CHAPTER 1071. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate Greensburg Deposit Bank," approved March 18th, 1872. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to incorporate Greensburg Deposit Bank," approved March the 18th, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to give the corporators named therein until the 1st of January, 1875, to organize and commence their business, as authorized by the provisions of the charter to which this is an amendment; and so much of the tenth section of said charter as is in conflict with this act, is hereby repealed. § 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved April 23, 1873. 1873. CHAPTER 1072. AN ACT for the benefit of common school district No. 1, in Pendleton county. WHEREAS, It is represented that common school district No. 1, in Pendleton county, Kentucky, is indebted on account of their public or common school-house in the sum of about five hundred dollars, including principal and interest; now, therefore, to enable said district to discharge their said indebtedness, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: school purposes. § 1. That the acting trustees of common school district May levy tax for No. 1, in Pendleton [county], be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to levy and collect a tax, not exceeding two cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of real and personal property in said district, as shown by the assessor's book of said county, from year to year, until said indebtedness shall be fully liquidated. point collec.or. § 2. Said trustees are hereby authorized to appoint a Trustees to collector of said taxes, who shall have, in the collection of said taxes, the same rights and powers as the sheriff has in the collection of the county levy, to levy upon property, distrain, &c.; and who, for his services, shall be allowed by said trustees a liberal compensation, not to exceed five per cent. on amount collected. bond. §3. Said collector to be appointed the first Saturday Collector to give in May of each year, to give good bond, and report his actions by the 1st September in each year, and pay over all moneys in his hands at that time. § 4. Provided, Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to allow any person or persons of color to vote: And 1873. provided further, That no property belonging to persons of color shall be the subject-matter of taxation under the provisions of this bill. § 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 23, 1873. CHAPTER 1073. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to empower county courts to take stock in turnpike roads in this Commonwealth," approved March 9, 1868. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled " An act to empower county courts to take stock in turnpike roads in this Commonwealth," approved March 9th, 1868, be and the same is hereby, so amended as to apply to the county of Todd. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. Approved April 23, 1873. CHAPTER 1074. AN ACT to appropriate money for the payment of a claim due Henry Dressman, of Kenton county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer in favor of Henry Dressman, for the sum of sixty-eight dollars and ninety-three cents ($68 93), to pay for the improvement of Burnett street, in front of a lot owned by the State in the city of Covington: Provided, That the Auditor shall be satisfied of the justice of the claim from the vouchers filed. § 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 23, 1873. CHAPTER 1075. AN ACT to authorize the making of an abstract-book for the counties of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of 1873. be made. § 1. A. C. Ellis and Milton Hamilton are hereby author- Abstract books to ized to make a book containing an abstract of titles to all real estate in the counties of Kenton and Boone; and for the purpose of carrying into effect the object of this act, they are to be allowed free access to all the public records of said counties. sioners. § 2. The said Ellis and Hamilton are hereby authorized Fees of commisto charge and collect a fee of not more than twenty-five dollars for each abstract of title furnished by them to any person who shall apply for the same. § 3. Said abstract-book shall be the private property of the said Ellis and Hamilton; and the rights and franchises herein granted shall continue for twenty years. § 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 23, 1873. CHAPTER 1076. AN ACT to incorporate the Frankfort True Friend Society. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Corporators' names. § 1. That Silas Pitman, John Chambers, Nelson Dickinson, George Pitman, Martin Boyd, Robert Parent, and Peter Minter, and their associates and successors, are hereby created a body-corporate and politic, in and under the name of the Frankfort True Friend Society; and by Name and style. such corporate name may sue and be sued, in all the courts of this Commonwealth, and may contract and be contracted with, in regard to the objects of this society; have and use a common seal, and have perpetual suc cession. § 2. The object of this society shall be to render aid to Object. the needy members thereof while living, and to provide decent burial for such members as may die, and also to provide for the support and education of the children of deceased members. members. 3. The members of this society shall be composed of Qualifications of colored male persons between the ages of eighteen and seventy years. Society may make by-laws, § 4. The society may make rules and by-laws regulating the amount of initiation fees to be charged to persons &c. on becoming members of the society, and the amount of 1873. membership monthly dues to be paid to the society by each member, as well as the amount per week to be paid by the society to each member in good standing who may be sick for a period of not less than one week's duration; but the initiation fee shall never be less than two dollars nor more than five dollars; and the monthly dues to be paid by each member shall never be less than fifty cents per month nor more than three dollars per month; and the amount paid by the society to each sick member shall never be less than one dollar nor more than five dollars per week. § 5. Every application for membership shall be voted Regulations as to on at a regular meeting, and the application shall in every case be accompanied by the amount of the initiation fee; and if there are ten votes against the applicant, his application shall be declared rejected, and the money returned to the applicant. Meetings. dutics. 6. This society shall hold its regular meetings monthly, but the president may order called meetings at any time. 7. The officers of this society shall consist of a presiOfficers-their dent, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, who shall be term of office and elected by a majority vote of the members present at the first meeting after [the] passage of this act, and shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors sha!! have been elected and qualified, and shall perform the duties usually discharged by such officers; all of which duties shall be performed without pay, excepting that the secretary shall receive such pay as may be fixed by the by-laws. sed. § 8. All funds paid to this society shall be faithfully apHow funds to be plied to the objects herein mentioned, in such manner as the society, from time to time, may determine at its regular meetings. No part of the funds shall be loaned out, but the whole thereof shall be kept constantly on hand for the charitable uses of the society, and for the payment of dues to sick members. give bond. § 9. Before entering upon the duties of his office the Treasurer to treasurer shall execute bond, with one or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the president, conditioned for the faithful discharge of all the duties of treasurer; and the treasurer shall receive all moneys of the society, and receipt to the secretary therefor, and shall pay out no money except upon the written order of the society, and he shall report to the society all moneys received and disbursed at the end of every six months. May issue bonds and secure same by lien. § 10. This society, by a majority vote at its regular monthly meetings, may make all needful rules, by-laws and regulations, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States or of this State. § 11. This society shall have the power to issue and sell the bonds of the society for any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, which bonds shall be one hundred dollars § 12. This act to take effect from and after its passage. 1873. CHAPTER 1077. AN ACT to provide for the transfer of certain cases from the Graves circuit court to the McCracken court of common pleas. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: cases may be § 1. That all cases now on the docket of the Graves For what causes circuit court, or which may hereafter be brought in said transferred. court, in which the judge of said court for any reason or cause can not properly preside, shall be transferred, at the instance of either party, to the McCracken court of common pleas, unless there can be a duly qualified pro tem. judge of the Graves circuit court selected from the lawyers then in attendance at the Graves circuit court, to try such cases severally, or unless the parties can agree on such a judge; and if the judge so selected or agreed on can not or will not try the cause, then either party shall have the right to demand a transfer of said cause or causes. under transfers. § 2. The clerk of the McCracken circuit and common Duties of clerks pleas court shall place such transferred cases at their proper places on the docket of said court, according to the date of their reception; and the said McCracken court of common pleas shall have as full power, right, and jurisdiction of such transferred causes, in every particular, as the Graves circuit court would have if they were pending therein, and shall have the right to make all preparatory orders or other orders as though said suits had commenced in said common pleas court. § 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. |