ACTS

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY,

PASSED AT THE

REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, WHICH WAS
BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF FRANKFORT ON

WEDNESDAY, THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF DE-
CEMBER, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND

SEVENTY-NINE.

VOLUME I.

PROPERTY OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY.

FRANKFORT, KY.:

PRINTED AT THE KENTUCKY YEOMAN OFFICE.

E. H. PORTER, PUBLIC PRINTER.

1880.

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CONTENTS.

PUBLIC ACTS

PASSED AT REGULAR SESSION OF 1879-'80.

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4. An act to regulate the appellate jurisdiction of the McCracken circuit

court over the judgments and final orders of the Paducah city

court, being amendatory of the charter of the city of Paducah ____

8. An act to change the time of holding the quarterly courts in Jessa-

mine county

Chapter 30. An act to take the sense of the people of this Commonwealth as to

the propriety of calling a Convention to revise the Constitution,

and to regulate the manner of taking the list of qualified voters__

Chapter 33. An act to amend an act, entitled "An act to regulate the jurisdiction

of quarterly courts and courts of justices of the peace," approved

March 16, 1878.--.

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Cbapter

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Chapter 49. An act to authorize the city of Lexington to donate lands and bonds

for the benefit of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Ken-

tucky, and to provide for the payment of the bonds.

54. An act to change and regulate the time of holding the county and

quarterly courts of Greenup county..

58. An act to grant the consent of the State of Kentucky to the acquisi-

tion by the United States of certain lands within the State, and

bordering on the navigable rivers thereof, for the purpose of con-

structing canals, or of erecting thereon dams, abutments, locks,

lock-keepers' dwellings, offices, and all necessary structures for the

construction and maintenance of slack-water navigation on said

rivers, and ceding jurisdiction over the same, and for imposing

fines and penalties for willful injuries to the grounds, buildings,

and appurtenances acquired under the provisions of this act‒‒‒‒‒‒

Chapter 65. An act to amend chapter 51, title "Holidays," of the General Stat-

utes ----

Chapter 71. An act to authorize the Fayette county court to issue the bonds of

said county, the proceeds to be used for the purchase of lands, or

the erection of buildings for the use of the Agricultural and Me-

chanical College of Kentucky..

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Chapter 72. An act to amend chapter 92, article 8, section 14, title Revenue and

Taxation," of the General Statutes--

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Chapter 73. An act to amend article 5, section 11, chapter 62, entitled “Juries,

Grand and Petit," of the General Statutes----

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