CHAPTER CXLIII.

LUNATICS AND DRUNKARDS.

AN ACT to amend section thirty-one of chapter sixty, General Statutes of 1868.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That section thirty-one of chapter sixty of the General Statutes of 1868, be amended so as to read as follows: When such insane person or habitual drunkard is a married woman or man, and not having the property, in her or his own right, it shall be lawful for her or his guardian jointly with the husband or wife of such insane person to sell and convey any real estate, and such conveyance shall be valid when approved by the probate court, without the proceedings being had, required by the provisions of the act to which this is amendatory.

SEC. 2. Section thirty-one of the act to which this is amendatory, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication once in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth.

Approved March 1, 1872.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth March 21, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.

Preamble.

Lyon county.

Atchison county.

CHAPTER CXLIV.

LYON AND ATCHISON COUNTIES-RAILROAD

STOCK.

AN ACT to authorize the county commissioners of Lyon county to dispose of certain railroad stock, pursuant to a vote of the people.

WHEREAS, The electors of Lyon county, Kansas, have heretofore voted to authorize the transfer of the stock owned by said county in the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, and in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, to the Osage, Neosho and Walnut Valley Railroad Company, and the commissioners of the county of Atchison have contracted to dispose of the stock of said county in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That the board of county commissioners of said Lyon county, are hereby authorized to dispose of so much of said stock as may not be necessary for the purposes of said Osage, Neosho and Walnut Valley Railroad Company for the purpose of procuring the location at some eligible point in said county, of railroad machine shops, or such other manufacturing establishments as said commissioners may deem desirable.

SEC. 2. That the board of county commissioners of Atchison county are hereby authorized to dispose of said stock for railroad, bridge or machine shop purposes, as they may deem desirable.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication once in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth.

Approved March 2, 1872.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth March 5, 1872.

W. II. SMALLWOOD,

Secretary of State.

CHAPTER CXLV.

MARION COUNTY-SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1.

AN ACT to authorize the school district board of school district number one, Marion county, Kansas, to apply certain funds for the erection of a school house.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. The school district board of school district number one, of Marion county, Kansas, be and the same are hereby authorized to apply the surplus fund remaining in the treasury of said district, and collected under the assessment of 1871, for the purpose of erecting a building for a graded school to be built in said district. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth. Approved February 29, 1872.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 28, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER CXLVI.

MIAMI COUNTY-BRIDGE.

AN ACT to authorize the board of county commissioners of Miami county to make an appropriation to complete a bridge across the Marais des Cygnes river. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That the board of county commissioners of Miami county, in the State of Kansas, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make an appropriation out of the county treasury, in any sum necessary, not exceeding three thousand dollars, for the purpose of completing a bridge being built across the Marais des Cygnes river, at the city of Fontana, in said county.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication once in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth.

Approved February 28, 1872.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 28, 1872.

W. H. SMALLWOOD,
Secretary of State.

CHAPTER CXLVII.

UNION MILITARY SCRIP-DUPLICATES.

AN ACT providing for issuing duplicates of certain union military scrip.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

amounts.

SECTION 1. That the state treasurer be and he is hereby authorized and directed to issue other of like denomi- Numbers and nations of union military scrip, in lieu of the following numbers which have been destroyed: To E. S. Reed, number six thousand four hundred and twenty-nine,(6429) for twenty dollars, (20); number seventeen thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, (17,786,) for one dollar,(1); number seventeen thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, (17,787,) for one dollar, (1); number seventeen thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, (17,788,) for one dollar, (1). To R. Drews, number six thousand four hundred and eleven, (6,411,) for twenty dollars, (20). To John Grauff, number six thousand four hundred and twenty-four, (6,424,) for twenty dollars, (20). To Henry Peck, number six thousand four hundred and twelve, (6,412,) for twenty dollars, (20). To H. M. Curry, twenty dollars, (20). To Henry Sacs, twenty dollars, (20). To Thomas J. Brown, number six thousand four hundred and eighteen, (6,418,) for twenty dollars, (20). To W. R. De Witt, number six thousand four hundred and fourteen, (6,414,) for twenty dollars, (20).

SEC. 2. That upon the face of each piece of scrip so issued, the treasurer of state shall endorse with red ink Endorsed; how. the words, "duplicate issued under an act providing

for issuing duplicates of certain union military scrip,

approved March, 1870."

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication.

Approved March 1, 1872.