by the laws now in force which regulate the duties of the county court clerk in relation to licenses granted as aforesaid. 1851. Approved March 20, 1851. CHAPTER 506. AN ACT for the payment of the debts now due, and for the further prose cution of the work on the Second Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, and to appoint Commissioners to visit the same. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That, in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for the erection of the Second Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, there is hereby appropriated the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the second auditor is directed to issue his warrant on the treasurer for the same, on the application of the commissioners appointed under the provisions of the second and eighth sections of an act, approved the 28th day of February, 1848, concerning said asylum. The debts now due to contractors and others, to be paid out of the same first; the residue to be applied to the payment of the other existing liabilities of the state, so soon as the contracts for said existing liabilities are complied with; and if there be any of the said sum remaining, the balance to be applied to the completion of one or more rooms in said asylum: Provided, if a vacancy occurs in the commissioners appointed as aforesaid, the governor of this state shall fill the vacancy by appointment; and such person or persons thus appointed, shall execute bond as required of the former commissioners, and proceed to discharge the duties of the said commissioners required by this act. 2. That all laws vesting power and authority in said. commissioners to contract any debt or liability on the part of the state, beyond the sum specified in this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. 3. That Dr. James B. Bowling, of Logan county, D. S. Howell, of Bardstown, and John G. Handy, of Mercer county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to visit the Second Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, to inspect the same, and everything pertaining thereto; to ascertain what it will cost to prepare the same for the accommodation of fifty inmates; what one hundred; what two hundred, and what to complete the building; to state and settle the accounts of the present commissioners; to make out a particular description of the building and all of its appurtenances, and to make out a report accompanied with all other information material to be known, and present the same to the next legislature of Kentucky. If any one or 1851. more of said commissioners fail or refuse to act, the governor of this state shall fill the vacancy so created. § 4. That the further sum of five thousand dollars be appropriated for the purpose of progressing with said building for the year 1851, to be paid quarterly out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and that the commissioners for the erection of said building shall expend said sum in finishing off in a neat, plain, and substantial manner, as many rooms in said building as said five thousand dollars will complete, preferring such rooms as will prepare for the reception of the greatest number of inmates, and upon no other part of said building; and they are restricted to the said sum of five thousand dollars in the letting out the work, and contracting with workmen and laborers; and in case the expenditure of said amount be transcended in such contracts, the state will in no wise be responsible for the same; and the second auditor is directed to issue his warrant on the treasurer for the same, on the application of the commissioners appointed under the provisions of the second section of an act, approved the 28th day of February, 1848, concerning said asylum. Approved March 20, 1851. CHAPTER 510. AN ACT allowing to the county of Warren an additional district for the election of Justices of the Peace and Constable. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Elijah Upton, J. D. Alexander, and Leonard Totly, are hereby appointed commissioners to redistrict that part of Warren county lying north of Big Barren river, and, in so doing, they shall divide the same into three districts for the election of justices of the peace and constables instead of two, as reported by the former commissioners. Approved March 20, 1851. CHAPTER 513. AN ACT fixing the period of Clerks and other officers listing their fee bills for collection in the present year. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the clerks of the several courts, and other officers, required to list for collection their fee bills in the month of April in each year, be allowed until the first day of July in the present year to list said fee bills for collection; and when so listed with the proper officer, he shall be bound to collect or account for them, within the time prescribed by law: Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to any subsequent year. Approved March 20, 1851. CHAPTER 515. AN ACT changing an election precinct in Jefferson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the place of voting be and it is hereby changed from the Oakland House to the tavern of John Spardin, in the same precinct, in Jefferson county. Approved March 21, 1851. CHAPTER 523. AN ACT to amend an act in relation to running and re-marking a part of the county line between Graves and Hickman counties. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the commissioners appointed by an act of the last session of the general assembly, to run and remark a part of the line between Graves and Hickman counties, shall meet at the place indicated in said act on the first Monday in September, or as soon thereafter as practicable, together with the surveyors of Graves and Hickman counties, and proceed to perform the duties required by said act, in such manner as the nature of the case requires: Provided, that each county shall pay its due proportion of the expense for the said services. Approved March 21, 1851. CHAPTER 524. AN ACT to equalise the compensation for the collection of the Revenue § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- county of for the year so deposited shall be held and regarded as a payment into the treasury, unless the governor for the time being should, by his proclamation, order and direct otherwise. 1851. 1851. § 2. That the sheriffs of the several counties of this commonwealth shall receive, for collecting the revenue, the following commissions, to-wit: on every dollar collected, until the revenue reaches one thousand dollars, eight cents; on every dollar after the first one thousand dollars, and until the revenue reaches two thousand dollars, six cents; on every dollar after two thousand dollars, and until the revenue reaches three thousand dollars, five cents; on every dollar after three thousand dollars, and until the revenue reaches four thousand dollars, four cents; and on every dollar above four thousand dollars, three cents. Approved March 21, 1851. CHAPTER 526. AN ACT definining the boundaries of the Magistrates' and Constables' districts in Pulaski county. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the county of Pulaski be and the same is hereby divided into nine districts, for the election of justices of the peace and constables, and bounded as follows, viz: District No. 1, or town district: to begin on Fishing creek, at the mouth of Clifty creek; thence down Fishing creek to the mouth of said creek; thence up Cumberland river, to the mouth of Pitman's creek; thence up Pitman's creek to the Shallow ford; thence a straight line to Squire Denbain's, including him; thence down the valley to Cumberland river; thence up said river to where Haynes' knob strikes said river; thence with Haynes' knob and the dividing ridge, which divides the waters of Buck creek and Pitman's creek, to the Rock Lick meeting house, near Patrick Gillispie's; thence a straight line so as to include the said Gillispie, to the Mount Vernon road, at Christopher Haile's; thence with the Mount Vernon road to the road leading in the direction of John Vaught's, near John W. Anderson's; thence with said road to John Vaught's, not to include him; thence to John Mercer's, not to include him; thence a direct line to the Crab Orchard road, to Pitman's creek; thence up Pitman's creek to the mouth of Cox's branch; thence up said branch to its source; thence in a direct line to the Stanford road; thence with said road to the fork of the Stanford, Casey, and Salt Works road; thence with the Salt Works road to the Aldridge place, not to include it; thence down the Aldridge branch to Clifty creek; thence down Clifty creek to the beginning. The place of holding elections for the officers aforesaid, in district No. 1, shall be at the court house, in the town of Somerset. § 2. District No. 2: to begin at Fishing creek, where the Columbia road crosses the same in district No. 1; thence with the Columbia road to the Jamestown road; thence with said road to the Russell county line; thence with said line to the Wayne county line and Cumberland river, to the mouth of Fishing Creek; thence up Fishing creek to the beginning. The place of holding elections for the officers aforesaid, in district No. 2, shall be at the house of George W. Gaines. §3. District No. 3: to begin at Fishing creek, at the beginning of district No. 2; thence with the line of district No. 2, to the Russell county line; then with said line to the Casey county line; thence with said line near to Miltonsville; thence with the road running down the ridge in the direction of Joel W. Cooper's, to Fishing creek, at said Cooper's; thence down the creek to the beginning. The place for holding elections for the officers aforesaid, shall be at Harrison, in district No. 3. § 4. District No. 4: to begin on the Casey county line, on the line of district No. 3, near Miltonsville; thence with the Casey county line to the Lincoln county line; thence with said line to Buck creek; thence down said creek to the old Lee ford; thence with the road from said ford to Nathan Floyd's, to include him; thence with the road to Adam Surber's, not to include him; thence with the road to Harvey Hubble's, to include him; thence down his spring branch to Pitman's creek; thence down said creek to the mouth of Cox's branch, on district No. 1; thence with district No. 1 to the mouth of Clifty creek, on district No. 3, to the beginning. The place for holding elections, in district No. 4, for the officers aforesaid, shall be at the town of Mount Gilead. § 5. District No. 5: to begin at the Lee ford, on Buck creek, on district No. 4; thence with the line of district No. 4 to the line of district No. 1, at the mouth of Cox's branch, on Pitman's creek; thence with the line of district No. 1 to the Mount Vernon road at Christopher Haile's; thence with the Mount Vernon road to Noah Lee's, to include him ; thence with Flat Lick creek to the Salt Works road; thence with the Salt Works road to Buck creek; thence with said creek to the beginning. The place for holding elections for the officers aforesaid, in district No. 5, shall be at the house of William Price. § 6. District No. 6: to begin at the ford of Buck creek, on district No. 5, near Jonathan Smith's; thence up Buck creek to the Lincoln county line; thence with said line to the Rockcastle county line; thence with said line to the Laurel county line; thence with said line to the mouth of Line creek; thence up said creek to where the Stanford. road crosses said creek; thence with said road to where it crosses Buck creek; thence up said creek to the beginning. The place of voting for the election of the officers afore 1851. |