entry shall also be made opposite the names of such counsel or agents in such manner that such entries shall show all the subjects of legislation in relation to which any counsel or agent is employed. No person shall appear as counsel before any committee of the Legislature, or of either branch thereof, or act as agent in respect to any legislation coming within the terms of section one of this act, unless his name appears upon the docket for legislative counsel or agents as employed in respect to such matter as above provided. No person, corporation or association shall, directly or indirectly, employ any person as legislative counsel or agent in respect to any legislation coming within the terms of section one, unless the name of such person is duly entered on said docket as provided by this act. No person shall be employed as a legislative counsel or agent for a compensation dependent in any manner upon the passage or defeat of any proposed legislation, or upon any contingency connected with the action of the Legislature or of either branch thereof, or of any committee thereof. No person whose name is entered on the docket of the legislative counsel or agent shall render any service as legislative counsel or agent otherwise than by appearing before a committee as aforesaid, and by doing work properly incident thereto.

§ 4. Legislative counsel or agents required to have their names entered upon the legislative docket shall file with the Attorney General within ten days after the date of making such entry, a written authorization to act as such, signed by the person or corporation employing them.

§ 5. Within thirty days after the final adjournment of the Legislature every person, corporation or association whose name appears upon the legislative

docket of the session, shall file with the Attorney General a complete and detailed statement sworn to before a notary public or the clerk of some court by the person making same, or in the case of a corporation by its president or treasurer, of all expenses paid or incurred by such person, corporation or association in connection with the employment of legislative counsel or agents, or in connection with the promoting or opposing in any manner the passage by the Legislature of any legislation coming within the term of section one of this act. Corporations and individuals within the provisions of this act shall render such accounts in such forms as shall be prescribed by the Attorney General, and such reports shall be open to public inspection.

§ 6. It shall be unlawful for any person employed for a pecuniary consideration to act as legislative counsel or agent to go upon the floor of either House of the Legislature reserved for the members thereof while in session, except upon the invitation of such house.

7. Any person who shall openly or secretly attempt by coercion, intimidation or bribery, or by the offer of political support for appointment or election to a public office, or by the offer of newspapers support for a nomination or election, or by the offer of money or anything of value, or by any other improper method, to influence any member or officer of the General Assembly, in the discharge of the duties of his office, shall be guilty of the crime of corrupt lobbying.

8. Any corporation, individual or association who fails to comply with the provisions of this act in making the report required to the Attorney General, or causing the name or names of legislative counsel or agents employed by such corporation, in

dividual or association to be registered as required by this law, shall for the first offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined in any sum not to exceed one thousand dollars and for a second offense fined in any sum not to exceed five thousand dollars, and, if a corporation, its charter may be forfeited in the discretion of the court; any officer of any corporation or association failing to make the reports herein required or to cause the name or names of legislative counsel or agents to be registered, as provided in this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be fined in any sum not to exceed one thousand dollars, or confined in the county jail not to exceed one year; any legislative agent or counsel violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars or confined in the penitentiary not to exceed five years, or both so fined and imprisoned in discretion of the jury.

§ 9. As important legislation is pending and lobbying has and does now exist, and emergency is declared to exist and this bill shall take effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved March 15, 1916.

CHAPTER 17

AN ACT for the prevention of pools, trusts, conspiracies and combinations in restraint of trade, and to define same and to prescribe penalties and provide methods for the infliction thereof.

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

§ 1. A trust or monopoly as used in this act, unless a contrary intention appears, is an association

or combination of any number of persons established or organized prior, or subsequent, to the passage of this act, and either in the State of Kentucky or elsewhere, and whether incorporated or uncorporated, having as it object, or as one of its objects, that of fixing, influencing or regulating the supply, demand or price of any goods, product or commodity in the State of Kentucky, or elsewhere; or that of creating, or maintaining, a monopoly in Kentucky, or elsewhere, whether complete or partial, in the supply or demand of any goods, product or commodity.

§ 2. The word "person" or "persons," as used in this act, shall include natural persons, partnerships, associations of persons and corporations created, or organized, by, or under, the laws of this State, or under the laws of any other State or country.

§ 3. Any person who shall create, enter into, become a member of, or participate in, any pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederation or understanding with any person or persons, in restraint of trade or competition in the importation, transportation, manufacture, purchase or sale of any goods, product or commodity in this state, shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy in restraint of trade.

§ 4. Any person who shall create, enter into, become a member of, or participate in, any pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederation or understanding with any other person or persons to regulate, control or fix the price of any article of manufacture, mechanism, or part thereof, merchandise or commodity, or to maintain such price when so regulated or fixed, or shall enter into, become a member of, or participate in, any pool, trust, agreement, contract, combination, confederation or understanding to fix or limit the amount of any article of manu

facture, mechanism, or part thereof, merchandise, commodity, shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy in restraint of trade.

§ 5. Any two or more persons engaged in buying or selling any article of commerce, manufacture, mechanism, or part thereof or other commodity, or who shall create, enter into, become a member of, or participate in, any pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederacy, association or understanding to control or limit the trade in any such article or thing, or to limit competition in such trade by refusing to buy from, or sell to, any other person any such article or thing aforesaid, for the reason that such other person is not a member of, or a party to, such pool, trust combination, confederacy, association or understanding, or who shall boycott, or threaten, any person for buying or selling any such article or thing to any other person who is not a member of, or a party to, such pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederacy, association or understanding, shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy in restraint of trade.

§ 6. All arrangements, understandings, agreements, contracts, combinations or promises made, or entered into, between any two or more persons, designed, or made, with a view to lessen, or which tend to lessen, lawful trade, or full and free competition in the importation, transportation, manufacture or sale in this State of any goods, product, commodity or article; and all arrangements, contracts, agreements, combinations, promises, or understandings made, or entered into, between any two or more persons, which are designated, or made, with a view to increase, or which tend to increase, the market price of any product, commodity, goods, or article, are hereby declared to be against public policy, unlawful