Treasury in favor of the said M. H. Kavenaugh and A. F. McClanahan for fifty dollars each, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the arrest and conviction of Wm. Johnson and G. W. Wilson for horse-stealing. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 30, 1888. CHAPTER 1376. AN ACT to repeal an act authorizing John Shaw and W. T. Proffitt to erect a mill-dam across Big Barren river, in Monroe county, at or near their mill. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act authorizing John Shaw and W. T. Proffitt to erect a mill-dam across Big Barren river, in Monroe county, at or near their mill, approved March 6, 1878, is hereby repealed. § 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 30, 1888. CHAPTER 1377. AN ACT to amend and re-enact an act, entitled "An act to authorize the people to vote a tax in aid of turnpike roads in Henry county," approved March 9, 1869, and the acts amendatory thereto. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to authorize the people to vote a tax in aid of turnpike roads in Henry county," approved March 9, 1869, and the acts amendatory thereto, be re-enacted and amended and contin ued in force for five years in turnpike district No. 3, in Henry county. § 2. That said acts and amended acts be, and they are so amended, that said district No. 3 shall only pay eight hundred dollars a mile for turnpikes built in said district, instead of one thousand dollars per mile as heretofore; and the certificates shall bear six per cent. interest from the day they are issued until paid; but said interest shall not be compounded. 3. That Joseph Clements, John Chandler and Ebenezer Wallace are hereby appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be to determine the location of and what turnpike roads shall be built in said district, and that no person or corporation hereafter building a turnpike road in said district No 3 shall be entitled to the benefit of the act and various amendments to which this is an amendment, and to this amendment, until such person or corporation shall have obtained the certificate of at least two of said commissioners, to the effect that the turnpike has been built upon a route selected and approved by said commissioners : Provided, That this section shall not apply to turnpikes which have been built before the first of April, 1888, or which are in good faith in actual process of construction at that time. 4. That the commissioners appointed in the preceding section shall hold their offices as long as this act remains in force. They shall receive no compensation for their services. Should any one of said commissioners die or resign, the county judge of Henry county, on the application of two tax-payers of said district, shall appoint some one residing in said district as his successor, who shall have all the powers conferred by this act on the commissioner so dying or resigning. § 5. That there shall be imposed upon all the taxable property in said district, for the purpose of building the turnpike roads in said district, in addition to the tax now imposed, an ad valorem tax of twenty cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of all taxable property in said district, and a poll-tax of one dollar and fifty cents on each male person twenty-one years of age or over residing in said district. Said tax to be collected in the same manner that the tax now imposed is directed to be collected. § 6. That this act shall not take effect nor be in force until ratified by a majority of the voters of the district voting at an election to be held on the first Monday in August, 1888. The election to be held as prescribed in the act to which this is an amendment. § 7. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved April 30, 1888. CHAPTER 1378. AN ACT to re-enact and amend an act, entitled "An act to authorize the people of Henry county to vote a tax for the purpose of aiding companies in the building of turnplke roads in said county," approved March 9, 1869, and the acts amendatory thereof. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the act, entitled "An act to authorize the people of Henry county to vote a tax for the purpose of aiding companies in the building of turnpike roads in said county," approved March 9, 1869, with all the amendments thereto, be, and the same is hereby, reenacted, except as hereafter amended, so as the provisions of the same will apply to and govern, and be in force in, district No. (2) two, which is described by the act to which this is an amendment; and the provisions of this act, if adopted, will remain in full force and effect in said district for (4) four years from its adoption. § 2. The election to ascertain the will of the people as to whether they will adopt this act shall be held on the first Monday in August, 1888, in the same manner as provided for elections in the act to which this is an amendment; and if a majority of the persons voting at said election shall vote in favor of adopting this act, then it shall be in full force and effect from and after said election for the time herein before described. 3. That a pike, with the metal thereon ten feet wide, and otherwise constructed as required by law, shall constitute a lawful pike under the provisions of this act. § 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 30, 1888. CHAPTER 1379. AN ACT to change the county line between Menefee and Powell counties, which is for the benefit of Henry C. Farmer. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the county line between Menefee and Powell counties be so changed as to run as follows: Beginning on a bluff west of Indian creek, below the mouth of the Powder Mill branch, and where said county line now crosses the lines of Henry C. Farmer's land; thence eastwardly to a walnut tree corner near said creek; thence with said Farmer's line to Red river; thence down with said river to the mouth of said creek, and including in Powell county said Farmer's land between said river and the lines above named, which is for the benefit of said Farmer. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 42-LOCAL LAWS, VOL. 3. Approved April 30, 1888. CHAPTER 1380. AN ACT to quiet the title to certain lands lying in Whitley county. WHEREAS, A grant for nine thousand and six hundred acres of land lying in Whitley county was issued to Jacob Hudson and Cyrum Wait, dated on eighteenth day of October, 1855, in pursuance of an actual survey made by authority of warrants from the Whitley county, issued in the year 1846, which were duly paid for; and whereas, said grant includes in its exterior lines other surveys of land excluded from the operation of said grant, which are not described or identified with sufficient certainty to locate the same; and whereas, the lands covered by said grant are now owned by bona fide purchasers for value, who have expended considerable sums of money in developing the mineral resources of said lands; and whereas, doubts exist as to the validity of said grant; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That so much of said grant is legalized, and is hereby declared valid, as includes and grants lands which are not covered by other grants or surveys made and issued under the laws of this State, which are claimed by persons under such grants or surveys, and against the said Hudson and Wait grant. 2. That the present claimants of land under the said Hudson and Wait grant may, within one year of the passage of this act, cause the lands, the title to which is legalized by the first section of this act, to be surveyed by the surveyor of Whitley county, or by a competent surveyor, who may be appointed for that purpose by the county court of said county, and certificates thereof, accompanied with plats or maps of the same, to be made and recorded in same manner as other surveys are required by law to be recorded, and |