Patrons of Husbandry, and their associates and successors, § 2. And they and their successors shall continue and have perpetual succession, and by that name are made capable in law as natural persons to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, answer and be answered, in law and all courts of law and equity in the Commonwealth or elsewhere; to make and have a commen seal, and alter or amend the same at pleasure. § 3. They may make and ordain rules and by-laws for their By-laws. government: Provided, They be not in contravention with the laws of this State or of the United States. 4. That said corporation shall have power and authority to acquire and hold real estate not exceeding twenty thousand dollars at one time, and from time to time, if deemed expedient, to sell and convey the same, or any part thereof, and reinvest and dispose of the proceeds. 5. No private property of any member shall be held responsible for the corporate debt. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 18, 1882. CHAPTER 488. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Hyden, in Leslie county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the town of Hyden, in Leslie county, be, and the Boundary. same is hereby, incorporated, and the limits of said corpora tion shall be one half mile from the court-house in said town in every direction. § 2. That on the first Saturday in May, 1882, and on the Election. same day in each year thereafter, there shall be an election held by the qualified voters resident in the said town five trustees in said town, who shall, before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, take an oath before some justice of Trustees' oath. the peace that they will faithfully discharge the duties of their office aforesaid. That said board of trustees shall be a body-corporate and politic, and shall be known by the name Style. Chairman. Election. of the board of trustees of the town of Hyden; and by that name and style shall have power and be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, in all courts of this Commonwealth. §3. That said trustees shall elect one of their number chairman, who shall preside over the deliberations of said board, and shall have power to convene the board whenever he may deem it necessary; a majority may transact any business that comes before said board. 4. That said board of trustees shall have control over the streets, alleys, and sidewalks, and may direct the opening and improvement of the same as they may deem beneficial to said town, they shall have power to make all by-laws for the regulation and good government of said town not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and laws of this State; they shall have power to levy and collect a tax upon the property and tithes in said town not exceeding two dollars on each tithe, nor more than fifty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property in said town, to be applied to the improvement necessary therein. They shall have power to tax auction sales, shows, and other public exhibitions such sums as they, in their by-laws, may fix. They shall have power to suppress tippling-houses and gaming; to fine all those who may violate their by-laws. in relation thereto any sum not exceeding thirty dollars for each offense, to be recovered before any of the magistrates of the said district or the police judge. It shall be the duty of said board to appoint a treasurer and secretary, and take bond and security for violation of any of their duties. Motionsmay be made or suit brought before any tribunal having ju risdiction thereof, and a majority of said trustees may, for proper cause, remove any officer and appoint another in his or their stead. That it shall be the duty of said treasurer and secretary to keep a record of all the proceedings which property shall belong to their offices, and it shall be the duty of said treasurer to render an account to said board of all moneys paid out by him whenever by them requested to do 80. § 5. That the first election for trustees under this act shall be held on the first Saturday in May, 1882, under the supervision of Samuel Blair and H. C. Napier as judges; and they are hereby empowered to appoint a sheriff and clerk to assist in said election. The trustees elected at said election shall hold their offices until the first Saturday in May, 1883, or until their successors are elected and qualified. § 6. That a town marshal and police judge shall be elected Marshal. at the same time and place and in the same manner that trus. Police judge. tees for said town are elected, whose term of office shall expire at the same time and in the same way the term of office of trustees shall expire, whose jurisdiction and power shall be the same within the corporation that justices of the peace and constables are in the State of Kentucky. Said police judge and marshal shall receive the same fees as are allowed to justices and constables for like services. The office of town marshal for Hyden shall not be incompatible with the office of constable in and for the Hyden voting precinct. § 7. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved March 18, 1882. CHAPTER 489. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Nicholasville. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That so much of the county of Jessamine as shall be Boundary. contained within the following lines, to-wit: two lines running parallel with Main street of said town, the one twelve hundred yards east and the other twelve hundred yards west thereof, and two lines running parallel with main Cross street of said town, the one twelve hundred yards north and the other twelve hundred yards south thereof; and said lines so extended that the north and south lines shall intersect with the east and west lines at right-angles, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, the town of Nicholasville. 2. That the board of trustees of said town shall have the License. power, and, at their discretion, may license and tax vendors of spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors, hotel-keepers and coffee-house keepers in said town; and the tax on all vendors of spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors shall not be less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars. §3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. § 4. That this act take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1882. CHAPTER 490. AN ACT authorizing A. J. Asher to erect a boom across Strait creek, in Bell county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That A. J. Asher be, and he is hereby, authorized to erect a boom across Strait creek, in Bell county, for the purpose of preventing the loss of saw-logs on said creek. § 2 This act to take effect from its passage. Approved March 21, 1882. CHAPTER 491. AN ACT for the benefit of R. C. Williams, common school commissioner of Calloway county. WHEREAS, R. C. Williams, common school commissioner of Calloway county, by mistake, failed to report twenty-one chil. dren in district No. 5 to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the school year ending June 30, 1881, as reported to him by the trustees of said district, and failed to draw the amount going to said district for said children, of thirty-one dollars and seventy-one cents; but has paid the said sum to the teacher in said district out of his own means; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the sum of thirty-one dollars and seventy-one cents be, and is hereby, appropriated to and allowed said R C. Williams, to be paid him out of any unbonded surplus of common school money now remaining to the credit of Calloway county, if sufficient; if not, then the amount of said unbonded surplus now remaining be applied to the payment of said sum, and the balance thereof be paid him out of any unbonded surplus hereafter remaining to the credit of said county. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 21, 1882. CHAPTER 492. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Wallonia, in Trigg county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the trustees of the town of Wallonia, in Trigg county, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered. to build a house of confinement or lock-up in said town, to be paid for out of any money belonging to said town, for the confinement of drunken or disorderly persons, or any one who may be convicted in the police court of said town, or by any justice of the peace of said county of the violation of any of the by-laws or ordinances of the said town, who, upon conViction, is unwilling or unable to pay the fine assessed against bim. § 2. All persons who may be found guilty of any misdemeanor in said town, or any drunken or disorderly conduct therein, or who shall be guilty of a violation of any of the ordinances of said town, may, on conviction, be confined in said house of confinement or lock-up for a number of days, not to exceed twenty four hours for every one dollar of said fine. §3. That any fine imposed by the said police court may be discharged by the payment of the amount of fine assessed, unless the judgment of the court be for both a fine and imprisonment. §4. That any person, convicted under the provisions of this act, who shall fail or refuse to pay or replevy the fine assessed against him, shall be, by the order of the court trying the same, placed at hard labor upon the streets of said town of Wallonia or county road in said county, and shall be compelled to work at said hard labor upon said streets or road, at the rate of one dollar per day, until the fine is discharged; but shall not be compelled to labor more than eight hours in any one day; and when not engaged at labor, shall be confined in said house of confinement or lock-up, and shall be under the control of the marshal of the said town of Wallonia during the time he is at labor. 5. That the marshal of the said town of Wallonia, by virtue of his office as such, shall be keeper of the said house of confinement or lock-up, and shall have the same pay for dicting persons confined therein, as is now allowed by law to |