work them on the roads and streets, which is the duty of said trustees to keep in good order, and are liable to fine as same as road overseers. § 9. All fines and forfeitures to be applied by the trustees in such manner as will be beneficial to the town. The board of trustees shall consist of three members, one of the members to act as chairman, and one as clerk; and they shall keep a record of their proceedings, and such proceedings shall be subject to the inspection of the citizens at any time; and all by-laws or ordinances passed by the trustees shall be posted up by them in not less than three public places in said town, and not less than ten days before the same shall take effect. 10. The trustees shall have power to procure, by purchase or otherwise, a lot of ground on which to build a guard-house, and to build said house, by subscription or otherwise, for the keeping of prisoners, under the same rules and regulations as govern the county jail. Said guard-house to be kept by the marshal, who shall have the privileges and compensation allowed the keeper of the Meade county jail for like services, to be paid by the town. § 10. The said trustees may sue and be sued in their corporate capacity in the name of the trustees of the town of Big Spring. § 11. That the police judge is to be furnished the Acts of the General Assembly and all documents, as same as justice of the peace by the State. 12. The trustees may have power to appoint a police judge and marshal until the first Saturday in April, 1880. All acts for the benefit of the town of Big Spring heretofore are hereby repealed. § 13. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 20, 1880. CHAPTER 501. AN ACT to incorporate the Yarnallton Turnpike Road Company, in Fayette county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That a company be, and the same is hereby, incorporated, under the name, style, and title of the Yarnallton Turnpike Road Company, for the purpose of constructing a Name. Location. Capital stock. tion. turnpike road from the junction of Yarnall's dirt road with the Lexington and Frankfort Turnpike Road extension, at the intersection of the Bethei Turnpike Road with said road; thence with said dirt road by Yarnail's Station, on the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad, crossing Town Fork of Elkhorn creek; and from thence with the general line of said dirt road to the old Frankfort Turnpike Road, with authority and power to make such changes in the line of the proposed turnpike as its managers may consider advantageous; the length of said road being about two miles, more or less. § 2. That the capital stock of said company shall be five thousand dollars, which may be increased or diminished as the board of directors may determine, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each. § 3. That a book for the subscription of stock shall be opened for the subscription of stock by the following named persons, or any two of them, viz. G. Henry Buford, A. J. James, Lewis Ramsey, Daniel James, William Ramsey, Jas. Patrick, Samuel Cooper, and R. J. Spurr. The subscribers Form of obliga thereto shall sign the following obligation therein: "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do respectively promise to pay to the president, directors, and company of the Yarnallton Turnpike Road Company the sum of fifty dollars. for each and every share of stock in said company set opposite to our names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times, as shall be required by the president and directors of said company," which subscription of stock shall be collectable in any court of competent jurisdiction. $ 4. So soon as twenty shares of stock in said company be subscribed, it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or some one of them, to give ten days' notice to each of the subscribers to the capital stock of said company, by posting, in writing, at Yarnall's Station, the time of meeting of said stockholders for election of officers; at which meeting two or more of said commissioners shall be present, who shall take the votes of all subscribers, either in person or by proxy, that may be offered, each subscriber having one vote for each share subscribed by them, for a president and four directors, who shall hold their office for one year, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The time and place for all subsequent elections shall be fixed by the president and directors; directors and they shall appoint a treasurer and such other officers as they may consider necessary, who shall hold his or their offices Term of office of for one year, and until others are appointed, but subject to removal at the discretion of the president and directors. The treasurer of said company shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give bond and security for the faithful discharge of his duties, bond to be approved by president and directors, and payable to them. erty. 5. The president and directors, when elected as aforesaid, shall be a body-politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name and style of the Yarnallton Turnpike Road Company; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation of the kind; and shall be capable of taking and holding their said May hold pr på capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof, and of purchasing, taking, and holding, to them and their successors and assigns, and of selling, transferring, and conveying, in fee-simple, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments, and estate, real and personal, as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their work; and to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and defend and be defended in courts of record or any other place whatever; and also to have a common seal, and to alter or amend the same at pleasure, and to do all and every other matter or thing which a body-politic or corporate may lawfully do. $6. That sections from seven to nineteen, inclusive, of “An act to incorporate the Parker's Mill Turnpike Road Company," approved March 10th, 1854, be, and they are hereby, re-enacted and made a part of this act, except in so far as they may be modified by a subsequent part of this act. § 7. The president and directors may, in computing the length of turnpike road built by them, estimate the bridge over Town Fork as equal to one half mile of road, and to charge toll to all persons passing over it in that proportion. They may erect a gate or gates upon the line of their road, and collect of all persons using their said road at the rates now laid down in the General Statutes of Kentucky: Provided, That their charges for toll shall only be in proportion as the distance traveled on their road shall be to five miles, estimating their bridge as being equal to one half mile of road. 7. That it shall be lawful for the president and directors of said company, for the more perfect good government of the same, to make a set of by-laws, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act and the Constitution and laws of Kentucky. 8. That this act shall be in effect from its passage. Approved March 20, 1880. commissioners of roads. CHAPTER 502. AN ACT to create a special road law for the county of Grant. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the magistrates of Grant county, in court assemMay appoint bled, or a majority thereof, and they concurring therein, shall, in the month of May next, and in the month of January every two years thereafter, appoint some suitable person in each magisterial district in the said county as commissioner of roads for said district, who, before entering upon the duties of their offices, take the following oath or affirmation: I, A B, do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will fairly and impartially, to the best of my ability, perform the duties of road commissioner, during my continuance as such, according to law; and the said commissioners shall, at the same time, enter into bond, with good surety to be approved by said court, payable to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, for the faithful performance of their duties as such commissioners. Bond to be executed by commissioners. § 2. That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county court of said county of Grant, to make out for each of said commissioners a copy from the books of the commissioner of tax of all property and persons in the district of such road commissioner, and furnish the same to them on or before the first day of June in each year, for which he shall receive a reasonable compensation, to be determined by court of claims, and paid out of the county levy fund; and it shall be the duty of the road commissioner, on or before the first day of July of each year, to furnish each overseer appointed by the county court the boundaries of their respective precincts, with a copy of so much of said commissioner's books as will embrace all the persons and property within the bounds of his precinct, showing in an appropriate column the amount of revenue to be paid by each individual within the bounds of his precinct at a rate to be fixed by the county court of said county, at court of claims, not exceeding, however, ten cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of property subject to taxation for revenue purposes by the laws of this State, and add to that revenue a poll-tax not exceeding three dollars upon each male residing in such precinct between the age of eighteen and fifty years. com nissioners. 83 That it shall be the duty of said commissioners to Duties of the divide their several districts into convenient road precincts, and recommend to the county court for appointment, suitable persons as overseers in each precinct, whose duty it shall be to cause the roads in his precinct to be improved and kept in repair agreeable to law. seers. § 4. It shall be the duty of each overseer to notify the indi- Duties of over viduals within his precinct to work upon the roads within his precinct, at such times and places as he may designate, until each person liable to pay revenue or a poll-tax as aforesaid have worked upon said road a length of time equal to one day of ten hours for every one dollar and fifty cents to which such tax shall amount, or three dollars per day for a yoke of oxen or two horses and plow or wagon, including the driver, and fifty cents additional for each extra horse; and this estimate shall determine the quantity of work due upon the road by each person liable to the same: Provided, That the county court of said county may exempt any person from the whole or any part of the labor which would be due by the aforesaid estimate, to be limited as to the time by the court, and that the labor to be done may, at all times, be performed by ablebodied substitutes within the above ages; and it shall be the duty of the overseers to deduct from allowance of any individual fifteen cents for each hour he shall neglect or refuse to work when properly warned in, and shall, within ten days, notify said delinquent of the amount and intent of the sum so deducted; that the whole of the labor due by any individual shall be payable in one road precinct convenient to his place of residence if he resides in the county, and when he resides out of the county, it shall not be deemed necessary for the overseer to notify him, but he shall have the privilege of working out his tax in the precinct in which his land or a majority thereof lies: Provided, That nothing in this act shall affect the persons of those residing within the limits of any incorporated town or city, which shall be situated without the limits of such incorporations shall be liable to such tax, and LOC. 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