toll-gates at any point outside of the city limits or incorporated towns not inconsistent with the general law. Approved April 4, 1873.

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CHAPTER 688.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Paducah, Benton, and Murray Gravel
Road Company.

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

Company may erect bridge and

§ 1. That the charter of the Paducah, Benton, and Murray Gravel Road Company be, and the same is hereby, so charge toils. amended that it shall be lawful, and the right and power is hereby granted for that purpose, for the said company to erect, of wood or iron or stone, a bridge across Clark's river, in McCracken county, at a point where said gravel road crosses said stream, and to have and keep up the same, by repairs or building new bridges at said place; and have, and the right is hereby granted said company to charge and collect toll from the traveling public crossing the same, not exceeding the following rates: for footmen, nothing; for man and horse, five cents; for each loose horse, mule, or cattle, three cents; for sheep or hogs being driven across, one cent each; for horse and buggy, ten cents; for wagon and two horses, ten cents; for wagon and three horses, twelve and a half cents; for wagon and four horses, fifteen cents; for wagon and six horses, twenty cents; and the same charge for wagons and oxen as charged for wagons and horses: Provided, however, That the president and directors of said company, by resolution of their board, may fix the rates of toll at a lower rate, but not to exceed the foregoing rates. § 2. The Legislature reserves the right to amend or repeal this act at any time.

§3. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved April 4, 1873.

CHAPTER 689.

AN ACT for the benefit of common school districts Nos. 70 and 73, in Warren county.

WHEREAS, The trustees of school district No. 73, Warren county, in order to have a better school taught than they otherwise could have obtained, have agreed with the trustees of district No. 70 to have the school for the present school year at a place common to both districts, and to apply the money drawn by each of said districts

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to such school, and that such school should be free to all the pupil children of both districts; and whereas, the Superintendent of Public Instruction has decided such consolidation illegal; and whereas, there was an innocent misapprehension of the law upon the part of the trustees of both districts and of the former commissioner of the county; therefore,

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

§ 1. That the Superintendent of Public Instruction be authorized to draw his warrant on the Auditor for the money due districts Nos. 73 and 70, and that the trustees shall pay the money to the teacher of said school. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its pas

sage.

Approved April 4, 1873.

County court to

appoint commissioner to copy

plats, survey, &c.

be deposited with

evidence.

CHAPTER 690.

AN ACT providing for copying the surveys, plats, and certificates of land in Warren county.

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

§ 1. That the county court of Warren county shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, appoint some suitable person as commissioner, whose duty it shall be (after first being sworn to truly and faithfully discharge the duty) to copy in a well-bound book (to be furnished by said county court) all the surveys, plats, and certificates of land in Warren county, and make proper and plain indexes thereto.

2. When said commissioner shall copy said surveys, Said copies to plats, and certificates, and make index thereto, he shall County clerk, and deposit the same with the county court clerk of Warren copies to be legal county, and said copies shall be kept in said office as other records of the county, and shall be evidence in all Surveyor to fur cases as fully as the originals. It shall be the duty of nish originals to the surveyor to furnish said commissioner with the original surveys, plats, and certificates until the same can Clerk to keep up be copied as required by this act; and when the surveys, plats, and certificates are all copied that are now on file in the surveyor's office, it shall be the duty of the county court clerk of Warren county to copy such surveys as may hereafter be made in said county.

record of same.

3. The commissioner appointed under this act shall Compensation be paid a reasonable compensation for his services in copying said surveys, plats, and certificates, out of the county levy of Warren county.

of commissioner.

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

Approved April 4, 1873.

CHAPTER 692.

AN ACT to repeal an act entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled 'An act to charter the Crab Orchard and Crews Knob Turnpike Company,'" approved March 20, 1872.

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

§ 1. That an act, entitled "An act to amend an act, entitled An act to charter the Crab Orchard and Crews Knob Turnpike Company,'" approved March 20, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the property and franchise in and to said road is turned over to the corporation of the town of Crab Orchard, to be by said corporation kept up as one of the streets of said town free of toll.

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

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Approved April 4, 1873.

CHAPTER 693.

AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of the German Evangelical St. Paul Church of Paducah," and to revive the act approved 26th January, 1869, named therein.

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

§ 1. That an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of the German Evangelical St. Paul Church of Paducah," approved February 6, 1873, chapter 94, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the act, entitled "An act to incorporate the German Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul Church, at Paducah," approved 26th January, 1869, is re-enacted, and declared to be in full force and effect, as though the act approved February 6, 1873, had never passed. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved April 8, 1873.

CHAPTER 694.

AN ACT for the benefit of common school district No. 1, in Allen county.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth

of Kentucky:

to build school

§1. That a capitation tax of five dollars on all male white Tax to be levied citizens over the age of twenty-one years residing in com- house. mon school district No. 1, in Allen county, and an ad valorem tax of not exceeding twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable property in said district, owned by white persons, is hereby authorized to be levied for the purpose of building a common school-house in said district.

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to be submitted to people.

§ 2 Said ad valorem tax shall be levied annually until a sufficient sum shall have been raised to build a good school-house in said district, not, however, to exceed the sum of one thousand dollars.

§3. The tax provided for in this act shall not be levied Question of tax until the question shall have been submitted to the legally qualified white voters in said district, at the next annual election for school trustees in said district, which election shall be holden by the trustees of said district; and if a majority of all the votes cast shall be in favor of said tax, said trustees, then elected, shall, from the county assessor's books last returned, proceed to assess the tax as provided Sheriff to collect in this act, and list the same with the sheriff of Allen county, who shall proceed to collect the same as other taxes, and pay the same over to the trustees of said district; and he shall be liable for the faithful discharge of his duty under this act upon his official bond.

tax.

cute bond.

§ 4. Before the trustrees shall receive the money from Trustees to exe- the hands of the sheriff, they shall execute a bond before the judge of the county court of Allen county, with good surety, for the faithful performance of their duty under this act, and apply the money so collected to the erection of a school-house as contemplated by this act.

building commit

tee.

§ 5. The trustees of said district shall constitute a buildTrustees to be ing committee, who shall superintend the construction of the school-house, and contract for the building of the same. § 6. The sheriff shall receive four per cent. on the amount collected as compensation for his services. § 7. This act to take effect from and after its passage.

Sheriff's fees.

Approved April 7, 1873.

CHAPTER 695.

AN ACT to incorporate the Owenton and Sparta Telegraph Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That a body-corporate and politic be, and is hereName and style. by, created, formed, and organized, under the name and style of the "Owenton and Sparta Telegraph Company;" and under that name and style it shall have perpetual succession; may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all the courts of this Commonwealth.

Object.

Capital stock.

§ 2. The object and business of said corporation shall be to construct, keep up, and maintain a line of telegraph in Owen and Gallatin counties, from Owenton to Sparta.

3. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed five thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of ten dollars each.

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Corporators'

Obligation of subscribers.

§ 4. That Wm. Shaw, H. P. Montgomery, I. F. Munly, J. C. Strother, and Jesse Holbrook, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners, any three of whom names. may act, to open books for the subscription of stock to said company. The subscribers for stock in said company shall sign the following obligation, to-wit: "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, hereby obligate ourselves to pay to the Owenton and Sparta Telegraph Company ten dollars for each share of stock in said company hereby subscribed by us." The number of shares so subscribed by each person shall be designated opposite each subscriber's name. The commissioners hereinbefore named shall constitute the board of directors of said company for one year after the organization of said company, and shall organize by electing a president and such other officers as they may see proper. After the expiration of their term of office an election shall be held annually for five directors, at which each stockholder shall have one vote for each share of stock owned by him. The board of directors shall elect their own president and such other officers as may be provided for in the by-laws.

When company

§ 5. So soon as the sum of one thousand dollars is subscribed in good solvent subscription to the capital stock of may organize. said company, they shall proceed to organize as provided in the last section preceding. The president and directors shall be stockholders; and said company may, after its organization, receive additional subscriptions of stock to said company.

§6. The president and directors shall have power to appoint and pay such officers and agents as they may deem necessary for the transaction of their business, either in constructing or carrying out the purposes of said telegraph line, and may pass such by-laws, rules and regulations, as they may deem necessary, not inconsistent with this act, or with the Constitution of this State or of the United States.

§7. The said company may receive the release right of way for said telegraph line, and donations of posts or other material for the construction of said line; and so soon as said telegraph line shall be completed, said company shall have the right to charge for and collect a fee for each message sent over said line: Provided, Said fee shall not exceed the usual rates on like telegraph lines; and shall have the right to do all other legal acts necessary to carry out the purposes of this charter.

8. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 7, 1873.

Directors to ap

point officers, &c.

May acquire right of way.