CHAPTER 923. AN ACT for the benefit of the late sheriffs of Meade, Livingston, and Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That R. R. Jones, late sheriff of Meade county; R. S. Boyd, late sheriff of Livingston county; and Wm. B. Miller, late sheriff of Hancock county; be and they are hereby allowed the further time of two years from and after the passage of this act in which to collect the arrearages of taxes and uncollected fee bills due them whilst they were sheriffs of said counties; and that they shall have power to distrain for the same-they and their sureties to be liable for any illegal distress or other improper conduct in the collection of said taxes and fee bills as in other cases. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. 1863. CHAPTER 925. AN ACT for the benefit of Wm. Anderson, of Greenup county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That Wm. Anderson, of Greenup county, be allowed to peddle books, and goods, wares, and merchandise, in the county of Greenup, without paying a license therefor. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. CHAPTER 926. AN ACT for the benefit of R. W. Davis, of Shelby county. Whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly that R. W. Davis, of Shelby county, was elected county attor ney of said county of Shelby at the August election, 1862; and whereas, said Davis, at the time of his election, was an officer in the 2d Kentucky cavalry, and absent from the county of Shelby, on duty in the State of Tennessee, so that he could not qualify and enter upon the discharge of his duties as county attorney; and whereas, the presiding judge of Shelby county, in the said absence of said Davis, appointed C. M. Harwood county attorney; and whereas, said Harwood proposes to resign said office in favor of said Davis, if he can legally do so-therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That in case said Harwood resigns the office of county attorney it shall be lawful for said Davis to qualify 1863. as county attorney of said county, and enter upon the discharge of the duties of the same; and said qualification shall have the same force and effect as if it had been done according to law. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. CHAPTER 927. AN ACT for the benefit of A. C. Cox, of Green 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 directed to issue his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of Archibald C. Cox, of Green county, for the sum of six dollars as a compensation for his services as elisor of the Green circuit court at the June term, 1862, he having been appointed as such by the court. § 2. This act to be in force froin its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. CHAPTER 928. AN ACT for the benefit of B. E. Courts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be and he is hereby directed to issue his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of Braxton E. Courts, of Green county, for the sum of twenty-four dollars as a compensation for his services as elisor of the Green circuit court, at the August term, 1862, he having been appointed as such by the court. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. CHAPTER 929. AN ACT for the benefit of the estate of John B. Hollady, late sheriff of Nicholas county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That Thomas Kennedy, who, as commissioner and receiver, has in his hands the books, notes, and accounts of John B. Hollady, late sheriff of Nicholas county, shall have the same power to issue and put out for collection, the fee bills of said Hollady, in the same manner that said Hollady could have done, and that there be allowed the further time of two years, from and after the passage of this act, to issue and collect the same, during which time said fee bills may be collected in the same manner that fee bills can now be collected by law. Approved February 28, 1863. 1863. CHAPTER 930. AN ACT for the benefit of School District No. 20, in Meade county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the trustees of school district No. 20, in the county of Meade, in which district a common school was duly taught in 1859, but owing to accident, not reported in time, be allowed to report the school taught as aforesaid to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the said report to be verified by the affidavit of at least one of said trustees; whereupon the Superintendent is directed to draw his order on the Auditor in favor of said trustees, and an amount shall be thereupon paid them as if said district had been regularly reported. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. CHAPTER 931. AN ACT for the benefit of certain of the enrolled militia of Bullitt county. Whereas, it is represented to the present General Assembly that the sheriff of Bullitt county, by mistake, collected of several of the enrolled militia of that county the militia tax imposed by the act passed at the called session in the month of August, 1862, for the year 1861, instead of the year 1862-for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the tax payers who have paid their taxes, as stated in the preamble to this act, shall have credit for said tax for the year 1862; and said sheriff shall account for the same as if collected for 1862. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. 1863. CHAPTER 932. AN ACT for the benefit of James M. Coulter, late Clerk of the County Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That James M. Coulter, late clerk of the county court of Graves county, and Erwin Anderson, late clerk of the circuit court of said county, have the further time of two years to list and collect their uncollected fee bills, subject to all the pains and penalties now provided by law for issuing or collecting illegal fee bills. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. CHAPTER 933. AN ACT for the benefit of the widow of James Sudduth, deceased. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the sum of five hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be paid to Mrs. Ellen Sudduth, the widow of James Sudduth, deceased, late of the county of Bath, who was wilfully mur dered in that county by a band of guerrillas in the month of October, 1862, to compensate her for the money expended by her husband, and services rendered by him to the State in defending it against the invasion of lawless bands of guerrillas and robbers that infested that part of it. §2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. CHAPTER 937. AN ACT to legalize the acts of B D. Winstead, County Clerk of Webster county. Whereas, it is satisfactorily represented to this General Assembly, that in consequence of the disturbed State of the country the county officers elect for Webster county, for the year 1862, failed to qualify and enter upon the du ties of office, and that B. D. Winstead, former county court clerk for said county, under the impression that he held the office until his successor was qualified, continued to per form the duties of county court clerk until his successor was duly qualified-therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That all the official acts of B. D. Winstead, as county court clerk of Webster county, since the first day of September, 1862, which may in other respects conform to existing laws, shall be deemed as legal and valid in law as if said Winstead had been a legal officer. § 5. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. 1863. CHAPTER 938. AN ACT to authorize the County Court of Union county to hold a Whereas, it is satisfactorily represented to this General Assembly that in consequence of the disturbed state of the country, no court of assessment and claims was held in the county of Union for the year 1862-therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be lawful for the county court of Union county to hold a court of assessment and claims on the 1st Monday in April, 1863, and all the acts of said court shall be as lawful as if it had been held at the usual time prescribed by law. 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 28, 1863. CHAPTER 941. AN ACT for the benefit of the personal representatives of Jas. Townsend, deceased. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be and he is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the personal representatives of James Townsend, for the pay of a major in the United States army for the space of one and a half months; and that he draw his warrant on the Treasurer, to be out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage. |