thereafter pay for her maintenance the sum of seven dollars per month, which sum shall be payable into the State Treasury at the end of each month. It shall be the duty of the county judge of each county on the last day of each month, by written order, to direct the treasurer of the county, or the person acting as treasurer, to forward to the Auditor of Public Accounts the amount due under the provisions of this act. If any county shall make default in payment of any sum due under the provisions of this act, the Auditor may institute suit in the name of the Commonwealth against such county for the recovery of the amount due in the Franklin Circuit Court.

$ 8. The expenses of said institution, including the salaries of all employes, shall be paid out of the State Treasury upon a warrant drawn by the Auditor. The superintendent shall, at the end of each month, certify to the Board of Managers all bills, accounts and other indebtedness and expenses or management of said institution incurred during the preceding month, and shall furnish said board. itemized statements of all such claims; and upon approval of expense accounts by the Board of Managers, certified by the chairman and secretary thereof, the Auditor of Public Accounts shall draw his warrant in favor of the claimant therefor on the State Treasurer, and the same shall be paid.

9. Any fugitive from the House of Reform for Girls, or from any home in which any inmate of said House shall be placed, may be arrested and and returned to the institution by any officer or citizen.

§ 10. Any person, or persons, who shall entice or attempt to entice, away from said institution, or from any home in which any inmate of said insti

tution shall be placed, or who shall knowingly harbor or conceal, or aid in harboring or concealing any girl who shall have escaped from said institution, or from any home in which she shall have been placed by said institution, shall, upon conviction of either of such offenses, be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding sixty days, or both fined and imprisoned.

§ 11. If any provision of this act shall be held, for any reason, to be void, or ineffective, this shall not affect the remainder of the act.

§ 12. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

(Neither approved or disapproved by the Governor.) (Word in bracket inserted by compiler.)

CHAPTER 86.

AN ACT authorizing the acceptance of gifts and trusts regarding education by boards of education and regulating their administration.

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

§ 1. That the governing boards of the respective school districts of this Commonwealth be and they are hereby empowered to receive real and personal property by gift or by will, in fee, or for limited uses or in trust, if the same be for use in the cause of education in whole or in part within their respective districts; and shall hold, use and administer said limited use funds and trust funds, prinicpal and interest, in strict accordance with the terms of the respective instruments of gift or trust, and no

part thereof shall ever be used for any purposes other than those provided therein. Every vote upon the use or investment of any of said funds shall be by call of ayes and nays and the record shall show how each member voted.

§ 2. The principal of said funds shall be invested and reinvested from time to time by the board in the bonds of any city, county, state or district which has not defaulted its interest within twenty years, or in loans secured by first mortgage on real estate worth at least double the amount so loaned (but no such loan shall ever be for more than said property was assessed for taxes the preceding year), or in the purchase of substantial improved income-bearing real estate, taking the title in the name of said board as such trustee. But no loans shall ever be made to, or real estate purchased from or sold to any member, officer or employe of the board, or to one who has been a member, officer or employee within one year.

§ 3. Said board shall make an itemized statement under oath of all receipts, disbursements, assets and investments of each and all such funds separately in January of each year and file same in the county court, and shall publish a notice that it has done so, at least once a week for two weeks, in a paper of general circulation in the district, if there be such a paper, and in addition shall post a copy of such notice on the door of the school house, if it be a rural school district, or at the door of the city hall or court house, if it be a city district. At the next regular county court after the two full weeks, the report shall stand for exception or confirmation as any other fiduciary report to said court.

§ 4. Any member of any of said board who shall vote for, and any officer of said board who shall cer

tify to or draw a check for, an appropriation in violation of this act shall thereby be and become liable for the restoration of the amount of such wrongful appropriation, such liability to be enforced in an action brought by the board or by any citizen of the district or by the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State, and in addition thereto shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and upon conviction shall forfeit his office and may, for each offense, be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned from one year to five years, or both so fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court-one-half of said fine to be paid over by the collecting officers to said board.

§ 5. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.

§ 6. This act shall take effect from ninety days after the adjournment of this session of the Legislature.

(Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.)

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT regulating trapping and for the protection of fur-bearing animals and provided penalties for violation of Act and repealing all other laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Kentucky:

§ 1. No person shall trap, or set any steel trap, or dead fall, on the lands of another without the written consent of the occupant (owner or leasee), of said land, and without at the time of said trapping and setting of said steel trap, or dead fall, he has in his

possession said written consent and exhibits it to anyone demanding to examine it; and providing further that any person setting or playing a steel trap on the lands of another shall set or place such steel trap eighteen or more inches within the entrance of a hole, cave, or hollow log so as to be inaccessible. to domestic animals, dogs or fowls; and providing further that any person setting or placing any steel trap or any dead fall on the lands of another person shall inspect the same within each thirty-six hours thereafter and shall remove therefrom any animal or fowl caught therein; and providing further that any person finding any of the devices mentioned in this section, set or placed contrary to the provisions of this act, may seize and destroy any and all devices so found. Any person violating this section, or any part thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days.

2. Each Violation a Separate Offense and Punishable Joinder of Offense.-The setting of each separate steel trap or dead fall contrary to the provisions of section eleven [one] of this act shall constitute and be deemed a separate offense, and shall be punished accordingly and two or more offenses may be joined in the same warrant or indictment therefor, and the person so offending, if convicted, shall be fined for each offense.

3. Catching of Any Domestic Animal, Dog or Fowl-Prima Facia Evidence.-The catching of any domestic animal, dog or fowl, in any steel trap, shall be prima facie evidence that said steel trap was placed and set contrary to the provisions of section