the same; nor shall any railroad company or other common carrier combine or make any contract with the owners of any vessel that leaves or makes port in this State, or with any common carrier, by which combination or contract the earnings of one doing the carrying are to be shared by the other not doing the carrying; Provided, however, that telephone companies may acquire by purchase or lease, or otherwise and operate, parallel or competing exchanges, lines and structures, and the property of other telephone companies, if the railroad commission or such other State commission as may have jurisdiction over such matters shall first consent thereto, and if, further, each municipality wherein such property or any part thereof is located shall also first consent thereto as to the property within its limits, but under any such acquisition and operation toll line connections with the property so acquired shall be continued and maintained under an agreement between the purchasing company and the toll line companies then furnishing such service, and in the event they are unable to agree as to the terms of such an agreement the railroad commission or such other State commission as may have jurisdiction over such matters, shall fix the term of such agreement.

§ 2. That this amendment shall be submitted to the voters of the State for their ratification or rejection at the time and manner provided for under section two hundred and fifty-six of the Constitution of Kentucky, and under section fourteen hundred and fifty-nine, of the edition of the Kentucky Statutes compiled and edited by John D. Carroll and issued in nineteen hundred and fifteen.

CHAPTER 126.

RESOLUTION relating to Joint Rules.

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that in the absence of rules to govern joint sessions of the two Houses, the joint rules governing the General Assembly of one thousand nine hundred and fourteen apply until the adoption of the joint rules.

Approved February 26, 1916.

CHAPTER 127.

JOINT RESOLUTION inviting the President to address the General Assembly.

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

1. That an invitation be extended to President Woodrow Wilson to visit Frankfort and address the members of the present General Assembly at such time as is convenient to him.

2. Be it further resolved, that a committee consisting of two members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three members of the House to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, be appointed to prepare an invitation to the President asking him to deliver an address to the General Assembly, and to conduct such correspondence as may be necessary in an effort to obtain the consent of the President to address the present General Assembly.

Approved March 6, 1916.

CHAPTER 128.

INVITATION extended to Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart to address the General Assembly.

Be it enacted by the Senate of Kentucky, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that an invitation be and the same is hereby extended to Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart to address the General Assembly in Committee of the Whole, on Thursday, February seventeenth, next, at the hour of twelve o'clock, noon.

Approved March 6th, 1916.

CHAPTER 129.

Whereas, during the illness of our cloak room keeper for several days, during which time he was unable to attend his duties, and Benjamin Marks Hershberg attended the duties of this place in a very pleasing manner to the members of this Senate,

Therefore, be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That the said Benjamin Marks Hershberg be and is hereby allowed compensation at the rate of three dollars per day for the time he served in this capacity, and that thirty-six dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the money in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby directed to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the amount stated in this resolution in favor of the said Benjamin Marks Hershberg and that the clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to send an attested copy of this resolution to the Auditor, upon its passage by this General Assembly.

Approved March 15th, 1916.

CHAPTER 130.

MEMORIALIZING Kentucky's United States Senators to urge enactment of "Shackelford Roads" Bill.

Whereas, at this time the people of Kentucky are manifesting great interest in road building, which is due in a large measure to the recent enactment of a splendid State Aid Road Law by the General Assembly, under the provisions of which many of our counties increased their taxation and voted upon themselves bond issues for the purpose of raising funds for road building, and

Whereas, because of the great financial outlay necessary to carry on this work, and because of the great impetus given this work by State aid, and

Whereas, we see from press reports that the "Shackelford Roads Bill" has passed the National House of Representatives, under the provisions of which Kentucky will receive annually the sum of five hundred and eighty thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars for road building, and that the Kentucky delegation in said House of Representatives unanimously supported said bill;

Therefore, be it Resolved that the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That we endorse and approve the action and efforts of our Representatives in Congress in this matter and urge upon our United States Senators the Hon. Ollie M. James and the Hon. J. C. W. Beckham to give this measure their support and use all honorable efforts to secure its passage through the United States Senate.

Approved February 26th, 1916.

CHAPTER 131.

RESOLUTION for the benefit of Mrs. Clara H. Stewart.

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

That Whereas, Honorable J. E. Stewart, member of the State Senate from the thirty-fifth district, died on the twenty-fifth day of January one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, before the expiration of his term of office, and

Whereas, had he lived there would have been compensation due him for this regular session of the General Assembly and the regular session in one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and

Whereas, he was a valuable and upright Senator and his family are poor and in needy circumstances, Therefore, Be it Resolved That his widow, Mrs. Clara Hamm Stewart be and she is hereby allowed to receive the full compensation which would have been due him if he had lived and served out his term as Senator, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount of salary that would have been due the said J. E. Stewart in favor of his said widow, and the Treasurer is directed to pay said sum out of any moneys on hand not otherwise appropriated.

Approved February 23rd, 1916.

CHAPTER 132.

JOINT RESOLUTION petitioning Congress to enact legislation for prevention of loss by floods.

Whereas, the frequent floods of the Mississippi river caused by waters from thirty-one states, embracing more than forty-one per cent of the total area