shall give the owner of the bond proposed to be redeemed at least twenty days' notice by registered letter. It shall be the duty of the owner of any bond, subject to redemption, as herein provided, to notify the city auditor of his post office address and any changes therein, and the auditor will keep a record of the address opposite the number of the bond on his records. The notice herein provided for shall be directed to such address, and if no address is given, the notice shall be directed to such owner at his last known address, and the bonds specified therein shall bear no interest after the date fixed for its redemption, and this provision shall be shown in substance on the bonds. Mailing such registered letter twenty days before the time fixed for such redemption shall be deemed a compliance herewith. After the issue of such bonds no suit shall lie to enjoin or resist the collection of any assessment or tax in anticipation of which the bonds are issued, and the validity of the same shall not be questioned, but all property owners shall be conclusively estopped and precluded from in any manner assailing the effectiveness or validity thereof. Such bonds shall convey and transfer to the owners thereof all liens, right, title, and interest in and to the assessments, taxes and liens upon the respective lots and parcels of ground, including any railway property liable for said tax as hereinbefore provided for which liens shall stand as security for such bonds and coupons until they are paid, with full power to enforce the collection thereof if any such bonds or coupons be not paid on presentation to the treasurer by foreclosure in any court of competent jurisdiction as provided in section three thousand four hundred and fifty-seven. If any lots or lands be sold for the payment of any special tax or assessment thereon, or

any installment thereof, or for any general municipal tax, such lots and lands shall not thereby be released from any other special tax or assessment, or installment thereof, existing thereon, unless the same be asserted in the action in which such lands or lots are sold. In any foreclosure suit brought by the city or any bond holder as provided herein it shall not be necessary to make the other bond holders parties but the proceeds of the suit shall be paid into the city treasury to be applied to the redemption of the matured bonds in the same manner as if the same had been paid without suit. When any such city has been authorized to incur any indebtedness for such purpose at an election by the voters thereof held pursuant to law, either before or after the improvement in question is made, the Common Council or the said Board of Commissioners in cities which have adopted or may adopt the commission form of government may, to the extent of such authorization, issue and sell bonds of the city in anticipation of the collection of the local taxes levied and assessed for any such improvement as provided in this act pledging the faith and credit of the city in addition to the assessments, taxes and liens herein provided for, for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds. Such bonds shall constitute an indebtedness of the city for the payment of which with interest the city shall be liable in its corporate capacity. Such bonds shall be issued and sold in all respects as provided by law with reference to the issue and sale of the bonds by the city, and the Common council or said Board of Commissioners shall provide for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof within the period of time not exceeding ten years.

provided by the ordinance for the payment of the local taxes, in anticipation of which such bonds are issued, provided that in any year in which the collection from such local taxes are sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds and to provide the necessary sinking fund, it shall not be necessary for the city in such year to collect any tax for that purpose; and in any year it shall be necessary for the city to collect only such an amount of general taxes as will be sufficient when added to the local taxes collected for such improvement to meet the requirements of this act. Upon payment by the city of any such bond the city shall become the owner thereof, and be subrogated to all the rights of the bond holders with reference thereto. Thereafter, all collections of the local taxes, in anticipation of which such bonds are issued shall belong to the city.

§ 9. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

§ 10. Whereas there is a necessity for the immediate paving and improvement of streets in various third class cities, an emergency is declared to exist and this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 7, 1916.

CHAPTER 11.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act concerning notaries public," carried in Session Acts of 1891, 1892 and 1893, as Chapter 191 and page 850, thereof.

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

1. That Section 1, in the following words, "The Governor shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate appoint, as many

notaries public as to him may seem necessary, who shall hold their respective offices for a term of four years," also, Section 1, in the following words, "He shall fill vacancies in that office occurring in the recess of the Senate, which appointment shall expire at the end of the next session of the Senate," be and hereby are repealed, and enacting in lieu thereof the following words:

"Section 1. The Governor may appoint as many notaries public as to him may seem necessary, who shall hold their respective offices for a term of four years. Any person desiring to be appointed a notary public shall make application to the Governor in writing and said application shall be approved by the circuit judge, circuit clerk, county judge, county clerk or magistrate of the county of the residence of said applicant. Provided, however, that no officers names in this section shall charge or accept any fee for approving any such application. No person shall be appointed a notary public who is not twenty-one years of age, a resident of the county from which he makes his application, of good moral character and capable of discharging the duties imposed upon him by this act, and the endorsements of the officers referred to in this section shall so state."

So that when amended said section shall read in full as follows:

§ 1. The Governor may appoint as many notaries public as to him may seem necessary, who shall hold their respective offices for a term of four years. Any person desiring to be appointed a notary public shall make application to the Governor in writing, and said application shall be approved by the circuit judge, circuit clerk, county judge, county clerk, magistrate, or members of the

General Assembly of the county of the residence of said applicant. Provided, however, that no officers named in this section shall charge or accept any fee for approving any such application. No person shall be appointed a notary public who is not twenty-one years of age, a resident of the county from which he makes his application, of good moral character and capable of discharging the duties imposed upon him by this act, and the endorsements of the officers referred to in this section shall so state.

§ 2. Whereas the volume of applications for appointment as notary public is very large at present, and the time of the Senate is consumed thereby in advising and consenting to said appointments, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this enactment shall take effect from and after its approval by the Governor.

Approved March 8, 1916.

CHAPTER 12.

AN ACT to enable Fiscal Courts of any county to select Commissioners for the purposes of handling the proceeds of any bond issue voted by the county to build or reconstruct roads and bridges.

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

§ 1. That the fiscal court of any county in the Commonwealth may, if it so desires, select or appoint four or more commissioners who shall be freeholders and legal voters and residents of said. county, to act as a Road Commission in the handling of any funds derived from the sale of bonds authorized and voted by the said county for the purpose