Bowling Green, Kentucky, to borrow money and execute bonds therefor for certain purposes mentioned in that act, and further authorizing said board to execute a mortgage upon the property of said Western Normal School, and whereas said board has borrowed $100,000 pursuant to the provisions of said act and has executed its bonds for said sum to run twenty years, $5,000 thereof to be paid at the end of each year, and whereas said act authorizing the Auditor to pay the interest on said bonds as it might fall due, but whereas, no provisions was made for the payment of the principal; Now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. The Board of Regents of the Western Normal School is hereby authorized and empowered to pay the bond for $5,000 falling due in 1916 and the bond falling due in 1917, which bonds were executed pursuant to the provisions of the act of 1912, and said two bonds shall be paid out of the annual appropriation heretofore made for the support and maintenance of said school. § 2. When the bond executed pursuant to the aforesaid act falls due in the year 1918, the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant in favor of said Western Normal School for said sum as well as for the interest on the whole of said indebtedness, and each year thereafter the Auditor is authorized to draw his warrant for a like sum until the full amount of said indebtedness shall have been paid to said Western Normal School, but the money thus paid to said Western Normal School shall. be used for no purpose other than to discharge said indebtedness or to repay said school or any person who has discharged any part of said indebtedness prior to the passage of this act; provided, however, that the total amount paid under the provisions of this act and under the provisions of the act of 1912 shall not exceed the amount of said indebtedness, including the interest thereon. (Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.) CHAPTER 90. AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1486, Carroll's edition of the Kentucky Statutes of 1915, entitled, Registration in Certain Cities and Towns. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That Section 1486 of the Kentucky Statutes be, and the same is hereby amended by inserting after the word "Classes" in the second line of said section, the following, viz.: "And in all Counties containing a City of the First Class including that portion of said counties outside the corporate limits of said Cities of the First Class, within the County boundary." And by inserting after the word "Towns" in the fourth line of said Section, the following, viz.: "And counties containing a City of the First Class," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: In all Cities and Towns of the first, second, third and fourth classes, and in all Counties containing a City of the First Class including that portion of said Counties outside the corporate limits of said Cities of the First Class, within the County boundary, there shall be a registration of all the qualified voters of the respective cities and towns, and counties containing a City of the First Class, which registration shall be held and conducted as herein provided. (Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.) CHAPTER 91. AN ACT to amend section 538 of the Kentucky Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That section 538 of the Kentucky Statutes (Carroll's edition of 1915) be amended by inserting after the words "conduct any legitimate object or purpose," and before the words "under the provisions of and subject to the requirements of this article" the words "including the buying, selling, holding, dealing in, renting and letting of real estate," so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: "Section 538. Corporations-Number Necessary-Laws Applicable.-Any number of persons, not less than three, may associate to establish a corporation for the transaction of any lawful business, or to promote or conduct any legitimate object or purpose, including the buying, selling, holding, dealing in, renting and letting of real estate under the provisions of and subject to the requirements of this article, but banking, building and loan, trust insurance and railroad corporations shall, in addition to the provisions of this article, which are not inconsistent with the laws relating especially to them, be organized in the manner and subject to the provisions of such laws." (Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.) CHAPTER 92. AN ACT to amend section 2516 of the Kentucky Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That Section 2516 of the Kentucky Statutes be amended by adding thereto the following words: "An action for an injury to the person of the plaintiff, or of his wife, child, ward, apprentice or servant, or for injuries to persons, caused by the negligence or malpractice of any physician or surgeon, shall be commenced within one year next after the cause of action accrued, and not thereafter." So that said section as amended shall read as follows: "An action for an injury to the person of the plaintiff, or of his wife, child, ward, apprentice, or servant, or show injuries to persons, cattle or stock, by railroads, or by any company or corporation; an action for malicious prosecution, conspiracy, arrest, seduction, criminal conversation or breach of promise of marriage; an action for libel or slander; an action against any physician or surgeon for negligence or malpractice; an action for the escape of a prisoner, arrested or imprisoned on civil process, shall be commenced within one year next after the cause of action accrued, and not thereafter. (Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.) CHAPTER 93. AN ACT to repeal an Act approved March 18th, 1914, and known as Chapter 47 of the Session Acts of 1914, and entitled "An Act relating to poll or capitation tax and providing for the collection (of but) to put one poll tax from citizens of cities of the third class." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the act approved March 18th, 1914, and known as Chapter 47 of the Session Acts of 1914, and entitled "An act relating to poll or capitation tax and providing for the collection (of but) to put one poll tax from citizens of cities of the third class." Be, and the same is hereby repealed. That whereas said cities of the third class will make their tax levies within ninety days before the expiration of the present session of the Legislature, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. (Neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor.) CHAPTER 94. AN ACT to permit all graded common school districts to levy twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property in such district in addition to the amount that may be now levied, for the purpose of maintaining the school and erecting and repairing buildings. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. The trustees in any graded school district in this State when it is deemed necessary to raise an amount above that which may be raised by a levy of fifty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property and one dollar and fifty cents poll, may levy an additional tax not to exceed twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in the district, for the purpose of maintaining the school and erecting and repairing buildings. Such tax may be levied at any time before the close of the fiscal year in which the last county assessment shall have been made, and a Acts-21 |