or authorize any of the provisions of this amendatory act or of the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment. § 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage.

Approved February 6, 1882.

CHAPTER 131.

AN ACT to establish a road law for Gallatin county.

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

§ 1. That the provisions of chapter 94, General Statutes, title "Roads and Passways," except the words "or through any orchard," in section 19, article 1, of said chapter, together with the provisions of an act, approved May 5, 1880, entitled "An act to amend section 25, article 1, of chapter 94, of the General Statutes, title Roads and Passways,'" be, and the same are, applied to the county of Gallatin.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1882.

CHAPTER 132.

AN ACT for the benefit of James F. Smith, late sheriff of Bullitt county, giving him further time to collect, distrain, and levy for uncollected taxes and fees due him.

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

1. That the further time of two years from the passage of this act is hereby given to James F. Smith, late sheriff of Bullitt county, in which to collect his uncollected taxes and fee-bills, and that he have the right to distrain and levy for same as by law provided, subject to the penalties imposed by law for illegal distraint or the collection of illegal fee-bills. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 6, 1882.

CHAPTER 133.

AN ACT reducing the county levy in the county of Pike, and authorizing the court of claims to levy an ad valorem tax.

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

§ 1. That the county levy in the county of Pike shall not exceed one dollar on each tithable in any one year, and if this sum is not, in the judgment of the court of claims for said, county, sufficient to pay the claims allowed and meet the expenses of the county, the court of claims may levy an ad valorem tax on all property within the county subject to taxation for State revenue purposes as will be sufficient, with the county levy, to pay the claims allowed and other expenses of the county, but not to exceed the sum of fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property in any one year.

2. The sheriff or other collector shall collect such tax as is authorized by this act, and pay the same as required by law touching the county levy.

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

Approved February 6, 1882.

CHAPTER 134.

AN ACT for the benefit of R. J. Barber and Scott Laurie, of McCracken county.

WHEREAS, On June 16th, 1873, Thomas D. Gurdy, sheriff of McCracken county, executed his bond for the collection of the State revenue, with Thomas W. Allen, J. M. Bigger, R. J. Barber, Chas. Bauchman, and Scott Laurie his sureties; and whereas, said Gurdy was a defaulter, and Charles Bauchman having died insolvent, and Thos. W. Allen and J. M. Bigger having compromised with the State, through its then Governor, J. B. McCreary, D. Howard Smith, Auditor, and Thos. F. Moss, Attorney General, under the act of the General Assembly of this State giving to said officers power and authority to compromise with the sureties of any defaulting sheriff; and whereas, R. J. Barber and Scott Laurie have been discharged in bankruptcy, upon their several petitions filed in the United States District Court at Paducah; and whereas, doubts exist as so whether such discharges in bank

ruptcy release them from their liabilities to the State as the sureties of said Gurdy for the collection of the State revenue for the year 1873; and for remedy thereof,

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

§ 1. That the said R. J. Barber and Scott Laurie be, and they are, released from all liabilities to the State of Kentucky for any and all money collected by said Gurdy on his revenue bond to the State for the year 1873.

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

Approved February 6, 1882.

'Collectors.

CHAPTER 135.

AN ACT to authorize the county judge of Breckinridge county to appoint a delinquent tax collector or collectors.

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

§ 1. That the county judge of Breckinridge county is hereby authorized to appoint one or more collectors, whose duty it is to collect all the delinquent tax due said county that may be listed with him or them; and for this purpose he shall have the same power that sheriff's have in the collection of the revenue and county levy. He shall make annual settlements with the county court, at the November term of said court, subject to the same rules that govern the settlement of sheriffs.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to list with the delinquent tax collector or collectors all the delinquent tax that has been returned by the sheriff, when ordered by the judge to do so, the collector or collectors giving bond in any sum that the judge may direct. The said collector or collectors shall pay to the county commissioners every six months all moneys collected by him or them, taking his receipt for the same, and on his settlement with the court, he shall have credit for same with all the lists not collected, and for the collection of the delinquent tax may receive any sum, not to exceed twenty per cent., that may be agreed upon by the county judge.

§ 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1882.

CHAPTER 126.

AN ACT to amend the amended charter of South Kentucky College, at Hopkinsville.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

§1. That section one of the amended charter of the South Kentucky College, at Hopkinsville, be, and the same is here-by, amended by inserting in the eighth line of said section, after the word "mixed," the words "and to borrow money and to mortgage said property."

§ 2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Approved February 6, 1882.

CHAPTER 137.

AN ACT to regulate the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in the county of Crittenden.

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

§1. That it shall not be lawful for the county court of Crittenden county, or the board of trustees of any town in said county, to grant a license to any tavern-keeper, merchant, saloon-keeper, or any other person, to retail spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in the county of Crittenden in less quantity than one quart.

2. That merchants and druggists, upon obtaining license as now required by law, may retail spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in said county in any quantity not less than one quart, not to be drank upon the premises or adjacent thereto, and that manufactures of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors may retail the same in said county, without obtaining license, in any quantity not less than one quart, at their distillery premises, or their place of business or their residence, not to be drank upon the premises or adjacent thereto. Said manufactures shall have the privilege of selling at only one place without license.

§3. That any person or persons violating the provisions of the first and second sections of this act, shall be liable to all the pains and penalties prescribed by existing laws against keeping tippling-houses or retailing ardent spirits. And it LOC. L., VOL. I—24

shall be the duty of the circuit judge of Crittenden county to give this act in charge to the grand jury of said county.

4. That all laws in relation to the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, as far as they apply to the county of Crittenden, coming in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed.

§ 5. This act shall not become a law until it is ratified by a majority of the voters of said county, who may vote for or against it at the regular election to be held at the regular voting places in said county on the first Monday in August, 1882; and it shall be the duty of the county court clerk of said county to prepare poll-books for said election, with two columns, one for the retail of liquor by the drink, and the other against the retail of liquor by the drink; and the officers of said election shall certify the result of said vote in the same manner as now provided by law for other elections; and if this act shall receive a majority of all the votes polled, the comparing board of elections for said county shall certify the same to the county court of said county, and the judge of said court shall order the same spread upon the minutes of the court; and when said certificate is so ordered and spread upon the minutes of the court, this act shall become a law and be in full force.

Approved February 6, 1882.

CHAPTER 139.

AN ACT for the benefit of school district No. 4, Greenup county. WHEREAS, J. B. Norris, common school commissioner of Greenup county, failed to pay out the full amount apportioned common school district No. 4, Greenup county, for the school year ending June 30th, 1881, by the sum of twentyeight dollars and eight cents ($28.08), and returned the said amount to the State Treasury, thereby causing the trustees of said district to make good said amount; now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That the Superintendent of Public Instruction be, and he is hereby, authorized to draw his warrant on the Auditor of Public Accounts in favor of J. B. Norris, common school commissioner for Greenup county, or his successor in office, for twenty-eight dollars and eight cents ($28.08), payable