fund. tion as to allowing or disallowing him credit for his failures to collect that the county levy court has in similar matters with the collector of State and county revenue, and may sell, let out, or otherwise dispose of the claims still uncollected as may to said board seem best. § 22. After the establishment of a public school, as herein Pro rata school provided, shall have been had, it shall be the duty of the common school commissioner of Union county to make annually an estimate of the share of State school fund to which said district would be entitled under the general school laws, and pay the same to the said board of trustees, to be held and used by them as other funds. Trustees. lector. § 23. Said trustees shall fix the rates of tuition and terms upon which pupils other than such as are entitled to the privileges of the school, under the provisions of this act, shall be admitted thereto. 24. Said trustees may provide rules for the sale of scholarships in said school by which persons lending a sufficient sum of money, for a length of time to be agreed upon, shall be entitled to one scholarship during the period of the loan in lieu of interest, and persons donating to said school district for the establishment or maintenance of the school a suffi cient sum, shall be entitled to one scholarship for a certain length of time. Certiates of scholarships shall entitle the persons holding them to the same privileges as if resident in the district. § 25. Said trustees shall not be authorized to acquire or hold property under the provisions of this act exceeding $25,000 in value when acquired; but all property held or acquired by them shall be exempt from the payment of taxes. § 26. The following named persons, to-wit: John W. Dyer, Jno. W. Gregory, J. M. Tate, S. S. Finnie, sr., and P. G. Kelsey are hereby made and constituted as trustees of said school district, and are incorporated as such, and shall perform the duties required of the said board until their successors are chosen, elected, or appointed as herein indicated. § 27. The collector of taxes for said school district, or the Powers of col person discharging his duties, shall have the same rights and powers as to levying, distraining, and selling for said taxes, anywhere in the county, as is or may be conferred upon the collector of State and county taxes; and in selling and conveying property levied upon, he shall proceed in the same way, and his sales and conveyances shall have the same effect, 28. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 153. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Louisville. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: fined. 1. Public ways, as used in this act, shall mean all public Public ways destreets, alleys, sidewalks, roads, lanes, avenues, highways, and thoroughfares, and shall be under the exclusive management and control of said city, with power to improve them by original construction and re-construction thereof, as may be prescribed by ordinance Improvements, as applied to public ways, shall mean all work and material used upon them in the construction and re-construction thereof, and shall be made and done as may be prescribed, either by ordinance or contract, approved by the general council. 2. When the improvement is the original construction of any street, road, lane, alley, or avenue, such improvement shall be made at the exclusive costs of the owners of lots in each fourth of a square, to be equally apportioned by the general council according to the number of square feet owned by them respectively, except that corner lots (say thirty feet front and extending back, as may be prescribed by ordinance), shall pay twenty-five per cent. more than others for such improvements. Each subdivision of territory, bounded on all sides by principal streets, shall be deemed a square. When the territory contiguous to any public way is not defined into. squares by principal streets, the ordinance providing for the improvement of such public way shall state the depth on both sides fronting said improvement, to be assessed for the cost of making the same according to the number of square feet owned by the parties respectively, within the depth as set out in the ordinance. A lien shall exist for the cost of origi. nal improvement of public ways, for the re-construction of sidewalks, and for the digging and walling of public wells and cisterns; for the apportionment and interest thereon. at the rate of six per cent. per annum against the respective lots, and payments may be enforced; but no ordinance for any original improvement mentioned in this act shall pass. both boards of the general council at the same meeting; and at least two weeks shall elapse between the passage of any such ordinance from one board to the other, upon the property bound therefor by proceedings in court; and no error in the proceedings of the general council shall exempt from payment, after the work has been done as required by either the ordinance or contract; but the general council, or the courts in which suits may be pending, shall make all corrections, rules, and orders to do justice to all parties concerned; and in no event, if such improvement be made as is provided for either by ordinance or contract, shall the city be liable for such improvement without the right to enforce it against the property receiving the benefit thereof. 3. The cost of making sidewalks, including curbing, whether by original construction or reconstruction, shall be apportioned to the front foot as owned by the parties respectively fronting said improvement, except that each corner lot shall pay the cost of its sidewalk intersection. 4. The general council may, in its discretion, upon the petition of a majority of the property owners on the part of a public way proposed to be improved, grant them permission to improve said public way under the supervision of the city engineer, and within such time as may be fixed by the general council. When improvements in public ways have been made, or public wells or cisterns dug and walled, and the contract therefor completed, the city engineer shall, by oneinsertion in one of the daily newspapers published in Louisville, give notice of the time and place fixed for the inspection and reception of the work by the city engineer, or either of his assistants or deputies; and such owners, their agents and representatives, may appear and be heard before such engineer, his assistant or deputy, as to whether such improvements have been made in accordance with the ordinance authorizing the same and the contract therefor. § 5. In all actions to enforce liens as authorized by this act, a copy of the ordinance authorizing the improvement or work, a copy of the contract therefor, and a copy of the ap-portionment, each attested by the clerk of the board of councilmen, shall be proof conclusive of the due passage, approval, and publication of the ordinance, of the due execution and approval of the contract, and shall be prima facie evidence of every other fact necessary to be established by the plaintiff in such actions to entitle him to the relief authorized to be given in this act; and in all such actions the court shall provide, in its order confirming any report of sale, that the defendants, or either of them, or any one claiming by, through, or under them, or either of them, or any creditor of theirs, or either of them, may, within two years from the date of such order confirming a report of sale, redeem the land sold by paying to the purchaser the purchase price, with interest thereon from the day of sale at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, and all the taxes and assessments on and against such land paid by such purchaser, with interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent. per annum from the date of such payments; and in the event that there be no redemption within the time allowed, the order of confirmation shall be final, and a deed shall be executed to the purchaser or his assignee. 6. The act of the General Assembly approved on the 22d day of April, 1880, and entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act to amend the charter of the city of Louisville,' approved February 20, 1873," is hereby repealed in all of its parts. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 11, 1882. CHAPTER 154. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Baptist Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the members of the Baptist Church of Shelby Style. ville, in Shelbyville, Shelby county, Kentucky, be, and are hereby, created a body-politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Baptist Church of Shelbyville," with perpetual succession; and by that name shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, of acquiring by purchase,. Trustees. Officers. Powers of trus tees. gift, devise, lease, or otherwise, and of holding real estate and personal estate, and shall have power to manage and control the same; and shall have power to receive all conveyances of the same; and may sell, convey, and dispose of all such real and personal estate as they may now have or may hereafter acquire, and to re-invest the proceeds thereof in such real or personal estate for the use of said corporation, as they may deem proper Provided, That the real and personal estate owned by the church shall not at any time exceed in value fifty thousand dollars. 2. That the real and personal estate of said corporation shall be managed by a board of trustees of said corporation ; and said board of trustees shall be composed of five members of said church, and shall be elected annually by the members of said church, at some regular church meeting for business, to be fixed by said corporation; and they shall continue in office one year from their election, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. The said trustees shall have the power to choose from their own body a president, secretary, and treasurer; and shall have power to fill vacancies in their own body until the next regular election. All moneys that shall come into the hands of said trustees shall be invested or paid out by them as directed, by order made at some regular meeting for business of the members of said corporation, by a majority of those present at said meeting; and no money shall be paid out or invested by the treasurer of said board of trustees, except upon order of said board of trustees made in compliance with the order of said corporation, and signed by the president, and countersigned by the secretary of said board of trustees. § 3. That upon order of said corporation made at some regular church meeting for business, by a majority of the members present at said meeting, the board of trustees shall have power to sell and convey any real estate belonging to said corporation, and make full and perfect title thereto to the purchasers thereof; and said conveyance shall be signed and acknowledged by a majority of said trustees, and when signed and acknowledged by said majority the conveyance of said property shall convey a perfect title to the same to the purchaser. § 4. The said board of trustees shall have power to transact any business pertaining to their duties at any time when |