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§ 9. This company shall engage in no other business. 1863. than the management of the property said company is authorized to hold, and the conducting of a hotel in Lexing- company. ton, and particularly shall not be authorized to exercise any banking powers.

§ 10. The company shall be authorized to borrow money not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, and issue their bonds, secured by mortgage or deed of trust upon the property, rights, and privileges of the corporation for the re-payment of the money borrowed, or to sell such bonds on such terms as a majority in amount of the stockholders may

consent to.

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

Approved February 26, 1863.

May borrow money.

CHAPTER 879.

AN ACT to change the boundary line of Columbia voting district, in
Adair county.

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

§1. That the lines of the Columbia voting or magistrates' district, in Adair county, be so changed as to include the House and residence of Joseph M. Young, on the north side of Green river.

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

Approved February 26, 1863.

CHAPTER 880.

AN ACT to provide for establishing County Courts in Newport. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That, in addition to the county courts now held in the county of Campbell, the presiding judge of said county shall hold, annually twelve terms of the Campbell county court in the city of Newport. They shall be held at the court house on thethird Monday of each and every month; and said judge may adjourn said court from day to day, and from time to time, if the business requires it; and he shall have power to call and hold special terms of said court in said city, and for such times as the business may require; but no court of claims shall be held in Newport.

§2. The clerk of said county court shall keep a distinct docket and record books for the terms held at Newport, in which shall be recorded all the business done in said court in the same manner and to the effect that records are now

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kept in county court clerks' offices. The clerk shall keep
an office in Newport, at such place as said city may pro-
vide, in which office he shall keep the records of said
The duties herein enjoined upon the clerk of said
county court may be performed by his deputy.

§ 3. Every process in reference to causes to be tried or
pending in the court at Newport, or for the execution of its
judgments, shall be returned and returnable at Newport;
and the sheriff and his deputies shall attend said court.

§ 4. The city of Newport shall pay the presiding judge of the county court such reasonable sum for his services, in holding said courts, as the city council of said city may annually determine; and all the other expenses for holding said court in Newport, which otherwise would be paid out of the county levy, shall be paid by said city of Newport. Approved February 26, 1863.

CHAPTER 881.

AN ACT to confer additional powers on County Judges.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky:

§ 1. That power and authority is hereby given to county
judges to commit runaway slaves; and to issue and try
warrants of forcible entry and detainer, in all respects as
justices of the peace are now empowered to do.
2. This act to be in force from its passage.

Approved February 26, 1863.

CHAPTER 882.

AN ACT authorizing the County Court of Lincoln county to levy a tax to pay a county police.

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

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§ 1. That the county court of Lincoln county be and the same is hereby authorized in its discretion, to levy a tax upon the people of said county to pay a body of men, exceeding ten in number, for a county police, whose duty it shall be to guard the said county against all out-laws, and assist the civil officers in executing the laws.

§ 2. The said police shall be appointed by the county court, a majority of the justices of said county being present and concurring therein, and subject to such rules and regulations as the county court may from time to time prescribe.

§ 3. This act shall take effect from its passage.
Approved February 26, 1863.

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CHAPTER 883.

AN ACT concerning the Mayor of the city of Covington. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§1. That the mayor of the city of Covington shall have concurrent jurisdiction, in the county of Kenton, with the circuit court judge, in issuing, hearing, and determining writs of habeas corpus.

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

Approved February 26, 1863.

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CHAPTER 884.

AN ACT for the benefit of John P. Sullivan, of Todd county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That John P. Sullivan of Todd county, and a resident of the town of Elkton, who has taken out license to keep a hotel in said town, and in consequence of his house lacking room for a bar or hotel saloon, that the said Sullivan be and he is hereby allowed to open a bar or saloon in some room on the public square, as convenient to his hotel as he can conveniently obtain a room, which is only to remain under this act so long as he (the said Sullivan,) shall keep said hotel open for the accommodation of guests.

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

Approved February 26, 1863.

CHAPTER 885.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Germantown.

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

Trustees to 11. cense grocers,

§1. That the trustees of the town of Germantown shall have the right to tax, and the exclusive right to license, all &c. taverns, merchants, grocers, and others who desire to sell spirituous, vinous or malt liquors; and fix the tax for the same in a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars per annum, and for cause discontinue said licenses at pleasure; and any law giving the county court of the counties of Mason and Bracken authority to license tavernkeepers, merchants, and grocers in said town, with the right to retail spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, is hereby repealed; but the license which any tavern-keeper, mer

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lowing persons to get drunk.

chant, or grocer has obtained, shall be good until the time shall have expired for which he obtained it. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to exempt tavern-keepers, who may procure license from the trustees, from complying with the law now in force on that subject.

§ 2. That any tavern-keeper, merchant, or grocer in said Penalty for al- town, who, after having procured a license under this act, shall suffer any person to tipple or get drunk, or shall sell or give to any drunk person any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered in the name of the Commonwealth, by indictment in the circuit court of the county in which said offense was committed.

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§ 3. That, at the instance of any person, the police judge, Warrant to be county judge, or any justice of the peace for the county, shall issue his warrant, and cause the alleged offender to be brought before him or some other judge or justice at such time and place in said town as he may designate to answer any charge above named alleged against him. The defendant may produce countervailing testimony; and the judge or justice presiding, if, from the testimony, shall be of opinion that the defendant is guilty, shall recognize him to appear in the circuit court of the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed on the first day of the next term thereafter, with sufficient surety in double the amount of the highest penalty imposed by this act, which proceedings, together with the judgment and bond, shall be returned by the said judge or justice to the clerk of the circuit court of said county, to be by him placed on the docket of said court; and the same proceedings to be taken thereon by the circuit court as in cases of felony, public peace, &c., now provided for by the laws of Kentucky. The Commonwealth's Attorney shall be entitled to the same compensation as is now provided by law, and the remainder of the fine to be paid into the treasury. Upon conviction the defendant shall stand committed to the jail of the county until the fine and costs are paid at the rate of fifty cents per day.

Penalty for giving or selling without license.

$4. That any tavern-keeper, merchant, grocer, or any other person, who shall sell, or any tavern-keeper, merchant, or grocer who shall give at his place of business, or any one who shall keep liquor stored or in quantity who shall frequently and habitually, give, at his place of business, or at any other place, any quantities of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors without a license, shall be fined for each offense not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars; the proceedings and recovery of the fine to be the same as provided for in the preceding part of this act.

§ 5. That any tavern-keeper, merchant, or grocer who Not to sell on shall be guilty of giving or selling any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors in said town on the Sabbath day, (except

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for medical purposes, to be prescribed by a physician in writing) shall be fined for each offense not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars, to be proceeded with, and recovered in like manner as provided for in the preceding part of this act.

§ 6. That any person who shall be convicted of any of the offences enumerated in this act, if he had a license, shall thereby be suspended by the judge or justice in the examining court, until the next circuit court; and if found guilty upon his trial in the circuit court, his license shall be forfeited, and he be forever after disqualified from obtaining a license for the same purpose within the limits of the town of Germantown.

§ 7. That it shall be the duties of the trustees of said town to enforce this act; and also all the various statutes now in existence, or which may be enacted concerning towns in this State, so far as the same are applicable to said town.

§ 8. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

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Approved February 26, 1863.

CHAPTER 886.

AN ACT for the benefit of Andrew W. Foster, late sheriff of Allen

county.

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

That in the settlement with Andrew W. Foster, late sheriff for the county of Allen, for the revenue due from that county for the year 1861, the Auditor of Public Accounts is directed to allow the said Foster a credit for the sum of seven hundred and eighty-five dollars, which the said Foster was compelled to pay to W. B. Clark, commissioner of the Provisional Government of Kentucky, on the 16th day of January, 1862.

Approved February 26, 1863.

CHAPTER 887.

AN ACT for the benefit of Isaac Gastineau, late sheriff of Pulaski county.

Whereas, it is represented to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky that Isaac Gastineau, late sheriff of Pulaski county, has collected, and has ready for payment into the treasury of the State, four thousand dollars of the public revenue of said county for the year 1862, the balance being still uncollected therefore,

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