Corporators. Name. Powers. num. CHAPTER 151. AN ACT to incorporate the Highland Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That John Cartmell, I. A. Spalding, W. S. Phillips, James C. Hamilton, L. S. Hodgins, J. B. Gardiner, G. V. Menzies, A. D. Owen, and C. H. Crawford, and their successors and associates, are hereby constituted and declared a bodycorporate forever, under the name of the Highland Bridge Company, with power to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, and with all other powers, rights, and privileges incident to corporations. § 2. Said Highland Bridge Company is hereby empowered to locate, build, construct, and maintain, under the laws of the United States, a bridge for railway, wagon, and all other purposes across the Ohio river, extending from some convenient point within the limits of the town of Uniontown, in Union county, or within two miles below or above the limits of said town, to some convenient point on the Indiana side of Ad quad dam said river; and said company is hereby clothed with all the powers, privileges, and rights and franchises necessary for the carrying out the purposes named herein, and is empowered to purchase, lease, or condemn all the real estate that may be necessary for the purposes of said corporation, whether for piers, approaches, tracks, toll-houses, or approaches leading to the same, and shall have all rights and powers for the condemnation of property as may be necessary and requisite to secure the purposes of this act, in accordance with the provisions of this charter as hereinafter set out. Whenever said company shall desire to condemn any property for the purposes named in this act within the county of Union, the said company shall file a petition in the Union circuit court, and such proceedings shall be carried on, as near as may be, as actions at law by ordinary proceedings. Warning orders against non-residents, absent defendants, or unknown owners of property, must be published three times in any newspaper published in the town of Uniontown or in the county of Union, the last publication to be at least ten days before the trial. The owners of distinct parts of one contiguous tract may all be included in one proceeding, or any one or more of them holding contiguous tracts may be proceeded against in. a separate action. These causes shall be tried by juries as other cases are tried in said court, and shall have precedence upon the docket as soon as the parties are before the court, and the issues are made up. The jurors shall be sworn truly and impartially to ascertain and determine by their verdict the amount of compensation each owner will be entitled to if his land or property described in the petition is condemned. The court in which these proceedings are brought shall have power to assign a day for the trial of the case as soon as the petition is filed; and upon the return of the verdict the count shall enter judgment vesting the title to the property described in said corporation, said judgment to take effect upon the payment into court by the said corporation of the amour t of money named in the verdict. If the said amount so named in the verdict shall not be paid within ninety days from the rendition of said judgment, the said proceedings shall be dismissed without prejudice to any subsequent proceeding. §3. Said corporation shall have the power to lay down on said bridge and its approaches a single or double track for railroad cars or for wagons or other vehicles, and all animais, and to erect foot-ways for passengers, and to charge for the use thereof reasonable tolls, and for said purpose may erect on either or both ends of said bridge toll-gates, and may do all other acts or things necessary for collecting the charges for the use of said bridge and approaches. § 4. Said corporation is empowered to borrow any money for the purposes named in this act, and to pledge its property and franchises to secure the payment of the same, and to issue bonds in any amount, not exceeding one million of dellars, its stockholders may determine, and secure the same by a mortgage or mortgages upon all its property and franchises of every kind, and said bonds may bear any rate of interest, not more than six per cent., run any time, and be made payable at any place the board of directors of said corporation may deem proper, and may be sold or disposed of as said board may direct. May build railroad. Toll gates. money. § 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be one mil- Capital stock. lion dollars, which may be increased by said company to an amount not exceeding the cost of the construction of said bridge, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and be made payable at such time and in such manner as the board of directors of said company may require. Directors. Chief office. § 6. The affairs of said corporation shall be under the control and management of a board of directors, composed of not less than five and not more than nine stockholders, chosen at an annual meeting, to be held on the first Monday in March of each and every year, in the town of Uniontown, Union county, who shall hold their office until their successors are elected and qualified; and in case of a vacancy, said board shall fill the same until the next meeting of the stockholders. Said directors, from among their number, shall choose a president, vice president, and secretary, and may elect any other officers they deem requisite for the management of the business of the corporation, and may prescribe their duties, and require bonds for the faithful performance of the same; and may make all by-laws and regulations for the government of said corporation and its officers and employes. § 7. Said corporation may contract with any railroad company in or out of this State for the use of said bridge by its cars and engines, or for other purposes; and any railroad corporation or person in or out of this State may subscribe to the capital stock of said corporation upon any terms or conditions agreed upon, and may make such contracts or agreements as may be deemed expedient for the use, management, or control of said bridge; and said corporation shall have a right to sell and convey or lease said bridge and its appurtenances and franchises to any railroad company in or out of this State, upon such terms as may be agreed upon. § 8. Said corporation is hereby authorized, by vote of its directors, to consolidate its franchises and property with those of any other bridge company without this State whose object is to build a bridge at the same point, and may contract with such company for the purposes of fully uniting the interest of the two companies by consolidation or otherwise, and may change its corporate name by vote of said directors. 9. The incorporators named herein, or a majority of them, may meet at any place in the said town of Uniontown, and open books for subscription of stock, and whenever two hundred and seventy shares of the capital stock shall have been subscribed for, the subscribers, upon ten days' notice of the time and place of meeting, published in some newspaper in Union county, shall meet and elect a board of directors, and said corporation shall then be entitled to commence business. Said company shall keep its chief office in the town of Uniontown, Union county, Kentucky, where its books, papers, and records may be open at reasonable hours for inspection by the stockholders. § 10. The Legislature of Kentucky reserves the right to alter and amend the foregoing charter at pleasure, and to regulate the tolls on said bridge. 11. This act to take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 152. AN ACT to establish a public school in the Caseyville district, in Union county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That all the territory embraced in the following lim- Boundaryits, to-wit: Beginning at the center of Fifth street, in the town of Caseyville, at low-water mark on the Ohio river; thence up the river, with the course thereof, to Shotwell's Tip; thence with the Coal Railroad to the New Caseyville and Dekoven Road; thence to the culvert across Duffy's branch on said road; thence a straight line across to the Morganfield and Casey ville Road to the point between Davis' mines and Mrs. Sprague, where Locust creek crosses said road; thence around the lands of E. H. Wathen and A. J. M. Thompson, . and including them, to the Commercial Point Road; thence around and including the lands of Chas. Anderson and wife, J. H. Rudy, and A. J. M. Thompson to the lane between Mrs. Barnes and J. H. Rudy (Casey's Mines Roads); thence in a southwesterly direction, a straight line with said lane, to the Ohio river; thence with said river to the beginning, shall be, and is hereby, incorporated as one public school district, and shall be under the control of a board of five trustees, who are to hold office until their successors are elected and qualified as hereinafter provided. § 2. Said board of trustees and their successors in office Style. shall constitute and be styled the board of trustees of the Caseyville public school, and by that name be a body-politic and corporate, with power to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, buy, sell, purchase, hold, acquire, and convey personal or real estate, subject to the limitation here Oath. President, secretary, & treasurer. *Terms act. Election. inafter provided, and to have perpetual succession, and shall be deemed the successors of the public or common school district trustees as at present established and embraced in said territory, and the title to all public or common school property in said new district shall vest in and belong to, and be disposed of by, said board and their successors forever. §3. The said trustees, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take an oath faithfully and to the best of their ability to discharge the duties of their office, and shall, within one month after the passage of this act, meet and organize by electing one of their number president, and appoint a suitable person to act as secretary, also one to act as treasurer; snd should the president be absent at any meeting, said trustees shall choose one of their number president pro tem., who, for the time being, shall have the same power and discharge the same duties as the president. 4. The secretary and treasurer shall hold their offices respectively for one year, and until their successors are appointed and qualified; and in case of vacancy in either office, the board shall fill same by appointment, either temporarily or permanently as to secretary, but permanently as to the treasurer. Said officers shall perform such duties as usually pertain to their offices respectively, or may be required of them by the board, and shall receive such compensation as the board may determine. § 5. Said board shall, as soon as practicable after the pasPublication of sage of this act, publish the substance in brief of the same for the information of the public, and call an election, giving not less than thirty days' notice thereof, by publication in a paper published in the county, and having the largest circulation in said district, and by written or printed notices posted in at least five public places therein, submitting to the legal white voters in said district, and those entitled to vote under the provisions of this act, the question whether the act shall be adopted in said district; and at the same time shall be elected five trustees in the room of those hereinafter named. The presiding judge of the Union county court shall provide two suitable persons to act as managers of elections held under this act, whose duty it shall be to keep a correct and fair list of all votes cast, by whom and how cast, and they shall report the same to the board of trustees then in office, and said board shall examine and compare the polls, and give to each |