persons or corporations from whom tax is due, notwithstanding the existence of any lien on the same, and may proceed to sell the title, legal or equitable, in so much thereof as will pay the tax due, and all costs; but before doing so he must advertise the time, terms, and place of such sale for at least fifteen days immediately preceding the same, by written adver. tisements, posted up at the court house door in New Castle, and three other public places in the district aforesaid; or he may collect such taxes in the mode provided by article nine, chapter ninety-two, of the General Statutes, for the collection of taxes due the State or county. Said collector is hereby invested with all the powers given by the laws of Kentucky to assessors and sheriffs for the purpose of assessing the property subject to taxation hereunder and collecting the taxes levied by virtue hereof. § 11. The word property, as used in this act, shall include Property defined personal property and real estate of every description, choses in action, bills, notes, and every other evidence of debt or property Provided, That all property exempted by operation of law from the payment of State taxes shall be exempted from the payment of the tax levied by virtue of the provisions of this act. § 12. The taxes collected under this act shall be used for Purposes. the maintenance of a school in which a collegiate course of studies shall be taught, under the direction of the trustees aforesaid, in the district aforesaid, and which shall be free to every white child between the ages of six and twenty years permanently residing in said district. § 13. The provisions of the general common school law, as contained in the General Statutes and Acts of the General Assembly of Kentucky, shall apply to and be enforced in said district in all respects where not inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this act. § 14. All laws of a general or special nature inconsistent. with or repugnant to the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, in so far as they affect said district, and they shall not be enforced therein. § 15. This act shall be in force and effect from its passage. Approved February 2, 1882. Style. Capital stock. Commissioners. Obligation. CHAPTER 122. AN ACT to incorporate the Bourbon Mills Turnpike Road Company, and to authorize subscriptions of stock therein. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That a company is hereby formed for the purpose of constructing a turnpike road on the McAdams plan, from a point in the Paris and North Middletown Turnpike Road, near the Bourbon Mills, in Bourbon county, to a point about four and one half miles from the city of Paris, in the Paris and Winchester Turnpike Road; said road to run the nearest or most practicable route between said points; and said company to be known as the "Bourbon Mills Turnpike Road Company;" and by that name shall be a body-politic and corporate, with power to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, plead and be impleaded. § 2. The capital stock of said company shall be seven thousand and five hundred dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each. Subscriptions for stock in said company shall be opened at the Bourbon Mills, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, on or before January the 28th, 1882, or in a reasonable time thereafter. §3. That, J. T. Woodford, A. H. Bedford, Ed. Spears, and E. F. Clay are hereby appointed commissioners to perform the duties of this act, and they shall procure suitable books in which the subscribers of stock in said company shall sign an obligation to the effect, viz: We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do respectively agree and promise to pay to the Bourbon Mills Turnpike Road Company the sum of fifty dollars for each share of stock set opposite our names, in such proportion, and at such time or times, as shall be directed by the board of directors of said company." § 4. When seventy-five shares of stock are subscribed, said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall notify the stockholders, by notices posted up at the Bourbon Mills, at the two toll-gates on the Paris and North Middletown pike, which are near Paris and Middletown, at the toll-gate on the Paris and Winchester Turnpike near Paris, and one at the court-house door in Paris, Kentucky, for two weeks in succession, that a meeting of the stockholders of said company will be held at such time and place as said commissioners shall designate in said notice, for the purpose of choosing officers; |