CHAPTER 606. AN ACT for the benefit of James P. Bailey, late sheriff of Lincoln county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of James P. Bailey, late sheriff of Lincoln county, for the sum of eleven dollars and fifty cents, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved March 29, 1873. 1873. CHAPTER 607. AN ACT for the benefit of Peter Perry, committee of John Perry (of color), a pauper idiot of Hart county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasury in favor of Peter Perry, committee of John Perry, a pauper idiot of Hart county, for the sum of fity dollars, being amount due said Peter Perry, on account of said idiot (John Perry), from November 1st, 1871, to January 10th, 1873, which amount the Auditor refused to pay on accouut of said idiot being a negro. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 29, 1873. CHAPTER 608. AN ACT for the benefit of Leonidas H. Voshell, of Boone county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of Leonidas H. Voshell, of Boone county, for the sum of fifty-three dollars and ten cents, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in order to refund the money spent by said Voshell in delivering to the authorities of Boone county one David Highers, a horse-thief. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 29, 1873. 1873. CHAPTER 609. AN ACT for the benefit of Johnson V. Oakley, of Morgan county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is Fereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasury, in favor of Johnson V. Oakley, for the sum of one hundred dollars, payable out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being for reward to said Oakley for arresting one David Combs, a desperate character, charged with burglary. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 29, 1873. CHAPTER 610. AN ACT for the benefit of John Scott, of Pike county. WHEREAS, At the October term, 1867, of the Franklin circuit court, a motion was made in behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky against William P. Johnson, sheriff of Pike county, and Fleming Justice and William Sword, his sureties on his official bond, for a judgment thereon for the revenue of 1866, upon which bond judgment was rendered against said Johnson and sureties for $2,922 22, at said October term, 1867; and whereas, at the fiscal term of said court, on 27th of January, 1868, a bond of the said William P. Johnson, for the year 1866, was filed in said court, purporting to be a bond for the collection of the State revenue and the county levy, and signed by said sureties and one John Scott, upon which bond motion was made and judgment obtained in behalf of the Commonwealth against the said John Scott for the revenue of 1866, to-wit: $2,922 22, which bond was only signed as a county levy bond; and whereas, the said Scott did not intend to sign said bond as a revenue bond, and there having been no execution issued on said judgment against Scott, and it now being too late for him to take an appeal upon said judgment or to make a defense to the same; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the said John Scott be, and he is hereby, released and relieved from the payment of said judgment, rendered on 27th day of January, 1868, at the fiscal term of the Franklin circuit court, for the sum of $2,922 22, and interest upon same, and $584 44 damages and costs: Provided, That the said co-sureties shall first enter their consent of record in the Pike county court to the release herein granted. § 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. 1873. Approved March 28, 1873. CHAPTER 611. AN ACT for the benefit of John L. Slavin, former sheriff of Garrard county. WHEREAS, There was a judgment rendered against Jno. L. Slavin, former sheriff of Garrard county and his securities, at the September term of the fiscal court, 1872, for a balance of the State revenue for 1869, amounting to three hundred dollars and fifty cents, with interest, cost, and sixty dollars and ten cents damages; and whereas, said Jno. L. Slavin has paid off and fully satisfied said judgment; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of the said J. L. Stavin, for the sum of sixty dollars and ten cents, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 28, 1873. CHAPTER 613. AN ACT for the benefit of the Auditor of Public Accounts. WHEREAS, The act, entitled "An act for the appropriation of money," approved March 26, 1872, contained section six (6) as it passed this General Assemby, appropriating eight dollars per day to each of the door-keepers of the Senate and House of Representatives for their services; and whereas, by an unintentional mistake said sixth (6) section was left out of the enrolled bill approved by the Governor; and whereas, the Auditor of Public Accounts, without knowing of the omission of said sixth (6) section in said enrolled bill, paid said door-keepers the full amount due them for their services up to and inclusive of the 29th day of March, 1872, the day of adjournment, at the rate of eight dollars per day; now, for remedy whereof, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is hereby, released and absolved from any and all liability or 1873. responsibility growing out of his having paid to the doorkeepers of the Senate and House of Representatives of the present General Assembly eight dollars per day, each, for their services from the commencement of their duties up to and inclusive of the 29th day of March, 1872; and said section six (6), mentioned in the preamble hereof, is hereby re-enacted. § 2. This act shall be in force and effect from its passage. Approved March 27, 1873. CHAPTER 615. AN ACT for the benefit of the Glasgow Railroad. WHEREAS, By an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, approved March 20th, 1872, it was enacted that an act approved February 20th, 1864, entitled "An act to tax railroads, turnpikes, and other corporations, in aid of the sinking fund," should not apply to the Glasgow Railroad until said railroad is finished and completed to the town of Tompkinsville, not to exceed four years from the passage of said act of March 20th, 1872; and providing further, that the tax levied on said Glasgow Railroad for the year 1871 should be released; and whereas, said tax, for the year 1871, so released, amounting to $918, having been collected by the Auditor, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby directed to refund and pay to the president and directors of said Glasgow Railroad Company said tax so improperly collected, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to take effect and be of force from and after its passage. Approved March 29, 1873. CHAPTER 616. AN ACT to organize Urania school district, in Barren county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the town of Glasgow, in Barren county, Kentucky, and all the territory adjacent thereto, lying within one and a half miles in every direction from the courthouse in said town, be, and the same is hereby, incor 1873. porated into one common school district, and shall be called and known by the name of Urania district; and Name and style. all white persons residing therein, qualified under the laws of the State to vote for trustees of common schools, shall be permitted to vote for trustees of said district. to elect trustees. § 2. That on the first Saturday in May, 1873, the per-Qualified voters sons qualified to vote as aforesaid, residing in said district, may attend at the court-house in Glasgow, and there vote for five trustees of said school district, which election shall be then and there held for that purpose, and on the same day of the month of May every year thereafter. The five persons voted for having the great- Term of office. est number of votes shall be certified by the clerk and judges of the election, in writing, to be so elected and chosen as the trustees for said district for one year from and after that day. The poll-book, and certificate of election signed by the officers holding it, shall be delivered to said trustees. They shall each take an oath that Trustees to take they will honestly and faithfully discharge all the duties oath. imposed upon them as such trustees by law. The said poll-book, certificate of their election, and certificate of their qualification, shall be carefully filed away and preserved by them as a part of the records of said school district, and shall, with the other papers and records of the school district, be handed over by them to their successors in office, and to no one else. If a vacancy shall occur in the office of trustee for said district, it shall be how filled. filled by appointment from those remaining in office. The said trustees shall hold and exercise the functions of their office until their successors are duly qualified; and said trustees are hereby declared to be vested with all the power and rights and privileges of trustees of common school districts, as accorded to them under the general laws of the State. The said trustees shall elect one of themselves chairman of the board, and he, as such, shall sign all their orders and records. Vacancies To make list of school children. § 3. That said trustees shall carefully ascertain the number of children within said district between the ages of six and twenty years, and make report thereof to the common school commissioner of Barren county, at the same time,. and under the same restrictions, that is required of the trustees of common school districts by the common school law of this State; and said commissioner shall report the same to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State; and in the disbursing of the public school money, Trustees to refrom time to time, said district shall be entitled to receive ceive school in due proportion with others in the State, and the same shall be paid to said trustees as such moneys are by law to be paid to other trustees. They shall report the num money. |