1856, entitled "An act to charter the Williamsburg, Cumberland River, and Tennessee Railroad Company," to organize said company and commence business under the provisions of said charter. § 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 15, 1860. 1860. CHAPTER 206. AN ACT to legitimate the children of Alfred Anderson. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That Walter Winston Hurt and his sister, Ann Dorothy Hurt, illegitimate children of Alfred Anderson, of Green county, Kentucky, shall be, and are hereby, legitimatized and rendered capable of inheriting the estate, real, personal, and mixed, of their father, Alfred Anderson, in the same manner, and in the same proportion, as if they had been born in lawful wedlock: Provided, Said Anderson shall die intestate. Approved February 15, 1860. CHAPTER 208. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Bracken Academy. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the act to amend the charter of the Bracken academy, approved February 15th, 1858, be, and the same is hereby repealed. §2. That all the laws in force prior to the act aforesaid be, and are hereby, revived and declared to be in full force; and the trustees in office at the passage of the act aforesaid be, and are hereby, appointed and constituted trustees of said academy, viz: Thomas Myers, George Doniphan, John Taylor, Wm. C. Marshall, Weldin, W. S. McKibben, J. Taylor Bradford, Isaac Dilse, Joseph Doniphan, and Thornton F. Marshall, who shall hold their office pursuant to the original act of incorporation. § 3. That the said trustees shall have full power to appropriate so much of the funds belonging to the academy as may be necessary to erect a suitable building for academic purposes, and the residue of said fund applied by them for education. Approved February 15, 1860. 1860. CHAPTER 209. AN ACT to authorize the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall and may be lawful for H. G. Atkins, Robert Lyon, William T. Price, Francis M. Breeding, and Jesse W. Stone, trustees of the Columbia circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to sell and convey to the purchaser the legal title to the parsonage property of said church in the town of Columbia, in Adair county, being part of lots Nos. 19 and 28 of original plan and map of said town, and lots Nos. 7 and 10 in Patterson's addition to said town; and the deed of the trustees aforesaid, properly acknowledged as other deeds are acknowl edged, shall operate as a complete and perfect conveyance of all right and title that said church has in and to said property to the purchaser thereof. § 2. The sale and conveyance herein provided for shall be made under the directions of the quarterly conference of the Columbia circuit. § 3. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 15, 1860. CHAPTER 210. AN ACT to authorize S. K. Lucas to solemnize the rites of Matrimony in Crit tenden county. WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly that there is a large region of country in Crittenden county, where there is no minister of the Gospel or justice of the peace authorized by law to solemnize the rites of matrimony; for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Sidney K. Lucas, of said county, be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to solemnize the rites of matrimony in Crittenden county: Provided, That said Sidney K. Lucas satisfies the county court that he is a man of good moral character, and gives covenant to the Commonwealth, with good surety, not to violate the law of this State concerning marriage. § 2. The parties to such covenant may, for a breach thereof, be fined, on presentment of a grand jury, in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided in chapter 47, section 9, Revised Satutes; and such license may be revoked by said county court for sufficient cause, after reasonable notice to said Lucas. §3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 1860. Approved February 15, 1860. CHAPTER 211. AN ACT for the benefit of the Louisville and Beargrass Turnpike Road Com pany. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the chancellor of the Louisville chancery court is hereby authorized and empowered to decree the sale of said road, together with all the corporate privileges, franchises, and property held by said company, whenever any creditor or creditors thereof shall file a petition in said court for the enforcement of any lien, or the recovery of any debt or debts due by said company, under such rules and regulations, and on such credit, as he may deem most advantageous to all parties concerned, and to vest the purchaser or purchasers thereof with all the rights, privileges, and immunities now enjoyed by the stockholders of said company, and subject to all the restrictions and liabilities imposed by an act, entitled "An act to confirm and establish the Louisville and Newburg road, in Jefferson county, and to change the name thereof," approved January 11th, 1856. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1860. CHAPTER 212. AN ACT to incorporate the Elizaville and Pleasant Valley Mills Turnpike Road Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Company in § 1. That a company shall be, and the same is hereby, created and established under the name and style of the corporated. "Elizaville and Pleasant Valley Mills Turnpike Road Company," for the purpose of constructing an artificial road on the macadams plan from Elizaville, in Fleming county, to Pleasant Valley mills, in Nicholas county; the same to be constructed on the most practicable route, in the discretion of the president and directors of said company. § 2. The capital stock of said company shall be forty Capital stock. thousand dollars, which may be increased or diminished, as said directors may determine, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each. 1860. Comm'rs to open books, Obligation. Certain secaet made appli tions of another eable. be charged. § 3. Books for the subscription of stock in said company, shall be opened at any time after the passage of this act, at such place or places as may be most convenient, under the direction of John S. Darnall, George W. Bishop, John Cowan, William Harper, A. G. Slicer, and Moses Gleen. That said commissioners, or any one or more of them, appointed by this act to open books for the subscription of the capital stock of said company, shall procure a book or books, and the subscribers to the stock in said company shall enter into the following obligation in said book, towit: "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do respectively promise to pay to the president, directors, and company of the Elizaville and Pleasant Valley mills turnpike road company, the sum of fifty dollars for each and every share of stock in said company set opposite our names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times as shall be required by the president and directors of said company"; which amounts shall be collectable in the courts having jurisdiction in like amounts in civil suits. § 4. That sections four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, and twentytwo of an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Elizaville and Blue Lick Turnpike Road Company," be, and the same is hereby, re-enacted and made to apply to and be taken as part of this act, so far as the same may be applicable to the purposes hereof. § 5. For any fraction of said road over five miles and How tolls may under ten miles, and for any fraction over ten and under fifteen miles, said president, directors, and company may, on completion of said road, charge toll at the pro rata rate, as may be charged on five miles; and in order to enable them to collect the same, may appoint a toll-collector and erect a toll-gate. § 6. That the subscriptions heretofore made to construct the road hereby incorporated, and all the acts of said subscribers, are hereby legalized and incorporated as part of this act. § 7. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1860. CHAPTER 213. AN ACT for the benefit of the Murphysville Turnpike Road, in Mason county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth › of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter the road tax in districts numbers seven and eight, through which the Murphysville turnpike road passes, in the county of Mason, shall be appropriated to the construction and keeping in repair the said Murphysville turnpike road: Provided, however, That it shall be the duty of the said turnpike road company to keep the dirt roads in said districts in repair. § 2. That said Murphysville turnpike road company shall have the privilege of erecting a toll-gate on their road, one mile from the west back street of the town of Washington, instead of one mile from the corporation line, as provided by the general law upon that subject. §3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1860. 1860. CHAPTER 214. AN ACT to amend the laws in relation to the Wilderness and Cumberland Gap Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Commissioner s their duties. § 1. That John G. Eve, William Stewart, and James J. Gibson, be, and are hereby, appointed commissioners appointed, and of that part of the Cumberland Gap Wilderness State road, in the county of Knox, both the Barbourville and old State road branches thereof, and of that portion of the Goose creek salt-works road from Jo. Payne's to the Clay county line, whose duty it shall be, so soon as the term for which the toll-gate on said road has been sold, or the term for which the present gate-keeper has been appointed shall expire, and after said commissioners shall have executed bond in the Knox county court for the faithful performance of the duties hereinafter assigned them, and taken an oath before some legally authorized officer, faithfully and impartially to discharge said duties, to enter at once upon the discharge of their duties, as follows: § 2. They shall proceed to lay off said road into convenient precincts or districts, and appoint a surveyor or overseer on each precinct, whose duty it shall be to order all hands liable by law to work roads, who live in one mile on either side of said road or any of the branches designated, or on the same; which hands after being notified of the time and place, shall if they fail or refuse to attend and work the road under the direction of said surveyor, be fined in the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents for each day so failing or refusing, unless he be able to show good cause for such failure, which fine may be recovered before any justice of the peace upon a warrant in the name of the surveyor or overseer, and shall when collected be applied in aid of the repair of said road, under the control and direction of said commissioners; each surveyor of a Comm'rs to lay out road. Overseers to be appointed, and their duties. |