red dollars' worth of property in said city, to be assessed, collected, and accounted for as required by existing law, which shall be called and known as a school tax, payable only in money, and is to be used exclusively for the purpose of defraying the yearly expenses of said public schools, provided only that the property of white persons shall be taxed for the purposes aforesaid. § 4. That persons living in the county of Daviess, and outside of the limits of the city of Owensboro, but who own property within said city, and pay taxes thereon under the act to which this is an amendment, may send their children to the said public school as now permitted by law; and in the payment of tuition for their children, shall have credit to the amount of tax so paid; but said credit shall not exceed the amount of tuition for the child or children sent to the said school. 5. That as to sections two and three of this act, the said sections shall not take effect until the same shall be ratified by a majority of the votes of the qualified white voters of the city of Owensboro, to be polled at the first regular election to be held in said city for mayor and councilmen. It shall be the duty of the mayor of Owensboro to give due notice, in such manner as he may think best, of this act, and of the time and place of the said election. Approved March 13, 1872. CHAPTER 522. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Citizens' Passenger Railroad of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 61. That the Citizens' Passenger Railway Company of Louisville be, and it is hereby, authorized (the assent of the general council of said city being first obtained) to extend its road, by single track, from Market street along Hancock street southwardly as far as said Hancock street is graded and paved; thence by such street running east and west as may be necessary for the purpose, to Jackson street; and thence along Jackson street to Market street: Provided, That, in the construction and subsequent operation of the extension above granted, said company shall be governed in all particulars as if it had been authorized by the contract with the city of Louisville under which the Market street road was built and is operated: And provided further, That said single track may or shall be still further extended along said Hancock and Jackson streets 1872. southwardly, whenever said company may elect so to do, § 2. This act shall take efect from its passage. CHAPTER 523. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, "An act for the benefit of the sureties of W. B. Simmons, late sheriff of Meade county. WHEREAS, It is represented to the Legislature that Collins Fitch and his co-sureties named in said act, including J. P. Sibert, have complied with the requisites of said act, by paying into the State Treasury the ums therein required, and returning to the county court of Meade all evidences of dues and balances due from citizens to the said Walter B. Simmons, amounting to $ Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the fourth section of an act for the benefit of the sureties of Walter B. Simmons, late sheriff of Meade county, approved on the 31st January, 1867, be so amended as to read, "and all such evidences of dues and balances due from citizens to Simmons, shall be and inure for the use and benefit of the said W. B. Simmons, as late sheriff, and David Henry, administrators; R. R. Jones, James Luckett's administrator; E. C. Ashcraft, Oren Powell, Ed. Rhodes, E. M. Johnson, Benj. Neafus' administrator; Isaac P. Sibert, Collins Fitch, John Powell, and Richard Kay, his securities on his official bond, for the year 1863 and 1864. § 2. That said evidences of indebtedness, viz: tax receipts, fee bills, notes, &c., when collected, shall first be applied to pay the liabilities of said Simmons as sheriff; and should there be any surplus after the payment of said liabilities, then such surplus shall be for the exclusive use and benefit of said Simmons. §3. That no act of limitation shall act as a bar to the collection of said evidences of in lebtedness, until the expiration of two years after the passage of this act. § 4. That the tax receipts and fee bills shall retain their restrainable force for two years. § 5. This act to take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 13, 1872 CHAPTER 524. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That section first of the act to which this an amendment be so amended as to read, that said railroad company may issue and sell mortgage bonds of any denomination, to the amount of fifteen hundred thousand dollars, on the same terms and conditions as the act to which this is an amendinent; and all bonds which may have been issued by said company, of any denomination, under said section, to which this is an amendment, are bereby legalized. §2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved March 13, 1872. 1872. CHAPTER 525. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Cloverport. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the board of trustees of the town of Cloverport shall have power to issue the bonds of said town for a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000) as the whole at any one time, bearing a rate of interest not exceeding ten per centum per annum, payable semi-annually; no bond shall be issued for a larger sum than five hundred dollars. The said bonds shall be signed by the chairman, and countersigned by the clerk of said board of trustees; and the amount, date, and when due, of each bond, shall be entered upon the records of said board as the same is issued; they shall be made payable in not exceeding five years from their date, but shall be redeemable at the option of the board. § 2. That section nine of an act amending the charter of said town, approved March 5th, 1868, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. §3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 13, 1872. 1872. CHAPTER 526. AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Ashland. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonica'th of Kentucky: § 1. That section eleven (11) of the act, entitled “An act to amend and reduce into one the acts in relation to the town of Ashland," approved March 1st, 1868, be amended by striking out the first proviso in said section: That the same property shall be liable to levy and sale for the payment of any tax heretofore levied, or that may be hereafter levied, under the charter and by-laws of the town of Ashland, that is liable to levy and sale for State revenue tax. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 13, 1872. CHAPTER 527. AN ACT to amend the charter of Dixon, in Webster county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That it shall be lawful for the police judge of the town of Dixon, in Webster county, and his successors in office, to fix the regular terms monthly of his court for the trial of all cases, civil and criminal, of which said judge has jurisdiction, by an order entered on his record-book. § 2. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 13, 1872. CHAPTER 528. AN ACT to extend and enlarge the corporate limits of the town of Albany, in Clinton county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the corporate limits of the town of Albany, in Clinton county, be, and the same are hereby, extended and enlarged, so as to include the dwelling-houses of W. F. Harrison and James M. Bristow, and all who may reside with the said Harrison or Bristow within the corporate limits of said town. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 13, 1872. CHAPTER 529. AN ACT to amend the charter of Owensboro. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the city council of Owensboro may levy each year a specific tax on each house for the sale of merchandise of any kind, dry goods, groceries, or liquors, or any or all of them, boat stores, or for the purchase and sale of country produce, upon each tobacco stemmery, forwarding and commission house, or boat occupied for any of the above purposes, of any sum between five and one hundred dollars; and, in addition to said specific tax, they may levy on all such houses, goods, groceries, liquors, boat stores, merchandise, or other property, the same ad valorem tax as is levied on other property in said city. So much of section nine of the charter of said city, approved February 16, 1866, as may be in conflict with this act, is hereby repealed. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage. 1872. Approved March 13, 1872. CHAPTER 530. AN ACT to enlarge the boundaries of the town of Morganfield, in Union county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the corporate limits of the town of Morganfield, in Union county, Kentucky, be so enlarged as to cover and contain an area of one square mile, of which the centre of the crossing of Main and Morgan streets, in said town, as now laid out, shall be the centre; and C. C. Buchman, the surveyor of Union county, is hereby directed to lay off said square mile, and plant stones, plainly distinguishable, at each one of the four corners, and to return to the board of councilmen of the said town a plat or diagram of said square mile, with statement of whose land the several corners may be on, and the courses of the several lines, and shall plat within said diagram the streets and alleys of the town as now existing. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved March 13, 1872. |