Circuit Court; and the State School Book Commission, or any one of the County School Book Commissions in the county where the offense is committed shall have the right to prosecute an action for the breach of said bond, and the fund recovered for the breach herein shall be turned over to the Treasurer of the State of Kentucky for the benefit of the common schools of Kentucky. § 14. Any corporation, firm, partnership or individual that shall contribute any money or thing of value to the campaign fund of any political party, or to the campaign fund of any person who is a candidate for an office in this State, or in any county thereof, or shall contribute to the campaign fund of any person who is a candidate for the nomination for an office at any time after the passage of this act shall not be awarded a contract for the furnishing of school books under the provisions of this act, and it shall be the duty of the State School Book Commission to require of bidders for the school book contract to make an affidavit that this section of this act has not been violated by such bidder, but in the event this section of this act has been violated by any bidder, the bid of such bidder shall not be considered in awarding the contract. Affidavit required of contractor. § 15. It shall be the duty of any individual firm, Agents required. company or corporation securing contracts under the provisions of this act to select or appoint as many agents in each county through which the books provided for shall be supplied, as may be required by the County School Book Commission. § 16. It being important to have the provisions of the uniform system of common school books for use in the State to become operative in its public schools at as early a date as possible to benefit thereby, the people, an emergency is declared to exist, and therefore this act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Became a law February 8, 1904, the Governor not having approved or disapproved the same within the time prescribed by the Constitution. CHAPTER 4. AN ACT adopting as the law of the Commonwealth of Kentucky the edition of the Kentucky Statutes compiled by John D. Carroll and issued in 1903. Carroll's Ky. Stat utes adopted. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the edition of the Kentucky Statutes, compiled and edited by John D. Carroll, and issued in one thousand nine hundred and three, be, and the same is hereby adopted, as the law of the State, and in all actions and proceedings the laws therein contained, from section 1 to section 4879 inclusive, including amendatory or supplemental sec tions, may be cited and referred to as the law of the State by reference to any citation of said sections, and any of the chapters or sections therein may be amended or repealed by the General Assembly in the manner now provided by reference to and citation of the chapter and section without giving the date or title of the act from which the chapter or section is taken: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to render valid any invalid chapter or section or part thereof embraced in said statutes, or to amend, modify or repeal any law or part thereof now in force or effect and not included in said statutes. $ 2. WHEREAS, This act will save a great deal of labor and time in the investigation and enactment of laws, and will prevent confusion and uncertainty, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval by the Governor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the county of Beckham be, and the same Boundary. is hereby, created, and the boundary lines thereof are established as follows: Beginning on three black oaks by the county, or old State road, the corner of John Reid's and Wilburn Hall's and Marion Oldfields' lands, being ten and onehalf miles by survey from Grayson, the present county seat of Carter county, Kentucky; thence south 12 degrees 6' east 36,740 feet to a small locust; thence south 56 degrees west 2,871 feet to a black oak near the open fork of Big Gimlet, thence north 4 degrees 30' west 19,860 feet to a white oak on Mauck Branch so as to exclude William Binion's house; thence with the act of 1869, approved January 26, 1869, making Elliott county; thence with Mauck Ridge to the corner of Rowan, Elliott and Beckham counties; thence north 70 degrees 6' west 14,465 feet; thence north 26 degrees 16' west 70,157 to the point near Briery Creek; thence due north 31,480 feet; thence north 9 degrees 15′ east 65,297 feet; thence due south 12,238 feet to a small hickory and oak on top of Three Prong ridge; thence south 5 degrees 19' west 52,528 feet to the point of beginning. County seat. Magisterial dis tricts. § 2. The seat of government or county-seat of said county is Olive Hill. 3. Said county is, for the present, divided into five magisterial districts, numbered and bounded as follows: District No. 1. Beginning at the point where the line of this county crosses Cave branch; thence with the division line between this county and Carter county to where it crosses Tygart's creek; thence up said Tygart's creek, with the meandering thereof, to the mouth of Jarvis branch; thence up said branch, with the meanderings thereof, including the farms of James Jarvis and Wm. Jordan, to the county road at the head of said branch; thence with the county road to the Corey school-house, on top of the hill; thence with the county road to the Elliott county line, crossing Big Sinking Creek at Providence school-house; thence with the Elliott county line to a set stone in said line, at a point due south from the main forks of Big Sinking Creek; thence with the county road leading to Limestone, but excluding all of Limestone West of the Jack Thompson branch; thence down Tygart's creek to the forks thereof, at the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad bridge, near the residence of ExSenator Carpenter; Carpenter; thence up and with the Fleming Fork of Tygart's creek, to the mouth of Smith's Run creek; thence up said Run to the headwaters thereof, at a set stone on the ridge dividing the waters of said Smith's Run from those of Grassy, near the residence of Samuel J. Rayburn, but excluding it; thence with the top of said ridge to the Joseph Tutt's farm, on the headwaters of Buffalo creek; thence an East course with the top of the ridge that divides the waters of Buffalo and Smoky creeks, to where the old Oakland school-house was burned; thence down Cave branch to the beginning. District No. 2. Beginning at the point where the line between Beckham and Carter counties crosses Tygart's creek; thence following the division line, between said counties to the line of Elliott county; thence with the Elliott county line to the corner of District No. 1; hence with the boundary lines of District No. 1, to the beginning. District No. 3. creek, at road bridge, a Beginning at the forks of Tygart's Chesapeake and Ohio Railcorner of District No. 1, and thence thence with the line of District No. 1 to the Elliott county line; thence with the line of Elliott county to where it intersects the line of Rowan county; thence with the Rowan county line to a set stone on top of the ridge which divides the waters of Tygart's creek from those of Kinniconick creek; thence with the top of said ridge to the corner of District No. 1, near the residence of Samuel J. Rayburn and including it; thence with the boundary line of District No. 1 to the beginning. District No. 4. Beginning at the corner of District No. 1, at the Joseph Tutt's farm; thence running on top of the ridge dividing the waters of Buffalo creek from those of Laurel creek to the Lewis county line; thence with the line of Lewis county to the line of Greenup county; thence with the line of Greenup county to the line of Carter county; thence with the line of Carter county to the beginning. District No. 5.- Beginning at a set stone in the Rowan county line, a corner of District No. 3; thence with the line of District No. 3 in an east course to the corner of District No. 4, at the Joseph Fults' farm; thence with the north line of District No. 4 to the line |