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ties shall be responsible therefor on their bond in like manner as he is responsible for the collection and disbursement of the county levy, and said collector shall have and exercise the same powers in said collection as the sheriff now has for the Collector's com collection of the county levy; and said collector shall receive such compensation for his services as may be agreed upon between him and said court of claims, not exceeding the compensation allowed sheriffs for collections of the State

pensation

Shall appoint a receiver.

commissioners

revenue.

6. That the said court, at its court of claims, a majority of the justices being present and concurring therein, shall, in each year after the first bonds are issued under this act, appoint a receiver, who shall receive from the sheriff or collector the moneys collected under this act, and pay over the same under the order of said court for the purposes named in the fourth section of this act. He shall hold his office for one year. Before he receives any money under this act, he shall execute a bond with good security to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, for the use of Fayette county, to be approved of by said court, in double the sum which shall be expected to be collected during the year to ensue under the provisions of this act, and conditioned to account for and pay over, as shall be ordered by said court, all moneys which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, and shall be allowed for his services such sums as may be agreed upon with said court.

§ 7. That whenever the county court shall order the sale of any of the bonds under this act, that then the act, entitled "An act to authorize the county of Fayette and city of Lexington to subscribe stock in railroad companies," approved 25th day of January, 1851, shall be no longer in force, and Sinking fund the sinking fund commissioners for said county shall then pay over to said receiver, when so ordered by said county court, all money, bonds, and stocks under their control belonging to said county; and the said receiver shall, under the order of the said court, first pay off the said coupons of said outstanding bonds, and so much of said bonds as the same will pay, till the same are all redeemed, and then the money thus collected shall be wholly applied to the payment of the coupons, and the bonds to be issued under this act.

§ 8. That after the first issue of the bonds under this act, and the commissioners of the sinking fund shall have paid

collect dividends.

over to said receiver all the moneys, &c., in their hands, that Receiver shall thereafter the said receiver shall look after and collect all the dividends which shall be due and coming to the said county, from its stocks in the turnpike roads in said county, and which shall be applied by him in the same way as he is above directed to apply the moneys received by him from the said sheriff of said county.

§ 9. The receiver shall make an annual settlement with the court of claims of Fayette county, which settlement shall show all moneys received by him, and all payments made by him, and the balance remaining in his hands, which settlement, when approved by said court, shall be recorded on the minutes of said court.

§ 10. All acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved January 27, 1880.

Reciver shall

make annual set

tlement.

CHAPTER 78.

AN ACT to incorporate the Jackson Street Colored Methodist Church,

Louisville.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

§ 1. That Young Bush, Moses Pittman, Peter Wilson, Har- Corporators rison Luckey, George Butler, Lewis Gathright, and James Fisher, trustees of the Jackson Street Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, of Louisville, Kentucky, and their successors as such, be, and they are hereby, created a body-politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Jackson Street Name Methodist Episcopal Church, and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, or may use their individual seals or scrolis; and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this State.

§2. That the trustees named in the first section of this act, Term of office. and their successors, who shall be appointed in the manner hereinafter prescribed, shall hold their office as trustees as aforesaid until the second Tuesday in January, 1884, when, and in every fourth year thereafter, the members of said church, who are actual communicants, and who actually contribute to the support of the said church, shall elect seven trustees, who shall fill the places and be invested with the

filled.

same powers as are by this act conferred upon the trustees
of said church named in the first section hereof.

3. That whenever any vacancy in said board of trusVacancies - how tees may occur by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, or other disqualification, to be judged of by the board, the said remaining members of the board shall proceed to fill said vacancy by electing a male communicant of said church in good standing.

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officers' salaries.

4. That the above named trustees and their successors are hereby invested with full power and control over the property, real and personal, now owned and held by the said church, and entire management and control of the finances of said church, the collection of its revenues, contributions, and resources, and the disbursement thereof, in payment of ministers' Ministers and salaries and other needful and proper expenses; they shall fix the compensation of the minister and of all other officers and employes: Provided, however, That they shall make and render to a meeting of the members of said church, to be held each year on the Monday immediately preceding the second Tuesday in January, a full statement and account in detail of all their official acts, of their receipts and disbursements, and of such other things touching the management of their trust as may be demanded of them by said meeting.

money.

§ 5. That said trustees or their successors shall have, and May borrow they are hereby vested with power to borrow money for the purpose of improving their present church building, or for the erection of other necessary buildings for the use and con venience of the congregation, or for the payment of any debt that may now exist, or may hereafter be created by said church, for strictly church purposes; and none other; and may mortgage the real estate and church property and improvements to secure borrowed money; and may sell and convey the title which they now hold, or may hereafter hold, in trust for said church in any lot of ground, whenever and to whom the said church, at a regular business meeting, shall direct, or make any other disposition of the same church may order, notice having been given at a regular business meeting of such intended sale or disposition, and not otherwise; and to do and perform all acts common to limited corporations not in conflict, with the laws of this Commonwealth.

§6. This act shall take effect from its passage.

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Approved January 27, 1880.

CHAPTER 79.

AN ACT authorizing the county judge of Hancock county to sign the records of his predecessor.

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

1. That the present and presiding judge of the Hancock county court, Wm. Murray Brown, is directed and empowered. to sign his own name officially to the unsigned orders of the Hancock county court made from the first to the twenty. seventh day of January, 1879, inclusive; and in the same manner to sign the orders of the Hancock quarterly court made on the last day of the December term of the Hancock quarterly court held in 1878; and said signing shall be as binding and effectual for every purpose as if the same had been signed by the then presiding judge, E. A. Faulcom, at the regular time and in proper manner: Provided, That said act shall in nowise affect the rights of any parties litigant whose cause of action or rights are now pending on the validity of said orders.

Approved January 27, 1880.

CHAPTER 80.

AN ACT amending the charter of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad

Company.

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

§ 1. That in addition to the power and authority conferred upon the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company by the act approved March 6th, 1878, chapter two hundred and seventy-eight, entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company," to operate, lease, or purchase, upon such terms or in such manner as the president and directors might deem best, any railroad in any other State or States deemed necessary for the protection of the interest of the stockholders," the said company shall also have the power and authority to purchase and hold a majority in amount of the capital stock of any railroad company or companies, chartered by any other State or States, in order to secure to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company the control in the management and operation of the

railroad or railroads of the company or companies chartered as aforesaid in such other State or States: Provided, That a majority in interest of the stockholders of the company present or represented by proxies, at any annual or called meeting thereof, shall accept this act as an amendment to this charter. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 27, 1880.

be fined.

CHAPTER 81.

AN ACT to prevent the sale of spirituous, vinous, malt, or other intoxi. cating liquors, or any mixture thereof, in any quantity, at the High Bridge Camp meeting Ground, in Jessamine county, or within two miles of said place.

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

§ 1. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell spirituous, vinous, malt, or intoxicating liquors, or any mixture thereof, at the High Bridge, or within two miles of said place.

§2. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons so Offenders shall offending shall be fined fifty dollars for each offense, recoverable before any court of competent jurisdiction in the county of Jessamine, in the county of Garrard, or in the county of Mercer, in which such selling shall have occurred, and full power and authority is hereby given to any justice in these counties respectively to try any violation of this act; and the same proceedings shall be had upon a judgment, as herein before provided for, as it rendered by a circuit or criminal court for a similar offense.

fund.

§3. Be it further enacted, That all fines under this act shall Fines go to school be paid to the common school commissioner of the county in which the offense was committed, to be disbursed and accounted for by him as the State funds are now disbursed and accounted for.

shall prosecute

§ 4. That each sale shall be deemed a separate offense, and County attorney that the county attorney of the county in which the offense is committed shall prosecute all offenses under this act in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and in any case in which conviction is had, an attorney's fee of ten dollars shall

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