1863. CHAPTER 719. AN ACT to authorize the late Judge of the Louisville chancery court § 1. That Caleb W. Logan, late judge of the Louisville chancery court, is empowered and authorized to approve and sign the records of the proceedings or orders in said court which remained unsigned by him at the time of the expiration of his term of office; and said orders and proceedings shall be held and considered valid and effectual, as if the said record had been approved and signed when said Logan held said office of judge. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. CHAPTER 720. AN ACT for the benefit of Herman Bowmar, Jr., late clerk of the Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the further time of one year from the 1st day of January, 1863, be allowed to Herman Bowmar, Jr., late clerk of the Woodford county court, to list and collect his fee bills: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall exempt him from the penalties now fixed by law for issuing illegal fee bills: And provided also, That before said Herman Bowmar, Jr., shall avail himself of the benefit of this act he shall execute bond with good security, to be approved of by the clerk of the county or circuit court of Woodford county, conditioned to pay any fine or forfeiture under the fee bill law, for issuing or collecting illegal fees. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. CHAPTER 721. AN ACT for the benefit of Odd Fellows' Hall Association, of Coving ton. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the property in the city of Covington, belonging to the Odd Fellows' Hall Association, and known as "Odd Fellows' Hall," and situated on the Northeast corner of Fifth and Madison streets, be and hereby is exempt from all taxation by the authority of the city of Covington, except for street purposes, so long as said property is used for the purposes intended in its charter: Provided however, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to exempt from taxation any interest held by private individuals in said property. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. 1863. CHAPTER 723. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, an act to establish a Police Court in the town of Caseyville. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That so much of an act, entitled, an act to establish a police court in the town of Caseyville, approved March 15th, 1851, as relates to the election of police judge and town marshal, be so amended, that should a vacancy occur by death, resignation, or otherwise, in either office, that of police judge may be filled by the board of trustees calling an election, ten days previous notice thereof being given by the clerk of said board, by posting written notices in three or more public places in said town; and the office of marshal may be filled by appointment of the board of trustees until the next regular election, or the board may call an election to fill the vacancy in the same manner, and upon the same notice, as provided for the election of police judge this act. § 2. That this act take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. CHAPTER 724. AN ACT for the benefit of the Jailer and others of Whitley county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the jailer of Whitley county having removed from the jail of said county Lewis Parton, imprisoned, charged with the murder of James Leforce, and having made such removal without a writ of habeas corpus, or without delivering said prisoner to an officer to be removed to another jail, but from "great necessity," and having guarded and kept safely said prisoner elsewhere during the existence of the necessity, that said jailer is hereby relieved from any responsibility on his official bond for having made such removal and failure to transmit to another jail. 1863. § 2. That the judge of the Whitley circuit court shall have power to allow and certify the legal fees of the jailer, and the guard claims of such guards as the court may have appointed in the case, for the interim, in which the prisoner was so guarded out of jail as though the prisoner had not been so removed. §2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. CHAPTER 725. AN ACT to extend the civil jurisdiction of the Police Court of the city of Hickman, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the civil jurisdiction of the police court of the city of Hickman shall be and the same is hereby extended to any amount in law or equity not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars; and that the said court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit and quarterly courts of Fulton county, in all sums not exceeding one hundred dollars, exclusive of interests and costs. That in all actions where the sum in contest, exclusive of interest and cost, exceeds fifty dollars, the said police judge shall collect a tax of fifty cents, and shall make report of the amount, and pay the same in the same manner as required by law of judges of quarterly courts. §2. That hereafter no appeal shall lie from the said police court of the city of Hickman to the Fulton quarterly court, but appeals shall be allowed from the judgments of said police court to the Fulton circuit court, in all cases where the amount in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, amounts to and exceeds the sum of sixteen dollars, whether the same arises in a civil or criminal case; and all other or former laws inconsistent herewith are repealed. §3. The fees of the judge of the said police court, in all cases where the amount is over fifty dollars, shall be the same as now allowed by law to the clerks of circuit courts. § 4. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. CHAPTER 726. AN ACT in relation to the Surveyor of Clay County. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Wiley Hibbard, present surveyor of Clay county, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to make out such plats and certificates of survey as remained in the office, by field notes of the late Moses Gilbert, deceased, the immediate predecessor in said office of the present incumbent, Wiley Hibbard; and that all plats and certificates of survey, so made out and properly certified by the said Hibbard as surveyor, from the field notes of his immediate predecessor now on file in said office, shall be held valid in law, as though they had been made out and certified by said deceased surveyor. §2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. 1863. CHAPTER 727. AN ACT for the benefit of A. C. Tanner, late clerk of the McLean county and circuit courts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the further time of two years, from and after the passage of this act, is hereby given A. C. Tanner, late county and circuit court clerk of McLean county, to list and collect his fee bills by distress or otherwise: Provided however, That said A. C. Tanner shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of the law now in force for issuing or collecting illegal fee bills. § 2. That this act to take effect from its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. CHAPTER 728. AN ACT to establish an additional justices' and voting district in Allen county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That there is hereby created, in the county of Allen, an additional justices' and voting district, which district shall include all that part of the county of Allen lying between Barren river and the county lines of Barren and Monroe counties. § 2. The place of voting in said district shall be at the residence of Henderson Massey; and the sheriff of said county is directed and required to open a poll at said vot 1 1863. ing place as at other voting places in said county; all laws in force regulating elections, so far as the same are appli cable, are hereby made applicable to the district hereby created; the legally qualified voters of said district shall be entitled to elect two justices of the peace and one constable, at the same time and in the same manner as other districts. §3. That immediately after the first election under this act the Secretary of State shall furnish said justices of the peace the books now allowed them by law. § 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. CHAPTER 729. AN ACT for the benefit of the sureties of John R. Cargile, late sheriff Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the sureties of John R. Cargile, late sheriff of Hopkins county, be and they are hereby released from the payment of the judgment for damages against them in the Franklin circuit court, on account of the defalcation of said sheriff in the collection of the public revenue for said county for the year 1860-the said sureties having paid the principal of said revenue and the interest thereon into the public treasury. §2. This act shall take affect from and after its passage. Approved January 27, 1863. CHAPTER 730. AN ACT to restore the chartered rights of the town of Sharpsburg, in Whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly that the trustees of the town of Sharpsburg, Bath county, have, by neglecting to elect trustees for said town in the manner directed by an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, passed on the 9th day of January, 1852, forfeited the rights and privileges granted by said charter-therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That any three of the last board of trustees, after first advertising ten days as prescribed by said charter, may hold an election for trustees for said town. |