L expense so incurred shall be paid out of the county levy, § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 10, 1872. CHAPTER 255. AN ACT empowering the Bullitt county court to sell the circuit and county Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth § 1. That the county court of Bullitt county, a majority of the justices therein concurring, be, and the same is hereby, authorized and empowered to sell and convey the property belonging to saiunty known and used as the circuit and county court oflices, and the lot on which the same are situated, and reinvest the proceeds of said sale as the court may direct for the benefit of said county. §2. Said sale shall be at public vendue, at such time and place, and upon such terms, as may be ordered by said court: Provided, That possession shall not be given of said property until the new circuit and county court offices in said county are completed and ready for occupation. §3. The said court may appoint a commissioner to make said sale, and to convey to the purchaser the property herein named. § 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 10, 1872. AN ACT for the benefit of John Ewell, jailer of McCracken county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be lawful for John Ewell, jailer of said county, to live in any part of the corporate limits of the city of Paducah. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 10, 1872. 1872. 1872. CHAPTER 257. AN ACT authorizing the sale of the Henry county poor-house farm, and the purchase of a smaller lot of ground, with suitable buildings, for the accommodation of the white paupers of said county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Zack Herndon, W. O. Stewart, and the county attorney of Henry county, be, and they are hereby, empowered, as commissioners, to sell the poor-house farm of Henry county, with all of its appurtenances, and out of the proceeds of the sale thereof purchase for the county a smaller lot of ground and suitable buildings for the accommodation of said paupers, and to place the residue of the sale money, when paid over by the purchaser, into the hands of the receiver appointed for said county to receive the money levied for that institution, which shall be expended only for the use of the pauper inmates of the poorhouse. § 2. It shall also be the duty of said commissioner, on the sale of said poor-house farm, to cause to be removed to the new all of the inmates then in the poor-house, together with the household properties, and appoint one or more superintendents of the poor-house and premises, and of the poor of the county, whom the court may order to be kept in the poor-house until the next term of the court of claims of said county, when that court shall appoint the same. 3. That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, on the sale of the poor farm, to make to the purchaser or purchasers of the same a general warranty deed to the same, retaining a lien on said property in said deed for the balance of the purchase-money unpaid; and when due, it shall be his further duty to sue, in the name of the county court, for the balance due, and place the same, when collected, in the hands of the receiver, as directed in the first section of this act: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the said commissioners from selling the farm for cash, if, in their judgment, it is deemed fit so to do. § 4. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 10, 1872. CHAPTER 261. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Shelby Railroad Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1872. Anderson County author ized to sub scribe stock in the Shelby Kailroad. § 1. That the county of Anderson may subscribe to the capital stock of the Shelby Railroad Company the additional sum of filty thousand dollars, upon the terms and conditions, and in the mode that the said county has here. tofore subscribed to the capital stock of said company. That the county of Boyle may subscribe to the capital stock of said company two hundred and filty thousand dol- do likewise. lars, upon the terms, conditions, and in the mode said county is now authorized to subscribe a less sum to the capital stock of said company. § 2. To defray the cost of construction and extension of the Shelby Railroad from Shelbyville to Danville, and to intersect the Lebanon Branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad beyond Danville, the said company is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and sell its additional bonds for a sum not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), bearing interest at the rate of eight per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually; the principal and interest to be made payable at such place in or out of this State as the board of directors may designate, and to be secured by mortgage upon the property and franchises of said company. The mortgage shall be executed and foreclosed in the mode now prescribed by the charter for the execution and foreclosure of mortgage upon its property. §3. That the first section of an act, entitled "An act to tax railroads, turnpike roads, and other corporations, in aid of the Sinking Fund," approved February 20th, 1861, shall not apply to the Shelby Railroad Company until said road is completed to the town of Harrodsburg: Provided, however, That said road shall be completed to the town of Harrodsburg within four years from the passage of this act; but said corporation shall be taxed upon its net dividends as provided in section second of said act. The tax levied on said road for the year 1871 is hereby released. § 4. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved February 10, 1872. Boyle county authorized to Company may complete road, by mortgage on sell bonds to & secure same road and franchises. Act to tax railSinking Fund this road. roads in aid of not to apply to 1872. names. CHAPTER 264. AN ACT to incorporate the Henderson Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That Archibald Dixon, John H. Barret, Joseph Corporators' Adams, L. C. Dallam, S. B. Vance, J. F. Clay, E. L. Starling, Thos. A. Scott, E. G. Sebree, E. F. Winslow, Robert Dixon, Jackson McClain, and L. H. Lyne, and their associates, successors, or assigns, are hereby constituted and Corporate declared a body-corporate, under the name and style of the Henderson Bridge Company; and by that name and style they are hereby invested with all the powers incident to corporations. style. powers. § 2. That said company be, and they are hereby, investCorporate ed with all the rights, powers, and privileges necessary for the construction of, and they shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to construct, a bridge across the Ohio river, extending from some convenient point within the corporate limits of the city of Henderson to some convenient point on the Indiana side of said river, opposite to the city of Henderson; and also to purchase, or condemn by writ of ad quod damnum, and hold, as much real estate as may be necessary for the site of said bridge, and the sites for the piers, abutments, toll-houses, and suitable avenues leading to the same, and such other lands as may be necessary: Provided, That said bridge shall be constructed so as not to obstruct navigation further than the laws of the United States shall allow. Capital stock. § 3. That said company may extend a railway over said bridge, with as many sets of tracks as may be deemed expedient; and shall have the right to fix reasonable rates of tolls for passing over said bridge, and to collect the same from all and every person or persons passing thereon, and upon all goods and chattels, vehicles, and animals passing thereon, or carried thereon, of every kind and description; and for this purpose toll-gates may be erected at each or either end of said bridge; and the rates of toll shall be posted up in conspicuous places where toll is demanded. § 4. The capital stock of said company shall be two millions of dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; the manner of subscription and time of payment to be regulated by the by-laws of said company; and said company may receive real estate in payment of subscriptions, and may hold and dispose of such real estate; and may receive subscriptions of stock from the city or county of Henderson, and from any other city, county, or corporation, either in or out of this State. 1872. Company may and secure same by bonds. § 5. That said company shall have power to borrow money on such terms, at such rates of interest, for such times, in such places, and to such amounts, as the president borrow money. and directors thereof shall deem expedient; and may execute such evidences of indebtedness as may be deemed proper; and may pledge the profits, franchises, rights, and credit of the corporation as security for any loans, liabilities, or contracts which they may make; and all bonds issued and made by said company, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be binding and obligatory upon such company, and may be hypothecated or sold by said company at such rates of discount as the president and directors thereof shall deem expedient. laws, rules and regulations. § 6. That the president and directors of said company May make by shall have power to make all necessary by-laws, and to regulate, by by laws and rules, all matters not specially provided for herein: Provided, Said by-laws and rules are not inconsistent with law. Directors to appoint all of § 7. That the business of said company shall be conducted by seven directors, who shall, of their number, ficers. elect a president, and shall elect or appoint such other officers and agents as the by-laws shall prescribe. Election of directors held. § 8. That the persons named in the first section of this act, or a majority of them, shall elect seven of their num- when and how ber, who shall be the directors of the company until their successors shall be elected and qualified; and an election of directors of said company shall be held on the first Monday in January of each year, at such place and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the by-laws of the company. 9. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1872. CHAPTER 265. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad Company," approved 24th February, 1869. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That upon the application of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad Company, to the county court of any County into or through which it is proposed to construct the said company's road, or any of its branches or buildings, the said court shall appoint three commissioners for said county, two of whom shall be residents of said county, and one an engineer of said company, who shall be sworn faithfully to discharge their duties under this act to the best of their skill and judgment; and if the said |