feet owned by the parties respectively within the depth as set out in the ordinance. A lien shall exist for the cost of original improvement of public ways, for the reconstruction of sidewalks, and for the digging and walling of public wells and cisterns; for the apportionment and interest thereon, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, against the respective lots, and payments may be enforced upon the property bound therefor by proceedings in court; and no error in the proceedings of the general council shall exempt from payment. after the work has been done as required by either the ordinance or contract; but the general council, or the courts in which suits may be pending, shall make all corrections, rules, and orders to do justice to all parties concerned, and in no event, if such improvement be made as is provided for either by ordinance or contract, shall the city be liable for such improvement without the right to enforce it against the property receiving the benefit thereof; but no ordinance for any original improvement mentioned in this act shall pass both boards of the general council at the same meeting; and at least two weeks shall elapse between the passage of any such ordinance from one board to the other.

§ 3. The cost of making sidewalks, including curbing, whether by original construction or reconstruction, shall be apportioned to the front foot as owned by the parties repectively fronting said improvement, except that each corner lot shall pay the cost of its sidewalk intersection.

4. The general council may, in its discretion, upon the petition of a majority of the property owners on the part of a public way proposed to be improved, grant them permission to improve said public way, under the supervision of the city engineer, and within such time as may be fixed by the general council. When improvements in public ways have been made, or public wells or cisterns dug and walled, and the contract therefor completed, the city engineer shall, by one insertion in one of the daily newspapers published in Louisville, give notice of the time and place fixed for the inspection and reception of the work by the city engineer, or either of his assistants or deputies, and such owners, their agents and representatives, may appear and be heard before such engineer, his assistant or deputy, as to whether such improvements have been made in accordance with the ordinance authorizing the same and the contract therefor.

§ 5. In all actions to enforce liens as authorized by this act, a copy of the ordinance authorizing the improvement or work, a copy of the contract therefor, and a copy of the apportionment, each attested by the clerk of the board of councilmen, shall be proof conclusive of the due passage, approval, and publication of the ordinance, of the due execution and approval of the contract, and shall be prima facie evidence of every other fact necessary to be established by the plaintiff in such actions to entitle him to the relief authorized to be given in this act; and in all such actions the court shall provide in its order confirming any report of sale that the defendant, or either of them, or any one claiming through or under them, or either of them, or any creditor of theirs, or either of them, may, within two years from the date of such order confirming a report of sale, redeem the land sold by paying to the purchaser the purchase price, with interest thereon from the day of sale at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, and all the taxes and assessments on and against such land paid by such purchaser, with interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent. per annum from the date of such payments; and in the event that there be no redemption within the time allowed, the order of confirmation shall be final, and a deed shall be executed to the purchaser or his assignee.

§ 6. The clerk of the board of councilmen shall make out all apportionment warrants for which liens are given for improvements of public ways, wells, cisterns, and water-plugs, as may be required by ordinance; and within two days thereafter shall enter the same upon a register for that purpose; and when the holder of said warrant shall have obtained payment, he shall notify the clerk of the board of councilmen, and it shall be marked upon the register as paid. The clerk of the board of councilmen shall be allowed a fee of ten cents for the entry and indexing of such lien. A lien shall not be valid against a purchaser for valuable consideration without notice, unless it shall be so entered and registered within three months of the issuing of the apportionment warrant. 7. This act to be in force from its passage.

Approved March 24, 1882.

CHAPTER 564.

AN ACT to incorporate the Providence Male and Female Academy, in the county of Webster.

WHEREAS, W. S. Coleman and Shelby Hicks, of Providence, Webster county, Kentucky, are desirous of establish ing a first-class school, and have made the necessary arrangements for carrying into successful operation said. desire; therefore,

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

§ 1. That W. S. Coleman and Shelby Hicks, their associates Incorporators. and successors (if any), be, and they are hereby, declared and created a body corporate, by the name and style of "The Style. Providence Male and Female Academy," and they and their associates and successors, if any, shall so 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 all courts of law and equity in this Commonwealth; to make, have, and use a common seal, and to break, alter, or amend the same at pleasure, or in lieu of said seal may use a scroll appended to said corporate name, and may, in said corporate name, receive and hold, sell and convey, lands, tenements, hereditaments, moneys, goods, or choses in action by gift, donation, devise, subscription, contract, or purchase heretofore made by said individuals or hereafter to be made, as they may deem necessary for the purpose indicated. Said corporation may sell, lease, or rent real estate for the purposes herein indicated.

§ 2. Said corporation shall have power to employ as many professors, teachers, and instructors as may be deemed necessary at any time for the instruction of the pupils attending said academy, in arts, sciences, and all necessary and useful branches of a thorough and liberal education, and shall have power to make such by-laws for the government of their own body, and such rules and regulations for the government and control of the pupils, as it may deem expedient, and may amend and alter the same at will.

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such diplomas, honors, and degrees as evidences of scholarship as are usual in institutions and colleges of this Commonwealth.

4. Said corporation shall have full and exclusive control of the school referred to in the preamble hereof, and theschool property lying near the corporate limits of the town of Providence, in the county of Webster, consisting of the school building and boarding-house and the four acres of land upon which said buildings stand, and all the appurtenances.

5. The sole power to manage and conduct the fiscal, educational, and other affairs of said academy shall be vested in a board of trustees consisting of two members, who shall be elected biennially by the parties named in the first section hereof, one of whom shall be president of said board and the other secretary and treasurer, and said election shall be held at such times and in such manner as said parties may prescribe; and said board may adopt such by-laws and regulations; not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States or of this State, as they may deem expedient, and alter the same at pleasure.

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

Approved March 24, 1882.

CHAPTER 565.

AN ACT to incorporate the Union Stock-yard Company.

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

§ 1. That Albert A. Stoll, O. W. Thomas, Thos. P. White, George W. Crum, Joseph P. Simmons, jr., John Burnside, Richard Waters, Louis Leib, Henry G. Phillips, John W. Bell, Stephen Snodgrass, W. C. Hall, S. P. Walters, John S. Long John M. Atherton, Charles P. Morman, H. C. Riley, G. C. Wharton, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, created a body corporate, under the name and style of the Union Stock-yard Company; and to have perpetual succession, with. the right to obtain and hold as much real and personal estate as may be necessary, in their opinion, to enable them to carry on their business; and to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all the courts in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and said corpo

ration may have a common seal, and change or alter or renew the same at pleasure.

§ 2. Said Union Stock-yard Company shall be under thecontrol and direction of seven directors, each of whom shall be a stockholder in the same, and a resident of the State of Kentucky. Said directors shall be elected annually on the first Wednesday in May of each succeeding year, and shall hold office until their successors are elected and fully qualified.

§ 3. Said directors shall elect one of their number president; and they shall hold regular meetings at such times, and in such manner, as may be prescribed by the Constitution and by-laws: Provided, however, That their meetings may be had at any time said directors, or a majority thereof, may think necessary for the transaction of business.

4. The principal business of said Union Stock-yard Company shall be the yarding, feeding, and weighing, loading, unloading, and the receiving of live stock for compensation, to be fixed, from time to time, by the board of directors thereof.

§ 5. In case of the death or resignation of any director, the vacancy shall be filled for such unexpired term by the board of directors, unless otherwise provided by the constitution and by-laws of said company.

6. Said corporation may issue stock from time to time, not to exceed one million of dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, and immediately after the passage of this act the incorporators herein named may open books for subscription to the capital stock of said company, or organize and elect a board of directors from among the subscribers, and receive additional subscriptions for and issue as many shares of stock as in their opinion is necessary to raise sufficient funds to begin business: Provided, however, They shall not organize and begin such business until one hundred thousand dollars of stock shall have been subscribed and paid up.

§ 7. Said corporation, upon a vote of a majority in value of the stockholders thereof, may encumber by mortgage any or all of its real and personal estate, whenever such encumbrance shall be deemed beneficial to said corporation, and said corporation shall have full and complete power to erect or lay such railroad tracks, side-tracks, or switches, from time to time, as may be necessary to bring said stock-yard company