vested with an absolute title thereto, in as full and ample a manner as said Military Turnpike Road Company now is, with all the rights and franchises now owned by said company, and subject to all the duties and restrictions of the same as to keeping said road in repair and taking tolls there on. § 2. Said Military Turnpike Road Company shall be made Priorities. a defendant to said suit, and shall have legal notice thereof, and all or any of the creditors thereof may join as plaintiffs in said suit. If any one or more of the creditors of said company shall fail or refuse to unite in the suit, all such creditors as may be known to the plaintiffs shall be made defendants to the suit. The court shall take proper steps to ascertain all the indebtedness of the company, and the debts legally established shall be paid out of the proceeds of sale; or if the proceeds are not sufficient to pay the entire indebtedness, then the court will, after payment of the costs of the action, apply the proceeds of the sale pro rata to the payment of the debts, unless one or more of the creditor's claims is, under existing law, entitled to priority of payment, in which event the court will regard such legal priorities. §3. If as many as three persons shall become joint purchasers of said road, its property and franchises, or if that number shall, after the sale, become interested in the purchase, they may file a petition in the clerk's office of the Fayette county court, showing the persons interested in said road, and the interest of each in the road, and praying the county to declare them a body-corporate, and suggesting the name under which they desire to be incorporated; and thereupon said county court is authorized to declare said owners a corporation, with the same rights, privileges, and franchises as said Military Turnpike Road Company now enjoys, and sub ject to the same duties, responsibilities, and restrictions as said company is now under. § 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 1, 1882. Purchasers may become corpo rate. Public road.' CHAPTER 718. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act to amend section 30, article 1, chapter 94, General Statutes," so far as it applies to Barren, Metcalfe, and Monroe counties. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to amend section 30, article 1, chapter 94, General Statutes," title "Public Road," approved 8th March, 1880, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as the same applies to Barren, Metcalfe, and Monroe counties § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 1, 1882. CHAPTER 729. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to regulate appellate jurisdiction of the courts of this Commonwealth," approved May 5th, 1880. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That an act, entitled "An act to regulate the appellate Appellate juris jurisdiction of the courts of this Commonwealth," approved May 5th, 1880, be amended as follows: diction regulated. Quarterly courts. § 1. Appeals shall be to the circuit court of the county, and to courts of similar jurisdiction, from all judgments or orders of the quarterly courts in civil cases, when the amount in controversy, exclusive of costs, exceeds the sum of twentyfive dollars, and from justices' courts and other courts of similar jurisdiction in civil cases, where the amount in controversy, exclusive of costs, is as much as fifty dollars or more. § 2. Appeals shall lie to the quarterly court of the county from judgments of justices' courts and courts of similar jurisdiction, in civil actions, where the amount in controversy, exclusive of costs, is as much as ten dollars and not as much as one hundred dollars. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of June, 1882, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the counties of Jefferson, Hardin, and McCracken. Approved April 1, 1882. CHAPTER 41. AN ACT to declare the Little South Fork, in Wayne county, a navigable stream. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: navigable. § 1. That the Little South Fork, in Wayne county, from Little South Fork its mouth to the town of Pannleyville, is hereby declared to be a navigable stream. § 2. That this act shall be in force from and after the 1st day of May next. Approved April 1, 1882. CHAPTER 745. AN ACT to change the time of holding the Lewis circuit court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: court. § 1. That the time of holding the Lewis circuit court be Lewis circuit § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 756. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and two of the General Statutes, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth 102, amended. § 1. That section (5) five, of article two (2), of chapter Gen. Stat., chap. (102) one hundred and two, of the General Statutes, be amended by inserting after the word "authority," in the Small-pox. third line, the words "and are required." § 2. That section eight and section nine of article two of said chapter be, and the same is hereby, re-enacted. §3. That it shall be the duty of the local boards of health, Duty of local in each county of this Commonwealth, to have the provision of said chapter enforced. boards. § 4. All laws in conflict with chapter 102 of the General Statutes, as herein amended, are hereby repealed. § 5. This act shall take effect from and after its approval. Approved April 1, 1882. vey and Board of Immigration. CHAPTER 772. AN ACT for the continuation of the Geological Survey and Bureau of Im. migration. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That for the continuation of the Geological, TopoGeological Sur- graphical, and Agricultural Surveys of the State, and the Bureau of Immigration, now under the direction of the State Geologist, there is hereby appropriated, from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as follows: $4,000. $2,500. $600. $500. $5,000. distributed, and how. For the further geological investigations of the State, including the salary of the State Geologist and his geological assistants, and their field expenses, four thousand dollars per annum. For the continuation of the Topographical Survey, and the work on the State map, twenty-five hundred dollars per an num. For the continuation of chemical analysis of soils, clays, coal, iron ores, and other substances collected by the Geolog. ical Survey, six hundred dollars per annum. For the office expenses of the Surveys, and for the collection and preservation of specimens, five hundred dollars per annum. For the expenses of the Bureau of Immigration, the pay of assistants and agents, and their necessary traveling expenses, and for the carrying out of the objects of the Bureau of Immigration as hereinafter provided for, five thousand dollars per annum. §2. That the money not required for any of the purposes specified above may be used for the other specified purposes. 3. That the maps, reports, and publications of the SurMaps, &c., to be vey shall be stereotyped, printed, and distributed as follows: one copy each shall be given to each member of the State Government, and one copy each to each member of the General Assembly in office at the time of publication; one to each 1 clerk's office of the several county courts, to be filed and re- Duties of State Geologist and §4. That the Governor shall, at this and each regular Governor to apmeeting of the Legislature, appoint a State Geologist, by and point, &c. with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the term of two years, or until his successor is appointed and qualified, who shall reside at Frankfort, and be there at all times when not engaged in the necessary surveys, and who shall also be a Commissioner of Immigration; and the said State Geologist shall be required to keep an account of all moneys paid out in his department in a book kept for that purpose, and to be at all times open to inspection to the members of the General Assembly and other State officials. Said Commissioner shall attend to the office work of the Survey, and, in addition thereto, he shall collect, compile, publish, and circulate, in such manner and by such agencies, and in such places as he may deem proper and advisable, in the United States and in foreign countries, pamphlets and other publications descriptive of the resources and advantages of this State, and such other facts and information having a tendency to attract and promote immigration, and otherwise use his discretion in the furtherance of immigration, and the bringing of skilled labor and capital into the State. He shall also collect and disseminate such information as in his judgment will best aid in the founding of industries to utilize and manufacture within the State the raw products of the State. That the reports of said Commissioner, when presented to the Governor and approved by him, shall be printed by the Public Printer, at the same charges and upon the same terms as similar work PUB. L.-5 b |