CHAPTER 619. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled An act to relieve W. T. Grundy from the disabilities of an infant," approved January 30, 1880. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to relieve W. T Grundy from the disabilities of an infant," approved January 30, 1880, chapter one hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to strike out the letter T. from the middle name of W. T. Grundy, and in its place insert the letter E, so that said act shall read W. E. Grundy, instead of W. T. Grundy. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 27, 1880. published. CHAPTER 620. AN ACT for the benefit of the Louisville Water Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That all rules and regulations that may be adopted by Rules shall be the Louisville Water Company for the use of water by all persons or corporations, shall be published three times in two daily papers (one English and one German), published in the city of Louisville, and a copy of said rules and regulations, and all amendments made thereto, and likewise published and certified to by the president or secretary of said company, with an affidavit of the publication of the same, made by one of the publishers of said papers, shall be received as evidence in all courts having jurisdiction. § 2. All special rules and regulations that may be adopted by said company for the private or public use of water by any person or persons, firm or corporation, and recorded in the minutes or proceedings of the board of directors of said company, shall be received as evidence in all courts having jurisdiction. 3. Any person or persons, firm or corporation, using or Violation of rules taking water from any public or private hydrant, on service connection of the Louisville Water Company, or any service connected with said company's pipes, without first obtaining subject to fine. a license or permit therefor from said company, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars for each offense, and a reasonable charge in addition thereto for the use of water, as per the tariff of rates established by said company; said fine or fines, and the charge for water, to be recoverable in the name of Louisville Water Company, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and said fine or fines, when collected, shall be paid into the city treasury, and the amount recovered for use of the water to go to said company. $4. Said Louisville Water Company is hereby vested with power to appoint one or more persons, to be in charge of its premises, ware-rooms, pipe-yard, service attachments, and hydrants for water supply for private or public use in the city of Louisville, and for the grounds, reservoirs, enginehouses, roads, avenues, and fences in the county of Jefferson, who, by virtue of their several appointments, shall be vested with all the power of a policeman of the city of Louisville or county of Jefferson, to preserve order and arrest all offenders against the provisions of this act, and all other acts of the Legislature of the State for the benefit of said company, and also such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the board of directors of said company. money. § 5. Said Louisville Water Company shall have power to May borrow borrow money, not to exceed at any one time in the aggregate the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, as the necessities or interests of the company may require; and the amount so borrowed shall be paid out of the surplus earnings of the company. 6. The taxes paid by said Louisville Water Company for Taxer. State and city purposes shall be in lieu of all other taxes of whatsoever kind or character, county or special. 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 27, 1889. CHAPTER 621. AN ACT to incorporate the Christian County Agricultural and Mechanical WHEREAS, It is represented to the General Assembly that certain colored citizens of Christian county are anxious to create an association for the purpose of improvement in agri. culture and the mechanical arts, the improvement of the race of all useful and domestic animals, &c., and have petitioned for an act of incorporation; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Peter Morgan, J. D Buckner, J. R. Hawkins, B. Glass, J. W. Jackson, Peter Postett, A. Clarence Banks, Robt. McNeal, R. N. Lander, J. Lander, A. Shipp, S. Taylor, and such other persons as may choose to associate with them, be, and they are hereby, created a body-politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, under the name and style of "The Christian County Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Colored People;" and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law or equity; and shall be capable of acquiring, by pur. chase or otherwise, any quantity of land in the county of Christian, in the neighborhood of Hopkinsville, not less than ten nor exceeding fifty acres, and may improve, sell, and convey the same, or any part thereof, at pleasure; and may acquire, hold, and dispose of such personal estate as the president and directors of said association may deem necessary; and the said association may adopt and use a corporate seal, or may use the private seal of the president for the time being. 2. The capital stock of said association shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, to be subscribed for and taken agreeably to such rules and regulations as the corporation may direct. Any five of the persons before named are authorized to open books for the subscription of stock in said corporation, at any time and place they may designate; and so soon as, in their judgment, sufficient stock is subscribed to meet the objects of said association, they may call a meeting of the subscribers who are share-holders, at Hopkinsville, a'ter having given public notice through the papers published in said town at least ten days previous thereto, of the time and place of such meeting, at which time the subscribers then present shall proceed to the election of a president and six directors of said association, each of whom shall be a shareholder therein, and such other officers as they may deem necessary. §3. The president and directors so chosen shall continue in office one year from the time of said election, unless the mem bers of said association shall, by resolution or by-law, fix upon a longer period as the term of office. § 4. The prudential, fiscal, and other concerns of said association, together with all its estate of every kind, shall be under the control and management of the president and directors thereof; and they shall have power to appoint a treasurer and secretary, and such other inferior officers, or either of them; bond with good security, payable to themselves, for the faithful discharge of their duties. The president and directors shall have the power to contract and be contracted with in their corporate name, and to do any and every other act, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, which, in their opinion, will contribute to the advancement of the object of the association. 5. A majority of the directors of the association, together with the president, shall constitute a quorum for the transac tion of business. 6. The said association, in its corporate capacity, with all the estate belonging thereto, shall be liable for any debts contracted by it or by its authority. § 7. That no spirituous liquors shall be sold upon the premises during the continuance of any fair held by said association, or within one half mile of the same, under the penalty of twenty dollars for each and every offense, to be recovered before the police judge of the town of Hopkinsville, or before any justice of the peace of Christian county; and each separate act of selling shall be a distinct offense. 8. Any county other than the county of Christian, which by its citizens shall subscribe as much as twenty shares to the capital stock of this association, shall, by its subscribers, elect and appoint one director of this association, and one for each additional subscription of twenty shares. § 9. That the Legislature reserves the power to repeal or amend this act; such repeal, however, not to operate to the prejudice of vested rights or the rights of creditors. LOC. L., VOL. I—41 Approved March 27, 1880. CHAPTER 622. AN ACT to repeal an aet, entitled "An act for the protection and propaga tion of food-fishes in the waters of the State of Kentucky," so far as it ap plies to Tennessee river, in Calloway county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act for the propagation and protection of food-fishes in the waters of this State," approved March 20th, 1876, be, and is hereby, repealed, so far as the same applies to the Tennessee river, in Calloway county. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 27, 1880. CHAPTER 623. AN ACT to empower the Menifee and Bath county courts to settle the claims of Bath against that part of Menifee taken from Bath growing out of the bonds issued by Bath county to the Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad, and to enable Menifee county court to collect taxes or issue bonds to pay the same. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the county courts of Menifee and Bath counties are hereby empowered to settle the claims of Bath county, growing out of the bonds issued by Bath county to the Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad. § 2. That for the payment of such sum as may be agreed on by said county court, the Menifee county court shall provide for and cause to be collected from the tax-payers of that part of Menifee county taken from Bath county an ad valorem tax on the property of such persons situated in said territory, and cause the same to be paid to such person as the Bath county court may appoint to demand and collect and receive the same, on such terms and at such times and places as the said county courts of Menifee and Bath counties may agree upon. §3. The Menifee county court is empowered to issue bonds, payable to said Bath county court or such person as it may appoint, negotiable and payable at such times and places, and on such terms and rate of interest as said county courts may agree upon; and the Menifee county court shall provide for |