originally commenced in said court, and said court shall have fall power to try and determine the same.

§ 3. That the records of said court shall be deemed the Records. records of the said circuit court as fully, and to all intents and purposes, as if they had originally belonged to the said circuit court; and it shall have the same power over them, and of all proceedings growing out of them, in like manner as of its own records; and the clerk and judge shall have full power to certify copies thereof, and to do and perform any and all other acts and duties necessary to carry into full force and effect the provisions of this act.

cess.

4. That the sheriff and other like officers, to whom process Return of proor other writs may have been issued and delivered, shall return all such process, writs, &c., to the circuit court clerk of the county from which the same issued; and said officers shall be responsible in like manner as for process, writs, &c, issued from the circuit courts of this State.

§ 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of August next.

Approved February 4, 1880.

CHAPTER 133.

AN ACT to regulate the fees of justices of the peace for holding levy courts, &c., in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

regulated.

§1. That the fees of justices of the peace for the Common Fees of justices wealth of Kentucky shall hereafter be two dollars per day for holding the court of claims or transacting any other business, when they are required to assemble as a court by exist. ing law for county purposes.

sage.

2. This act shall take effect and be in force from its pas

Approved February 5, 1880.

Master commismoney in their

sioners to report

of court.

CHAPTER 134.

AN ACT in relation to master and special commissioners and receivers of the various courts of this Commonwealth.

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

§ 1. That it shall be the duty of the various circuit judges of this Commonwealth to cause the master commissioners, special commissioners, and receivers of their respective courts, to make report, under oath, of the amount of money remaining in their hands and collected by them, in all cases in which they may have collected funds from any source; such reports to give the style of the action, and the amount of money in their hands, on the first day of each circuit court, and said report to be filed in court.

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

Approved February 5, 1880.

CHAPTER 148.

AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act to create a criminal court in the sixteenth judicial district, and to transfer the records and causes therein pending to the circuit court of said district."

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

§ 1. That an act, entitled "An act to establish a criminal Criminal court in Court in the sixteenth judicial district" be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and said court is abolished.

sixteenth district repealed.

to circuit court.

2. That all penal and criminal causes and proceedings. Cases transferred now pending in said court shall be transferred to the circuit court of the county in which they are pending, and shall be placed on the docket of said court, in the same manner as if originally commenced in said court, and said court shall have full power to try and determine the same.

Records.

3. That the records of said court shall be deemed the records of said circuit court as fully, and to all intents and purposes, as if they had originally belonged to the said circuit court, and it shall have the same power over them, and of all proceedings growing out of them, in like manner as of its own records; and the clerk and judge shall have full power to certify copies thereof, and to do and perform any and all

other acts and duties necessary to carry into full force and effect the provisions of this act.

turn process.

§ 4. That the sheriff and other like officers, to whom pro- How sheriff to recess or other writs may have been issued and delivered, shall return all such process, writs, &c., to the circuit court clerk of the county from which the same issued; and said officers shall be responsible in like manner as for process, writs, &c., issued from the circuit courts of this State.

5. That this act shall take effect from and after the first day of August next.

Approved February 5, 1880.

CHAPTER 153.

AN ACT amending an act, entitled "An act for the incorporation and reg. ulation of life insurance companies," approved March 12, 1870.

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

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panies regulat

§ 1. That section (2) two of chapter (1) first of the Public Insurance Acts, passed at the session of the General Assembly 1869 and ing. 1870, be amended by striking out all after the word "provided," in the seventh line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the following, i. e., that companies authorized by the laws of any other State of the United States to do both life and accident insurance business, and which are now transacting either a life or accident business in this State under the authority of its laws, may make insurances upon the lives of individuals, and every insurance appertaining thereto or connected therewith, and may grant, purchase, or dispose of annuities, and renew or continue any life or accident policies. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1880.

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ward.

CHAPTER 156.

AN ACT to repeal an act authorizing a reward for killing wolves, red foxes, grey foxes, and wild cats.

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

§ 1. That an act, entitled “An act authorizing a reward for Wolves and foxes killing wolves, red foxes, grey foxes, and wild cats," approved February 13th, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, repeated. 2. That this act be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 6, 1880.

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Mechanical Col

lege.

CHAPTER 157.

AN ACT to locate the Agricultural and Mechanical College. WHEREAS, By an act of the General Assembly of Kentucky, approved March 13, 1878, a commission, styled the Agricultural and Mechanical College Commission," was appointed to recommend to the present General Assembly, as Agricultural and the future and ultimate location of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, that place which shall present the best and greatest inducements, all things considered; and whereas, said commission, through its chairman ex officio, did advertise for and receive bids from such localities as desired the permanent and ultimate location of said Agricultural and Mechanical College in their midst; and whereas, the report of said commission shows that on the 14th of August, 1879, said commission, sitting in the city of Louisville, did, upon opening and considering said bids, resolve by a majority thereof that the city of Lexington and county of Fayette did offer the best and greatest inducements, all things considered, for the permanent and ultimate location of said college; and whereas, by said bids made by the city of Lexington and county of Fayette, the city council of Lexington did offer and tender to the State of Kentucky―(1) the city park of said city of Lexington, property unincumbered and owned in fee by the said city of Lexington, as the site of said. Agricultural and Mechanical College, its buildings, dormitories, shops, &c.: Provided, however, That if, at any time, said city park shall cease to be the site of said college, it shall revert to the city of Lexington; and (2), thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) in city bonds of the city of Lexington, to be

Act locating.

used for the erection of college buildings, dormitories, shops, &c., on said city park, the title to all of which shall be vested in the State of Kentucky so long as said city park, buildings, dormitories, shops, &c., shall be used as the site of said college; and if at any time it and they shall cease to be so used, it and they shall revert to the city of Lexington; and the county of Fayette, through its properly constituted authorities, offers and tenders to the State of Kentucky twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in county bonds of said county, to be used for the erection of buildings on said city park of the city of Lexing. ton for the use of said Agricultural and Mechanical College, or for the purchase of lands near or adjacent to the city of Lexington for the use of said college, the title to all of which Title in the State shall be vested in the State of Kentucky so long as said. buildings or said lands shall be used for the site of said Agricultural and Mechanical College, or for any part of the legitimate operations thereof; and if at any time they shall cease to be so used, said buildings or lands shall revert to the said used. county of Fayette; therefore,

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

To revert when

they cease to be

§1. That the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Ken- Location. tucky be, and hereby is, located and established in or near the city of Lexington, and within the county of Fayette, upon the conditions expressed in the bids made by the city of Lexington and county of Fayette, and recommended to this General Assembly by the said Agricultural and Mechanical College Commission.

Approved February 6, 1880.

CHAPTER 172.

AN ACT to repeal section second of an act, entitled "An act making further. appropriations for re-building the Capitol," and withdrawing the room appropriated by the commissioners under said act for the use of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States.

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

§ 1. That section second of an act, entitled "An act making a further appropriation for re-building the Capitol," approved January 29, 1829, be, and the same is hereby, repealed,