has been certified to the county court clerk his duties and the duties of the sheriff and the collector of city taxes and other local tax collectors shall be the same as now provided by law with reference to railroad property. 2. This law shall not be construed as otherwise changing the present mode of taxing bridge property. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 19, 1904. Name "Kentucky Institution for the Education of Deaf Mutes" changed to "Kentucky School for the Deaf." All property vested in school under its new name. CHAPTER 42. AN ACT to change the corporate name of the State school for the edu- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the corporate name of the school for the education of deaf children residing within the bounds of the Commonwealth, located at Danville, Boyle county, Kentucky, and owned, supported and maintained by the Commonwealth, be, and is hereby, changed from "The Kentucky Institution for the Education of Deaf Mutes" to "The Kentucky School for the Deaf." § 2. And be it further enacted, That all rights, privileges, immunities, possessions, claims and property of any and every character whatever, now vested in the said "The Kentucky Institution for the Education of Deaf Mutes," shall, and do, vest in the school under its new corporate name, "The Kentucky School for the Deaf," and that the said "The Kentucky School for the Deaf" shall be, and is, liable for all debts, obligations, outstanding contracts, and claims of any and every character whatever that now lawfully attach to the said "The Kentucky Institution for the Education of Deaf Mutes." Laws in force apfirmed in the "Ken ply and are con. tucky School for the § 3. And that all Legislative Acts now in force, affecting the management, control and financial support of the said "The Kentucky Institution for the Education Deaf.” of Deaf Mutes," and any act or acts, and any provision or provisions under which it receives appropriations shall and do apply and are hereby confirmed and continued to "The Kentucky School for the Deaf;" and any existing act or acts in conflict herewith are hereby declared inoperative in so far as the said act or acts do conflict with the provisions set forth in this bill, Approved March 19, 1904. CHAPTER 43. AN ACT to provide for more adequate punishment for bank robbery and safe blowing. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: bank robbery or safe blowing. 1. That any person or persons who shall by force Punishment for or violence, steal, take or carry away or attempt by such means to steal, take or carry away from any bank, money, notes, securities or any other thing of value or who shall, by means of explosives or any other force, unlawfully open or attempt to open, any safe belonging to or used by any person, firm, bank, or corporation or company in which is kept money, notes, securities, books or any other thing of value, shall be guilty of a felony; and upon conviction thereof be confined in the penitentiary, not less than two nor more than twenty years. Approved March 19, 1904. A felony to open box, etc., of a com intent to appropriate contents. CHAPTER 44. AN ACT to prevent depredations upon, and misappropriations of property in the possession of common carriers for transportation or delivery. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That any person who shall open any box, mon carrier, with barrel or other package containing personal property of any kind while in the possession of a common carrier for transportation or delivery, for the purpose of appropriating the contents thereof to his own use, or to the use of another, or who shall appropriate to his own use, or to the use of another, any property in the possession of a common carrier for transportation or delivery, shall be guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years. Approved March 19, 1904. Settlement of fiduciaries in circuit by the clerk in the county court. CHAPTER 45. AN ACT relating to the record of settlements of fiduciaries in the county court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That in all cases where executors, administracourt must be filed tors, trustees, committees, curators, or other fiduciaries, appointed in the county court, but required to make settlement in the circuit court, the clerk of the circuit court shall make and file in the office of the clerk of the county court, a certificate of each approved settlement, showing the number and style of the .case and number of file box in which the suit may be found in the circuit court clerk's office, before whom made, and when approved by the court, and whether a final or partial settlement. tlement recorded by $ 2. The certificate referred to in the preceding Certificate of setsection shall be recorded by the county clerk with the county clerk. record of settlement, in his office. For making such certificate, the circuit clerk shall be allowed a fee of twenty-five cents, and the county clerk a fee of twentyfive cents, for recording same, to be taxed as costs. Approved March 21, 1904. CHAPTER 46. AN ACT to amend and re-enact section 228, of article 4, sub-division 10, chapter 182, of the Acts of 1891-2-3, entitled "An Act relating to crimes and punishments," and approved April 10, 1893, and being section 1366 of the Kentucky Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: $ 1. That section 228 of article 4, sub-division 10, Bribery of any chapter 182, of the acts of 1891, 1892 and 1893, entitled officer a felony." "An act relating to crimes and punishments," and approved April 19, 1893, being section 1366 of the Kentucky Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended and re-enacted so that said section shall read: "Every person who promises, offers, gives or causes or procures to be promised, offered or given, any money or other thing of value, or makes or tenders any contract, undertaking, obligation, gratuity or security, for the payment of money or for the delivery of conveyance anything of value to any member of either House of of the General Assembly, or to any judicial, executive or ministerial officer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or to any county or city executive, ministerial, judicial, or legislative officer, after such member or officer shall have been elected and before or after such member or officer shall have been elected, and before or after such member or officer has been qualified and assumed office, or taken his seat, with intent to influence his vote or decision on any question, matter, cause or proceeding which may be at any time pending in either House of the General Assembly, or before such judicial, executive or legislative officer, or which may be pending before any committee of either House of the General Assembly, shall be confined in the State Penitentiary for a period of not less than one, nor more than five years. Any member of the General Assembly, or other executive, judicial, ministerial or legislative officer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or of any county or city who shall take or agree to take any bribe to do or omit to do any act in his official capacity shall forfeit his office, be disqualified from the right of suffrage for ten years, and confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years. Every prosecution under this act must be begun in five years from the date of the commission of the of fense, or it will be barred. S $ 2. In view of the serious wave of corruption which has swept over the country involving officers of the Federal Government, members of the various State Legislatures and numerous boards, commissions and councils of various cities, and to prevent the possibility of such shame in Kentucky, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect upon its approval by the Governor. Approved March 21, 1904. |