8. The provisions and benefits of this act may not only apply to parties who are wholly indigent, but may apply to such parties as cannot obtain the necessary provisions to enable them to make a crop for the year 1882.

9. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Approved March 24, 1882.

CHAPTER 557.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Richmond Gas-light Company," approved February 9, 1874.

WHEREAS, Some doubt has arisen as to the authority of the Richmond Gas-light Company to borrow money to operate and carry on the business of said company, and to bind the corporate property for the payment of money so borrowed; now, therefore,

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

§ 1. That it shall be lawful for the directors of the Rich mond Gas-light Company, whenever there is duly entered upon the book of said company an order to that effect, to borrow from individuals or corporations any money necessary to operate and carry on the business of said company, not exceeding an amount equal to one half of the paid-up capital stock of said company; and the note of said company, signed by the president thereof, shall be evidence of any such debt, and the property of the corporation be liable for the pay. ment of same.

§2. The board of directors of the Richmond Gas-light Company shall have power, by an order entered upon the book of said company, to authorize the president of the company to mortgage any part or all of the property of said company to secure the payment of any note or notes now owing by said company, or that may herafter be created by said company under the first section of this act; and when any such mortgage is signed and acknowledged by the president of said company as all mortgages are required by law to be signed and acknowledged, the same shall be lawful and binding upon the property included in such mortgage.

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

Approved March 24, 1882.

CHAPTER 558.

AN ACT to incorporate the Oakland Cemetery Company.

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

§ 1. That B. C. Gosney, W. C. Hopkins, H. M. Aulick, Arthur Byrd, and Albert Hopkins, their successors and associates, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body-corporate, under the name and style of Oakland Cemetery Company; and by that name they shall have power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued; use a common seal; make all necessary by-laws, rules and regulations, for its government, not inconsistent with law and the provisions hereof, and do such other things as are incident to such a corporation, and necessary to effect the object and purpose thereof, which is to provide a suitable place for the burial of the dead, at or near Grant's Lick, Campbell county, Kentucky.

§ 2. Said corporation shall have the power to take, acquire, and hold, by purchase, gift, or devise, for the purpose aforesaid, any quantity of land at or near Grant's Lick, and in Campbell county, not exceeding (30) thirty acres, and receive a conveyance of the same in its corporate name, which land when so conveyed shall be held by said corporation for ? cemetery, and shall never be alienated or used by said corporation for any other purpose; and said land and its appur. tenances shall be free and exempt forever from all taxation, and from executions, attachments, and other legal process, and from any charge, liability, or assignment to or for any public purpose, inconsistent with its use as a cemetery, to which use it is hereby forever dedicated.

§3. Said corporation shall cause a plat or plan to be made of the land so acquired, dividing said land into avenues, walks, and burial lots, and designating said avenues by name, and said burial lots by number. After said land is thus laid off, the corporation shall have power to sell said burial lots in such manner and on such terms as may be prescribed by the board of directors of said corporation.

§ 4. Each owner of a lot in said cemetery, upon a production of a receipt in full for the price of the lot purchased by him from one or more of the directors of said corporation, shall be entitled to a conveyance of said lot, which conveyLOC. L., VOL. 1—62

ance shall be made by a certificate of the board, and countersigned by the acting secretary of the corporation, specifying that such purchaser is the owner of said lot or lots, whichcertificate shall be recorded on the books of said company, and such certificate shall invest the fee-simple right and title in and to such lot or lots in the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, forever, free and exempt from all assessments, taxations, execations, or other legal process, and shall have the same legal purpose or effect the same as deeds duly executed, delivered, and recorded; but said lots shall be held by the purchasers thereof subject to the by-laws, rules and regulations of the corporation and its board of directors; and said lots shall never be used by the purchaser for any other purpose than for the burial of the dead, and if applied to any other purpose, the right and title shall be reverted to the corporation.

§ 5. Each person receiving a certificate as aforesaid for one or more lots, shall become, and be considered thereafter, a member of this corporation, and he or she shall have a vote in all meetings of the corporation.

6. The affairs and business of the corporation shall be managed by a board of five directors, all of whom shall belot-owners in said cemetery. The board of directors shall be elected annually by the members of the corporation, and shall hold office for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified. They may choose a president out of their number. They may appoint a secretary and treasurer, who shall give such bond as may be required for the faithful performance of his duties. All vacancies shall be filled by appointment made by the president.

§ 7. The board of directors shall have control of all thebusiness transactions of the corporation; shall collect and expend all money; shall have complete control of the cemetery grounds, and to prescribe rules for inclosing, adorning, and erecting monuments or vaults upon the cemetery grounds, and shall have the power to prohibit any use, division, or adornment of a lot which they may deem improper, or may abate or alter the same. At the regular meeting of the corporation, which shall be called annually by the board of directors upon such day as they may deem proper, the said board of directors shall report their acts and the conditions of the same.

§ 8. The persons herein before mentioned shall constitute the first board of directors of the corporation.

9. If any person shall willfully and without lawful authority violate any of the graves of the dead, or deface or remove any of the tombstones, monuments, or inclosures, or cut, break, or injure any tree, shrub, or plant, or other ornament of said cemetery, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and besides being liable to the owner of the lot, or the corporation, for the damage or the injury done, he shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars for each offense, upon conviction in any court having jurisdiction thereof. Power is hereby given or conferred upon each of the directors having charge of this corporation, and upon the superintendent appointed to take charge of said cemetery, to arrest, without warrant, and take before the proper officer and tribunal, to be dealt with according to law; also any person or persons allowing their horse, cow, hog, sheep, goat, or any other domestic animal or fowl, to run on or injure said grounds, or any of the monuments, tombstones, tree, shrub, or plant, or any thing thereon, shall be subject, for each offense, to arrest, and fined not less than three nor over five dollars, and shall pay for the damage done, said damage to be assessed by the board of directors of said corporation. § 10. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved March 24, 1882.

CHAPTER 559.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Robards, in Henderson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That Robards Station, Henderson county, Kentucky, be, and it is hereby, incorporated as a town, to be called and known as Robards; and that the boundaries thereof shall be Style. run so as to embrace within its limits the following property, to-wit: Beginning at a black oak six inches in diameter stand- Boundary. ing on the west side of the Knob Lick Road, near the house of Moses Castin, a freedman; thence south 663 degrees west (passing the middle of the Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern Railroad at 70 poles and 3 links) 136 poles to a black oak, four inches in diameter, standing north 661

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degrees east 10 links from the line of J. D. Robards and Wm. Eblen; thence north 23 degrees west (passing the line of Robards and Eblen at 1 pole and 2 links), in all 40 poles and 9 links, to a stake in Wm. Eblen's field; thence south 663 degrees west 28 poles to a stake in Felix Eakin's field and near a cabin; thence north 23 degrees west (passing the line of Felix Eakin's and A. B. Duncan's at 13 poles), in all 45 poles and 15 links to a stake 15 feet from the line of A. B. Duncan and J. W. Otey, and in the north line of the Morganfield road; thence through the land of J. W. Otey north 82 degrees west 93 poles and 20 links to a stake on the north side of a fence; thence with said fence due east 74 poles and 16 links to a stake in the middle of the Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern Railroad 19 feet and 2 inches from a stake on the west side of the said railroad; thence with the middle of said railroad south 24 degrees east 30 poles and 221 links to a stake in the line of the most northerly street of Robards' Station, and corner to the land of James Triplett, 18 feet from a stake on the east side of said railroad; thence north 66 degrees east (passing a stake corner to the lands of James Triplett and S. H. Toy), at in all 71 poles and 10 links to a stake in S. H. Toy's field; thence south 234 degrees east 116 poles to the beginning, which courses and distances aforesaid are the boundaries and lines of the town of Robards, and all the territory inclusive shall constitute said town, together with such streets and squares as are now run and laid off, as by the plat and field notes of R. S. Eastin, county surveyor, which plat and field notes it may be lawful to record in any deed-book of the Henderson county court clerk's office upon paying to the clerk thereof the usual fee for similar work in recording a map or plat and accompanying report.

§ 2. That all the financial and municipal affairs of said town shall be vested in five trustees, who shall be elected every two years; and no person shall be eligible to the office of trustee except a resident of said town. Said trustees shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified. They shall have power to fill vacancies in their own body occurring by reason of death, removal, or resignation. A majority of said trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.