1873. trustees of said district, or a majority thereof, may designate Provided, however, That due notice of the time and place of said election, as required by the act to which this is an amendment, shall first be given before said election is held, and without which the same shall be nugatory and void. §2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 810. AN ACT for the benefit of the Paducah and Northeastern Railroad Company. WHEREAS, The Paducah and Northeastern Railroad Company, a corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois, are desirous of making Paducah, Kentucky, their southern terminus; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the said Paducah and Northeastern Railroad Company be, and the same is hereby, authorized and empowered to purchase and acquire the right of way to, and the necessary grounds for depots, machine shops, sidetracks, and switches in or near to the city of Paducah; but no street or alley in the city of Paducah shall be used or occupied by said railroad company, without the consent first obtained from the city council of Paducah. § 2. That the said railroad company shall have power to borrow money, and to secure the payment of the same by a mortgage of all their property and property rights in the State of Kentucky, for the purpose of carrying out the object set forth in the preamble hereto. §3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 811. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of common schools in Bracken county." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act for the benefit of the common schools in Bracken county," approved March the 11th, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, so amended that the provisions of said act shall apply to each fractional district in the county, where a part of said each fractional district lies in Mason, Robertson, and Pendleton counties. § 2. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. 1873. CHAPTER 812. AN ACT to prohibit the sale of spirituous or intoxicating liquors at Mercer's Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Made unlawful to sell liquors at § 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell, loan, or give any spirituous or intoxicating said station. liquors at Mercer's Station, on the Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad, in Muhlenburg county, or within one mile thereof, unless prescribed as a medicine by a regular physician. Any person so offending shall be fined twenty Penalty. dollars for the first offense and forty dollars for every subsequent offense, to be enforced and recovered in any of the courts of this Commonwealth for Muhlenburg county, having jurisdiction of fines and penalties. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 813. AN ACT to prescribe and regulate the rates of ferriage, upon the Ohio river, for boats plying to and from the corporate limits of the town of Greenup. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the following rates are authorized to be fixed as the rate of ferriage for any ferry plying between the town of Greenup and within its corporate limits, and any point on the Ohio shore within one mile of the town of Haverhill, Ohio, to-wit: for each passenger, ten cents; for each horse or mule, led or loose, ten cents; for each horse or mule and buggy, twenty cents; for each wagon, or buggy drawn by two horses or mules, and driver, thirty cents, and five cents additional for each additional horse or mule so attached; for each wagon drawn by one yoke of oxen, and driver, thirty cents, and five cents additional for each yoke of oxen attached to such wagon, not exceeding three yokes of oxen; for each heavy wagon drawn by four yoke of oxen, and not exceeding five yoke of oxen, sixty cents; for each head of cattle driven loose, not exceeding five cents per head. 1873. § 2. The county court of Greenup may fix any rate of ferriage for any ferry plying between the points atoresaid, not, however, exceeding the rates above described; and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, so far as they apply to any such ferry. §3. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 814. AN ACT for the benefit of John W. Duncan, collector of the revenue doe from Wayne county for the years 1863 and 1864. WHEREAS, Owing to the unsettled condition of the country during the late civil war, it was found impossible to collect the revenue of Wayne county for the years 1863 and 1864, and there being no one found willing to undertake the collection thereof until John W. Duncan agreed to do the best he could towards the collection, and having found many obstacles and delays in his way; and whereas, owing to these circumstances he has not returned his delinquent list for said years, and desiring further time to return said list in order that he may collect as much of the revenue due as is possible to be collected; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That John W. Duncan, collector of the revenue due from Wayne county for the years 1863 and 1864, have the further time, until the court of claims of Wayne county for the year 1873, in which to return his delinquent list for said years; and that the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to receive such delinquent lists so returned, and give said Duncan credit for the same in his settlement § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 815. AN ACT for the benefit of Henry C. Fitzpatrick, collector of the revenue for Floyd county for the year 1870. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That when Henry Clay Fitzpatrick, collector of the State revenue of Floyd county, and his securities, for the year 1870, shall pay into the State Treasury the full amount of the judgment, costs, and Attorney General's fee, in the Franklin circuit court, for the balance of the revenue of said county for said year, the damages adjudged against them shall stand released. § 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its passage. 1873. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 816. AN ACT to incorporate the Crab Orchard Salts Manufacturing Company, at Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Corporators' names. § 1. That W. C. Goodloe, J. F. S. Brownell, H. A. Ridgeley, and S. A. White, of Fayette county; Isaac Shelby, jr., Thomas W. Varnon, and Mike Saufley, of Lincoln county; and Walter Evans, of Christian county, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and created a bodypolitic, by the name of the Crab Orchard Salts Manufac- Name and style. turing Company at Crab Orchard Springs, Kentucky; by which name they may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have perpetual succession, and have and use a common seal, which they may alter the same at pleasure; and they are hereby invested with all appropriate powers incidental to those general powers conferred by this act. may organize. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be ten Capital stock. thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, which may be paid for as the majority of the above named incorporators may determine. A majority When company of said incorporators shall have power, at any time they may deem proper, to meet and open books for subscription to the stock of said company; and when as much as five thousand dollars of said stock is subscribed, such subscribers may organize and proceed to business; such organization being the election of a board of not less than five directors and a secretary and treasurer. Said company, by a two thirds vote of all their stock, may increase their capital stock not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars. §3. The affairs of the company shall be conducted by a board of directors, consisting of not less than five nor more than nine stockholders in the company, one of whom shall be chosen president; and the said board or the stockholders may elect or appoint a secretary and treasurer, and prescribe their duties, and require bonds of them, with good surety, for the faithful discharge of such Directors to control affairs. 1873. powers. duties. One person may fill both offices. The directors or the stockholders may also create and fill such other subordinate offices as they may deem proper, and may fix the wages and salaries of all employees and officers of the company. § 4. The company shall have power to own as much as Corporate one thousand acres of real estate, and such personal property as may be necessary to conduct and carry on their business, or which may be the fruit and product of such business. They are hereby empowered to manufacture Crab Orchard salts, by any process now known or which may hereafter be discovered, and in all other lawful ways to use the waters of Crab Orchard Springs, or the waters of any other spring or well which may be on real estate owned by them; they are also hereby empowered to vend the product of such waters, or such waters themselves, in all lawful ways, in any part of the world. In such manufactures they may employ all lawful means, and erect and maintain all lawful and appropriate structures and machinery. and secure same by mortgage. § 5. They may issue the bonds of the company not to May issue bonds exceed at any time five thousand dollars, which they may negotiate and sell to the best advantage of the company; but such bonds shall be secured by a mortgage on all the franchises and property of the company, which mortgage shall be executed by the president of the board under its authority, and be recorded in the clerk's office of the Lincoln county court. No bonds shall be issued except by direction of the stockholders, a majority of all the stockholders voting in favor of such issue. When issued they shall be signed by the president and secretary of the company, and shall not bear exceeding ten per cent. interest. Said company may also have a trade-mark, which, when it has been duly adopted by the company and recorded in the county court clerk's office of Lincoln county, it shall be unlawful for any one to counterfeit or use it without the consent of said company. and reports. § 6. There shall be an annual meeting of the stockAnnual meetings holders, at which the president of the company shall preside, if present. A majority of the stock shall be a quorum. The board of directors shall to such meeting report the exact condition of the affairs of the company. Each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote on all propositions. The president of the company may also call special meetings of the stockholders, giving to each due notice of time and place. At such meetings the company may make by-laws, prescribing the manner of carrying out all or any of the provisions of this charter, and providing for such other things they may deem proper; |