sheriff or other officer has in his hands for collection taxes levied under this act, and shall fail to collect and pay over the same within the time prescribed, such sheriff or other officer shall, with his sureties, be liable for the amount not paid as required, and ten per centum thereon, to be recovered on motion, on ten days' notice, in any court having jurisdiction of the amount not thus paid over; and any execution issued on such judgment shall not be replevied, but shall be indorsed by the clerk issuing the same that no security of any kind is to be taken. If the sheriff, for thirty days after the tax is levied, fail to execute bond as required herein, then the county judge of said county shall appoint a collector, who shall execute bond, with securities to be approved by the county judge, and he shall have the same powers and be subject to the same liabilities, he and his sureties, and perform the same duties as are imposed by this act on the sheriff; and all taxes levied and collected as herein provided shall be held sacred for the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, and for no other purpose.

5. The proceeds arising from the sale of the said bonds. of Madison county shall be applied to the payment of the amount subscribed for and on behalf of said county to the Kentucky Central Railroad Company, and the bonds may be issued and sold in installments as deemed proper by the said county court, so as to meet the indebtedness of said county to said railroad company as the same becomes due.

§ 6. The said county court is hereby authorized and directed to create a sinking fund, and to appoint three discreet and reliable persons commissioners of said sinking fund, who shall arrange, under the orders of the county court, for the payment of the bonds and coupons as they become due or redeemable. The commissioners may, under the direction of the county court, sell said county bonds, and also the stock which is issued by the Kentucky Central Railroad Company, to the county of Madison, and whatever amount is realized by the sale of the said stock shall be appropriated and used for the reduction of the indebtedness of said county caused by the subscription of stock or the issual of bonds as herein referred to.

§ 7. The said commissioners are authorized to receive from the sheriff or collector of said county all the money derived from the tax levied and collected as herein provided for, and

the said sheriff or collector shall, as a part of his official duty, pay all such tax required to be collected by him to said commissioners within seven months from the time the tax is. levied; and if said tax is not paid when due by said sheriff or collector, then said commissioners shall, by proper proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, collect from him and his securities any money payable by him which belongs to said fund as herein before directed.

8. It shall be the duty of the county court to require said commissioners to execute bonds, with good security worth. not less than the amount that may come into their hands, and require them to take an oath to faithfully and impartially discharge all their duties and obligations, and to obey all orders of the court directed to them as provided in this act. The commissioners shall be elected biennially at a regular meeting of the county court of levy and claims, and they shall renew their bonds biennially, and oftener if the county court should so order; and they shall make a full report once each year to the county court of their acts as commissioners, and oftener if required by the county court; and the said county court is authorized to fill any vacancy that may occur in the board of commissioners by death, resignation, or otherwise, and said court may remove a commissioner for cause when it is necessary.

9. The commissioners, under the orders of the county court, may loan or invest any funds remaining in their hands after paying the indebtedness of the county which is due.

§ 10. The said county court shall have power to make all orders necessary for carrying into execution the provisions of this act, and the county judge may at any time convene the justices of said county for said purpose, and it shall be the duty of the county court to provide for the payment of all expenses necessary to secure the printing, issuing, and sale of the bonds herein provided for, and all other expenses that may be properly incurred in the management and control of, the said bonds and funds, out of the county levy, including a reasonable compensation to the commissioners of the sinking fund.

§ 11. If the county of Madison, from the sale of stock in any corporation, or from the sale of bonds, or from any other source, now has or shall have a surplus of money, then the county court of said county may apply the same, or any part

thereof, to the payment of the indebtedness herein referred

to.

§ 12. Nothing in this act shall prevent the county court of Madison county from levying a tax sufficient to pay the indebtedness of Madison county to the Kentucky Central Railroad Company as the same becomes due.

§ 13. The bonds herein authorized to be issued shall have set forth and expressed upon their face the conditions that the bonds are redeemable at the pleasure of the county court after five years from their date; and the payment of any of the bonds hereby authorized, after the expiration of five years, shall be made in amounts and at such times as may be determined by the said county court issuing them, by an order made upon their records; but the particular bonds so to be paid and canceled shall in all cases be indicated and specified by date and number in the order of their numbers, beginning with the bond first numbered, and after two months' published notice, given by the commissioners of the sinking fund in a weekly newspaper to be designated by the county court, interest on the bonds so selected and advertised to be paid shall cease.

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

Approved February 18, 1882.

CHAPTER 235.

AN ACT to exempt the Allansville Turnpike Road Company, in Clark county, from liability for failing to baluster or fence its road.

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

§ 1. That the Allansville Turnpike Road Company, in Clark county, Kentucky, be, and it is, exempted from all liability for failing to baluster or fence its road at any point on said road, except along the sides of the fills and bridges. on said road.

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

Approved February 18, 1882.

CHAPTER 236.

AN ACT to empower the county court of Knox county to levy a tax for road purposes.

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

1. That the county court of Knox county, a majority of the justices being present, shall have power, at any regular or called term of said court, to levy an ad valorem tax not exceeding twenty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in said county in any one year, which tax shall be collected and accounted for by the sheriff of Knox county, and for which he and his sureties shall be responsible on his county levy bond.

§2. That the funds arising under this act shall be appropriated by said county court in building and keeping in good repair a road from the depot established by the Knoxville Branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, most convenient to Barbourville, Kentucky, to the Bell county line, by way of Barbourville and Flat Lick.

§ 3. It shall be lawful for the county judge of Knox county to call the justices of said county together, at any time after the passage of this act, for the purpose of levying said tax. § 4. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved February 18, 1882.

CHAPTER 237.

AN ACT legalizing the action of the Boyd county court in making an appropriation in aid of the detection and arrest of murderers.

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

§ 1. That the action of the Boyd county court in making an appropriation of two hundred dollars in aid of the detection and arrest of the persons who committed the murders at the house of Gibbons, in Ashland, on the night of December 23d, 1881, is hereby legalized, and the same may be paid out of any moneys now under the control of the court, or that may be hereafter raised by taxation for county purposes. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved February 18, 1882.

CHAPTER 238.

AN ACT legalizing the action of the board of common council of the city of Ashland, appropriating money in aid of the arrest of murderers.

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

§ 1. That the action of the board of common council of the city of Ashland in making an appropriation of two hundred. dollars in aid of the detection and arrest of the persons who committed the murders at the house of Gibbons, in said city, on the night of December 23d, 1881, is hereby legalized, and said 'board of common council may provide for the payment thereof out of any funds under the control of the council, or funds that may be hereafter raised by taxation or otherwise. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved February 18, 1882.

CHAPTER 239.

AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act to regulate and make uniform the jurisdiction of police officers in the counties of Webster and Monroe," so far as said act applies to Sebree City, in Webster county.

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

§ 1. That an act, entitled "An act to regulate and make uniform the jurisdiction of police officers in the counties of Webster and Monroe," be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as the provisions thereof apply to Sebree City, in Webster county; and the police judge and town marshal of said town shall have the jurisdiction conferred upon them in the act incorporating said town.

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

Approved February 18, 1882.

CHAPTER 240.

AN ACT to incorporate the Capital City Lumber, Mining, Manufacturing and Transportation Company.

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

§ 1. That John L. Sneed, G. R. Rodman, Grant Green, A. W. Overton, and John W. Rodman, their associates, success