$120. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 18, 1882. CHAPTER 462. AN ACT for the benefit of Lloyd Abell, committee of Francis Murphy, a pauper idiot. WHEREAS, An inquest was held by the county judge of Marion county on Francis Murphy, a pauper idiot, on the12th day of September, 1880, and a jury so found her to be, and appointed Lloyd Abell as committee to take care of and provide for said idiot, and he has expended seventy-five dollars per year for said idiot, and the papers of the inquest having been lost, and no other inquest held; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the sum of one hundred and one dollars and sixty-six cents in favor of Lloyd Abell, committee for Francis Murphy, a pauper idiot. 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved March 18, 1882. CHAPTER 463. AN ACT to amend charter of the town of Nebo. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the marshal of the town of Nebo, in Hopkins county, shall have all the jurisdiction and powers in civil and criminal matters, within the limits of Hopkins county, that are conferred by existing laws upon constables in this State. He shall be liable as constables are now liable, and shall receive the same fees that they receive for similar services. § 2. Before exercising the jurisdiction conferred by this act, the marshal of the town of Nebo shall be required to renew his bond, giving such sureties as may be approved by. the judge of the Hopkins county court, said bond to be conditioned as now provided by law. 3. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved March 18, 1882. CHAPTER 464. AN ACT to legalize the action of the Washington county court in levying an ad valorem tax for county purposes at its October term, 1881. WHEREAS, The Washington county court at its October term, 1881, levied an ad valorem tax of sixteen and one half cents on each one hundred dollars of the taxable property of said county for county purposes for the year 1882; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the levy of said tax by said county court is hereby made legal. § 2. That the sheriff of Washington county, or the collector of the State revenue of said county for 1882, shall collect said tax, and for the faithful performance of his duties he and his sureties shall be liable on his general bond, and he shall account for and pay over said tax as sheriffs are required to pay over the county levy. §3. The collector of said tax shall, for his services, be allowed the same fees as he is allowed for collecting the State revenue. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 18, 1882. CHAPTER 465. AN ACT for the benefit of James D. Smith, trustee of Allen Spurlock, of Laurel county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor be, and is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of James D. Smith, trustee of Allen Spurlock, a pauper idiot of Laurel county, for the sum of $37.50. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 18, 1882. Fine. CHAPTER 466. AN ACT to prohibit the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or vend any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or any mixture thereof, in Pulaski county south of the Cumberland river. and east of the South Fork river, and the county court of said county shall not grant license to any saloon or tavern, with the privilege of selling such liquors within such part of said county. §2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall, upon thereof before a justice of the peace, the judge of said county, or upon indictment of a grand jury, be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. 3. Any male person who may be placed in the county jail on a capias pro fine, for failure to pay any fine adjudged against him under the provisions of this act, shall be put at hard labor on the streets of the town of Somerset or public highway of the county, or upon any public building in the county, under the control of the jailer during the period of his confinement, as now provided by law in such cases. S4. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 18, 1882. Incorporators. CHAPTER 467. AN ACT to incorporate the Jackson Route Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Samuel H. Jenkins, Thomas H. Corbett, W. K. Ackerman, E. T. Jeffery, and William H. Green, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted and declared a body-corporate forever, under the name of the Jackson Style. Route Bridge Company, with power to sue and be sued, to contract and be contracted with, and with all other powers, rights, and privileges usually incident to corporations. § 2. Said Jackson Route Bridge Company is hereby empow- Purposes. ered and authorized to locate, build, construct, and maintain, in the manner and form prescribed by act of Congress of the United States, a bridge across the Ohio river from the Kentucky shore to the Illinois shore, at any point within eight miles of the mouth of the Ohio river; and said company is hereby clothed with all the powers, rights, privileges, and franchises necessary for the carrying out of the purposes named herein; and is empowered to purchase or lease and hold all the land that may be necessary for the purposes of said company for the said bridge, and for piers, abutments, anchor pits, and approaches; and if it cannot agree upon terms of purchase or lease, said company shall have the right and power to acquire such land as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act by condemnation, and may cause such land to be condemned in the manner herein pointed out. Whenever said company shall desire to have any land condemned for the purposes named in this act, said company shall file a petition in the Ballard common pleas court, or in the Ballard circuit court, and the proceedings under said. petition shall be carried on, as near as may be, as in actions . at law; and warning orders against non-resident or absent owners of land described in the petition must be published three times in some weekly newspaper published in Ballard county; but if no weekly newspaper is published at the time. of the issuing of said warning orders in Ballard county, then they shall be published in a Paducah weekly newspaper, the last publication thereof to be at least ten days before the empaneling of the jury hereinafter mentioned. The owners of different tracts or parcels of land may all be included in the same petition, or each may be proceeded against separately. The issues formed upon the said petition shall be tried by a jury as other cases at law are tried in said courts, and shall have precedence upon the docket as soon as the parties are before the court. The jurors shall be sworn truly and impartially to ascertain and determine by their verdict the amount of compensation each owner is entitled to as damages for the condemnation of so much of his land as is alleged in said Capital stock. Directors. money. petition to be necessary for the purposes named in this act. The court in which a petition under this act is filed shall assign a day for the trial of the case as early as practicableafter the parties are in court; and upon the return of the verdict, the court shall enter its judgment, vesting in said company the title to the land described in the petition, and said judgment shall take effect upon the payment into court by said company of the amount of money named in the verdict; and if the amount so named shall not be paid within thirty days from the rendition of said judgment, the said petition shall be dismissed, and the said judgment vacated. 3. The capital stock of said company shall be five millions of dollars, divided into shares of one thousand dollars The said Samuel H. Jenkins, Thomas H. Corbett, W. K. Ackerman, E T. Jeffery, and William H. Green are hereby constituted the first directors of said company, to hold the office of directors until their successors shall be elected by the stockholders of said company. Any three of said directors may, after giving ten days' notice of the time and place of opening books for subscription, proceed to organize by electing a president and secretary, and may open books for subscription to the capital stock of said company, and whenever one hundred thousand dollars of the capital stock is subscribed, the stockholders may elect five directors, who shall thereupon succeed the directors named in this act. The directors so elected may adopt ary by-laws for the management of said company and its business, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States. The said. company is hereby empowered to acquire and hold so much land in Illinois as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this act, in pursuance of the laws of that State. The said company may, at any time, by by laws, increase the number of directors of said company. § 4. The said company may borrow any amount of money, May borrow not exceeding the amount of its capital stock, for carrying. out the purposes of this act, and may mortgage its property and franchises to secure the payment of the same upon such terms as it may deem proper; and said company may leaseits property and franchises to any railroad company termi nating on either shore of the Ohio river within the limit of eight miles from the mouth of said river; and if deemed advantageous to the carrying out of the purposes of this act, |