1876. 84. That to enable the county court to pay off and disLevy authorized. charge the principal and interest of the bonds which they are authorized by this act to issue, they are empowered to make a levy on the taxable property of said county a tax gefficient to pay off the principal and interest of the bonds. issued by them under and by virtue of this act; such levy shall be made at the time the county court meets to make the county levy for other purposes, and when a majority of the parties are present. terest-when and where. § 5. That the interest provided for in this act shall be payaPayment of in- ble annually on all the bonds issued by said court for the purposes set forth, at the Farmers' National Bank at Stanford, Kentucky, on the 1st day of January of each year, until said bonds are paid off. 6. That said bonds shall be made payable in eight years, or at an earlier time, in the discretion of said court; and that the bonds so issued shall have interest coupons attached to the margin of each bond for each year that such bonds may have to run. 7. That this act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved February 1, 1876. $33 30. CHAPTER 78. AN ACT for the benefit of the sheriff and jailer of Gallatin county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby directed. Appropriating to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer in favor of R. H. Morrow, sheriff of Gallatin county, and Joseph Wilcher, jailer of Gallatin county, for the sum of thirty-three dollars and thirty cents ($33 30), the same being the amount of expenses incurred in conveying Thomas Walker from Warsaw, Gallatin county, to Louisville, and delivering him to the United States Court, under a writ of habeas corpus. § 2. This act to take effect from its pessage. CHAPTER 79. AN ACT for the benefit of John B. Ruark, of Hart county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the sum of three hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents, in favor of John B. Ruark, committee of Priscilla M. Ruark, a pauper lunatic of Hart county, Kentucky, for keeping said lunatic from the 28th of March, 1872, to the 15th of October, 1873, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 3, 1876. 1876. Appropriating $308 33. CHAPTER 80. AN ACT for the benefit of Samuel Orr, of Graves county WHEREAS, Governor P. H. Leslie did, by proclamation of date of July 25, 1873, offer a reward of three hundred dollars each, for the arrest and conviction of a band of disguised men who burned the house of D. W. Galbraith, and shot L. M. Galbraith; and whereas, Samuel Orr did arrest one of them, to-wit, Hiram Bevis, and delivered him to the authorities of Graves county, by whom he was admitted to bail in the sum of five hundred dollars, and then fled the country, and thus avoided conviction; wherefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of Samuel Orr, for the sum of three hundred dollars, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 3, 1876. $300. $76. Appropriating 1876. Incorporators. Powers. common seal. CHAPTER 81. AN ACT to incorporate the Harrodsburg Library Association. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1 That Orpheus S. Poston, Charles A. Hardin, John C. Thompson, John B. T. Daviess, Robert W. Sea, and Elizabeth Hardin, be, and they are hereby, created a body-politic and corporate, to be known and called "The Harrodsburg Library Association;" and by that name shall have perpetual succession, with full power to contract and be contracted with, sued and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity, as a Shall have a natural person; and to have and use a common seal, and to change and alter the same at pleasure; also to make a constitution, and all rules, by-laws, and regulations and conditions that they may think proper for the management and good government of said association and the conduct of its affairs and business, and to do all other acts and things not contrary to the Constitution of the United States and the Commonwealth of Kentucky; and the persons herein before named are hereby authorized to organize and establish the said association upon any plan they may deem expedient, and to change and complete the same at pleasure; they may Officers-how elect or appoint, in any manner they choose, such officers and chosen.j May acquire and hold property. agents as may be necessary to attend to the affairs and business of said company, and discharge or change them. whenever they may deem it proper, and may fix their compensation, and prescribe their qualifications, powers, and duties; they may prescribe time and mode of their own succession, and to do all and every thing necessary to an efficient organization of said association. § 2. That said library association shall have power to acquire by purchase, or gift, or devise, and hold any estate, real, personal, or mixed, and to take, receive, and hold any goods, money, lands, or tenements, which may be given, granted, or devised to said association; and they may sell, dispose of, and convey the same according to the provisions of the by-laws which may be hereafter established by the incorporators or other members of the association. § 3. The said incorporators may, should a majority of Can transfer them concur, transfer this charter to the joint stock company now in existence in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, known and charter. called the "Harrodsburg Library Association," should said last named association conclude to accept the same, and work under its provisions. 4. And should the corporation hereby chartered permit the citizens of Kentucky who may visit its hall to use and enjoy the library belonging to said association free of cost, whilst said library is open, then no tax shall be imposed or collected on the hall and its furniture nor the library and periodicals of said association. 1876. If free-no tax imposed. Approved February 3, 1876. CHAPTER 82. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend and reduce into one the several acts in relation to the city of Frankfort," approved March 16, 1869. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: How elected and commissioned. Shall take oath.. diction. 1. That section twenty-three (23) of the charter of the city of Frankfort, approved March 16, 1869, be amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: That the police judge of said Police judge. city of Frankfort shall be elected at the same time and in the same manner as the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this Commonwealth, and before entering upon the duties of his office shall be commissioned by the Governor of said Com. monwealth, and take the constitutional oath, and an oath faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of his office. He shall have jurisdiction, within the limits of said city, of Powers and jurisall misdemeanors, of all actions for the violation of the city charter, ordinances, or by-laws, of all prosecutions for damages or injury to public buildings or property of the city. He may grant injunctions, writs of ne exeat, habeas corpus, restraining orders, and attachments, in the same manner as two justices of the peace; and in all criminal and penal cases he shall have the same jurisdiction as the laws now confer on two justices of the peace, and shall proceed in the same manner that justices of the peace are required to proceed in such matters. He shall have the same jurisdiction in civil matters and cases as a justice of the peace of the same magistrates' district, and shall hold regular quarterly terms of bis court for the trial of all civil cases which may Shall hold court docket. quarter y for civil 1876. Jurisdiction. come before him-the times of which holding shall be fixed by him by an order entered on his civil docket. He shall have Power to receive full power and authority to receive bail, and to receive the bail, &c. execution and acknowledgment of recognizances of bail and bail bonds in all cases originated or tried before him, in which bail is or may be required; and such recognizances and bail bond shall be in such form, and be returned in such manner, as is or may be prescribed by the several laws authorizing or requiring bail. He shall be a conservator of the peace, and have jurisdiction over affrays, assaults and batteries, riots, breaches of the peace, unlawful assemblies, keeping disorderly houses, all cases of indecent or immoral behavior or conduct calculated to disturb the public peace within said city; over all cases of drunkenness, profane swearing, running horses, firing guns or pistols, making reports by burning powder, matches, or crackers, or other explosive substance or thing; blowing horns, flying kites, crying aloud by day or night, and all other riotous conduct whatever within said city, all of which are hereby declared to be misdemeanors; for carrying concealed weapons, and for selling liquor without license or to minors, or keeping a tippling-house, gambling within said city, and for all other penal Warrants-how offenses and misdemeanors occurring within said city; and in all such penal and misdemeanor cases the warrant or information shall run or be prosecuted in the name of the mayor and board of councilmen of the city of Frankfort; and the fines or other benefits resulting therefrom shall go to said city under the same restrictions of said city's liability for costs as are contained in the 24th section of said charter to which this is an amendment; and in all prosecutions before him the jury may assess a fine against each defendant in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), wherein a different penalty is not fixed by law, which, with all fees and costs, may be discharged in the work-house or on the streets, alleys, or workhouse grounds of said city, at the rate of fifty cents per day; and the mayor and board of councilmen may by ordinance regulate the running and regulations of said work house, and may, by such punishments as they may deem proper, enforce the same from the inmates thereof. And may by ordinance prescribe any punishment for an escape from said work-house, or the custody of the keeper thereof, of any person while prosecuted. |