2. That sheriffs shall advertise the time and place of sale of lands for State and county taxes in one newspaper, if published within the county, for four weeks, by weekly insertions, prior to the time of sale.

§3. That the publisher of such newspaper shall be allowed eighty cents per inch of the usual type of such newspaper for the first insertion, and forty cents for the subsequent insertion of such advertisements as are provided for in first section of this act, to be taxed as costs in the proceedings, and twenty-five cents for each list of taxable property as required by second section, to be taxed up as costs of sale.

§ 4. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

5. That this act shall apply only to Graves county.

§ 6. That this act shall take effect from and after its pas

sage.

Approved March 21, 1882.

CHAPTER 499.

AN ACT to incorporate the Henderson Cotton and Woolen Mill Company.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

§ 1. That Jackson McClain, James E. Rankin, James R. Incorporators. Barret, W. S. Johnson, and Malcolm Yeaman, and their associates and successors, be, and are hereby, enacted a corporation and body-politic, by the name and title of the Henderson Style. Cotton and Woolen Mill Company, and shall have all the rights, immunities, and powers necessary and proper for conducting its business, which shall be the manufacture of cotton or woolen goods, or both; to have and use a common seal, and change the same at pleasure; and by the name aforesaid shall be capable in law of taking, purchasing, holding, and possessing such tenements, real estate, goods, chattels, and merchandise as may be necessary for the purpose of said corporation, and sell, dispose of, and convey the same at pleas ure; and the parties herein named, with their successors and associates, shall continue and have perpetual succession.

§ 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall be one hun Capital stock. dred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hun

dred dollars each, and the company is hereby granted the

Meetings.

By-laws.

privilege of increasing the capital stock to any sum not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars.

§ 3. There shall be an annual meeting of the stockholders at such time and place as may be fixed by the by-laws, at which five directors shall be elected, all of whom shall be stockholders, and shall continue in office until their successors are chosen; and at such and all other elections each holder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock. Stockholders may be represented at all meetings of the company by proxy in writing. The directors shall elect one of their number to be president, and may fill any vacancies that may occur in the board between regular meetings.

§ 4. The officers of the corporation shall submit a full and correct statement of the affairs, business, and accounts of the company whenever called for by one third of the stockhold

ers.

§ 5. Transfers of the stock shall be upon the books of the company, in person or by power of attorney; but the company shall have a lien upon the stock of any stockholder for any debt he may owe said company.

§ 6. Said company may adopt and enforce any by laws consistent with this charter, and not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and may contract with and employ any officers, agents, and assistants necessary to successfully conduct the business of the company.

§ 7. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved March 21, 1882.

CHAPTER 500.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to reduce into one the several acts concerning the town of Greensburg."

WHEREAS, It appears that the board of trustees of and for the town of Greensburg was not organized at the time and in the manner provided in the act approved April 26th, 1880, to which this act is an amendment, said act not having been approved until after the time provided therein for said board to be elected and organized; and it further appearing that said board has failed to elect a police judge and town marshal for said town under said act, and that the time has passed for the election of same under said act, and there being no law

under the acts incorporating said town to supply vacancies in sid offices; therefore,

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

§1. That the provisions of said act, entitled "An act to reduce into one the several acts concerning the town of Greensburg," be, and the saine is, amended as follows, to wit: That the present board of trustees of said town, or, in the event of their failure to do so before the terms of office of its members expire, then any subsequent board elected and chosen under the provisions of section twenty of said act approved April 26th, 1880, shall have the authority and power to organize as a "board of trustees of the town of Style. Greensburg," under the said act, as if the same had been done at the time provided in same. The officers of elections bereafter held for trustees for said town shall make out certificates of the election of each trustee, signed by the clerk of said election, who shall deliver to each person so elected a certificate of his said election, which certificate said person may present to any person authorized to administer an oath, who shall administer to him the constitutional oath, and also the oath provided in section two of said act. Said officer administering said oath shall indorse on said certificate that the holder thereof has had the proper oath administered to him by said officer according to law. When the said newly elected board meets to organize, each holder of such certificates shall produce the same to the clerk, who shall file the same with the records of said board.

§ 2. That said board of trustees, as soon as it organizes under the provisions of said act, shall have the power, upon giving five days' notice, in writing, signed by the clerk of said board and posted upon the court-house door, and three other conspicuous places in said town, to elect a police judge for Police judge. said town to serve for the remainder of the term of four years, beginning the first Saturday in June, 1880, as provided in said act, and said board shall have like power in like man

ner to elect a town marshal for said town, to hold his office Marshal. until the next regular election for same on the first Saturday

in June, 1884; and said board shall have all the powers conferred by said act to appoint such other officers as they shall find necessary.

Commission.

§3. That the said board of trustees, upon electing a policejudge and town marshal, shall make out certificates of their election by said board in duplicate, signed by the clerk and chairman thereof, one of which shall be delivered to the person elected to such office and the other filed with the records of said board. The person elected to the office of police judge of said town shall be commissioned as such by the Qualifications. Governor for the term for which he has been elected. No person shall be elected as such trustee, nor to any office in said town, who does not reside within the corporate limits thereof, nor shall any officer chosen by said board be deemed to be elected unless he shall receive the votes of a majority of the members of said board.

§ 4. Said police judge shall have jurisdiction, in all criminal causes arising in said county of which he does not havefinal jurisdiction, to hold courts of inquiry without associating another judge or justice with him, and shall have all the powers conferred by law upon such courts, and be liableto the like responsibilities, and shall proceed in like manner as required by law for examining courts to proceed in such cases. Said police judge shall have jurisdiction of all penal· offenses where the punishment is limited to a fine of one hundred dollars, and all riots, routs, and breaches of the peace committed in said county. He shall have power torender judgment confining offenders in the county jail in all cases of which he may have jurisdiction, where the penalty is imprisonment, according to the laws of this State, and also to issue capias pro fines for all fines assessed under his jurisdiction, or he may, in default of payment of such fine, render judgment confining said offender in the county jail till he discharges the same as provided by law, and he shall have jurisdiction to render judgment forfeiting any bond taken under the authority of said police court, i e., taken by said court, or by its officers under this act, or by the sheriff of said county executing process from said court.

5. Said police judge shall have jurisdiction within voting. precinct No. 1 of said county of all civil causes of action, except proceedings to sell or divide land, and to settle decedents' estates, and to settle accounts of fiduciaries, where the amount in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, does not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars, excepting also actions of which the county court of said county has exclusive jurisdiction;:

and said court shall have jurisdiction of like actions from other precincts of said county, under the same provisions applying to the quarterly court in like cases. The same laws shall govern the proceedings in said court as in other courts of like jurisdiction; and said judge shall be entitled to the same fees as are allowed in similar cases in courts of like jurisdiction. Said judge shall be, by virtue of his office, clerk of his own court. He shall have the same power to issue warrants in civil cases returnable before justices of the peace in Green county as such justices have, and may try such cases when returned before him from his own and other precincts, under the same conditions and provisions as provided in cases of justices of the peace. Said police court may be held at any and all times for the trial of all criminal and penal offenses in his jurisdiction when the same shall come before him; and he shall hold his courts for the trial of civil causes in the months of March, June, September, and December in each year, on such days as is or may hereafter be fixed by the county court of said county; and said court may adjourn from day to day till its business is disposed of.

6. In case of the absence of said police judge from said town, or where from relationship or other cause he cannot properly preside in the trial of an action, or where an affidavit is filed against him as provided in section 1, article 7, chapter 28, of the General Statutes, unless the parties agree upon a special judge, said police judge, or, in his absence, the county clerk, shall hold an election to elect a special judge to hold said court, or try said cause, in which the attorneys present shall vote and elect a judge possessing the qualifications of a police judge, who shall be duly sworn by the regular judge, if present; if not, by some officer authorized to administer an oath; and said judge shall have all the powers, and be liable to all the responsibilities of the regular judge during the period that he acts: Provided, That if said judge. is elected to try a special cause, then the attorneys interested or employed in said cause shall not vote in said election. In case of a tie, the officer holding the election shall give the casting vote.

§ 7. In case of a vacancy in the office of police judge or town marshal, the said board of trustees, upon giving fivedays' written notice as herein before directed, shall proceed as.