§ 3. There shall be five trustees in said district, one to be elected each year, except as herein provided, and to hold his office for five years; to have the same qualifications as common school trustees, and to be elected by the persons in said district having the qualifications of electors under the common school law; to be elected on the day set apart by the common school law for election of trustees; the election to be at the court-house, and to be held by such persons as may be appointed by the county court.

§ 4. Said trustees shall be a body-corporate, with power to contract, sue and to be sued, as trustees of the Dixon High School. Before entering upon their duties they shall take an oath to faithfully discharge their duties as trustees. All their contracts must be in writing, signed by the chairman, who shall be the trustee having the shortest time to serve. In case of a vacancy, the board may appoint a trustee till the next regular election, when the vacancy shall then be filled by an election.

§ 5. They shall have power to grade said school, and decide, if need be, who shall enter each grade; to employ teachers, and dismiss them for cause, and to prescribe the text-books to be used. They shall keep a minute of all the proceedings, to be signed by the clerk and chairman, which shall be opento inspection at all times. They shall appoint a treasurer, who shall receive and pay out all moneys. and give and take receipts for same; and shall, before entry upon his duties, execute bond, with sureties, to be approved by the board. Upon this bond he and his sureties shall be liable for all moneys received by him and not properly paid out.

§ 6. Said trustees shall have power to purchase a lot or lots, and to erect thereon suitable school buildings and furniture. They shall in no way encumber said home and lot, nor shall any mechanic or material-man have any lien on said house or lot or lots for any material furnished or work done, but they may in advance pledge the funds hereinafter set apart to said mechanics or material-men, or to other persons, for the money with which to erect said house, &c., but shall not pledge it for money at a higher rate of interest than six per cent. per annum.

7. Upon said trustees complying with the law as required. by common school trustees, they shall be entitled to said district's per capita of common school fund. There is also by

this act levied upon each white male inhabitant residing within said district a poll-tax of five dollars; also an ad valorem tax of fifty cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of all real estate in said district, and all personal property, money, and choses in action in the State owned by residents of said district, all of which is hereby set apart as a school fund, and to be used for no other purpose except as hereinafter provided.

§ 8. The trustees shall appoint an assessor to assess said property and polls, and agree with him as to his compensation. He shall be duly sworn to faithfully perform his duties before he enters upon his duties. The trustees shall have power to review his list and equalize the tax. If a party fail to list his poll or property, the assessor shall do so for him. The assessment may be made at any time after the tenth day of January each year, and shall relate and be as if made on that day, except if persons move into said district after that day, and prefer to send to school, they may do so, and have the option to enter upon the same terms as parties out of the district, or be listed and pay as from or in proportion to the time of entering his children in said school.

§ 9. After the assessor has returned his list, and the same has been examined and approved by the board of trustees, the chairman shall file the same with the county court clerk, who shall preserve the same as a public record; and at the same time he makes out and delivers the county levy he shall also make out and deliver this list to the same officer, who shall collect the same and pay it to the treasurer of the board of trustees at the same time and manner, and under the same responsibilities as to him and his sureties, as if it were a part of the county levy, and shall have all the power to distrain and sell as sheriffs have when parties fail to pay State revenue or taxes, and shall have the same compensation.

§ 10. For the years 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885 there shall be, and is hereby, levied a tax on the property mentioned in section seven of one dollar on the one hundred dollars' worth; shall be collected in the same manner and time, by the same party, and paid to the same party, which shall be devoted exclusively to the purchase of a lot and the erection of suitable buildings; and the fifty cents school tax for 1882 may be applied in the same way; and said property shall be exempt from taxation for State, county, or town purposes.

§ 11. This act shall not take effect till ratified by a majority of the vote upon an election, to be held for that purpose, on the first Monday in April, 1882; and if, from any cause, an election is not held on that day, or if held and the same is not ratified, it may be again submitted by an order of the county court upon the petition of twenty or more citizens voters of Dixon, in which event two weeks' notice shall be given by posted bills, and if ratified by a majority, then it is to be in full force and effect from that day.

$12. The county court shall appoint officers to conduct said election, and all other elections under this act, and said persons shall act under the same responsibilities as officers of county elections; shall make their return in the same manner and time, and to the same officers, whose duty it is to compare polls and determine results in county elections for county officers, shall do so under this act, and in the same time and manner. If the act be ratified, the vote in full, with the certificate of officers of election and the county board, shall be entered in full upon the order book of the Webster county court, and shall be evidence of the adoption of this act.

§ 13. When this act is voted upon there shall also be elected five trustees, who shall hold their office for one, two, three, four, and five years, and till the next election for com mon school trustees; and the county judge shall by lot determine the order in which they shall go out.

§ 14. This act does not apply to colored persons, nor their property, but to white persons only. At the first election herein provided for, or at any election to adopt this act, all white male persons in said district who could vote for a justice of the peace, if this were a justices' district, may vote, and all widows who own property, or who have children within the school age, may also vote, and a majority of them voting shall determine the result.

15. The expense of all elections under this act shall be paid by the trustees, and they may also agree with the treasurer for his compensation. They shall have control of the school property, and keep the same in repair with funds from scholars not residing in the district.

§ 16. If any tax-payer, at any time when the same may be due, shall refuse to pay his taxes on proper demand, the trustees may institute proceedings against such delinquent tax

payer in any court having jurisdiction of the same, and recover judgment for the same with costs.

Approved March 13, 1882.

CHAPTER 440.

AN ACT to incorporate the Baptist Church at Buck Creek, Shelby county.

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

§ 1. That the members of the Baptist Church at Buck Creek, near Finchville, in Shelby county, Kentucky, be, and they are hereby, created a body-politic and corporate, by the name and style of The Baptist Church, at Buck Creek," 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, gift, devise, lease or otherwise, and of holding real estate and personal estate, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and shall have power to manage and control the same; and shall have power to receive all necessary conveyances, to sell, convey, and dispose of all such real and personal estate as they may now have or may hereafter acquire, and to reinvest the proceeds thereof in such real or personal estate for the use of said corporation as they may deem proper.

2. That the real and personal estate of said corporation. shall be managed by a board of five trustees, members of said church, who shall be elected by the members of said church at some regular church meeting for business, and they shall continue in office during the pleasure of said church. And any vacancy occurring in said board of trustees by death, removal of membership, or any other cause, shall be filled at the next regular meeting of the church for business by a majority of the members present. The said board of trustees. shall have power to choose from their own body a president, secretary, and treasurer, whose duties shall be such as usually devolve upon such officers. All moneys that shall come into the hands of said trustees shall be invested and 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 such 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 such meeting, the said 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 purchaser 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 thereof.

§ 4. The said board of trustees shall have power to transact any business pertaining to their duties at any time when a majority of them shall be present, and at all meetings a majority shall constitute a quorum to do business. They shall keep a record of their acts and business, and shall make a report thereof from time to time to the church as its interests may require.

§ 5. That said corporation shall have power to establish such by-laws, rules and ordinances, not inconsistent with this charter, the Constitution and laws of this State or the United States, as it shall deem necessary for the supervision and government of said corporation or its members, and at any meeting shall have power to receive any person into its membership, or exclude any member from its fellowship, and is hereby invested with all other powers and authority incident to similar institutions.

§ 6. That a majority of the members of said corporation. present at any meeting shall constitute a quorum to do busi

ness.

7. That upon the qualification of the board of trustees elected pursuant to section second of this act, the rights, powers, and duties of the present trustees of the Baptist Church at Buck creek shall cease, and their term of office shall expire, and the title to all property now vested in said trustees is hereby vested in the corporation, "The Baptist Church at Buck Creek."

§ 8. That the money for ordinary current expenses of the