CHAPTER 100. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Stanton, in Powell county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That at the next regular annual election in the town of Stanton for the election of trustees, and each year thereafter, the qualified voters of said town may elect a police judge, who shall hold his office for one year and until his successor is elected and qualified. 2. The police judge shall be commissioned by the Governor, and have jurisdiction of all cases arising in said town for a violation of any of the by-laws or ordinances of said town, and be entitled to the same fees as justices of the peace are for similar services. §3. It shall be the duty of the trustees of said town, after the passage of this act, to recommend to the Governor a suitable person for police judge, who shall be commissioned by the Governor and serve until his successor is elected and qualified. 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 29, 1880. CHAPTER 101. AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Kentucky Female Orphans' School. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the tenth section of an act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Kentucky Female Orphans' School," approved February 23, 1847, be amended by striking out the word "three," and inserting the word twelve, so that it will read: The trustees shall meet at least once in twelve months. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 29, 1880. CHAPTER 102. AN ACT for the benefit of John J. Kouns, late sheriff of Boyd county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That John J. Kouns, late sheriff of Boyd county, be, and he is hereby, granted the further time of two years from the passage of this act for the collection of all tax due him as said late sheriff, and that all power necessary for the collection of said tax is herein granted, or so much as is usually granted other collecting officers. $2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 29, 1880. CHAPTER 103. AN ACT for the benefit of R. D. Lusk, of Garrard county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and is hereby, authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for ($50) fifty dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the benefit of R. D. Lusk, of Garrard county. §2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 30, 1880. CHAPTER 104. AN ACT for the benefit of Dr. Nelson Mays, of Garrard county, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Anditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for seventeen dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the benefit of Dr. Nelson Mays, of Garrard county. Approved January 30, 1880. CHAPTER 105. AN ACT for the benefit of James M. Sowards, of Greenup county, tucky. Ken WHEREAS, It satisfactorily appears to this General Assembly from proof heard, affidavit, and proper certificate presented to this body, that James M. Sowards, of the town of Greenup, Kentucky, had the misfortune of having his storehouse, and all his goods and valuable papers therein, burnt down and destroyed on the 17th day of August, 1879, in which was burnt and lost to him various red fox certificates theretofore issued by the clerk of the Greenup circuit court to sundry persons, and by them assigned to him, amounting in the aggregate to the number of thirty-four red foxes so killed and certified; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of said James M. Sowards for the sum of thirty-four dollars. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 30, 1880. CHAPTER 106. AN ACT to relieve W. T. Grundy from the disabilities of an infant. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the disabilities of an infant are hereby removed from Wm. T. Grundy, of Ballard county, and he is hereby declared to be an adult, and liable as such upon all his contracts: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed as conferring the right of suffrage on said Grundy. § 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 30, 1880. CHAPTER 107. AN ACT to extend the time for the payment of the revenue due from Law. rence county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That M. V. Graham, sheriff of Lawrence county, be, and he is hereby, allowed until the first day of June, 1880, to settle with the Auditor of Public Accounts, and pay into the Treasury the revenue due from said county for the year 1879: Provided, That the sureties of the said M. V. Graham CHAPTER 108. AN ACT to amend an act to charter the Louisville Baptist Orphans' Home, approved January 28, 1870. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to charter the Louisville Baptist Orphans' Home," approved January 28, 1870, be amended as follows: Section eight of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Said corporation may, through its president or vice president, in the manner prescribed by its by-laws, permit any suitable person to adopt any child in its custody and control, as his or her own child; and said corporation may, through its president or vice president, in the manner prescribed by its by-laws, bind out to any suitable person any child in its custody and control as an apprentice. The adoption herein provided for shall be by written instrument, executed by said corporation by its president or vice president on the one part, and the party adopting the child, and if such party be married, by his wife or her husband, as the case may be, upon the other, and shall be executed and acknowledged as deeds are required to be, and shall be recorded in the county clerk's office of Jefferson county, Kentucky. It may contain all suitable covenants for the care, education, and nurture of such child; and when such instrument shall be so executed and recorded, such child shall become the heir-at-law of such person so adopting him or her, and be as capable of inheriting as though he or she were the child of said person; and said person shall have the same parental control and be under the same responsibilities as if the child so adopted were his or her own child: Provided, That so long as said child shall be an infant, said corporation may, tor a violation of any of the covenants in said instrument, reclaim said child by writ of habeas corpus, or by surrender, LOC, L., VOL. I—6 if the party adopting is willing so to do; and in the event of such reclamation, said instrument and act of adoption shall thenceforth be and become null and void. Such apprenticeship shall be effected in like manner, and may contain any suitable covenants, including a covenant that such child shall be not treated as a servant, but shall only be to a person sui juris, and the wife of such person need not unite. Beside the remedies granted by law upon such articles, said corporation may have like remedy as above prescribed upon articles of adoption with like effect. Such apprenticeship shall expire at twenty-one years of age, where the apprentice is a boy, and eighteen years of age when she is a girl, or sooner if the articles so prescribe. A child may be adopted by both husband and wife in the same instrument. Instruments of adoption and apprenticeship shall be conclusive evidence of the power of said corporation to so dispose of said child as between said corporation or said child and its real and personal representative, and the person so adopting it or receiving it as an apprentice and his or her real and personal representa tive. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 31, 1880. CHAPTER 109. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Kentucky Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Kentucky Grangers' Mutual Benefit Society," approved March 7th, 1876, be amended so that the amount paid on any death Capital stock shall not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000), and until the membership shall reach three thousand members an amount equal to the number of members only shall be paid on each death. lim ted. §2. The membership of said society may be unlimited, and all members be in the same class: Provided, The board of directors may issue certificates for one half the amount provided for in the first section of this act. |