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the jailers of this Commonwealth for dieting persons confined in jail, to be paid out of the funds belonging to said town, after being approved by the trustees thereof.

§ 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1882.

Incorporators.

CHAPTER 493.

AN ACT to incorporate the Princeton College Institute, in the town of
Princeton, Caldwell county, and other purposes.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly that the college building in the town of Princeton has been sold under judgment of the Caldwell circuit court, and purchased by certain persons, who have donated it to the Presbytery of Louisville, in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, for the purpose of establishing therein a first-class high school, under the care and control of said Presbytery; and whereas, the said Presbytery has accepted said donation, and appointed Charles Anderson, H. F. McNary, E. P. Humphrey, J. Jones, L. L. Warren, E. W. C. Humphrey, H. H. Allen, P. H. Darby, A. C. Thomson, Samuel Garrett, J. 1. Landes, J. J. McCarrell, T. S. Anderson, Wm. Hamilton, and T. H. Moore to receive and accept said building for it, and to establish and manage such school therein; and whereas, the said purchasers of said building have conveyed it to said trustees, to be held by them and their successors, to be appointed by said Presbytery, in trust for the uses and purposes of said school; and whereas, the said trustees have acquired by purchase, for the uses and purposes of said institution, the grounds which formerly belonged to said Princeton College, and have established a high school in said building, under the name of the Princeton Collegiate Institute, and have secured money and funds for the improvement of said property, and the partial endowment of said school; now, therefore,

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

§ 1. That the said Charles Anderson, H. F. McNary, E. P. Humphrey, J. Jones, L. L. Warren, E. W. C. Humphrey, H. H. Allen, P. H. Darby, A. C. Thomson, Samuel Garrett, J. I. Landes, J. J. McCarrell, T. S. Anderson, William Hamilton,

and T. H. Moore, and their successors, to be appointed by the said Presbytery of Louisville, in such manner and at such times as the said Presbytery may deem proper, be, and they are hereby, incorporated, and made a body-politic and corporate, under the name and style of the trustees of the Prince- Style. ton Collegiate Institute; with the power to receive, accept, and hold, for the exclusive use and benefit of said institution, all of said real estate, and all moneys, choses in action, and property of any kind whatever, now belonging to said institution, or which it may hereafter in any manner acquire or become entitled to, and to demand, recover, and receive all moneys now, or which may hereafter become due and payable to said institution; and to receive, accept, and hold as aforesaid all grants, bequests, legacies, and donations, of any kind whatever, which may at any time be made to said institution; and with power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity.

§ 2. Said Presbytery of Louisville shall have the power to appoint, in such manner and at such times as it may deem proper, the successors of the said trustees, and all future trustees of said institution; to remove them at pleasure; to pre. scribe rules for their government, and to exercise general supervision over the affairs of said institution.

§ 3. Said board of trustees shall consist of fifteen members; Trustees. but six of them being present at any time shall constitute a quorum for business; but in the election of professors a majority of two thirds of the whole board shall be necessary to constitute a permanent appointment to any professorship.

§ 4. Said board of trustees shall have the power, subject to the supervision and control of said Presbytery, to manage the affairs of said institution; to employ and pay teachers therein; to prescribe rules and regulations for the government thereof, and for the government of said board; and to appoint the times and places of its meetings: Provided, Said rules and regulations shall not conflict with the laws of this State or of the United States; and all acts which have been or may be adopted by said board previous to the passage of this act, shall have the same validity and effect as if adopted subsequently thereto.

LOC. L., VOL. I—57

Oath.

§ 5. Said board of trustees shall have power to have and
use a common seal of office, with such devices as they may
choose to adopt, and which they may break or alter at pleas-
ure. It shall be the duty of the board to make and preserve
a full and faithful record of all its official acts.

§ 6. Said trustees and their successors, before entering
upon the duties of their office, shall make oath or affirmation,
before some one duly authorized to administer oaths, to faith-
fully discharge the duties of their office as trustees, which
fact shall be noted in the official records of the board.
§ 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Approved March 21, 1882.

CHAPTER 494.

AN ACT to authorize the Hardin county court to levy an ad valorem tax of
not exceeding fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable
property in said county, to be used in defraying the county expenses.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky:

1. That the county court of Hardin county, a majority
of the justices of the peace of said county concurring, be,
and is hereby, authorized to levy at each annual session an
ad valorem tax of not exceeding fifteen cents on each one
hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in said county;
said funds, when so raised, to be used in defraying the county
expenses.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of said county to collect said taxes and account for the same as he is required to do in regard to the county levy, and he and his sureties upon his bond given as required by section 4, chapter 27, of the General Statutes, shall be responsible for the faithful performance of his duties in regard to said taxes, and all the the provisions of said chapter 27 applicable to said taxes shall govern and control the same.

§ 3. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Approved March 21, 1882.

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CHAPTER 495.

AN ACT for the benefit of school district number two, Jefferson county. WHEREAS, A subscription school is being taught by a com-petent but not regularly licensed teacher in common school district number two, Jefferson county, which all the pupil children of the district have the privilege of attending, and which is giving satisfaction to the patrons of the school; therefore,

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

§ 1. That the Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to draw his draft in favor of the commissioner of common schools for said county for the pro rata of said school district, amounting to the sum of one hundred and twenty-two dollars and twelve cents ($122.12).

§ 2. This act shall take effect at the close of the session of said school, which shall have been taught not less than five months ending May 11th, 1882.

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AN ACT to amend an act to amend an act, entitled "An act amending and reducing into one the several acts relating to the town of Scottsville," approved February 28th, 1860, approved April 27th, 1880.

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

§ 1. That section two of an act, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act amending and reducing into one the several acts relating to the town of Scottsville,'" approved February 28th, 1860, approved April 27th, 1880, be amended by striking out all of said section between the word services, in the fourth line, and the words "and for," in the seventh line, and insert in lieu thereof the following: "and for the trial of civil cases he shall hold regular terms on the first Monday in each month."

§ 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

§3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 21, 1882.

CHAPTER 497.

AN ACT to change the voting place and boundary lines of the second tollgate precinct of Kenton county.

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

1. That the voting place and boundary of the second toll gate precinct, in Kenton county, be, and the same is, changed as follows: The voting place for said precinct shall hereafter be at Erlanger (formerly Greenwood Lake), instead of at the second toll-gate on the Covington and Lexington Turnpike in said county.

§ 2. That the boundary of said voting precinct shall be as follows, to-wit: Beginning at Joseph Rusche's, on said turnpike road; thence northwardly with the road between said Rusche's and Leathers' to Dry branch; thence down the said branch to Dry creek; thence down Dry creek to the county line; thence southwardly with the line of Boone and Kenton counties to the short pike near the third toll-gate on the Covington and Lexington Turnpike to the Turkey-foot branch; thence northwardly with said road to the present line of said precinct; and thence with said line to the place of beginning. All the voters living within the boundary above given shall have the right to vote at said voting place as herein established.

§ 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1882.

CHAPTER 498.

AN ACT to regulate the advertising of real estate under execution, sales for State and county taxes, sales under decrees of judgments, and to regulate the compensation therefor in the county of Graves.

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

§ 1. That hereafter sheriffs and master and special commissioners making sales of real estate under execution or by virtue of judgments, where the execution or judgment is for two hundred dollars and over, shall advertise the time and place of sale in one newspaper, if published within the county, for two weeks, by weekly insertions, prior to the time of making the sale.

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