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signs an indefeasible title to the interest so purchased in such lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and the certifiWhen certi cate shall be prima facia evidence of such regularity. If any lot or part of lot, sold as directed by this section, shall not be redeemed at the expiration of two years from the date of sale, the marshal that made the sale or the marshal of the city for the time being, shall make a deed to the purchaser, in which deed the certificate of sale shall be recited and acknowledge the same for record in the Bourbon county court clerk's office; and such deed shall be prima facia evidence of the regularity of the sale, and vest an indefeasible title in the purchaser. But any per son interested in the lands, tenements, or hereditaments so sold, may redeem the same, at any time within two years from the date of such sale, by paying to the pur chaser or the clerk of the city, for the purchaser's use, the amount for which the same was sold, together with one hundred per cent. thereon the six per cent. per annum as interest on the purchase money; but the purchaser, his representatives and assigns, shall not be liable to account for the use and occupation of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments between such sale and redemption; and they shall have the right to remove all improvements made by them within such period; this act shall not be so construed as to impair the rights of infants and femes covert to redeem as aforesaid, or to contest the validity of the sale as aforesaid, for two years after their respective disabili ties shall be removed; but this saving shall not extend to any joint tenant or tenant in common not laboring under said disability.

Elections to be provided for.

Officers to give bond.

This act judicial act, and to be

§ 29. The council shall provide, by ordinance, for all elections in conformity with this act, and the constitution and laws of this State.

§30. The common council shall have full power to cause each officer appointed by them, before he enters upon the duties of his office, to execute bond in such penalty as they may direct, (by ordinance.) with such security as they may approve, conditioned that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and fully pay over to the treasurer, when required by order of the council, all moneys which he may have received by virtue of his office; which bond shall be filed away by the clerk. Each and every bond required or authorized to be executed by this act, by any city officer, (except as otherwise provided,) shall be executed to the city of Paris; and upon all such bonds suit may be brought and judgment recovered in any of the courts of this Commonwealth. All suits commenced hereafter, and prosecuted for and on behalf of said city, shall be in the name of the city of Paris.

§31. This act shall be a public act, and be judicially liberally con- noticed and liberally construed by all courts in this State.

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Express companies may be

and in pleading it shall not be necessary to recite the by-
laws and ordinances of the mayor and council, but it shall
be sufficient to refer to their date, title and section; the
rights and privileges herein granted shall not be taken
away or affected by any law hereafter made unless the
corporation hereby created shall be expressly named there-
in; and the fact of any person being a citizen of the city
of Paris shall not render such person incompetent to be a
witness in any suit to which the city may be a party.
§ 32. The mayor and council shall have power to license licensed.
any and all express companies which may be engaged in
the transportation of goods, wares, and merchandize for
pay, which shall have an office or offices within the city
limits, and may charge for such license any sum not ex-
ceeding one hundred dollars; and no such express compa-
ny shall have or keep an office within the city limits, or do
its business therein, by an agent or otherwise, without such
license, under a penalty of two hundred dollars, to be en-
forced as other fines, by proceeding before the mayor, any
law to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 33. All by-laws and ordinances passed by the common council of the city of Paris before the passage of this act, shall remain in full force until repealed by the common council, and all laws not inconsistent with this act are to remain in full force.

§ 34. The common council may appoint a deputy marshal or marshals for any period of time not exceeding the time for which the marshal has to serve, and to fix the compensation for the same.

35. This act to be in force from its passage.

Approved January 29, 1863.

Laws heretofre passed to rem'n fu force until repealed.

Deputy marshe may be appoint ed.

CHAPTER 752.

AN ACT to extend the March term, 1863, of the Madison Circuit Court.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonw alth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the Madison circuit court, at its March term in 1863, shall continue for eighteen juridical days, if the business of the same require it.

§ 2. This act to be of force from its passage.

Approved January 29, 1863.

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CHAPTER 753.

AN ACT for the benefit of the Jailer of McCracken county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That A. S. Jones, the present jailer of McCracken county, be and he is hereby permitted to reside any distance, not exceeding five hundred yards, from the jail during his term of office.

§2. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 29, 1863.

and powers.

CHAPTER 754.

AN ACT to incorporate Fox Lodge, No. 386, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Dover, Mason county, Ky.

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

§ 1. That the members, and those who may hereafter Borporate name become members of Fox Lodge, No. 386, of Free and ccepted Masons, in Dover, Mason county, Kentucky, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "Fox Lodge, No. 386, Free and Accepted Masons;" and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be capable of contracting and being contracted with, suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, of acquiring and holding such real and personal estate as may be necessary for the use of said lodge, and cemetery lots for the use of its members when deceased; to have and use a common seal, receive all necessary conveyances, and sell the property of said lodge, and reinvest the proceeds thereof: Provided, That the entire amount invested in property by said lodge shall at no time exceed ten thousand dollars.

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§ 2. That the management of the concerns of said corporation shall be, and is hereby confided to the master, senior, and junior wardens, and their successors in oflice, as trustees thereof, who, or a majority of whom, shall have power to make all contracts pertaining to the real or personal estate of said lodge.

§3. That in conveying real estate the whole board of trustees shall join in such conveyance; said trustees shall have power to ordain and put in force by-laws for the safekeeping of the property and other interests of said lodge: Provided, The same be not inconsistent with the constitution of this State or of the United States.

§ 4. The Legislature reserves the right to alter or amend this act at pleasure.

§ 5. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved January 29, 1863.

CHAPTER 757.

AN ACT for the benefit of A. D. Kennedy.

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

§ 1. That A. D. Kennedy, late a justice of the peace in and for Logan county, have the further time of two years from and after the passage of this act, in which to collect his uncollected fees as justice of the peace for said county, subject to all the penalties now fixed by law for levying and collecting illegal fee bills.

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

Approved February 4, 1863.

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CHAPTER 758.

AN ACT in relation to School Districts. Nos. 4 and 21, in Campbell county.

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

§ 1. That an act, entitled, "an act in relation to school districts numbered 4 and 21, in Campbell county," approved February 9th, 1848, be and the same is hereby repealed. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved February 4, 1863.

CHAPTER 759.

AN ACT for the benefit of W. H. Edwards, administrator of Thos. C.
Edwards, deceased, late sheriff of Green county.

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

§. That William H. Edwards, administrator of Thos. C. Edwards, deceased, late sheriff of Green county, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect any arrearages of tax, revenue, or county levy, or public dues of any kind due from the tax payers of Green county, for the years of 1860 and 1861, and shall account for the same as other public revenue collected, or to be collected, by a sheriff; and shall have power and authority to levy and distrain for such tax or public dues, and for all fee bills due said Thos. C. Edwards, deceased, as sheriffs, are now a lowed by law to do: Provided, That before said William H. Edwards shall have the benefits of this act he shall enter into bond, with good and approved security, in the Green county court, conditioned as bonds given by sheriffs for the collection of the revenue under existing laws.

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§ 2. That the said William H. Edwards, administrator, &c., is hereby allowed the time of two years from and after the passage of this act, to collect the revenue, county levy, public dues, and fee bills due the said Thos. C. Edwards, deceased, late sheriff of Green county.

3. This act to be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 4, 1863.

CHAPTER 760.

AN ACT to incorporate the Kentucky Book, Job, and News Printing
Association.

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

§ 1. That Theodore Schwarz, G. T. Bergmann, Samuel Brandeis, Christian Stege, John Hohmeyer, and such persons as they may associate with them, and their successors, are hereby incorporated as a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the "Kentucky Book, Job and News Printing Association, of Louisville;" and by that style to have all the privileges and capacities confer red by an act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, transporting, mechanical, or chemical purposes," approved March 10th, 1854, for the purposes indicated in its title, upon their complying with the requirements of said act.

2. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved February 4, 1863.

CHAPTER 761.

AN ACT to amend the act to incorporate the Deposit Bank of Paris, approved March 7th, 1851.

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

§ 1. That so much of the 2d section of the acts to which this act is an amendment, as requires interest to be paid to the depositor of not more than six per cent., nor less than two per cent. per annum, be repealed, and hereafter the bank shall pay to the depositor interest of not more than six per centum per annum on deposits stipulated for time, and may or may not, in its discretion, pay interest upon deposits subject to call.

2. This act to take effect from its passage.
Approved Febrnuary 4, 1863.

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