payment of incurred losses and expenses, it shall make an assessment for the amount needed to pay such losses and expenses upon the subscriber liable to assessment therefor in proportion to their several liability. Every subscriber shall pay his proportional part of any assessments which may be laid by the association, in accordance with law and his contract, on account of injuries sustained and expenses incurred while he is a subscriber. § 97. The board of directors may, from time to time, by vote, fix and determine the amount to be paid as a dividend upon policies expiring during each year after retaining sufficient sums to pay all the compensation which may be payable on account of injuries sustained and expenses incurred. All premiums, assessments and dividends shall be fixed by and for groups as heretofore provided in accordance with the experience of each group, but all the funds of the association and the contingent liability of all the subscribers shall be available for the payment of any claim against the association. § 98. Any proposed premium, assessment, dividend or distribution of subscribers shall be filed with the insurance department and shall not take effect until approved by Insurance Commissioner after such investigation as he may deem necessary. § 99. The board of directors shall make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the prevention of injuries on the premises of subscribers, and for this purpose the inspectors of the association shall have free access to all such premises during regular working hours. Any subscriber or employe aggrieved by any such rule or regulation may petition the Workmen's Compensation Board for a review and it may affirm, amend or annul the rule or regulation. § 100. If any officer of the association shall falsely make oath to any certificate required to be filed with the Insurance Commissioner, he shall be guilty of perjury. 101. This act shall not affect any causes of action existing or action pending on August 1, 1916, and, its application as between employer and employe, except as otherwise herein provided, shall date from and include August 1, 1916. § 102. The rule of law requiring strict construction of statutes in derogation of the common law shall not be applicable to the provisions of this Act. If any section or part thereof shall be held invalid, such partial invalidity shall not affect the Act as a whole or any other section or part thereof. Approved March 23rd, 1916. CHAPTER 34. AN ACT providing for the payment of claims arising from loss on account of the slaughter of animals having the foot-andmouth disease, and making an appropriation therefor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. Any person who was the owner of any cattle slaughtered for the suppression of the footand-mouth disease during the years nineteen hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundred and fifteen may make out and file a claim with the Auditor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for one-half the value of such cattle slaughtered by order of the State or Federal authorities. Said claim shall be duly verified by the claimant, and shall be accom panied by a statement from the State or Federal officer or officers, who had charge of the slaughter of such animals, showing the date on which they were slaughtered, the number, kind and character of such animals, and also accompanied by a statement showing that the Federal government has paid one-half of the cost of slaughtering such animals. When claim is presented to the Auditor thus properly made out, he is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant in favor of the party or parties interested in animals slaughtered at the date of such slaughter. § 2. The cost of slaughtering such animals shall include the value of the property destroyed and the cost of burial of such animals, and one-half of such claim, if paid by the United States government, shall be included as a part of the claim mentioned in Section one of this act, and shall be included in the warrant which the Auditor is directed to draw in payment of such claims. Approved March 23, 1916. CHAPTER 35. AN ACT to prohibit the buying or selling of patients by physicians or surgeons or other persons and defining what shall constitute the buying or selling of patients, and fixing the punishment for a violation of this Act. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That hereafter any physician, surgeon, or any other person, who carries, sends, or is in any manner instrumental or aids and abets in causing a patient to go to another physician or surgeon for surgical operation or advice as to or the treat ment of any physical or mental disease, injury or ailment, and receives therefor from such other physician or surgeon any money, gift or other thing of value for having furnished such patient, or who has any agreement or understanding with such physician or surgeon to receive therefor any money, gift or other thing of value whatsoever from such physician or surgeon, without the knowledge and consent of the patient previously obtained, shall be guilty of selling the patient within the meaning of this Act. § 2. Any physician, surgeon or other person who shall violate section one of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense. § 3. That hereafter any physician, surgeon or any other person, who knowingly receives any patient, so carried, sent or caused to go to him for any surgical operation or advice as to or treatment of any physical or mental disease, injury or ailment, and such physician, surgeon or other person pays any money, gift or thing of value, or promises any compensation whatsoever therefor to such physician, surgeon or other person, so sending or carrying or aiding and abetting in getting such patient to him, without the knowledge or consent of the patient previously obtained, shall be guilty of buying the patient within the meaning of this Act. § 4. That any person who buys a patient within the meaning of section three of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and if he be a physician or surgeon, shall, upon conviction of a second offense, forfeit his license to practice medicine and surgery in this Commonwealth; the court trying the case shall, upon conviction for the second offense, declare, as a part of the judgment entered upon the record of the court trying the case, that the license of such physician or surgeon to practice medicine or surgery in this Commonwealth be cancelled, and the license so cancelled shall never be renewed in this Commonwealth. § 5. The person selling the patient and guilty of the offense under section one of this Act shall not be deemed an accomplice of the physician, surgeon or other person who buys such patient, as provided in section three thereof, and may be compelled, as a witness, to disclose all the facts relative to such selling of the patient by him and the purchase thereof by the physicion or other person under section two hereof, but no such testimony given shall be used in any prosecution against the person so testifying, and he shall stand discharged of any act so disclosed by his testimony. § 6. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 23, 1916. CHAPTER 36. AN ACT providing for the working of prisoners who are confined in the prisons, on State highways and bridges constructed by the Department of Public Roads; providing for the setting apart of a fund from the State Road Fund, to be used by the Department of Public Roads in building State roads and bridges with convict labor, and to enable said highway department to work said prisoners in the mining, quarrying and manufacturing and preparation of material for building roads and bridges; providing aid and assistants to the Commis |