be exempt from paying any toll; also persons going and returning from mill shall be exempt from paying toll.

§ 9. The Legislature reserves the power to modify or repeal this act.

10. This act to be in effect from and after its passage. Approved March 8, 1862.

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CHAPTER 445.

AN ACT to amend an act to punish certain trespassers in Jefferson and other

counties.

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

§ 1. That an act, entitled "An act to punish certain trespassers in Jefferson, Scott, Mason, Kenton, Campbell, and. Woodford counties," approved December 23, 1861, be so amended as to include in its provisions the county of Oldham.

§ 2. That the second section of the act to which this act is an amendment, be amended as follows: "That any person who shall throw, knock, or lay down any fence, pass through or over any growing crops, (or meadow, at any time,) he or they shall be subject to like fine recoverable in preceding section set forth."

3. That any person or persons who destroy fish ponds,, or any other description of ponds, without the consent of the owner, or shall fish in, or attempt to fish in, said ponds, without the consent of the owner, shall be subject to a like fine, recoverable in like manner, as in the preceding section set forth.

Approved March 8, 1862.

CHAPTER 447.

AN ACT to incorporate the city of Paris.

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

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§ 1. That so much of the county of Bourbon as is City limits. embraced within the corporate limits of the town of Paris, and the persons residing within said boundaries, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the city of Paris; and by that name may have. perpetual succession; sue and be sued in all courts at law ferred. or in equity; may contract and be contracted with; may purchase and hold such lands and tenements and personal property as may be necessary for the use of said corpora

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tion, and may sell and convey the same; may have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; and generally have and enjoy all the powers and privileges of a municipal corporation. The exercise of the powers and the administration of the affairs of said city are hereby confided to the officers hereinafter provided for; and said city is invested with all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all the goods, chattels, money, revenues, rights and demands in possession or expectancy, accrued or to accrue, of the town of Paris, as fully as the same were held by said town; and said city shall be bound by Responsibili all contracts and responsible for all debts, demands, and liabilities, of whatever sort, against said town, in the same manner and to the same extent that said town was or is liable and responsible therefor.

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§ 2. Said city is divided into two wards, separated by the main street and Maysville and Lexington turnpike road. All that portion of the city lying on the same side of said street and road on which the court-house is situated shall constitute the first ward, and that portion on the other side thereof the second ward.

§ 3. The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 33d, and 34th sections of an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Henderson," approved February 18th, 1854, are hereby re-enacted in relation to the city of Paris, and made part of this act, except that wherever the county of Henderson is referred to the county of Bourbon shall be substituted therefor; and wherever in said sections the city of Henderson is mentioned or referred to the city of Paris shall be substituted; and except that the time of holding the first and the subsequent annual elections, shall be as is hereinafter provided; and except that the word "may" shall be substituted for the word " shall" between the words "council" and "grant," and between the words "they" and "also," in the 14th section of said act; and except, also, that no city judge shall be elected, but the mayor shall have the powers and jurisdiction and discharge the duties of the city judge, as provided in said sections, and his court shall be known as the mayor's court of Paris; civil process and executions from said court may be directed to, and executed by, the marshal, constable, or sheriff, in the discretion of the plaintiff; the council may, by an ordinance, fix the times of holding its terms, and subject to the aforesaid exceptions; the provisions of said sections shall be as fully applicable to the city of Paris as to the said city of Henderson.

§ 4. This act shall take effect whenever the chairman and board of trustees of the town of Paris shall, by an

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order of said board, ratify and accept the same; and thereupon said chairman and board shall provide for holding the first general election of officers of said city of Paris, repealed. and give public notice of the time when the same shall be held. When the officers of said city shall be elected and qualified, the functions of the officers of the town shall expire, and they shall hand over all the books, papers, and property of said town into the hands of said city officers, and the corporation known as the town of Paris shall cease to exist.

§ 5. The said chairman and board of trustees shall ap- Officers. point two judges and a clerk, who, with the marshal of the town, shall hold the first election; and the council shall subsequently appoint the judges and a clerk, who, with the city marshal, or one of his deputies, shall conduct subsequent elections; the annual election shall be held on the same Saturday or Monday in the same month of each year, upon which the first election shall be held; the election shall be held at the court-house by a single set of officers, but a poll-book shall be kept for the voters of each ward; the officers of the election, before entering upon their duties, shall take an oath faithfully and impartially to perform the same; the officers of the city shall enter upon their offices on the first Monday after their election. §6. The Legislature retains the right at any time to repeal, alter, or amend this charter.

Approved March 8, 1862.

CHAPTER 448.

AN ACT legalizing the appointment of W. C. Gillis as adminstrator. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the appointment of William C. Gillis, by the Whitley county court, as administrator of the estate of Joseph Gillis, deceased, at the time the said William C. Gillis held the office of master commissioner of the Whitley circuit court, shall not disqualify him from acting as administrator of said estate; but that all acts and deeds of his as such administrator, whether before or after the passage of this act, shall have the same force in law as if no disqualification had existed at the time of his appointment. 2. This act shall be in force from the date of its pas

sage.

Approved March 8, 1862.

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CHAPTER 449.

AN ACT for the benefit of John B. Powell, jailer of Estill county, and John T.
Cotton, jailer of Woodford county.

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

§ 1. That John B. Powell, jailer of Estill county, and John T. Cotton, jailer of Woodford county, be, and they are hereby, invested with power and authority to appoint, each, a deputy, to aid them in the discharge of their official duties; and said deputy or deputies, when appointed, shall have all the rights, and be subject to all the liabilities now imposed by law on their principals for the proper discharge of their duties as such.

§ 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 8, 1862.

CHAPTER 453.

AN ACT to establish an additional magistrate's and constable's district in
Graves county.

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

§ 1. That an additional magistrate's and constable's district and voting precinct No. 10, in Graves county, be, and the same is hereby, established, to be made out of and by the division of district No. 7 in two parts, as nearly equal as practicable, the northern half or part thereof to constitute the new district.

§ 2. That Albert A. Boswell, Daniel Wilson, and Samuel Willett, are hereby constituted commissioners, any two of whom may act to lay off and report the accurate boundary of said district to the Graves county court, on or before the June term thereof, 1862; whereupon the said court shall order the same to be recorded; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of said court to transmit a copy of said report to the Secretary of State, to be by him filed in his office with the previous report from said county.

§ 3. That after said district is formed, it shall be the duty of the Graves county court to issue writs of election, to be held on the 1st Monday of August, 1862, in the same manner that writs of election are now required to be issued to fill vacancies in the office of magistrates and constables; and it shall be the duty of the proper officers of this Commonwealth to do and perform every act, as provided for by law, that may be necessary and proper to carry out the provisions of this act.

§ 4. That if the constable, or either of the magistrates in district No. 7, shall be included by the division in dis

trict No. 10, then, and in that event, the writ of election ordered shall be for the vacant office in said district.

§ 5. That the terms of the offices herein provided for shall expire at the same time, and upon the same conditions, that the terms of office expire of all magistrates and constables in this Commonwealth.

§ 6. That the place of voting may be first located by the commissioners, and afterwards by the county court, upon petition of a majority of the voters of said district.

Approved March 8, 1862.

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CHAPTER 454.

AN ACT for the benefit of Samuel Sayres.

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

§ 1. That Samuel Sayres be, and he is hereby, allowed the sum of seventy-five dollars for his services in arresting and returning to the jail of Anderson county Daniel Wells, a fugitive from justice, who had made his escape from said jail on the 29th day of September last; and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the treasurer in favor of said Sayres, for the before-mentioned sum, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

§ 2. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved March 8, 1862.

CHAPTER 456.

AN ACT for the benefit of school districts Nos. 15 and 26, in Marion county.

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

§ 1. That the trustees of common school districts Nos. 15 and 26, in Marion county, are authorized to have taught in said districts a six months' school for the year 1862; and when so taught, the Auditor shall draw his warrant for the amount said districts would be entitled to from the school fund for the years 1861 and 1862; no school having been taught in said districts for the year 1861.

§ 2. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved March 8, 1862.