or devise, and may entail or transfer the same in trust, but for cemetery purposes only. 6. The provisions of this act shall retrocede to cover all acts of the board of directors of the Newport Cemetery Company. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved February 12, 1880. Corporators. corporation CHAPTER 218. AN ACT to incorporate the Hickman Lumber and Manufacturing Company, in Fulton county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That C. S. Randle, H. A. Tyler, George Warren, Samuel Landrum, A. E. Coleman, J. Ambergesons, George N. Helm, J. J. C. Bondurant, and R. T. Tyler, and their associates and successors, are hereby created a body-politic and corporate, by the name of Hickman Lumber and Manufacturing Company. for the term of twenty years; and by that name shall have power to contract and be contracted with sue and be sued, in all courts and places; and have and use a corporate seal, and alter the same at pleasure. § 2. The said corporation shall have power to buy and sell Powers of the timber, lumber, and saw logs, and plane and manufacture lumber into furniture and such other articles as it may please so to do, and to plane lumber and sell the same, and saw logs and timber, and sell the lumber, and buy land and erect upon the same such buildings, houses, sheds, and conveniences as may be proper for their business, and repair, change, add to, and alter the same at their pleasure, and to buy all such machinery, tools, and implements as may be necessary in the said business of said corporation, and to alter, repair, and add to the same at their pleasure, and keep and buy and sell such stores and supplies as may be deemed proper for their said business. Capital stock. §3. The capital stock of said corporation shall be ten thousand dollars, with power to increase the same to fifty thousand dollars, which stock shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, to be issued and transferred in such manner as may be directed by the board of directors. rectors. § 4. The business of said corporation shall be controlled and managed by a board of directors, consisting of five stockholders of the corporation, one of whom shall be president. The first board of directors shall consist of Samuel Landrum, First board of di J. J. C. Bondurant, George Warren, H. A. Tyler, and George Helm, who shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified; but an election for a board of directors shall be held by the stockholders once every succeeding year; and when elected, they shall remain in office until their successors are elected and qualified. The board of directors may pass by-laws for the government of the corporation, and may regulate and declare the manner and way of electing directors and president of the board, and direct how and when the stock subscribed is to be paid, in what amounts, and do any and all things needful and proper for the said corporation not in conflict with the laws of the land. Any three of the board of directors shall be a quorum to transact business. The board of directors named in this act may open books and receive subscription of stock at such times, and upon such terms, as they may direct; and the board of directors may make stock or shares subscribed assignable, and prescribe the mode of assignment. Should a vacancy occur in the board, it may fill said vacancy until the next regular election. ity. § 5. The stockholders shall not be liable individually for Individual liabilany debt, contract, or liability of the corporation; but the stock, property, and rights held and owned by the corpora tion shall only be liable therefor. 6. The said corporation is empowered to borrow money May issue bonds. and issue its bonds, and, to secure the same, to mortgage any and all of the corporate property: Provided, That such bonds shall not exceed in value the capital stock of the corporation. § 7. Nothing in this act shall be construed to exempt the capital stock of said corporation from taxation, municipal, State, or county. § 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 12, 1880. CHAPTER 219. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Danville and Perryville Turnpike Road Company," approved February 23, 1846. WHEREAS, There is no bridge across Salt river, on the Danville and Perryville Turnpike Road, and the public convenience requires the erection of such bridge; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the directors of said company. for the purpose of raising money to build said bridge, and also to improve the grade of said road, are authorized and empowered to open, or cause books to be opened, for subscription of not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, and provide for the collection thereof, and issuance of certificates for such stock subscriptions, which shall be part of the capital stock of said corporation, and the holders of which shall be entitled to vote at all elections of directors of said company, to be held at any time after said subscriptions, and in all other matters to have and enjoy the rights of stockholders in said company. 2. The directors of said company shall have power to build, or cause said bridge to be built, make contracts for the same, acquire stone for same by contract or condemnation of proper quarries, as provided in the character, and to do any and all acts necessary for the completion of said bridge; and they shall have power to change the grade of such part of their road, by reducing the angle of elevation, as they may deem in their judgment proper. §3. This act shall take effect on its passage. Approved February 14, 1880. CHAPTER 220. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to charter the Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad Company," approved February 24, 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 February 24th, 1868, be amended as follows: That the remedy given by said amended act of February 24th, 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 the remedy provided in said act of the 24th of February, 1868, alone 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, which have been, or may hereafter be, rendered upon such bonds or coupons. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 16, 1880. CHAPTER 221. AN ACT to incorporate the High Bridge Camp Meeting Association, in Jessamine county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That James Dorman. Howard Murphy, E. P. Edrington, W. H. Penebaker, J. D. Hughes, and their associates and successors, are hereby created a body-corporate, under the name of the High Bridge Camp Meeting Association; and shall have power and authority by that name to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, answer and defend, in all courts and places, as a natural person; and may have and use a common seal, with power to alter or change the same at pleasure. § 2. That the capital stock of said association shall be one thousand dollars, which may, from time to time, be increased to fifteen thousand, in shares of twenty-five dollars each. 3. That it shall be lawful for the corporators named in the first section of this act to open books for the subscription of the capital stock authorized to be raised by the second section thereof, any three of whom may act; and when the sum of one thousand dollars is subscribed and paid in, they may proceed to business by organizing, electing a president and four directors, a secretary and treasurer, together with any other subordinate officers or agents that may be deemed necessary to carry into execution all the objects and purposes of said association. 4. Said association shall have power to establish such bylaws, rules and regulations, as are deemed expedient for the management of their affairs, and for the preservation of order within the limits of all the property over which they have control, not inconsistent with the laws of Kentucky and the United States, and by ordinance to forbid the sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors within their territory; to appoint marshals, who shall see that the ordinances and by-laws of said corporation are duly executed, and who shall have the same power in maintaining order as is exercised by the marshals of incorporated towns of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. § 5. At least ten days' notice shall be given of the time and place of holding the first election of the officers of said corporation, and all future elections shall be fixed according to the by-laws of said corporation. § 6. The chief object of said corporation is the purchasing or leasing, for a term of years, a certain tract of land at High Bridge, in Jessamine county, to hold and improve the same to be used for purposes of religious and moral meetings and assemblage of people, upon such terms and conditions as to right of entrance and occupancy by the public, and their good deportment while on the grounds, as may be imposed by said association; and the erecting thereon of cottages for the comfort and convenience of the public, who shall be furnished by said corporation with good diet for themselves and provender for their horses at customary rates. § 7. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 16, 1880. CHAPTER 222. AN ACT for the benefit of Richard Board. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the further time of two years after the passage of this act shall be allowed to Richard Board, clerk of the Mercer circuit and common pleas courts, to list and collect his uncollected fee-bills, subject to all the pains and penalties provided by law for collecting illegal fee-bills. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 16, 1880. |