1876. schools. § 2. That said Louisville Presbyterian Orphanage shall have the right to receive children from their parents, or to take and receive children from their guardians, or children who have no parents or guardians, or have children bound to it by any of the courts of this Commonwealth; and may retain the control or custody of such children until they attain the age of twenty-one years, or in case said orphanage may deem such a course proper, bind out said children to any trade or calling, or by proper articles, allow and provide for the adoption of such children by persons who may be considered suitable for such a trust. § 3. Said Louisville Presbyterian Orphanage may found May establish and establish in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, or its vicinity, male or female schools for the education of the inmates of said orphanage or others; said female school to be called "Bellewood Seminary, and Kentucky Presbyterian Normal School;" and said male school to be called “Kentucky Presbyterian Male Normal School;" and said schools shall be under the control and supervision of the board of trustees or other officers managing the said Louisville Presbyterian Orphanage, under the constitution heretofore adopted or hereafter amended by the said Louisville Presbyterian Orphans' Asylum; said schools may each have a seal, and are empowered to confer any degrees or titles conferred by any of the other colleges or seminaries chartered by the Power to re- State of Kentucky; and said Louisville Presbyterian Or phanage shall have the right to receive donations, bequests, legacies, or devises of real or personal property for the aid or maintenance of said schools. ceive donations, &c. § 4. Said Louisville Presbyterian Orphanage may establish honorary memberships or scholarship in said corporation; and may do and perform all the acts done or performed by other educational or philanthropic institutions chartered by this Commonwealth; and may ordain and declare offices for the management of the said schools named in this act. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1876. CHAPTER 179. AN ACT to incorporate the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That George Hunt, Squire L. Helm, Hiram Woods, jr., Jeremiah B. Jeter, J. L. M. Curry, William F. Broaddus, Thomas H. Pritchard, W. M. Wingate, M. E. Heck, James C. Furman, Thomas J. Earle, J. O. B. Dargan, Joseph A. Lawton, Julius C. Smith, James K. Mendenhall, Thomas P. Smith, Thomas P. Lide, Lewis H. Shuck, James L. Reynolds, Joseph E. Brown, Patrick H. Mell, D. A. Vason, Samuel Henderson, D. W. Gwin, I. T. Tichenor, M. W. Phillips, E. D. Miller, T. G Jones, M. Hillsman, J. B. Wornall, J. T. Williams, and John H. Luther, and their associates and successors in office, trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, an institution of learning about to be located at Louisville, Kentucky, shall be, and they are hereby, created a body-politic and corporate by the name and style of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary," and, by said name, shall have perpetual succession of officers and members, according to the by-laws they may establish; and for that purpose the said corporation shall have power to ordain all such by-laws, for the regulation of their succession and government, and for the organization and government of the said institution of learning, as they may deem necessary, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States; to have, use, and keep a common seal, and the same to break and alter at will; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or equity in this State or the United States; and to have and enjoy every right, power, and privilege incident to such corporations; and the said corporation is hereby empowered to have, hold, retain, possess, and enjoy all such property as they now have, or are entitled to, or which has been given, granted, or devised, or shall hereafter be given, granted, or devised thereto, or in any manner acquired thereby, and the same to sell, alien, or transfer at pleasure; and the same likewise to hold, exempt from any taxes or assessments of whatever kind, whether State, county, or municipal, or otherwise: Provided, That the sum so held shall not, at any one time, exceed the value of two millions of dollars: And provided also, That the income alone 1876. 1876. derived from the rents, profits, dividends, and other annual proceeds of the estate, funds, and investments of the said corporation, together with such funds as shall be or have been given specifically for annual expenditures, shall be liable for the current expenses, or shall be expended for the annual support and maintenance of the institution thus established, and the principal of the said estate shall be sacredly kept untouched, except for permanent improvements and such changes of investment as the trustees may make from time to time: Provided further, That the trustees of said corporation shall preserve inviolate and maintain forever, in the management and control of this institution, the fundamental laws established by the educational convention which met at Greenville, South Carolina, on the last day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, by which the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, an institution chartered by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, was established; and the corporation created by this act is hereby authorized and empowered to receive all property which may be transferred to it by the corporation created by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina as aforesaid, and to assume all the trusts associated therewith. § 2. That this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and have perpetual continuance and authority. Approved February 15, 1876. CHAPTER 180. AN ACT to refund to J. E. Abbott, administrator of D. C. Doran, certain damages paid to the State. WHEREAS, D. C. Doran was sheriff of Hart county in 1871, and on account of bodily affliction, failing to collect and pay over all the revenue in due time, and judgment was rendered against him and his sureties for a balance due and three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-one cents damages, all of which has been fully paid into the State Treasury by J. E. Abbott, who was a deputy of said Doran and his administrator; and whereas, it appears that said Doran died of his said affliction, leaving an afflicted family, pecuniarily embarrassed; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth 1876. of Kentucky: 1. That the sum of three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-one cents, the damages paid by J. E. Abbott, administrator of D. C. Doran, to the Auditor of Public Accounts, be, and the same is hereby, directed to be refunded. § 2. That the Auditor of Public Accounts draw his warrant on the Treasury in favor of J. E. Abbott, administrator of D. C. Doran, for the sum of three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-one cents, to reimburse the family of said Doran for said payments of damages. § 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1876, CHAPTER 181. AN ACT to amend chapter 28, article 18, title "Courts," General Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That article 18 of chapter 28 of the General Statutes be so amended as that the presiding judge of the county of Monroe shall have a discretion in fixing the time of holding the justices' courts of said county, and shall not be required to fix a day for holding of said courts in the months of March, June, September, and December in each year, as now provided by law. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 16, 1876. CHAPTER 182. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Widows and Orphans' Home of the Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section fifth of the act to incorporate the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Widows and Orphans' Home, approved March the 18th, 1871, be so amended as to give to the members of said corporation the power to add from two to eight members to the present number of directors. 1876. § 2. That section sixth of said act be so amended as to constitute seven members of the board of directors a quorum to transact all business. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 16, 1876. CHAPTER 183. AN ACT for the construction and completion of turnpike roads in Robertson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That upon the written application of a majority of the real estate owners, whose property is to be assessed under this act, living along the line of any projected turnpike road in said county of Robertson, within one and one half miles of such road, made to the county court of said county, said court may appoint five commissioners, any three of whom may act, neither of whom shall live nearer than five miles to the road which is proposed to pike; which said commissioners, when so appointed, shall proceed to ascertain the amount of real and personal property owned by each individual living within one and one half miles of the line of said road, and shall make a full and complete report thereof to said county court. § 2. That upon a report made as provided in section first of this act, the said court shall order an election to be held for the election of seven directors, to be selected from the list of property-holders along the line of said road, as reported by the commissioners under the provisions of the first section of this act; and at such elections no one shall be deemed entitled to vote for such directors except the list of property-holders above named. § 3. At all elections for directors held under this act, each property-holder shall be entitled to representation in proportion to the amount of property owned by him or her, allowing such property-owner one vote for each one hundred dollars' worth of property, as reported by said commissioners, for taxation: Provided, That owning less than one hundred dollars' worth of property, and more than fifty dollars' worth, as shown by said commissioners' report, shall be entitled to one vote at such election of directors. |