1873. tion in Carroll county of associations under, and in pursuance with, the provisions of said act, for the purpose of erecting and using public warehouses, with wharf privileges, on either of the navigable rivers of said county. §2. That the county court of said county, upon the County court to application of the president of any association which fox rate of charges may be formed under this act, shall fix the rate of charges for storage or shipment, or both, of tobacco, and all other articles and things that may be stored or shipped in, to, or from the warehouse or wharf of such association: Provided, however, That no charges shall be made and collected by such association until said application shall be made in said county court. for storage. charging. § 3. That if any association that may be formed under Penalty for over this act shall charge and collect a greater rate than that fixed by the county court, said association shall forfeit and pay to the person by whom such excess has been paid double the amount charged, the payment of which may be enforced in any court in said county having jurisdiction of the same. 4. That when an association has been created under this act, no other association shall be created for the same purposes within a half mile of the location of the warehouse and wharf of the first association formed, except in towns and cities of a greater population than one thousand. § 5. That this act shall go into force from its passage. Approved April 21, 1873. CHAPTER 989. AN ACT to amend an act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the county of Bullitt, approved March 21st, 1871. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That all persons furnishing liquors, under the act Person furnishing to which this is an amendment, for medical purposes, cian's prescrip upon the written prescription of a practicing physician, tion to keep re- shall record in a book, to be kept for that purpose, a full liquors on physi cord. Penalty for neg. lect. and complete copy of said prescription, with the date thereof; and said vendor shall report, under oath, on the first day of each term of the circuit court for said county, to the trustee of the jury fund for said county, a full and complete copy of said prescriptions, who shall lay the same before the grand jury; and any person who may have put up such prescriptions, and shall fail to make such report, shall be deemed guilty of keeping a tipplinghouse. It shall be no defense to a prosection under this act that said liquor was sold under the written prescrip tion of a practising physician, unless said defense is supported by the original prescription or prescriptions. 1873. tempt at evading § 2. Any person who shall attempt to evade the pro- Penalty for atvisions of this act by falsely representing himself as a act. practicing physician of said county, or any person who shall make any false prescription for the purpose of evading, or with the intent to evade, the provisions of this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, or to procure 1 liquors under false pretenses, shall, for each offense, be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction, collected as other fines, and paid over to the commissioner of the jury fund for said county, and shall constitute a part of said fund. § 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 990. AN ACT for the benefit of school district No. 7, in Marion county. WHEREAS, The school-house in district No. 7, in Marion county, was burned down in December last; and whereas, after the payment of the forty per cent. there is due to said school district, or the trustees thereof, to pay the teacher for the three and half months taught in said disItrict prior to the burning of the same, the sum of one hundred and six dollars and ninety-two cents, which is now due said district; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Superintendent of Public Instruction be directed to draw his warrant upon the Auditor in favor of the school commissioner of Marion county, to pay to said commissioner the sum of one hundred and six dollars and ninety cents, the amount of money now due the trustees of said district No. 7, in Marion county; and that it shall be the duty of said commissioner to pay the sum aforesaid to the trustees of said district as now provided by law, and under the same responsibilities as now provided by law. § 2. That this act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 21, 1873. 1976. CHAPTER 991. AN ACT in relation to inquests of lunacy in Jefferson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That in all proceedings under a writ de lunatico inquirendo in the county of Jefferson, or city of Louisville, the city court of Louisville shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit and county courts of said county. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 21, 1873. CHAPTER 992. AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Massie's Mill Turnpike Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act to incorporate the Massie's Mill Turnpike Road Company, approved March 7, 1868; be so amended as to authorize said company to continue its road to a point on the Harrod's Creek Turnpike Road, near W. S. Buckner's dwelling-house; and from thence to a point on the Paris and Flat Rock Turnpike, near the Cane Ridge Church, or to build such part of said line as it may think advisable; and that said company is hereby authorized to make such increase of its capital stock as may be necessary to make said extensions to its road. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 21, 1873. CHAPTER 993. AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Commonwealth Printing Cou pany. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the act incorporating the Commonwealth Printing Company be, and it is hereby, so amended that the corporation shall be co-operative, according to the statutes of Kentucky. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 21, 1873. CHAPTER 994. AN ACT for the benefit of common school district No. 34, in Bracken county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth - of Kentucky: § 1. That the Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to certify the amount of the sixty per centum due district No. 34, in Bracken county, for the year ending June the 30th, 1873, to the Auditor, who shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of the commissioner in payment of the same, who shall collect and pay the same, together with the forty per centum now in the hands of said commissioner, in aid of the common school in said district: Provided, That the further time until June the 30th, 1874, be allowed said commissioner to report said school to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. § 2. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 21, 1873. 1873. CHAPTER 995. AN ACT to repeal an act to amend the charter of the Winchester and Red Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act to amend the charter of the Winches=ter and Red River Turnpike Road Company, approved March 20, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. § 2. That this act shall be in force from its passage. Approved April 21, 1873. CHAPTER 996. AN ACT to incorporate the Louisville Locomotive and Car Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That E. D. Standiford, John M. Monohan, Dr. Jno. Bull, Lyttleton Cooke, W. B. Hamilton, Victor Newcomb, Thatcher Perkins, James Bridgford, John Caperton, C. Henry Fink, Joshua Speed, George Ainslie, Dr. Lawrence Smith, W. C. Hite, R. A. Roberson, Reuben Wells, Horace Scott, G. P. Doern, W. N. Haldeman, W. R. Ray, J. W. Finnell, G. Buchanan, J. L. Deppen, N. Bloom, F. L. Jefferson, A. V. Dupont, James Gilbert, George Skinner, and such other persons, and any corporations which may Corporators' names. 1873. become stockholders in the corporation intended to be created by this act, be, and they are hereby, created a Name and style body-politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Louisville Locomotive and Car Company; and by that name may have perpetual succession; may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and defend, in all courts and places as a natural person; said corporation may also have and use a common seal, and alter and change the same at will; and Corporate said corporation shall have all other lawful powers usual and incident to corporations, and which may be requisite, necessary, or desirable for carrying out the purposes for which it is created and established. powers ers of corporators § 2. The persons named in the first section of this act, Dutes and pow. or such of them as may subscribe to the capital stock of the company therein mentioned and created, are hereby authorized and empowered to open books for subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, at such times and places, and subject to such terms and conditions, as they may deem proper. The capital stock of said company shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and may be subscribed for, and owned, and held, by individuals and corporations alike; and when as many as one thousand shares of the capital stock of said company have been subscribed in good faith, the persons named in the first section of this act, who have subscribed for stock, and opened the subscription books, shall Meeting to be call a meeting of all the subscribers to the capital stock of said company at some suitable time and place, and shall lay the subscription books before the subscribers there present; and thereupon, said subscribers shall organize by electing a president and secretary, and proceed to elect by ballot seven directors to manage the property, business, and affairs of the company; and these seven directors, or a majority of them, shall have power to elect a president of said company, either from among the directors or the other stockholders; and on such election, and on all other occasions, when a vote of the stockholders of said company is to be taken, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock owned by such voter, and may cast the same in person or by proxy. held and officers elected. annual elections, & § 3. That in order to continue the succession of the diRegulations for rectors and president of said company, the board of directors shall provide in the by-laws for annual election of directors by the stockholders, and shall give due and reasonable notice of the time and place thereof; they may also provide, in the by-laws, the mode of electing or appointing, and may elect or appoint such officers, agents, and employees as they may deem proper and necessary for carrying on and managing and conducting the busi |