CHAPTER 421. AN ACT to change a defined portion of the boundary line between the counties of Boyle and Garrard. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the county lines between the counties of Boyle and Garrard be, and they are hereby, so changed as to include within the county of Garrard the following described boundary now being in the county of Boyle: Beginning at a stone corner near the Dix River and Lancaster Turnpike Road, between the lands of the late S. W. Miller and S. O. Baughman; thence to a small blazed black locust, near the edge of a sink; thence eastward to a large blazed black oak on the edge of the cliff; thence due east towards Dix river until it strikes the line between James Hening and S. O. Baughman; thence down the river line between said counties to the abutments of the iron bridge across said river; thence a westward course with the pike to the beginning. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 10, 1882. CHAPTER 422. AN ACT authorizing the financial board of Allen county to sell or subscribe as stock the road-bed of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad, lying in Allen county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the financial board of Allen county be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to dispose of, to the best interest of the county, that part of the road-bed and franchises thereto belonging, of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad, lying in Allen county, either by sale, or may subscribe it as stock in any railroad company that will obligate itself to finish the same, said obligation to be in the name of Allen county; and said financial board shall have power to enforce the stipulations of the obligation in any court of jurisdiction as contracts are enforced by the laws of this Commonwealth. § 2. The proceeds of any sale, or the dividends arising from any stock authorized to be subscribed by the provisions of the first section of this act, shall be paid to the treasurer of Allen county, and shall be kept by him, and paid out for the same purpose, and in all respects shall become a part of and used only as the funds are directed to be used by the provisions of an act, entitled "An act to authorize and empower Allen county to compromise its bonded indebtedness, and issue bonds, and levy and collect taxes to pay the same," approved February 1, 1880, and an amendment thereto, approved March, 1880. §3. That all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. § 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 10, 1882. CHAPTER 423. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Smith's Grove." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the fiscal, prudential, and municipal concerns of Officers. said town, with the government thereof, shall be vested in one principal officer to be styled the chairman of the board of trustees, and six trustees, who shall be elected on the first Saturday of April in each year in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and shall hold their office until their successors have been duly qualified. § 2. That on the first Saturday in April in each year there Election. shall be an election, held by two judges and a clerk appointed by the board of trustees, for the election of a chairman and six trustees, at which election all male persons over the age of twenty-one years, who shall have bona fide residence in said town for thirty days and of the State for one year next preceding such an election, or shall, at the time be owner in his own name and right of any real estate in said town, shall be entitled to vote. 3. That any male person over the age of twenty-one Voter. years, who is a bona fide resident of said town, and has been for thirty days next preceding any election at which he may offer to vote, shall be entitled to vote in all elections in said town, and shall be eligible to hold any office of said town: LOC. L., VOL. I-47 Meetings. License. Proviso. Provided, He is otherwise eligible under the statute laws of this Commonwealth to hold office or vote. 4. That the regular meetings of said board of trustees shall be on the third Saturday in each month; but any business done or transacted a called meeting shall have the same force and effect as if done at the regular meeting: Provided, That at either a regular or called meeting it shall require the chairman and three trustees to constitute a quorum to transact business, and in case of the absence of the chairman, four trustees may do business after selecting one of their number chairman pro tem. 5. That section twelve (12) of the act to which this is an amendment, be amended so as to authorize the board of trustees, in addition to the mode of improvement therein provided for, to cause any of the sidewalks of said town to be laid with plank boards or timbers, when to them it may seem proper to do so, under the same restrictions and to be paid for in the same manner as now provided for in said section when laid with brick and stone, &c. § 6. That the board of trustees shall have power to suppress all tippling and gambling-houses of whatsoever char. acter or pretense, and fine persons who may violate these by-laws and ordinances in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense, except in cases of disturbing religious worship, riots, breaches of the peace, and tippling-houses, when the parties found guilty may be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, or both so fined and imprisoned. 7. They shall have the right to tax and the right to license all coffee-houses, retailers of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, victualers, confectioneries, restaurants, druggist, merchants, and all other trades, business, or vocations now authorized and provided for in the act to which this is an amendment, and fix the tax thereon in such sums as may, from time to time, appear to them just and right, and may discontinue any of said license at pleasure: Provided, That before the trustees of said town shall grant license to any person to sell spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, the person who applies for license shall produce to said trustees the receipt of the county clerk of Warren county showing that said persons has paid the tax now required to be paid to the State by persons engaged in similar business. 8. That the right, under what is known and denominated the local option law, to exclude from the incorporation the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, by a vote of the legal voters, as prescribed in said law, shall be confined to the citizen voters within said corporate limits, and those holding: title to real estate in said town, and none but legal voters. living within said corporate limits or holding title to real estate lying therein, shall be entitled to vote at any election upon the question of local option in or affecting the rights and privileges of said town. 9. That said town may have a station-house in which persons may be confined for fines, contempt, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, for safe-keeping, while awaiting trial in default of bail, and for such other causes and offenses as authorized by law for the confinement of persons in jails and station-houses; and said town or its officials may, at their option, use the jail of Warren county as now provided in the act to which this is an amendment, or may use the stationhouse of said town. 10. That the board of trustees for said town may, by ordinance, regulate the speed at which railroad engineers and trains may be run through said town, and may fix suitable penalties for the violation of the provisions of such ordinance, and enforce the same. § 11. That the police judge of said town shall have juris. Police judgejurisdiction. diction of all cases of motions and suits against the marshal treasurer, or other officer of said town, for all sums of money or other thing which may be due from them, or any of them. He shall have power to take depositions, keep his own records, and shall be subject to the same penalties imposed on justices of the peace for violations of duty. He shall keep a docket of causes in the order in which they are tried, showing the various steps taken therein, the judgment issued, and the return of execution, and shall safely keep all papers in every case tried by him, and make and keep a complete index to his records and execution books. § 12. That this act shall not be construed to repeal any portion of the act to which this is an amendment, except such parts as comes in conflict with this act, but all parts of said act to which this is an amendment conflicting herewith are hereby repealed. § 13. That this act shall be in full force and effect from. and after its passage. Approved March 10, 1882. CHAPTER 424. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Newport Street Railway Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: $1 If said Newport Street Railway Company shall, willfully or negligently, suffer or permit said street railway, or any of its branches, or any part of either, to become and remain unfit for public travel for the space of three consecutive days, either in the character or condition of its roadway, rails, ties, or equipments of any kind, or shall willfully fail or refuse to run or operate its said line of road, og any of its branches, or any part of either for a like time, or shall fail or refuse to so operate and maintain said railway, or any of its branches, as to accommodate the public travel, said company shall be subjected to a fine in any amount not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the Campbell criminal court. §2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage Approved March 10, 1882. CHAPTER 425. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Lawrenceburg, Anderson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the charter of the town of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, be so amended that articles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 of chapter 784 of an act of the General Assembly of Kentucky, passed in 1880, be made a part of said charter. § 2. When any one is ordered to be worked under said sections, he shall be under the control of the marshal of the town o Lawrenceburg, and while at labor shall be securely fastened to a chain and ball of not less than fifty pounds in weight. 3. When any person so ordered to be worked shall refuse to do so, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor for each day he refuses to work, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum of not less than five nor more than fifty dol |