tablish and maintain similar institutions for the free use and benefit of all the residents thereof; and, "WHEREAS, In the charters of said corporations, associations or societies it is provided that, in case said charter or corporation shall lapse from non-user or other cause, any property that may be owned by the cor poration shall escheat to the Commonwealth of Kentucky and pass under the supervision of the State Librarian, and doubt may arise whether such corporation has power or authority to transfer its property to any such city or town, therefore, any corporation, association or society, heretofore created for the circulation and diffusion of knowledge by maintaining free reference libraries, circulating libraries, or popular lectures, or by collecting materials for the illustration of the various branches of useful knowledge, is hereby authorized and empowered, upon the vote of a majority of its members present and voting, at a regular meeting, or at a meeting called for the purpose of considering the subject, to transfer or convey to the city or town in which the same is located to be used by said city or town for library or educational purposes for the benefit of all the people of said city or town, with such additional conditions as may be agreed upon by such corporation, association or society, and it shall be lawful to incorporate in such agreement conditions securing the right to nominate or appoint on the Board of Trustees a given number of the directors or trustees in the corporation with which such agreement may be made, and such city or town, all or any part of the property, real, personal and mixed, owned or held by said corporation, association or society, and title thereto may be vested in said city or town or in any corporate department or branch thereof; but nothing herein contained shall be construed so as that a transfer of its property, as hereinabove provid ed, shall operate as a dissolution of any such corporation, association or society, or to terminate its existence, but the same may continue its corporate existence for any of the purposes within the purview of its charter or articles of incorporation." § 2. In view of the fact that one or more of the existing institutions affected by this act desire to proceed at once under its provisions, therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 22, 1904. Licenses for hotels, taverns, etc. CHAPTER 87. AN ACT to amend section 25, of article 10, of an act relating to revenue and taxation, which became a law on the 29th day of March, 1902. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section 25 of article 10, of an act relating to revenue and taxation, which became a law on the 29th day of March, 1902, be, and the same is, hereby amended, so that said section, as amended and re-enacted, shall read as follows, viz.: " 2. Before engaging in any occupation, or selling any article named in this subdivision three, of article 10 of this act, the person desiring to do so, shall procure license, and pay the tax thereon as follows: To keep a tavern or hotel with twenty-five or more rooms, ten dollars. To keep a tavern or hotel, with privilege of selling by retail malt liquors, sixty dollars. To keep a tavern or hotel, with privilege of selling by retail spirituous and vinous liquors, one hundred and ten dollars. To keep a tavern or hotel, with privilege of selling by retail, spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, one hundred and sixty dollars. To retail malt liquors, fifty dollars. To retail spiritous and vinous liquors, one hundred dollars. To retail spirituous and vinous and malt liquors, one hundred and fifty dollars. To selling by retail, playing cards, ten dollars. To selling by retail, pistols, one hundred dollars. To selling by retail, bowie knives, dirks, brassknucks or slug-shots, one hundred dollars. To engage in the business of a pawnbroker, five hundred dollars. That all resident or foreign trading stamp companies or corporations, doing business in this State, shall annually pay a license tax to the county court clerk of each county wherein such business is conducted, ten dollars. A trading stamp company is defined to be a company that gives premiums of valuable personal property in exchange for stamps or checks furnished to purchasers of merchandise. 3. This act shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 22, 1904. CHAPTER 88. AN ACT to amend section 32, of article 9, of an act, entitled "An Act for the government of towns of the sixth class," approved May 6, 1893. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section 32 of article 9 of an act entitled, "An act for the government of towns of the sixth class," approved May 6, 1893, be, and the same is, hereby amended, so that said section, as amended and re-enacted, shall read as follows: $ 2. The Board of Trustees shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to provide, by ordinance, a system for the assessment, levy and collection of all town taxes, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, which system shall conform, as 'nearly as the circumstances of the case may permit, to the provisions of the laws of this State in reference to the assessment, levy and collection of State and county taxes. All taxes assessed, together with any percentage imposed for de linquency and the cost for collection, shall constitute liens on the property assessed, from and after the fifteenth day of September in each year, which liens may be enforced by a summary sale of such property, and the execution and delivery of all necessary certificates and deeds therefor, under such regulations as may be prescribed by ordinance, or in the manner provided for the collection of State taxes, or by action in any court of competent jurisdiction to foreclose such liens. If the Board of Trustees deem it preferable, they may place the tax bills for the taxes levied and assessed as herein provided, in the hands of the sheriff for collection instead of having a local tax collector for that purpose, and it shall then be the duty of the sheriff of the county Approved March 22, 1904. CHAPTER 89. AN ACT to establish a State Board of Embalming, defining the duties thereof, to provide for the better protection of life and health, and to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, to regulate the practice of embalming in connection with the care and disposition of the dead, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That there is hereby established and created a board to be known as the State Board of Embalming of Kentucky. That said Board shall consist of five members to be appointed by the Governor, and all vacancies occurring on the Board shall be filled by the Governor Amendment. |