with an itemized statement of all scales, weights, and measures tested and sealed by him, and his fees therefor. 8. The said officer shall not, under the provisions of this act, test or seal any weight, measure, or balance which has been tested or sealed within one year last past by the officer of sealer of weights and measures for said county of Jefferson, except at the request of the owner or on the complaint of some person. § 9. This act shall take effect from its passage, and the office of sealer of weights and measures for said Jefferson county, as established before this act, is hereby abolished. Approved March 3, 1880. CHAPTER 351. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend and reduce into one the several acts concerning the city of Henderson," approved February 11th, 1867, and the several acts amendatory thereto. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That an act, entitled "An act to amend and reduce into one the several acts in relation to the city of Henderson," approved February 11th, 1867, and the several acts passed sinceamendatory thereto, be, and the same are hereby, amended as follows: That the city council shall have power, annually, to levy and collect taxes, at the rate of not exceeding sixty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property, upon all the property within the eity limits made taxable by law for State purposes, including all amounts taxable under the equalization law. But it is provided hereby, that no land embraced in the city limits and outside of the ten-acre lots as originally laid off, shall be assessed and taxed by the city couneil unless the same is divided or laid out into lots of five aeres or less, nor shall the court house and publie lot belonging to the County be taxed. $2. That section twenty-two of amendment, approved February 14th, 1876, Session Acts, chapter 195, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and in lieu thereof, said section shall Taxes-how col- be and read as follows, viz: The tax books shall be made out and delivered to the marshal or collector of taxes on or before the first day of July in each year, and he shall proceed to collect the same in the manner as is now provided for, except lected. as the existing law is by this act amended. On all taxes not paid on or before the first day of October next after the marshal or collecter of the taxes shall have received the tax-books, there shall be added and collected one per cent., which shall be collected and accounted for in the manner now provided; and on all taxes not paid on or before the first day of November after said tax-books have been received, there shall be added and collected two (2) per cent.; and on all taxes not paid on or before the first day of December after said taxbooks have been received, there shall be added and collected (3) three per cent; and on all taxes not paid on or before the first day of January after said tax-books have been received, there shall be added and collected (4) four per cent.; and on all taxes not paid on or before the first day of February after said tax-books have been received, there shall be added and collected five per cent.; and on the first day of each succeeding month thereafter, an additional one per cent. shall be added and collected, until the property is sold, or the taxes are paid, which shall be collected and accounted for in the manner now provided. All acts or parts of acts providing for a division in the time of payment of railroad and school taxes are repealed. §3. That so much of any act or parts of acts to which this is an amendment, as makes the city marshal, by virtue of his office, collector of the taxes, be, and the same is hereby, repealed on and after the expiration of the term for which the present marshal was elected, to-wit: on the first Tuesday of September, 1881; and that on and after said time the office of city marshal and collector of taxes shall be separate and distinct; and wherever the words marshal or city marshal, or marshal of the city of Henderson, occurs in said acts, in relation to the collection of the taxes, or in any way connected therewith, the words collector of taxes shall be, and are hereby, substituted; and said collector of taxes shall have all the powers, be subject to all the penalties, and perform all the duties in connection with the collection of the taxes as is now given to or required by the marshal of said city; and he shall be entitled to the same compensation, except his commissions on the collection of taxes other than the poll-tax of persons not owning other property, shall not exceed three per cent ; the commissions to be fixed by the council. City marsh al when elected. 4. That the city marshal shall be elected at the same time, and for the same term, as now provided by the acts to which this is an amendment; and in addition to the other powers and duties therein imposed and granted, he shall, by virtue of his office, be chief of the police force of the city of Henderson, and do police duty, and as such chief he shall perform the same duties as is now required by law for the chief of police. He shall receive, in addition to the fees and compensation now allowed him, the same pay as a policemen, to be fixed by the common council. 5. That the office of collector of taxes of the city of Henderson is hereby created, and that at the regular city election in August, 1881, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city of Henderson a collector of taxes, whose term of office shall begin on the first Tuesday of May, 1882, who shall hold his office for two years from said date, and until his successor is elected and qualified; and every two years after the first election, at the regular city election in August, the collector of taxes shall be elected, and hold his office for two years, as above provided. He shall execute bond as now required by law of the marshal in the collection of taxes; and in the event he shall fail to execute the bond now required by law, the common council shall declare said office vacant, and fill said vacancy as is now required by law. 6. That no person shall be eligible to the office of collector Who is eligible of the taxes unless he be a white male citizen of the city of Henderson, at least twenty-five years of age, and who is not a bona fide resident of said city, and unless he has resided in said city at least two years prior to his election. as tax-collector. $7. That on and after the first day of May, 1880, the office of judge of the Henderson city court shall be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and thereafter the mayor of the city of Henderson, by virtue of his office, shall be, and he is hereby, constituted the judge of said court. $8. That said court shall have, on and after the first day of May, 1880, exclusive original jurisdiction in all proceedings or prosecutions for the violation of the ordinances of the city of Henderson, and no other jurisdiction whatever; and all acts or parts of acts conferring any other jurisdiction are hereby repealed, and the jurisdiction of said court, except as herein stated, is abolished. 9. That the mayor of the city of Henderson, by reason Mayor's salary, of acting as said judge, shall receive no other or greater compensation than now allowed by law to him as mayor. § 10. That all warrants or proceedings pending and undetermined in said court, other than those of which said court, after first May, 1880, may have jurisdiction, together with the original papers and copies of all orders made therein, shall be transmitted by the clerk of said court to the clerk of the courts or judges of courts 'having jurisdiction thereof, there to be docketed and tried as required by law. § 11. That the board of commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of Henderson are hereby authorized and directed to apply any money now in their hands, and all money that may come into their hands as such commissioners, for the period of five years succeeding the passage of this act, towards the payment alone of the current semi-annual interest on the bonded debt of the city of Henderson; and any money, revenues, or resources, that may be or remain in their hands, after paying the interest on said bonds for each year, shall, as soon as the interest is paid by them for each year, or as soon as an amount sufficient to pay said interest has been received by them, be paid by them into the city treasury. 12. That section five (5), article 7, of the act approved February 11th, 1867, to which this is an amendment, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word "white" in said section. § 13. That section eight of article third of the charter of the city of Henderson, approved February 11th, 1867, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and in licu thereof the following section is hereby enacted, to wit: The common council shall keep, or cause to be kept, a correct journal of its proceedings, and said proceedings shall be published as the ordinances are to be published as hereinafter provided; and said council may provide, by ordinance, how the same may be published; and if, at any meeting of said common council, any ordinance or ordinances shall be adopted, the said council shall order such ordinance or ordinances to be published at least once in some newspaper printed and published in the city of Henderson, such newspaper to be selected annually by the common council, or they may cause such ordinance or ordinances to be printed and published by printed posters, or otherwise, as may be prescribed by ordinance; and all ordi nances shall, before being enforced, be published in the manner above provided. § 14. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. § 15. That this act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved March 3, 1880. CHAPTER 352. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Poplar Mountain Coal Company, and aets amendatory thereto WHEREAS, The Poplar Mountain Coal Company proposes to build a railway from a point on the Cincinnati Southern Railway, in Pulaski county, Kentucky, through the counties of Pulaski, Wayne, and Clinton, State of Kentucky, and to facilitate its accomplishment, they have asked additional privileges to those heretofore granted; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the name of the Poplar Mountain Coal Company be, and hereby is, changed, and the name of the company Name of the henceforth shall be the Poplar Mountain Railway and Min company. Board of direct ors may appoint ing Company, with all the powers and privileges heretofore granted by the original charter and amendments thereto, except as modified or changed by this act. § 2. The president and directors of said company may elect or appoint such officers, agents, and employes as they may deem proper, for the conducting and managing of the affairs and business of said company, and fix the salaries or compen sation for the same, and may require and accept from any officer, agent, or employe bond, with surety, for the faithful and honest performance of their respective duties; and may recover, in any court of competent jurisdiction, for breaches of conditions of said bond. §3. The president and directors of said company are hereby invested with all the powers, rights, authorities, privileges, and franchises necessary to construct a railway, with broad or narrow gauge, double or single track, and a line of telegraph. or other means for quickly conveying intelligence, which is or may be invented; and lay oil pipes through the counties |