school district for the year ending June 30, 1881, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to and for the purpose of teaching a common school in said district for five extra months, to be paid from the interest accruing from the Bourbon county surplus bonds, and out of any surplus which may be due said county for the school years ending June 30, 1882, and June 30, 1883. The Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the Auditor in favor of the school commissioner of Bourbon county for said sum of $146.47, whenever said commissioner may report to said Superintendent that said school has been taught for said extra term, to be paid by him to the teacher for said term. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 27, 1882. CHAPTER 321. AN ACT for the benefit of S. L. Chevis. WHEREAS, S. L. Chevis claims that the State of Kentucky is indebted to him in the sum of 8———, balance due him for work and material done and furnished on the Eastern Lunatic Asylum at Lexington, Kentucky, and it also appearing that the two commissions heretofore appointed by acts of this General Assembly settled said claims of said Chevis disagree as to the amount due him; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That jurisdiction is hereby now conferred upon the Franklin circuit court to entertain and adjudicate any suit that may be brought by the said S. L. Chevis against the Commonwealth of Kentucky in regard to said claim and a settlement thereof, under the same rules governing other litigants in said court, with the right of appeal to either of said parties from the judgments and rulings of said court to the Court of Appeals; and the service of any summons, notice, rule, or other paper necessary to be served upon the Commonwealth of Kentucky as party to any such suit, may be had by executing the same upon the Attorney General of the State. § 2. That whenever it shall be made to appear to the Auditor of Public Accounts that any such cause as is provided for in the first section of this act has been finally adjudicated and settled by the judgment of the Franklin circuit court, or of the Court of Appeals, if an appeal should be taken by either party, it shall be, and is hereby, made the duty of said Auditor to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of said S. L. Chevis for whatever sum, if any, may be adjudged in his favor against the Commonwealth, with interest and costs, according to the judgment in the case, and such sum shall be immediately paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, This act shall not be construed to be an admission that the State is indebted to said Chevis in any sum whatever. §3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 27, 1882. CHAPTER 322. AN ACT to legalize the action of the Clark county court with reference to the Kentucky Central Railroad extension. WHEREAS, The Clark county court, on the 19th day of August, 1881 (only two out of the twelve justices opposing the same), in order to keep the terms of an agreement made with the Kentucky Central Railroad Company by a representative committee of the citizens of said county, whereby said company was induced to refrain from asking for a subscription to its capital stock, or a grant of the right of way by said county as a condition precedent to the location of said railroad's extension through said county in consideration of release from taxes on the part of said county for a period of twenty years, did make an order, now of record in the clerk's office of said court, and of full force and effect, by the terms of which the taxes leviable for county purposes in said county on the property of said company within said county, during the period of twenty years from said date, were donated to said company, and said company was released from the payment of said taxes for said term; and whereas, said court in said order requested the General Assembly to legalize the aforesaid action, and make said order valid; now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That in accordance with the foregoing request of the Clark county court, the aforesaid action of said court is ratified, and said company, for the reason aforesaid, is released and acquitted from the payment of taxes leviable for county purposes in said county on the property of said company within said county for a period of twenty years from August 19th, 1881. §2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 27, 1882. CHAPTER 323. AN ACT to fix the time of holding the court of claims of Warren county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the regular annual session of the court of claims of Warren county shall hereafter commence on the fourth Monday in September. § 2. All laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. §3. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 27, 1882. CHAPTER 325. AN ACT for the benefit of common school district No. 44, Marion county. WHEREAS, The commissioner of common schools for Marion county, in his census report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, omitted, by mistake, ten children of pupil age from the census report of the trustees of common school district No. 44, for the school year ending June 30th, 1881; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That commissioner of common schools for Marion county be, and he is hereby, authorized to draw his draft, for the benefit of the teacher of said district for the school year aforesaid, on the Auditor of Public Accounts for the sum of fifteen dollars ($15), which draft, when countersigned by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall entitle commis sioner to a warrant on the Treasurer for said amount, to be paid out of the interest accruing from the Marion county surplus school bond for the school year ending June 30th, 1882. § 2. This act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved February 27, 1882. CHAPTER 326. AN ACT to prevent the sale of spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors within one mile of Gradyville, Adair county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 31. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or vend any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or any mixture of either, in any quantity, within one mile of Wilmores & Kemp's store-house, in Gradyville, Adair county, Kentucky. 2. If any person shall violate the provisions of the first section of this act, such person, on conviction thereof by indictment and trial in the circuit court of said county, be fined the sum of twenty dollars for each and every offense. §3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 27, 1882. CHAPTER 327. AN ACT to prohibit the sale or giving or loaning of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within one mile and a quarter of Milltown Church, Adair county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give, or loan spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or mixture of either, within one mile and a quarter of Milltown Church, Adair county. 2. If any person violate this act, such person shall, upon Fine. conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in any sum of not less than twenty dollars and not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense. § 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of May next. Approved February 27, 1882. Fine. CHAPTER 328. AN ACT to prevent the donation, barter, or sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within two miles of Locust Grove Church, in Calloway county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to donate, barter, or sell spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in any quantity within two miles of Locust Grove Church, in Calloway county, Kentucky. 2. Any person violating the provisions of the first section. of this act shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 27, 1882. Style. Capital stock. Votes. -Commissioners. CHAPTER 329. AN AUT to incorporate the Monticello and Burnside Turnpike Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That a company, to be known by the name and style of the Monticello and Burnside Turnpike Company, be, and is hereby, incorporated and created a body-politic, with perpetual succession, for the purpose of constructing and operating a macadamized or gravel road from Monticello, in the county of Wayne, to Burnside, in the county of Pulaski, with all the powers, privileges, and franchises which are now or may hereafter be granted to similar corporations under the general laws of the State of Kentucky, and such other special powers, privileges, and franchises as are herein granted. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be limited to fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, or fractions thereof, according to the amounts subscribed or issued. §3. Stockholders shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by them respectively, and in that proportion for each fraction of share so held. § 4. That Leander J. Stephenson, I. Knox Frazer, Richard Burnett, John F. West, James B. Lanier, John N. Brown, F. |