but none of such by-laws shall be valid if in conflict with any law of this State. § 7. This company shall pay taxes on their property as individual property-owners do under the laws of the State for State, county, and municipal purposes. § 8. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. 1873. CHAPTER 817. AN ACT to regulate the pay of the members of the court of claims of Todd county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That it shall be lawful for the court of claims of Todd county to allow each justice of the peace, who is a member of said court, five dollars per day, and five cents per mile for each mile traveled in going and returning to and from his residence to the court-house, for each day he may attend said court as a member thereof, to be levied and paid out of the county levy. §2. All acts of said court allowing themselves not exceeding the above sum per day for their attendance on said court, are hereby legalized. §3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 818. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Cairo, in Henderson county." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That all the acts of the persons named as trustees in the act to which this is an amendment, be, and the same are hereby, legalized, notwithstanding said acts may have been done before the said act went into effect. §2. That all the acts as police judge of Cairo, who was elected as such judge on the first Saturday in May, 1872, be, and the same are hereby, legalized. §3. That all the acts, as marshal, of J. H. Bromley, who was elected as such marshal on the first Saturday in May, 1872, be, and the same are hereby, legalized. §4. That the election for officers in said town of Cairo, 1873. on the first Saturday in May, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, legalized. § 5. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. license to sell CHAPTER 819. AN ACT to authorize a vote upon the sale of liquor in Highland, Lincoln county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That upon the petition of twenty of the legal voters Question of of Highland voting district, in Lincoln county, the county liquor to be sub- judge of said county may order a vote to be taken, at the mitted to people. next general election, to be held after the filing of said petition, to ascertain whether or not it is the sense of a majority of the legal voters of said voting district that the sale of ardent spirits of all kinds shall be prohibited in shid district. of election. § 2. If the election named in this act shall be ordered Duties of officers by the county judge, it shall be conducted by the regular officers of election, and the vote taken returned as other returns are made, and examined by the officers authorized by law to make examinations of returns. If no license unlawful to sell prevails, shall be liquors in said § 3. In taking said vote the following question shall be asked the voters: "Are you for or against the sale of liquor in the Highland district ?" § 4. Should it be ascertained that a majority of those voting at said election are against the sale of liquor in said district, then, in that case, it shall be unlawful to sell spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in said district, and every person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction, after indictment, be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars. § 5. That this act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 820. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Covington. WHEREAS, The land or ground heretofore condemned by authority of the city council of Covington, for the construction and operation of water-works in said city, is found to be insufficient for said purposes, and doubts exist whether the act of this Assembly, entitled "An act to amend the city charter of Covington," approved February 24, 1870, confers power for any further condemnation ; 1873. now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: condemn certain § 1. That the city council of Covington shall have and City council may is hereby given power and authority to cause to be con- lands for waterdemned and appropriated, in fee-simple, to the city of works purposes. Covington, so much of the land lying west of said works, not exceeding one hundred feet in width, and extending from Second street to the Ohio river, as said council shall determine to be necessary for the use and operation of said works. Whenever said council shall determine to condemn said land, by reason of said necessity aforesaid, it shall cause a petition therefor, in the name of said city, to be presented to the mayor of said city, or to the presiding judge of the Kenton county court, either of whom shall have authority to issue the writ of ad quod damnum, to adjudicate upon the same, and to make all necessary orders in the proceeding. Said petition, and all the other proceedings for said condemnation, both before and after the same, shall conform to and be governed by, in all respects, the requirements of the first section of the act hereinbefore cited, approved February 24, 1870; but the order of the mayor or judge shall be that the land be condemned in fee-simple to said city. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 821. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Danville.. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That section one of the charter of the town of Danville, approved March 10, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to exclude from the limits of said town the tract of land owned or used by the Central Kentucky Trotting Park Association, so long as the same may be held and used by said association for the purposes to which it is at present devoted. §2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. 1873. CHAPTER 822. AN ACT to change the time of holding the Grant county quarterly courts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the time for holding the quarterly courts for the county of Grant shall hereafter be on the third Mondays in January, April, July, and October. § 2. All acts in conflict with this [act] are repealed. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of May, 1873. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 823. AN ACT for the benefit of R. G. Scott, of Rowan county. WHEREAS, R. G. Scott, while he was common school commissioner of Rowan county in February, 1872, failed, on account of the treachery of the mail, to receive the notice of the Superintendent of Public Instruction that deductions had been made for Collins' History of Kentucky, and paid out of his private resources two dollars to each of the following districts, viz: Nos. one, four, five, seven, eight, nine, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-eight, being nineteen in all, making the sum of thirty-eight dollars, said districts being those that did not vote to reject Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to draw his order on the Auditor, in favor of said R. G. Scott, for the sum of thirty-eight dollars, such being the amount so paid out, and said sum shall be deducted from the surplus fund of Rowan county. §2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. Made unlawful for certain stock to run at large. CHAPTER 824. AN ACT to prevent cattle, horses, sheep, mules, and jennets from running loose on the public highways within a radius of two miles of the Dry Ridge, in Grant county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to suffer or permit their cattle, horses, sheep, mules, or jennets to 1873. run loose on any of the public highways within a radius of two miles of the village of Dry Ridge, in Grant county. § 2. Any person violating the provisions of the first Penalty. section of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than three nor more than twenty dollars, for each offense, to be collected by a warrant in the name of the Commonwealth; and the fines so collected, under How fins to be the provisions of this act, shall be paid the common school disposed of trustees, and expended by them for school purposes, in the school district in which the offense was committed. §3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 16, 1873. CHAPTER 825. AN ACT providing for the collection of railroad tax in the county of Mont gomery. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: appoint collector of County court to railroad taxes. § 1. That it shall be lawful for the county court of Montgomery county, at any regular or special term of the county court of said county, which court shall be composed of the judge and justices, to appoint some suitable person as collector and receiver of any railroad tax which may be levied upon the taxable property of said county to pay stock subscribed on behalf of said county, who shall receive compensation for his services as shall be agreed upon by said collector and receiver and said county court, not exceeding one per cent. upon the amount of taxes which may be received by him. Said collector and Collector to give receiver shall execute covenant, payable to the Commonwealth, with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by said county court, for the faithful collection of said taxes as required by this act, and paying over the amounts collected, and for the proper performance of all his duties under this act. bond. Tax-payers to pay tax § 2. That it shall be the duty of the person upon whose property in said county railroad taxes may be levied, to lector. pay the amount thereof to said collector and receiver, at his office or place of business in Mt. Sterling, between the 15th of July and 25th of November of each year. Each tax-payer shall receive from the collector and receiver a certificate of the amount of tax paid by him to the collector and receiver at the time of payment, and all such payments shall be transferable by indorsement; and any certificate or certificates, when amounting to one VOL. II-LOC. L.-22 to col |