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liquors on prescription from regular practicing physicians, in less or larger quantities than a quart, shall pay a sum not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars per annum for such license.

§ 4. That all acts or parts of acts conflicting with this act is hereby repealed.

§ 5. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved February 11, 1880.

CHAPTER 199.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Merchants Banking Company of Caverna, Kentucky," which became a law February 7, 1873.

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

§ 1. That an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Merchants' Banking Company of Caverna, Kentucky," which became a law February 7th, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the three last words of said corporate name, leaving its name the Merchants' Banking Company. Said corporation shall have, under the name and style of the Merchants' Banking Company, the same rights and privileges. to do a general banking business in the town of Horse Cave, in Hart county, Kentucky, and shall be under the same responsibilities and liabilities as it formerly had and was subject to under the name of the Merchants' Banking Company of Caverna, Kentucky, in the town of Caverna, Kentucky. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 200.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to charter the Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad Company," approved March 10, 1868.

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

§ 1. That an act to amend an act, entitled "An act to charter the Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad Company," approved March 10, 1868, be amended as follows: That the remedy given by said act of March 10, 1868, for the collection

of the bonds and coupons authorized to be issued, and which were in fact issued under and by authority of said amended act, is hereby declared to be exclusive of all other remedies, and it shall apply to the collection of all bonds and coupons issued as aforesaid; and to all actions, suits, and motions now pending, or which may hereafter be brought, for the collection of any such bonds, coupons, or judgments, that have been or may hereafter be rendered upon any such bonds or coupons.

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

Approved February 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 201.

AN ACT for the benefit of the town of Sherburne, of Fleming county, Kentucky.

WHEREAS, It appears that the first recorded plat of the town of Sherburne proves not to be the plat ordered to record by the charter, approved February 17th, 1847; and whereas, the plat named in said charter has since been recorded as directed by said charter; and for remedy whereof,

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

tablished.

§ 1. That the original plat made by Joseph Patterson be, Original plat esand the same is hereby, established with its streets and alleys.

prohibited.

§ 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons Sale of liquor to sell, give, or loan, directly or indirectly, any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, or a mixture of either, within the town of Sherburne, or within one mile of the corporate limits of said town, even should that distance reach into the limits of another county.

§ 3. That it shall be unlawful for any county court, or any person or persons, to grant a license to any person or persons, to sell, by wholesale or retail, any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within the town of Sherburne, or within one mile of the corporate limits thereof.

§ 4. That any person or persons violating the provisions of this act, for every separate offense shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered by presentment of the grand jury, and collected as other fines are now by law collected.

Granting liquor ed.

license prohibit

erect a station

house.

5. That the trustees shall have power to use the funds

Trustees may belonging to said town to build and keep a station-house or prison for the confinement of disorderly and drunken persons, and work such offenders on the streets of said town for the fines assessed against them. For each offense said prisoner to be allowed one dollar per day until said fines are paid, and be cared for and fed by the trustees of said town during their confinement.

May collect rents

on streets and

aleys closed up.

6. That the trustees of said town shall have power to collect rents on all streets and alleys inclosed by any citizen or citizens, in proportion to the amount so inclosed for a greater or less amount, not to exceed ten cents for each fifteen by sixty feet, and in that proportion for greater or less amounts.

$7. That nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to distillers or manufacturers of spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors within said boundary, who sell in quantities of not less than five gallons at one time.

§ 8. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 11, 1880.

CHAPTER 202.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act in relation to the collection of the turnpike road tax in Lewis county."

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

1. That an act, entitled "An act in relation to the collection of the turnpike road tax in Lewis county," be so amended as that the tax-payers, in so far as the Concord and Tollsborough Turnpike Road, in said county, is concerned, shall have time until the first day of December, in each year, to pay their tax, instead of the time now provided by law, and the sheriff of said county shall have time until the first day of May in each year, to make settlement of his accounts in regard to said Concord and Tollsborough Turnpike Road tax.

2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

§3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 11, 1880

CHAPTER 204.

AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the town of Millerstown, in Grayson county.

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

§ 1. That section ten of an act to incorporate the town of Millerstown, in the county of Grayson, be amended by adding thereto the following provisions, viz: Provided, That in case of a vacancy occurring in the office of police judge or town. marshal of said town by death, resignation, failure to elect, or other cause, it shall be the duty of the county judge of Grayson county, on satisfactory information of such vacancy, to fill the same by appointment until the next regular election of such officers as provided by said act. Said appointees shall qualify and execute bond within ten days after their appointment, and shall enter upon the duties of their offices as soon as they shall have qualified.

$2. The police judge of said town shall have jurisdiction to try all infractions of the by-laws and ordinances of said town, and to assess the fines without the intervention of a jury, where the fine is less than twenty dollars.

§3. The police judge shall also have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace of riots, routs, and breaches of the peace, and of all violations of the penal laws of this Commonwealth, as provided in General Statutes and Criminal Code of Practice of this State

§ 4. The town marshal shall be ex officio collector of all taxes assessed for the benefit of said town, and shall be responsible therefor on his official bond.

§ 5. Both the police judge and town marshal shall execute bond with good security, to be approved by the county judge of Grayson county, for the faithful discharge of their duties. § 6. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved February 11, 1880.

CHAPTER 205.

AN ACT to authorize the county court of Woodford county to issue bonds to improve and enlarge the court-house of said county.

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

$1. That the county court of Woodford county be, and

said court is hereby, authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of said county to an extent not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, for the purpose of improving and enlarging the court-house of said county.

§ 2. Said bonds shall be made payable in not less than one nor more than three years from their dates respectively, and shall bear six per cent. interest per annum from date, payable annually, and shall be signed by the county judge of said county, attested by the county clerk, and have the seal of the county affixed thereto.

$ 3. Said bonds shall be made payable at the office of the county clerk of Woodford county, at Versailles, Kentucky. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after

its passage.

Approved February 12, 1880.

CHAPTER 206.
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AN ACT to amend the charter of the Jefferson Southern Pond Draining

Company

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

§ 1. That the right, privilege, and authority be, and the same are hereby, granted to the Jefferson Southern Pond Draining Company, to straighten Pond creek, in Jefferson county, by means of ditches, at any point or points from the mouth of said company's ditch in the lands of Adam Hubbard, to the mouth of Bear Camp creek; and for said purpose the said company, between the mouth of said ditch and the mouth of said creek, may, by purchase or by writ of ad quod damnum, acquire, hold, and use land not exceeding one hundred feet in width, in, along, or near to said pond creek, or the right of way thereon, for the purpose of building ditches and embankments.

2. That the writ of ad quod damnum, in this act granted, and all proceedings thereunder, shall be issued and tried in the manner as provided for the condemnation of land or property set forth in chapter 110 of the General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Kentucky concerning turnpike, gravel, and plank roads, excepting that said writ shall be issued by and from the clerk's office of the Jefferson court of common pleas,

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