which is or may be taxable within the limits of said school district No. 4 shall be bound for the payment of the bonds, with their interest. The taxable property in said school district shall be ascertained from the assessor's books of Greenup county for each year. The tax herein authorized shall be collected for the year 1882, and continue from year to year until all of said bonds and interest are paid off in full, and then said tax shall cease.

§ 18. The property of white persons only shall be taxed for the purposes herein indicated.

19. The board of education are hereby authorized and empowered to assess, levy, and collect, an annual tax, not to exceed fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars in value of real and personal property in said school district, to be collected and paid to the treasurer of the board of education for the purpose of the payment of teachers and furnishing fuel and other incidental expense of the school in said district.

§ 20. That it shall be the duty of the board of education to have an assessment made of all the property of white persons situated in said school district subject to taxation for State revenue, and also to list the white voters living in said district for capitation tax, and assess the tax thereon as provided for in sections seventeen and nineteen of this act; and they shall place said assessment and tax-list in the hands of the sheriff of Greenup county, taking the sheriff's receipt therefor, whose duty it shall be to collect the same; and he shall have the same powers of levy and distress in collecting the same that sheriffs have in collecting taxes assessed for State revenue purposes. That said sheriff shall, within two months after said lists are placed in his hands, pay one half of said taxes to the treasurer of said corporation, and the other one half of said taxes to the said treasurer within four months from the day of receipt of said list, subject, however, to the law relating to delinquent tax-payers for State revenue purposes and county levy. The sheriff shall be allowed six per cent. commission for collecting any tax authorized by this act, and no more. The said sheriff, with his surety, shall be liable on his official bond for all money collected by himself or depu. ties under the provisions of this act.

§ 21. If the sheriff, whose duty it is made by section twen. ty of this act to collect all taxes herein authorized by the LOC. L., VOL. I-61

provisions of this act, for the benefit of this corporation, shall fail to pay the same over to the persons entitled to receive it when due and demanded, or should make any false report, statement, or evasion of facts which should in any way deprive any person of any part of the school fund that might be due them.

22. The board of education shall proceed, immediately after their election, to the erection of such buildings as they may deem necessary, and such buildings shall be completed and furnished in good condition within two years from the passage of this act.

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

Approved March 23, 1882.

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CHAPTER 545.

AN ACT to incorporate Highland College.

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

§ 1. That an institution of learning be, and the same is hereby, incorporated and established at Frenchburg, Menifee county, Kentucky, to be known by the name of Highland College.

2. That J. F. Greer, S. M. Vanarsdell, J. M. Oliver, James Armitage, sr., J. K. Bates, and B. F. Day shall be, and they and their successors in office are hereby, constituted a bodypolitic and corporate, to be known by the name of the Trustees of Highland College; and by that name shall have perpetual succession and existence, and a common seal, which they may alter at pleasure.

§3. That said trustees may raise by subscription a capital stock not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, payable in shares of twenty-five dollars each, payable at such time as the board may direct, to purchase necessary grounds, and erect necessary buildings, and endow said college; and when, in their judgment, a sufficient amount of money is subscribed, the stockholders shall meet and elect of their number five trustees, who shall govern said college until their successors are elected and qualified; and said stockholders may elect trustees annually at such time and manner as they may deem

best; and each share shall be entitled to one vote in elections § 4. That said trustees may appoint one of their members and stockholders' meetings.

president, and fill any vacancy occurring in said body; and may appoint all necessary officers, and may require and take good bond to discharge such duties as may be required of

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$5. That no teacher shall be employed by the trustees of Teachers. said college, unless he or she shall have a first-class certificate from some board of examiners of common school teachers in

this State.

§ 6. That the common school of Frenchburg district No. 1 shall be taught in said college, subject to the regulations of said trustees and the common school laws of the State of Ken tucky, and said board of trustees shall be entitled to receive the common school fund to which said district may be entitled: Provided, That each white child in said district within the common school age shall, free of charge, have the privlege of attending and being taught in said college at least five months in each scholastic year.

§ 7. That said corporation is hereby vested with power to Diplomas. grant diplomas in conformity with the provisions of its bylaws, and said trustees shall have full power to make and enforce all necessary by-laws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this Commonwealth for the government and regulation of said college.

§ 8. The town of Frenchburg may, by its trustees, subscribe Subscription. to the capital stock of said company any sum they deem right, not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars, and may issue the bonds of said town, payable at any time within thirty years after date, with such rate of interest as the trustees of said town may think best, not exceeding six per cent. per annum, in payment of said subscription; or said town, by its trustees and by proper orders, may, as an endowment fund, agree to pay said college any sum per annum they may think proper and right, and upon such term as may to them appear equitable and just: Provided, however, That said town shall, in no event, subscribe, on any condition, any sum to said college until a majority of the legal voters of said town have filed with the said trustees of said town a written petition asking such subscription.

9. Said corporation shall have power to issue and sell May issue bonds. bonds for the purpose of buying necessary land or building, and erecting any necessary buildings deemed necessary to meet the wants of said college: Provided, That at no time shall the amount of said bonds exceed one half of the capital stock subscribed: And provided further, That said bonds shall not run for a longer period than thirty years, and the interest thereon shall not exceed six per cent. per annum.

§ 10. That the private property of the stockholders of said college shall not be liable for the debts of said college. § 11. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved March 23, 1882.

CHAPTER 546.

AN ACT for the benefit of the Salt Well and Irvinsville, and the Helena, Beaver Creek and Salt Well Turnpike Road Companies, in Nicholas county. WHEREAS, It is represented to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky that the completion of the Salt Well and Irvinsville, and the Helena, Beaver Creek and Salt Well Turnpike Roads (a distance of about eight miles), in Nicholas county, Kentucky, will be of great practical benefit to the entire western portion of said county, and that the additional appropriation from the Nicholas county court of three hundred dollars per mile will insure the early completion of said road; therefore,

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

§ 1. That the judge of the Nicholas county court be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to appropriate and subscribe to the capital stock of the Salt Well and Irvinsville, and the Helena, Beaver Creek and Salt Well Turnpike Road Companies, in Nicholas county, Kentucky, the sum of three hundred dollars per mile in addition to the amount he is now authorized to subscribe to the capital stock of turnpike roads by law; said subscription to be made upon the same condi tions and provisions as he is now authorized to subscribe money to the capital stock in turnpike roads in said county. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 23, 1882.

CHAPTER 547.

AN ACT to authorize the county courts of Metcalfe and Monroe counties to borrow money for the benest of the poor of said counties, and to provide for the payment thereof.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the county courts of Metcalfe and Monroe coun- Issue bonds ties are authorized and empowered to borrow any amount of money, not to exceed twenty-five hundred dollars each, to buy provisions for the destitute poor persons in said counties, and the same to be distributed under the order of said courts, and issue the obligation or obligations of said counties for the sum or sums so borrowed, to be signed by the county judge, and countersigned by the county court clerk of said counties, said sum or sums to be borrowed on such time as may be fixed by the county courts, not to exceed two years.

§ 2. In order to raise the fund to pay said obligations, said Levy county courts are authorized to levy an ad valorem tax on the taxable property of their respective counties, to be collected as the State revenue is now collected.

§3 It shall be the duty of the county judge of said counties to call the county courts together for the purpose of considering the propriety of borrowing and appropriating said money.

4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Approved March 23, 1882.

CHAPTER 548.

AN ACT to prohibit the selling, vending, or giving of any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in the town of Arlington, in Ballard county, or wi hin two miles thereof.

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

§ 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to either directly or indirectly sell, vend, or give any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or a mixture thereof, within the corporate limits of the town of Arlington, in Ballard county, or Boundary.. within two miles thereof.

§ 2. For any violation of this act the person or persons so Fine. offending shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more