for the abuse thereof; they shall prescribe the several duties by which the Librarian and Treasurer, and other officers, shall be governed and directed; they shall have power to appoint a collecting officer to collect the contributions and penalties they may levy or inflict, by distress, or otherwise; and they may take from said collector bond, and security, in such penalty as they may fix, payable to themselves, conditioned for the true and faithful collections of all such contributions or fines as shall be placed in his hands for collection, and pay the same over to them, or such person as they shall direct; and for a breach of the condition of said bond, they shall have power to move against such delinquent collector, and his securities, either by suit upon said bond, or motion in the Warren Circuit Court, or any court of competent jurisdiction; and said court shall enter judgment against him, or them, for the amount of any delinquency, together with twenty per cent thereon, and have execution therefor; and said execution shall be endorsed by the Clerk of said court, or the Justice, that no security shall be taken: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall prevent said Chairman and Trustees from recovering any contribution or fine aforesaid, by warrant, before a Justice of the Peace. The Chairman of said Board shall call a meeting of said Board, at such time as he shall think proper; a majority of said Trustees, or two of them and the Chairman, shall be necessary to transact business. They may appoint such subordinate officers as may be necessary; prescribe their several duties, and fix the pay and compensation of any or all the officers. They may receive additional subscriptions of shares; may prescribe the mode of transferring the same; and said shares may be sold, transferred, pass by will, gift, or descent, as other personal estate does by the laws of this State. 1838. Shares may SEC. 2. That said Chairman and Trustees shall have power to forfeit, for the use of the Company, any share or shares be forfeited. when the owner thereof shall be delinquent to the amount of five dollars for any one share, or when his fines and annual contributions shall amount to that sum. Approved January 27, 1838. CHAP. 625-AN ACT to authorize the transcribing of certain entries and surveys by the Surveyor of Green County. WHEREAS, it is represented to the present General Assembly that many of the records of entries and surveys, in the Surveyor's office of Green county, are in a mutilated condition, and without alphabets, so that they are almost useless to the community-therefore, County court SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be the duty of the Sur- to designate the veyor of Green county, to copy such of said books as the books to be copied. Green County Court may be of opinion requires it, and make out alphabets to the several books in his office which are without them. SEC. 2. The Surveyor shall procure well bound books, and copy the books that may be designated by the court, as soon as practicable; and after he shall have discharged said duty, he shall make a report thereof to said court, whose duty it shall be to appoint Commissioners, who, in conjunction with said Surveyor, shall compare said copies with the original records, and when so examined, and their correctness ascertained, they shall make out a certificate of the same and deposite it in the Surveyor's office. SEC. 3. The Surveyor shall be allowed for the books furnished, and the same compensation as was allowod to the Surveyor of Fayette county, for copying certain records in his office, according to an act, approved January 11th, 1825; and the said Commissioner, for examining, the sum of two dol lars per day; and said court shall, after the completion of the work, proceed to levy upon the county of Green a sum sufficient to pay therefor, as also said Commissioners; or it may pay the same out of any money of said county not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. The copies made out, as aforesaid, shall have the same force, credit and validity as the said originals had; and any copy or copies therefrom, duly attested according to the ordinary forms of law, by the Surveyor, shall have the same force, credit and validity, which any copy or copies of records now have. Approved January 27, 1838. County court conse. CHAP. 626-AN ACT for the benefit of Squire Griffin. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and may be lawful for the County Court of Wayne county, upon Squire Griffins' entermay grant a li- ing into bond in said court, with good security, in the penalty of five hundred dollars, conditioned for his keeping an orderly house, and that he will not sell spirituous liquors to slaves, to grant unto the said Squire Griffin a license to sell spirituous liquors in his house; which license the County Court may renew from year to year, so long as he keeps and orderly house, without his paying any tax to the Government therefor. License may SEC. 2. That any Justice of the Peace for Wayne county, upon satisfactory proof being made to him that the said Squire be suspended. Griffin has forfeited any of the conditions in his bond, may, by his order, suspend his license and report the fact to the next County Court, who shall hear the charge, and the said Griffin in defence, and if they find him guilty, annul his li cense. Approved January 27, 1838. CHAP. 627-AN ACT to exempt the citizens of Harlan and Knox Counties from paying toll at the Turnpike Gates on the Crab Orchard and Madison forks of the Wilderness road. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the citizens of Harlan and Knox counties, with their property, be and they are hereby exempt from paying toll at the turnpike gates on the Crab Orchard and Madison forks of the wilderness road. Approved January 27, 1838. 1838. CHAP. 628--AN ACT to appropriate the fines and forfeitures accruing in the town of Hardinsburg to the improvements of the streets of the same. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That all fines and forfeitures aceruing in the town of Hardinsburg, fron riots, routs, and unlawful assemblies, committed in said town, be and they are hereby appropriated to the improvement of the streets of the same; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved January 27, 1838. CHAP. 629-AN ACT authorizing the County Court of Marion to enlarge the public square in Lebanon. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the County Court of Marion county, with the consent of the Trustees of Lebanon, and the lot owners affected thereby, to enlarge the public square in the town of Lebanon. Approved January 27, 1838. CHAP. 630-AN ACT to amend the law establishing the Police Court of Louis ville. sue warrants Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Clerk of the Police Court of Louisville Clerk may isshall have power and authortty to issue warrants, for the apprehension of persons charged with felony, or a violation of any of the penal laws; also, for the apprehension of persons charged with being of evil fame; also, for the apprehension of persons for whom surety of the peace is clained; also, search warrants; he shall administer the necessary oath required by law before issuing any such warrant; he shall make the warrant returnable before the Judge of the Police Court. That the Police Court of Louisville shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all pleas of the Commonwealth, arising of process of within the city of Louisville, not amounting to felony, and the court. Jurisdiction 1838. the process of said court may run into any county of the Commonwealth; and all recognizances not amounting to felony, nor for the appearance of witnesses in cases of felony, shall be made returnable before the Police Court of Louisville, on the first Monday of the ensuing month after the taking of the same. That the Police Court of Louisville shall have all Power given the power and authority to open and extend streets and alleys in the city of Louisville that is vested in the Jefferson Circuit Court, to the same extent as though the laws vesting the authority had been made applicable to the Police Court. Approved January 27. 1838. to open and extend streets. CHAP. 631--AN ACT to amend the several acts to suppress the practice of duelling. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That, hereafter, in administrating the oath directed by the several acts of the General Assembly, more effectually to suppress the practice of duelling, the oath shall be from the sixth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. Approved January 27, 1838. are entitled. CHAP. 632-AN ACT to amend the charter of the Louisville Savings Insti tution. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the charter of the Louisville Savings Insitution shall be so amended that, hereafter, all the Number of votes to which stockholders in said Institution, who are the owners of stock owners of stock to any amount under one hundred dollars, shall be entitled to one vote; and all stockholders from one hundred dollars to two thousand dollars shall be entitled to one vote for each one hundred dollars; and for every five hundred dollars over and above two thousand dollars one vote: Provided, That no one person shall, directly or indirectly, vote more than forty votes in any election of officers or meetings of the stockholders. SEC. 2. That husbands, guardians, and trustees, shall have Husbands, power and authority to vote on the stock of their wives, guardians, and wards, or estates in trust, and the inspectors of elections shall trustees, to vote. be authorized, and shall administer to each stockholder an oath that he is the bona fide owner of the stock on which he claims to vote in his own right, or that he is the husband, guardian, or trustee, of the person on which stock he claims to vote as husband, guardian, or trustee; and no person shall vote as the Voters to be proxy of any stockholder, unless there shall be an affidavit of the person making the proxy, endorsed thereon that he is the bona fide holder of the stock for which the proxy is given, sworn. in his own right; and no person hereafter purchasing stock shall be authorized to vote, in any election, unless the same shall amount to one hundred dollars, and no person shall be permitted to vote on stock which has not been transferred to him at least three months before the election at which he claims to vote. 1838. Proxies. 89 Divdends, SEC. 3. That feme coverts owning stock in this Institution, shall be entitled to receive and receipt for the dividends on how paid. stock, belonging to them, or to authorize their husbands to receive the same; and parents shall not receive the dividends on stock belonging to their children, unless they are legally appointed guardians of their children. Approved January 27, 1838. CHAP. 633-AN ACT for the benefit of the thirty sixth Regiment of Kentucky Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the proceedings of the Court of Assessment of the thirty sixth Regiment of Kentucky Militia, held on the first Monday in November, in the year one thou sand eight hundred and thirty seven, shall be and are hereby ratified and confirmed, and shall be as good and valid as though said court had been held on the third Thursday in October, now required by law; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved January 27, 1838. CHAP. 634-AN ACT to establish two additional election Precincts in the Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That two election precincts be and they are hereby established in the county of Green-one in the town of Saloma, the place of voting shall be at the house of Washington Lively; and another election precinct shall be and is hereby established in said county of Green, and the place of voting shall be at the house of Moses Mann: and all elections to be held at said precincts shall be under the directions and provisions of the general laws of this Commonwealth upon the subject of elections. Approved January 27, 1838. CHAP. 635-AN ACT to incorporate the Lewisburg Academy. WHEREAS, Charles T. Marshall, Isaac Lewis, David Lindsey, Abner Clift, Mansfield Calvert, Walter Calvert, John |