I 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and shall repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with its provisions. This act shall be enforced two years from its passage. Approved April 19, 1880. CHAPTER 1020. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “An act to amend chapter 92. article 8, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth § 1. That said act and amendments thereto, be amended so as to permit the owner or owners of such real estate as has been sold for taxes due the Commonwealth, or other back taxes on real estate, to redeem the same from the State of Kentucky, by paying the original tax and interest on the same from the time they were due, or of said sale, at the rate of six per cent. and the accrued costs: Provided, Said payment be made by the first day of January, 1881, and provided the title thereto has not been conveyed by the Commonwealth to other parties. §2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Gen Stat., chap 14, page 7,34— 92, art. 8, section revenue and tax ation. Approved April 22, 1880. CHAPTER 1028. AN ACT to amend section 4, chapter 110, title "Turnpike, Gravel, and Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth § 1. That section 4 of chapter 110, title "Turnpike, Gravel, and Plank Roads," of General Statutes, be amended by in serting after the word "State," in the first line, and before the word "has," in same line," the words "or county;" and by striking out the word "may" after the word "interest," in the second line, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "shall:" Provided, That if any other person than scholars Gen. Stat, chap 822. 110, sec. 4. page Scholars exempt going to or returning from school, and the driver, shall oc from toll in going and returning cupy a vehicle, full toll shall be charged and collected for from school. such vehicle. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 22, 1880. fertilizer to re port to Commis sioner of Agricul ture. CHAPTER 1029. AN ACT to pr vent fraud in the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers in this Commonwealth. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be the duty of all persons engaged in the Manufactures of manufacture and sale of fertilizing material in this Commonwealth to send a sample of said article to the Commissioner of Agriculture at Frankfort for inspection, and shall also, with each sample, send a written statement of the ingredients of which said fertilizing material is composed, giving the proportion of each. Penalty for sell ing without, &c. 2. Any person or persons engaged in said manufacture or sale, who shall fail to send to the Commissioner of Agriculture samples, with a written statement accompanying same, as required in section first of this act, or who shall sell any fertilizing material composed of any ingredients not made known to the purchaser, or not in the proportion as represented, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense. §3. That any and all persons engaged in the manufacture Certificate of Or sale of commercial fertilizers shall secure from the Com Commissioner. Penalty for fail ure. missioner of Agriculture a certificate that samples sent to said department contain the proportion of each constituent represented by said manufacturer or vender to contain. 84. That any person or persons so engaged, who shall fail to secure such a certificate from the Commissioner of Agriculture, shall be deemed as selling fraudulent fertilizers, and guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense. § 5. Every person in this State who shall dispose of any Name or trade commercial fertilizer, by sale or otherwise, shall affix to every barrel, sack, box, or package thereof, in a conspicuous place mark to be af fixed. on the outside thereof, a plainly written or printed certificate, bearing a name or trade-mark by which such fertilizer may be known and designated, and specifying the name and residence of the manufacturer or vender, and the date of the manufacture of such fertilizer. The said certificate shall also specify the percentages which such fertilizer contains of phosphoric acid soluble in water, of total phosphoric acid of potash, of nitrogen soluble in water, and of total nitrogen, or the equivalent ammonia. ure to affix. § 6. For failing to affix to every such barrel, sack, box, or Penalty for failpackage of fertilizer the certificate herein before required, the party disposing of such barrel, sack, box, or package shall forfeit to the purchaser thereof the sum of one hundred dollars; and for affixing a false certificate to any barrel, sack, box, or package of fertilizer, the party disposing of such barrel, sack, box, or package shall forfeit to the purchaser thereof the sum of two hundred dollars. § 7. Whenever a correct chemical analysis, by the depart Deficiency. ment of agriculture, of any commercial fertilizer disposed of in this State shall show a deficiency of not more than one fourth of one per cent. of any one of the chemical substances whose percentages are specified in the certificate herein before required, such certificate shall not be deemed false within the meaning of this act. § 8. For the recovery of the forfeitures provided in the sixth section of this act, the purchaser of any commercial fertilizer may bring an action, which shall be tried in the county in which said purchaser resides. 9. The term "commercial fertilizer," used in this act, shall be taken to mean any and every substance imported, manufactured, prepared, or disposed of for fertilizing or manuring purposes: Provided, however, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to mari, or to fertilizers disposed of at one half cent or less per pound, nor to guano, the chemical composition of which has not been changed by the vender or any other person since its importation. § 10. This act shall take effect on the 15th day of March, 1880. Suit may be brought in the county. Commercial fer tilizers-what deemed. PUB. L.-7 Approved April 22, 1880. General Statutes, chapter 42. sec tion 19, page 484. Ferries. CHAPTER 1030. AN ACT to amend section 19, chapter 42, General Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section 19, chapter 42, of the General Statutes, be amended as follows, viz: Any one who shall, without reward, transport any person or thing across the Ohio river within one quarter of a mile of an established ferry, unless it be the owner of an established ferry on the other side of the Ohio river, so transporting to such point on this side of said river, and owner or lessee, or servant of the owner of a ferry on the other side of said river, or any other person who shall so transport from this side, without reward, shall be subject to the penalties and responsibilities now provided in said section nineteen; and any one violating the provision of said section, or as amended by this act, shall be also fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars, to be tried before a justice of the peace: Provided, That this act is not intended to apply to any bona fide owner of a skiff or other water-craft, who may transport their property and families across said river, or any man from inviting his neighbor or a party of friends to cross with him in his own boat. §2. This act shall only apply to the ferry at Hawesville. §3. This act shall take effect in thirty days after its passage. Approved April 22, 1880. McCracken, Bal CHAPTER 1043. AN ACT to regulate the civil jurisdiction of the circuit courts of McCracken, Ballard, and Hickman during the time the common pleas court exists in said counties of McCracken, Ballard, and Hickman. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That during the time the court of common pleas exists Circuit courts of and is held in the counties of McCracken, Ballard, and HickJard, and Hickman, the circuit courts of said counties of McCracken, Balman-jurisdiction lard, and Hickman shall have no civil jurisdiction whatever; and if any civil suits shall be brought in either of said counties after this act takes effect, and while the court of common pleas exists by law in said counties, or one or more of said counties, then as to such county or counties in which the court of common pleas exists, all such civil suits shall be dis- Approved April 22, 1880. CHAPTER 1068. AN ACT to give the consent of the State of Kentucky to the acquisition by the United States of lands within said State for the purpose of constructing a canal around the falls of the Cumberland river, and ceding jurisdiction over the same. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Consent of Kens tucky for United canal at falls of Cumber land. $1. That the consent of the State of Kentucky is hereby given to the acquisition, by donation, purchase, or condemnation, by the United States, of such lands as may be deemed necessary for the construction of a canal around the falls of the Cumberland river in Whitley county, and the construction of such buildings and structures as may be necessary in connection therewith; and jurisdiction over said lands and buildings is hereby ceded to the United States, to be exercised in conformity to the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, and of the laws of the United States in accordance therewith: Provided, however, And this cession is made upon the express condition that the State of Kentucky shall so far retain jurisdiction with the United States, in and over the Retains jurisdis land so acquired, and all buildings and structures erected thereon, that all civil and criminal process, issued under the authority of this State, or any officer thereof, may be executed on said lands, and in the buildings that may be erected thereon, in the same manner as if jurisdiction had not been ceded as aforesaid; and all crimes committed on said lands shall be cognizant by the State courts as though this act had not been made. |