1860. ́money or personal property, where the matter in controversy, exclusive of interest and cost, does not exceed fifty dollars in value, and in other cases specially provided by statute. § 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 12, 1860. Jefferson. Bullitt. Shelby. Oldham. Spencer, CHAPTER 40. AN ACT changing the times of holding the Circuit Courts of the Seventh Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the circuit courts for the several counties in the seventh judicial district shall commence at the times hereinafter specified, and be held the number of days allotted to each term, if the business of the court require it, viz: In Jefferson county on the second Monday in January, the first Monday in May, and the third Monday in October; and continue at the January and May terms each forty-two, and at the October term forty-eight juridical days In Bullit county on the first Monday in April and the third Monday in August; and continue at the April term six, and at the August term twelve juridical days. In Shelby county on the first Monday in March and the fourth Monday in September, and continue each eighteen juridical days; and the clause of the act authorizing the holding of a term in said county for the trial of equity causes, commencing first Monday in July, is hereby repealed. In Oldham county on the fourth Monday in March and the third Monday in September; and continue each six juridical days. In Spencer county on the second Mondays in April and CHAPTER 42. AN ACT to change the time of holding the Allen county Quarterly Court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter the terms of the Allen county quarterly court shall commence on Tuesday, after the second Monday, instead of the second Tuesday in each month; in which they are now required to commence in said county. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 13, 1860. 1860. CHAPTER 44. AN ACT to fix the time of holding the Quarterly Courts for Simpson county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the quarterly courts for Simpson county shall hereafter be held on the second Mondays in the months of February, May, August, and November, instead of the times now fixed by law. §2. This act to take effect from and after the first day of January, 1860. Approved January 13, 1860. CHAPTER 49. AN ACT regulating the time of holding the County Courts in Washington county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That hereafter the third Monday in each month shall be the regular day for holding the county courts in Washington county. § 2. Provided, that when the circuit court for the said county shall be in session on the third Monday, the county court for that month shall be held on the fourth Monday. Approved January 14, 1860. CHAPTER 62. AN ACT to change the time of holding the Taylor County Court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: §1. That the time of holding the Taylor county court be, and is hereby, changed from the 2d Monday in each month to the 1st Monday in each month. § 2. That this act take effect from and after the 20th day of January, 1860. Approved January 14, 1860. 1st Ses., Acts Act of Feb. 1858, repealed. 1857-8, p. 51, Former laws revived. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act to revive and amend the laws in regard to the sectionized lands west of the Tennessee River." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act, entitled "An act to revive and amend the laws in regard to the sectionized lands west of the Tennessee river," approved the 13th day of February, 1857,`be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and all the laws in force before the passage of said act, and which were repealed by it, are hereby re-enacted and declared to be in full force. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage Rev. St., p. 383. amended. CHAPTER 75. AN ACT to amend chapter 28, article 5, Revised Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That chapter 28, article 5, Revised Statutes, be 1st Stanton's amended as follows, to-wit: That if any person shall have Chap. 28. Art. or keep in his possession any tools, implements, or other 5. Revised St., things used by burglars for house-breaking, forcing doors, windows, locks, or buildings, or other places where goods, Persons hav- wares, or merchandise, or money are kept, with the intentools in posses- tion of using said tools or implements with burglarious sion, with burglarious intent, intent, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than guilty of felony two nor more than ten years. ing burglar's § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved January 17, 1860. Power given Co'ts to change Cir. and Chan. names. CHAPTER 80. AN ACT concerning divorces and changing names. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That hereafter when a divorce shall be adjudged in any circuit or chancery court of this Commonwealth to a married woman, power and authority be, and are hereby, given to such court to restore the party so divorced to the name she bore previous to the marriage from which she has been divorced, when her petition contains a prayer for that relief. Approved January 17, 1860. CHAPTER 91. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating the Kentucky State Agricultural Society. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1860. 1st Ses.. Acts §1. That the act incorporating the State Agricultural 1855-6, p. 93, Society, approved the 10th day of March, 1856, be, and is hereby, so amended as that in future elections for directors of said society, there shall be five directors elected from from each diseach district, in lieu of three. Five directors to be elected trict. $5,000 annually for two years appropri ated. Premiums to be given. Tobacco $1,000. $500. Mechanical § 2. That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated annually, for two years, out of any money not otherwise appropriated in the State treasury, and to be paid as provided in the original act: Provided, That this appropriation shall be applied and expended by said society, in premiums, as follows: On stock, fifteen hundred dollars; on tobacco, one thousand dollars; on cereals, five hundred dollars; on mechanical implements, implements five hundred dollars; on domestic manufactures, three Domestic manhundred dollars; on ores and manufactured iron, two hun- ufactures $300 dred dollars; on horticulture, one hundred dollars; on ufactured iron family products, &c., two hundred dollars; on sundries, five hundred dollars; on agricultural literature, two hundred dollars; making in all five thousand dollars. §3. That from and after the passage of this act each vice president of the Kentucky Agricultural Society shall have and exercise all the powers that a director may exercise under the original act of incorporation. Approved January 23, 1860. Ores and man $200. $100, Horticulture Family pro ducts $200, Sundries $500, Agricultural literature $200. dent to exercise Vice Presi powers of Directors. CHAPTER 94. AN ACT for the benefit of the Kentucky Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That there be, and there is hereby, appropriated to the trustees of the Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, at Danville, the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of enabling them to pay the balance of the money due on certain lots of land purchased; to complete the heating, plumbing, and lighting of the new building of the Institution; for repairs to the former buildings; for fencing the grounds and lands; for finishing a servants' house; for building cisterns, and for other improvements, and for paying the balance of the cost of a book of elementary lessons for the deaf mutes. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 30, 1860. $10,000 appropriated. 1860. 1855-6, p. 24. CHAPTER 100. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Bank of Ashland. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the 35th section of an act, entitled “An act to 1st Ses. Acts incorporate the Bank of Ashland," approved the 15th day of February, 1856, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, except the last proviso of said section, in relation to that class of bills known as "kites," which shall remain in full force. What amount may be invest ed in bills of exchange. established at Mayfield. §2. That said Bank of Ashland shall not invest in bills of exchange more than double the amount of the notes discounted, and suspended debt, and other investments of said bank, bearing six per cent. interest, excluding from the computation of bills of exchange the remittances which said bank may make for collection at points where the funds may accumulate. §3. The said Bank of Ashland shall, within twelve Branch to be months after this act takes effect, establish at the town of Mayfield, Graves county, in this State, a branch, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars of the present capital of said bank. stock may sur same. Books to be opened at Mayfield. § 4. That the holder of the present stock may surrender Holders of and transfer to said bank, of the unpaid stock, any amount render and not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, under such transfer the equitable rule as the president and directors of the parent bank may prescribe; and said president and directors shall cause books to be opened at Mayfield for the subscription of such surrendered stock, after the same shall have been advertised thirty days in the Paducah papers; and said books shail be kept open at least thirty days, unless the said stock shall be sooner taken; and such subscription of stock shall be under such equitable rule as said president and directors may prescribe, so as to do ample justice between the holders of the stock now subscribed and the holders of the surrendered stock to be subscribed as aforesaid. That no person shall subscribe more than one thousand dollars of said stock to be so subscribed, unless there shall remain of said stock, untaken for sixty days after said books are opened: Provided, also, That no stock shall be Nor shall non- subscribed, under the provisions of this amendment, by any scribe until non-resident of this State, till after the book shall have been kept open been kept open sixty days for the subscription of stock by residents of this State. No person to subscribe more than $1,000, residents sub the books have 60 days. Mayfield § 5. That said bank at Mayfield shall have the same Branch to be privileges, be governed in the same manner, officered under restrictions, & the same rules, and have the same restrictions, as is preas Shelbyville scribed for the branch of said bank at Shelbyville. under the same Branch. Provisions of § 6. That the provisions of an act, entitled "An act to act of 1858, (1st regulate the manner in which the rates of exchange charged |