CHAPTER 1049. AN ACT for the benefit of the town of Clinton. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1873. der streets im 1. That the trustees of said town shall have full and Trustees may orcomplete control of the sidewalks therein, with power to proved. compel property-holders, owning real estate fronting on any street along which it shall be necessary or proper to construct a sidewalk, to construct and keep in repair so much of the same as shall lie in front of their said realty. § 2. That said trustees shall have the right to open new streets in said town leading from the public square to the depot on the Mississippi Central Railroad, by and with the consent of the owners of real property across which such new streets may run; and in exchange for the land taken for this purpose they may transfer to said owners such streets as can be properly closed by reason of the new ones being opened, or they may contract with the owners for so much land as may be necessary to enable them to open said new streets, and pay for it out of any funds in their hands belonging to said town. §3. It shall be the duty of [the] trustees, upon the requestof any two owners of real property situate within said town, to take the necessary steps to have opened any alley or street now in the possession of any private individual. 5. The streets of said town shall be kept in repair in the mode now prescribed by law. § 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. May open new streets. May, on petition, cause new alleys and streets through private property. to be opened Approved April 23, 1873. CHAPTER 1050. AN ACT for the benefit of John Gibbs, of Wolfe county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the sum of fifty dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to John Gibbs, as a committee for William Gibbs, an idiot, of Wolfe county, in addition to what he has heretofore been allowed by law, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of said John Gibbs, for the said sum of fifty dollars. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. 1873. CHAPTER 1054. AN ACT for the benefit of John F. King, sheriff of Knox county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the 20 per cent. damages assessed against John F. King, sheriff of Knox county, on the revenue due from said county for the year 1871, be, and said damages are hereby, released, and said King shall not be held to pay the same: Provided, Said sheriff shall pay by the 1st day of June, 1873, the principal, interest, costs, five per cent. damages, Attorney General's commissions, and lawyer's fees, if any. § 2. That said King shall have a credit on the revenue due from said county for the year 1872 for his delinquent list for the year 1871. §3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 23, 1873. lay off districts schools. CHAPTER 1055. AN ACT to provide for the education of colored children in Garrard county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the county commissioner of common schools Commissioner to in Garrard county be, and he is hereby, directed to lay for colored off said county into suitable districts most convenient to the greatest number of colored children, so that no district shall contain more than one hundred nor less than twenty colored children of pupil age: Provided, That the town of Lancaster shall not be laid off into more than one district. to be elected. 2. That after said school districts shall have been laid Colored trustees off as provided for in the first section of this act, it shall be the duty of the school commissioner to cause an election to be held to elect three colored trustees, who shall be elected by the qualified colored voters of each district, which election shall be held and conducted according to the present common school law. school-houses to be erected. §3. The trustees shall have the power to provide a Trustees to cause suitable school-house, cause a school to be taught in their respective districts for the benefit of the colored children therein, and shall notify their parents that it is their privilege to send their children to said school free of charge. They shall also report to the school commissioner the length of time said school was taught. § 4. The trustees of any said school district in said May acquire county are hereby invested with the power to purchase, school-houses on. for the use of said district school, so much land of any lands person or persons as is deemed by them necessary to the E use of the school in said district, provided that not more than one acre of land shall be purchased for any one school district: Provided, That no school-house provided for under this act shall be located nearer than half a mile of any school-house erected and used for white children, except in any town within said county, and in those not nearer than eight hundred feet. 1873. for school pur § 5. That there shall be collected the sum of twenty Tax to be levied cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of property poses. listed for taxation for revenue purposes by all colored persons within said county, and a poll tax of one dollar shall be levied on every colored male citizen, between the ages of eighteen and sixty years, in said county, which shall be assessed and collected as other taxes, and paid to the county commissioner of common schools, who commissioner to shall be responsible on his bond for the custody and proper burse funds. disbursement thereof. The fund arising from the taxation above provided for shall be appropriated in the said county, and shall not be used for any other purpose than erection of school-houses, paying for land to build on as provided for in the fourth section of this act, and the payment of qualified teachers, who shall teach said schools. receive and dis es. § 6. The sheriff of said county shall be allowed five Fees of sheriff per cent. of the taxes collected and paid to the school for collecting taxcommissioner of said county for the use and benefit of schools for the education of colored children. §7. The sheriff shall appropriate the taxes, or any part thereof, collected from any colored citizen, to whatever fund said colored citizen may designate, in all cases where he is not able to pay the entire tax assessed against him for State, county, school, and municipal purposes. teachers. § 8. No person shall be deemed qualified to teach under Qualifications of this act until he or she has obtained a certificate from the commissioner, testifying that he or she is qualified to teach the simple elements of a plain English education. § 9. The county commissioner of common schools in Compensation of said county may be allowed such compensation for his services under this act as the court of claims of said county may allow. § 10. It shall be the duty of the school commissioner of said county to pay to the teachers of any district school such an amount of money as may be due said district, according to the number of children therein. § 11. This act shall take effect from its passage. commissioner. 1873. CHAPTER 1056. AN ACT for the benefit of R. B. Lovel, late sheriff of Lewis county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That R. B. Lovel, late sheriff of Lewis county, be released from the payment of $156 65, being the five per cent. assessed against him under act March 22, 1871, by the Auditor, on non-payment of the revenue for the year 1871 said Lovel having paid into the Treasury the full amount of the revenue due the State from him for the year 1871. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 23, 1873. CHAPTER 1057. AN ACT for the benefit of school district No. 38, in Henry county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be lawful for the trustees of school district No. 38, in Henry county, to use the public school funds belonging to their district for the purpose of building a school-house in said district, upon the report of the school commissioner that they have had taught a free school for all indigent children in said district according to law, and that the teacher has been paid by said trustees for teaching said school according to the common school law of this State. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 23, 1873. CHAPTER 1058. AN ACT for the benefit of Mrs. Margaret Decker. WHEREAS, Mrs. Margaret Decker, wife of B. F. Decker, of Kenton county, has been confined for the past ten years and more as a pay patient in the Eastern Lunatic Asylum at Lexington, in this Commonwealth, during which time her husband has paid to said institution, for attendance to and care for her therein, the sum of over and above three thousand dollars; and the said Margaret is an incurable lunatic; and whereas, it has been represented to the General Assembly that said B. F. Decker, husband of the said Margaret, was until recently engaged in laborious and remunerative business, and owned a considerable amount of property; but has latterly become so much debilitated by chronic disease as to unfit him for work and labor; and has also lost the most of his property, a considerable portion of which was sold to pay for the care as aforesaid, of his wife, the said Margaret, and is now in straitened circumstances; and the said B. F. Decker having also a large family, the children of himself and said Margaret, most of whom are minors, to support; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That from and after the first day of April, 1873, the said Margaret Decker be kept and cared for in the said Eastern Lunatic Asylum, so long as she may remain a lunatic, at the expense of the State. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. 1873. Approved April 23, 1873. CHAPTER 1059. AN ACT for the benefit of H. B. Wiseman, former sheriff of Estill county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That further time, until the next court of claims of Estill county, be, and the same is hereby, allowed H. B. Wiseman, former sheriff of Estill county, to make out and return an additional delinquent list of revenue and county levy for the year 1872; and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of said Wiseman for the amount of delinquent revenue property certified to him by the Estill county court, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 23, 1873. CHAPTER 1060. AN ACT for the benefit of J. N. Culton, late sheriff of Jackson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That J. N. Culton, late sheriff of Jackson county, be, and he is hereby, allowed until the first day of July, 1873, to pay into the Treasury the remainder of his unpaid revenue for the year 1872. |