out of any unbonded interest or surplus belonging to said county for the school year ending June 30th, 1882. § 2. The said J. B. Norris shall be responsible on his official bond for all moneys received by him under the first section of this act, and shall pay out the same to the teachers of the public school in district No. 4, Greenup county, in the same manner as now prescribed by law for the payment of teachers of the public school in this Commonwealth. § 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1882. CHAPTER 141. AN ACT for the benefit of A. R. Ricketts, sheriff of Henry county. WHEREAS, Hannibal Skinner was fined in the Henry circuit court sixty dollars each in two cases, and executions issued against him, and were placed in the hand of A. R. Ricketts, sheriff of Henry county, to do execution thereof; and whereas, Ricketts paid seventy per cent. of said fines to the jury fund commissioners of Henry county, to-wit: eightyfour dollars, before he had an opportunity to collect them from Skinner; and whereas, after Ricketts had so paid said eighty-four dollars, and before he collected the same from Skinner, the Governor remitted said seventy per cent. of said fines, and Ricketts was thereby precluded from collecting the same from Skinner, and it has not been refunded by the trustee of the jury fund or the State; therefore Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of A. R. Ricketts for eighty-four dollars, payable out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1882. CHAPTER 142. AN ACT to incorporate Stony Creek Lodge, No. 275, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in Franklin county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That J. L. Greenwell, Jesse W. Smith, J. S. Aynes, W. F. S. Brawner, W. R. F. Brawner, Leonidas Rucker, Jasper Dalton, Wm. S. Brawner, J. W. Steger, Wm. P. Scott, John C. Penn, Louis Y. Black, W. A. Smoot, James Sanford, John M. Moore, H. Y. Smith, N. J. Moore, Hiram Penn, J. C. Semones, Y. M. F. Semones, C. M. Semones, Lewisa A. Miles, and J. W. Semones, and their associates, be, and they are hereby, created a body-corporate, by the name and style of Stony Creek Lodge, No. 275, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and they and their associates and successors shall so continue and have perpetual succession; and by that name are made capable in law as natural persons to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with. answer and be answered, in all courts of law and equity in this Commonwealth; to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, or amend at pleasure; they may make and ordain regulations and by-laws for their government, and those now in force in said lodge to alter when deemed proper, and may change and renew the same at pleasure: Provided, They be not in contravention of the Constitution, laws, and regulations of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, incorporated by an act of the Legislature of Kentucky approved February 16th, 1838, nor in contravention of the Constitution and laws of the United States or of this State. § 2. That the said corporation shall have power and authority to acquire and hold real estate not exceeding in value ten thousand dollars, and from time to time, if deemed expedient, sell and convey the same, or any part thereof, and to re-invest and dispose of the proceeds. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby reserved to the General Assembly of Kentucky. §3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1882. CHAPTER 143. AN ACT to extend and continue the charter of the Northern Bank of Kentucky. WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly that the charter of the Northern Bank of Kentucky will expire. and cease on the first day of May, 1885; now, in order to continue and extend the same, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the chartered rights and privileges of the president, directors, and company of the Northern Bank of Kentucky shall continue and extend in full force for twenty years from and after said first day of May, 1885. § 2. Said bank, under the continuance and extension hereby granted, shall be subject, to the restrictions, limitations, penalties, conditions, and duties, and be entitled to all the rights imposed upon and granted to it by the act of its incorporation, and the acts amendatory of or relating thereto; but said bank may be known by, and sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, by and under the name of the Northern Bank of Kentucky, as by its present corporate name. 3. The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky hereby reserves to itself the right to alter, change, amend, or repeal this act, and the charter and amendments thereto, extended this act at its pleasure. § 4. Before this act shall go into effect, it must be approved and accepted by a majority in interest of its stockholders, either at their regular meeting or at a meeting called for that purpose by the president and directors of said bank; and if approved and accepted, notice thereof shall be given by the president of said bank to the Governor of this Commonwealth, and when given, this act shall be in full force and effect. Approved February 6, 1882. CHAPTER 144. AN ACT granting Hercules H. Hays, former sheriff of Hardin county, and his deputies, H. W. English and S. W. Cofer, the further time of two years in which to collect all taxes and fee-bills owing to them in said county. WHEREAS, It appears to the satisfaction of this General Assembly that Hercules H. Hays, former sheriff of Hardin county, has heretofore paid to the State of Kentucky, and said county respectively, the full amount due from him; and that he and his deputies hereinafter named hold claims against various parties in said county for fee bills, county levy, county taxes, railroad taxes, and State revenue; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Hercules H. Hays, former sheriff of Hardin county, and Horace W. English and Stephen W. Cofer, his deputies, are hereby granted the further time of two years, from and after the passage of this act, in which to collect, in any of the methods now prescribed by law, any and all feebills, State revenue, county taxes, county levy, and railroad taxes, which came to their hands as sheriff or deputy as aforesaid. § 2. Said Hays and deputies may list any or all of said claims with the sheriff of said county, provided they can. agree with him as to his compensation for the collection of the same, or they may list the same with any constable of said county under the same conditions; and if listed with any constable, he shall have the same power to collect the same as sheriffs now are by law to collect State revenue, and shall be subject to te penalties; but no constable shall make any distraint or sale of realty for any of such claims, until he shall have executed in the county court of said county, with sufficient surety, a bond to be approved by said court, which bond shall indemnify all persons against any damage they may sustain by reason of any illegal levy, distraint, or sale, made in the collection of said claims, and shall have the same force and effect as given by law to a sheriff's bond for the collection of revenue. §3. Said former sheriff and his said deputies may collect any of said taxes or fee-bills in person, or they may appoint any male person or persons, over fourteen years of age, so to do; and if any one is so appointed he shall have all the powers to collect the same that sheriffs have by law to collect similar taxes: Provided, however, Before such person shall make any levy, distraint, or sale of any property for said taxes or fee-bills, or before said sheriff or his deputies shall make such levy, distraint, or sale, they shall, in the county court of said county, execute a bond or bonds in all respects CHAPTER 145. AN ACT to incorporate the Princeton and Ohio River Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That R. B. Ratliff, I. R. Hulett, Smith Powell, T. C. Incorporators. Allen, I. K. McGoodwin, W. L. Edmunds, James Hawthorn, and Charles Ratliff, of Caldwell county; and A. T. Johnson, Stephen Bell, and J. R. Booth, of Hopkins county, and John Orr, J. H. Clark, and David Wood, of Crittenden county; and J. A. Spalding, John Cartrill, and W. S. Phelps, of Union county; and Thomas Jackson, C. C. Hardrick, and Jas. Pain, of Webster county, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, created a body-corporate and politic, under the name and style of the "Princeton and Style. Ohio River Railroad Company," for the purpose of constructing, equipping, and operating a railway from the town of Princeton, in Caldwell county, to some point on the Ohio river at or near the mouth of Green river, with a branch of said railroad extending to some point on the Ohio river at or near Uniontown, or to some point on said river opposite, or as nearly opposite as practicable, to Mt. Vernon, Indiana; and a branch of said railroad to some point on the Ohio river opposite, or as nearly opposite as practicable, to Shawneetown, Illinois, on the most practicable lines through the counties of Caldwell, Hopkins, Crittenden, Union, Webster, and Henderson, to be determined by the president and board of directors of said Princeton and Ohio River Railroad Company. |