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1863.

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.

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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 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.

§ 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.

1863.

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 February 4, 1863.

CHAPTER 762.

AN ACT to confer certain powers upon the clerk of the Kenton county court, and his deputies.

Whereas, it is represented that the judge of Kenton county resides thirteen miles from the city of Covington, in and near which most of the legal business of said county originates and is transacted-in oder, therefore, to accommodate the citizens of said county,

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

1. That the county court clerk of Kenton county, and his deputies, are hereby empowered to issue the summons, and all subponeas, and any other process, in any action which may come before the judge of the Kenton county court, to take any and all bonds in any action, which said judge, by law, is authorized to take; and any process issued by said clerk or his deputy, or bond taken by him or them, shall, to all intents and purposes, have the same effect, and the same binding force as if it had been issued or taken by the judge himself. All such process shall be returned to the officer who issued them, and he shall be allowed the same fees allowed to the judge for such services, which shall be taxed and collected in the costs. All such papers shall be returned to the judge of the county court, before his next succeeding term, by the officer who issued or took them.

§ 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its pas

sage.

Approved February 4, 1863.

1863.

CHAPTER 763.

AN ACT to provide certain public books for the use of the Morgan circuit and county courts.

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

§ 1. That the Secretary of State furnish to the clerk of the Morgan circuit court the Kentucky Reports, one copy of Stanton's Revised Statutes, and the acts of the General Assembly passed since the adoption of the Revised Statutes, to be kept and preserved by the clerk for the use of the Morgan circuit and county courts.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 4, 1863.

1863.

CHAPTER 764.

AN ACT for the benefit of school districts Nos. 17, 18, 35, and 57, in
Whitley 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 and directed to draw his warrant on the treasury in favor of Robert Boyd, commissioner of common schools for Whitley county, for the sum of sixty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents, to be paid out by said com-1 missioner as follows: to the trustees of school district No. 17, thirty-eight dollars; to the trustees of district No. 57, ten dollars, on account of schools taught in said districts. in the year 1860; to the trustees of district No. 18, twelve dollars and eighteen cents; to the trustees of district No. 35, eight dollars and twenty-cents, for the year 1861-that amount being due to those districts respectively, for schools taught and not regularly reported in the years specified. §2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Approved February 4, 1863.

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CHAPTER 765.*

AN ACT to incorporate the Salt Lick Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth. of Kentucky:

§ 1. That Win. H Taylor. James Hiner, James C. Cole," Jackson Norris, Robert Bedford. W. C. Halbert, N. B. Webster, John C. Ingram. Thos. H. Thomas, John McCall, and Thomas D. Parker, with their associates, be and they are hereby made a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the "Salt Lick Creek Bridge Company," for the purpose of building a bridge across Salt Lick creek, near the mouth, in Lewis county; and they and their associates and successors shall continue and have perpetual succession, and by that name and style are made capable in law to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and impleaded, in all courts of law and equity in this Commonwealth; and have and possess all power necessary to carry into effect the objects of this act.

§2. The capital stock shall be three thousand dollars, divided in shares of ten dollars each. The capital stock may be increased by the president and directors to such an amount as may be necessary to construct said bridge, und completely protect the same, which stock may be subscribed for at such time and place as said persons shall think proper. They are authorized to open books for the subscription of stock as they may deem proper, until the whole

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