and like jurisdiction under said writ is hereby granted to said court as is granted to circuit courts under said chapter. §3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1880. CHAPTER 207. AN ACT to protect game in the counties of Kenton, Campbell, Fayette, and Madison. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful to shoot, net, trap, catch, or in any manner to kill or destroy any Virginia partridge or quail before the first day of November, 1882. § 2. That a fine of twenty dollars, with the costs of the prosecution, shall be levied against all persons offending against this law; the said fine to be recoverable before any justice of the peace within the Commonwealth; one half of the fine thus levied shall be given the prosecuting witness, and each bird so shot, netted, trapped, caught, or killed or destroyed will constitute a separate offense. It shall be prima facie evidence of guilt to have such a bird or birds in possession in the field. Any citizen shall power to make arrest under this act, where the violation thereof shall have come under his own observation; and whilst acting as an officer, should it become necessary, he shall have the right to summon a posse. This act shall apply only to Kenton, Campbell, Fayette, and Madison counties. § 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1880. CHAPTER 208. AN ACT authorizing the city of Newport to issue bonds for certain purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the city of Newport have power to issue bonds to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, at such times, in such sums and denominations as the board of councilmen may ordain. That said bonds shall be payable in thirty years from date thereof, but at the option of said city at any time after five years from date thereof; and shall have coupons attached thereto for payment of the interest on said bonds at the rate of six per cent. per annum semi-annually. That said bonds and the interest thereof shall be payable at the city treasurer's office in Newport, Kentucky, and be exempt from taxation by said city, and be signed by the mayor and treasurer, and have the seal of said city attached thereto. That said bonds shall not be sold at less than par value, and that the proceeds of the sale of same shall be applied as follows: Twenty thousand dollars to redeem the cemetery bonds heretofore issued by said city, and due in May. 1881, and eighty thousand dollars in payment of the present floating debt of said city. And the board of councilmen of said city shall levy a tax on the real and personal property in said city in each year sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and principal at maturity, in addition to that on her present bonded debt, and for the necessary expenditures of said city not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents on each one hundred dollars taxable valuation thereof; and the incurring of any floating debt by said city is hereby expressly forbidden. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1880. CHAPTER 209. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Newport and Licking Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the Newport and Licking Turnpike Road Company is hereby authorized and empowered to issue its bonds in the sum of $10,000, bearing interest from the date of issue at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, said bonds to be made payable ten years after date. § 2. The said company may, at any time before maturity, take up said bonds, or any of them, by paying therefor the principal and accrued interest thereon. Said bonds shall each be of the denomination of one hundred dollars. 3. The said company may at any time, for the purpose hereinafter set forth, sell any of said bonds at not less than par, and with the money thus obtained take up and pay off, first, the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the company, and second, pay off all floating indebtedness of the company. § 4. All said bonds shall bear date as of their day of sale, and no bond shall be issued or sold, nor shall any of the money derived from the sale of any of said bonds be used, for any purpose other than that herein before set forth. § 5. The said company is also authorized and empowered. to issue the stock of the company in any sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and may sell the same at not less than par, and with the money thus obtained may take up the present bonds of the company, the bonds authorized by this act, or the floating indebtedness of the company, or either or any of said indebtedness, but may use said money for no other purpose; and the capital stock of the company is increased in the sum of ten thousand dollars for said purpose. § 6. The said company is authorized to contract with the city of Newport in reference to the use, improvement, change of grade, or control of that part of the road of the company lying within the corporate limits of said city, without in any way impairing the right of the said company to charge for and collect tolls over the same. § 7. The said company is also authorized to sell to the city of Newport all its rights, franchises, and property in and to the part of said road lying within the corporate limits of said city; and the said part of said road, when so sold by said company, shall become a public street in said city. § 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. § 9. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1880. CHAPTER 210. AN ACT to prohibit the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in the village of Jacksonville, Bourbon county, or within two miles of said village. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or vend any spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors, or a mixture of either, in any quantity, in the village of Jacksonville, Bourbon county, or within two miles in any direction from the middle of said village. § 2. That it shall not be lawful for any board of trustees of the village of Jacksonville, or the county court of Bourbon county, to grant or issue, or cause to be granted or issued, any license to any person or persons authorizing or empowering such person to sell or vend any spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors, or a mixture of either, within said village of Jacksonville, or within two miles in any direction from the middle of said village; and any license so issued shall be void. §3. That if any person shall violate the provisions of the first section of this act, such person, on conviction thereof, shall, for each violation of said section, be fined fifty dollars. § 4. That this act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1880. CHAPTER 211. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act requiring the Jefferson county court to appoint a measurer of tan-bark for said county," approved March 21, 1872. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the first section of the act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, approved on the 21st day of March, 1872, entitled "An act requiring the Jefferson county court to appoint a measurer of tan-bark for said county," be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that in lieu thereof it is enacted that the county court of the county of Jefferson shall appoint a measurer of tan-bark, whose duty it shall be, when desired by the vendor or vendee, to measure the tan-bark sold in said county. He shall, in a well-bound book keep and make a true record of all tan-bark measured by him, the date on which measured, the quantity measured, and the names of the vendors and vendees thereof, the number of the car containing said tan-bark, and any other fact necessary to identify the measurement and amount thereof. Said measurer shall be entitled to charge against and receive from the buyer or seller who requires the measurement to be made, fifteen cents per cord: Provided, That no measurer of tan-bark in the county of Jefferson or in the city of Louisville, appointed or elected under this act, or any other, shall make any measurement of tan-bark unless requested by either the buyer or the seller thereof. 2. This act is to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1880. CHAPTER 212. AN ACT for the benefit of the public roads in Meade and other counties. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the levy courts of Meade, Bourbon, Barren, Carroll, Jessamine, Kenton, Grant, Hancock, Harrison, McCracken, Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Logan, Whitley, Knox, Madison, Wayne, Clinton, Cumberland, Simpson, Fayette, Johnson, Floyd, and Gallatin counties shall elect a general superintendent of the roads in said counties, who shall hold his office for two years, and whose duty it shall be to oversee all county roads within their respectives counties, keep them in good order, remove all obstructions which may be placed upon any such road, and open or change any road or roads that the county courts of said counties may direct; which roads shall be opened or changed as now provided by chapter ninety-four, article one, of General Statutes. § 2. That said superintendents shall be empowered to hire as many and such hands as may be necessary to perform the necessary work on said roads; and they shall pay the smallest wages possible to hire good, suitable hands, and shall also be empowered to purchase all necessary tools and implements to perform said work with, and said tools and implements shall belong to the counties and be under the control of the acting superintendent: Provided, That the county courts of the respective counties shall, by order, direct the number of hands to be employed by the superintendent for such prices as it deems proper, and shall regulate the quantity of tools he shall purchase. § 3. That said superintendents shall make a full report to the county court of their respective counties of all the work they have had performed, all the tools or implements they have purchased, and the full itemized cost of such work and tools or implements, and all other expenses necessary to the |