said company may become consolidated with any other corporation created by the laws of Illinois for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a bridge across the Ohio river within the limit aforesaid, upon such terms as may be agreed upon: Provided, That said Jackson Route Bridge Company shall continue after such consolidation, to be subject to the laws of this State, in the same manner that it would have been if it not been consolidated.

5 The notice of the time and place of opening books for Notice. subscription mentioned in the third section of this act shall be published in a newspaper in Paducah, Kentucky, and in a newspaper in Cairo, Illinois.

$6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 18, 1882.

CHAPTER 468.

AN ACT to incorporate the Eureka Transportation Company.. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

$1. That James McGrain, Jacob Hoertz, Edw. F. Madden, J. J. Fisher, and B. H. Young, citizens of Kentucky, and their associates, successors, and assigns, be, and are hereby, incorporated, by the name and style of the Eureka Transportation Company; and shall by such name have a perpetual succession, with all the rights and privileges of a body-politic and corporate; to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued; to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter and amend at pleasure; to have full power to acquire, purchase, and hold real estate, by purchase and condemnation or gift, for corporate purposes or otherwise; to acquire in the same way rights of way in or through or around the city of Louisville and county of Jefferson for the purposes hereinafter set out.

§ 2 Said corporation is hereby granted the right and privilege to build, excavate, and construct, maintain and operate, a water-tight tunnel along and under the present grade of the Louisville wharf property, under the line of high water from Second street to Eighth street, and an open or closed, or part open and closed, tunnel from First street, in the city of

Louisville, Kentucky, to the depots, at or near to the corners of Fourteenth and Main, or any point north of Main at or near to Fourteenth street; and to operate above ground, so far as it may be necessary to make grade connection with roads coming in on a grade with the streets, at Fourteenth street, or west thereof, with power to extend their lines to the western limits of the city of Louisville; and build, construct, and operate therein and thereon a line of railway tracks for the use of transfer companies, themselves, and such railroads, steamboats, merchants, individuals, or themselves, as they may contract with, or assign the right of use to, for the transportation of passengers by steam, animal, or other power, as they may find best conducive to the wants of the passenger and freight trade of and from Louisville, and from and to the various roads to, from, or through the city of Louisville.

§3. Said corporation shall, if the work on said tunnels and tracks be commenced within one year from the passage and approval or taking effect of this act, commence the work, and shall finish the same within five years thereafter, and have the exclusive rights herein before set out for the period of twenty years from the completion thereof.

§ 4. Said corporation shall have the right, by and with the consent of the general council of the city of Louisville, to use the right of way to such streets, and to cross such streets and alleys, or such portions of the city wharf or other property of the city of Louisville as may be necessary, within the limits of said city hereinbefore named, as the interests of said corporation may require, under such conditions and restric tions as may be agreed upon between said corporation and said general council: Provided, however, That at no point from First street to Tenth street shall said company rise to the grade of the streets crossing its line; and wherever said tunnel is not completely arched over as a water-tight tunnel, then said corporation shall bridge the same on a grade with the street to the width of the street crossing their open tunnel.

$5. Said corporation shall have the power and may acquire such rights of way and ground as may be needful to the interests thereof, and establish such depots, buildings, &c., as they may deem necessary for depots, warehouses, &c., or as their interests may require, and shall have the right to connect such tracks of railroads coming in, through, or to the city of Louisville, or with such tracks, &c., as any steamboat,

individual, or other corporation as they may contract with, may wish to use for the transportation of such freight, passengers, &c., as they shall be applied to may grant, and to make contracts with the various railroads as may be contracted with for transportation, transfer, or carrying freight, passengers, or cars from such points on the line operated by this aforesaid corporation as at and for such prices as may be agreed on: Provided, Where full car-loads loaded outside of the property or right of way of this corporation shall not be charged more than $ per car-load for transporting or transferring by other power than that furnished by this corporation.

§ 6. Said corporation shall have the power to connect its track or tracks, as may be determined by said corporation, with the track or tracks, grounds, buildings, and depots of any and all railroads that may now or hereafter terminate in said city.

7. The corporators as named in the first section of this act shall be ex officio directors of said corporation, and shall serve until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified as in this act provided; and said corporation may pass such by-laws as may not be in conflict herewith, and therein regulate the number of directors and officers, and who said officers shall be.

8. The capital stock of said corporation shall he $500,000, with power to increase the same to $1,500,000, the shares of which shall be not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 each, as the directors may determine.

§ 9. Said corporation shall have power, whenever it shall contract to borrow money, by and through a vote of its board of directors, direct and order its president and secretary to make, execute, and deliver as security therefor such mortgage, bonds, coupons, &c., on such times and such terms as the said board may deem necessary by their resolution on the real estate, rights of way, grounds, depots, and franchises as in said resolution directed.

§ 10. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 18, 1882.

Boundary.

Established-term

CHAPTER 469.

AN ACT to provide for the re-organization, maintenance, and supervision of common schools in the town of Catlettsburg and vicinity.

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

District.

§ 1. That hereafter the Catlettsburg common school dit trict shall be bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at the mouth of the Big Sandy river; thence up the river to a roir ́ opposite the lower alley in Hampton City, Deing the tower or north side of said town as laid off; thence to and with said alley, crossing the turnpike and continuing a straight line to the top of the hill; thence with the ridge to Barbecue branch; thence with the ridge west of said branch, so as to include the Barbecue hollow, to Catlett's creek; thence a straight line to the top of the ridge north of Catlett's creek; thence with said ridge to the head of the branch just above J. W. Mullan's; thence a straight line, so as to include the property of J. W. Mitchell, to the Ohio river; thence up the Obio river to the beginning.

Common School.

§2. A common school is hereby established, and in said. Common school district shall be taught for not less than five nor more than of, who entitled ten months of each year, at which all white children between the age of six and twenty years residing therein shall receive instruction without any charge therefor.

to benefits of.

board of education.

§ 3. The exclusive management, regulation, and control of Control vested in said school, and of the school fund received from the State or nation, and of the fund raised by taxation under this act, shall be vested in a board of education, to be composed of six persons.

§ 4. The members of said board of education of CatlettsMembers and burg shall possess the qualifications of voters of said district, and shall be a body-politic and corporate, under the name of the board of education of Catlettsburg.

qualifications.

Elections.

5. On the first Saturday in July, 1882, and biennially When and where thereafter, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 P. M., at the county court-house in Catlettsburg, an election shall be held for members of the board of education.

.held.

vote.

6. At the elections provided for herein all white qualified Who entitled to voters, and any widow or maid who is a tax payer, or who has children between six and twenty years of age, and, excepting sex, qualified to vote, and being citizens of said district, shall be voters therein.

term of office.

§ 7. At the first election for members of the board of edu- How elected, cation the three persons receiving the highest number of votes shall hold office for four years, and the three persons receiving the next highest number shall hold office for two years; and each shall continue in office until his successor is elected and qualified. Each second year thereafter, at the time, place, and manner herein designated, an election shall be held for three members of the board of education, to serve four years.

tion held.

§ 8. All elections under this act shall be held by the board By whom elecof education, or any three of its members, or three other per: sons, to be appointed by it. If one of either class of them fail to attend, the two attending may appoint another person to act in his stead. Any member of the board who shall be a candidate shall not be eligible to act as an officer of an election hereunder.

§ 9. If an election is held by the board of education, or any How held. three of its members, they shall act under their oath of office; if by persons appointed by the board, such persons shall take an oath before, and to be administered by, the chairman of the board, that they will support the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Kentucky, and be faithful and true in their allegiance to each, and faithfully, impartially hold and make returns of the elections about to be held. Two of said board, or those appointed by it, shall be the judges at said election, and its secretary or one of their members the clerk of said election. The secretary shall prepare a Poll-book. poll-book, on which shall be entered the names of all persons voting and voted for, and figures showing the number of votes cast for each person being voted for on each page. Each page shall be signed by the clerk. At the end of the poll-book the judges and clerk shall make and sign the usual certificate showing the whole number of votes cast for each candidate.

§ 10. Within three days after said election the poll-books How returned and certificate thereto shall be returned by said judges and

and kept.

LOC. L., VOL. I-55