as provided in section four, or by sales of stock at auction at not less than par, if extensions or additional works are required sooner than can be paid for by the one per cent. of profits authorized by said section. § 20. The salaries of the officers of the company hereby incorporated shall not be increased above the salaries of the same officers of the existing company without the consent of the mayor and council of the city of Lexington; and if any new officers shall become necessary, the salaries of such officers shall be fixed by the concurrent consent of the president and directors of the company and of mayor and council of the city of Lexington. Approved March 1, 1876. 1876. CHAPTER 316. AN ACT for the benefit of common school district No. 35, Rockcastle, county. WHEREAS, The school commissioner of Rockcastle county, through mistake, failed to report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction twenty-two children reported to him by the trustee of district No. 35, for the school year ending June 30th, 1875, by which the teacher of said district, David Proctor, failed to receive pay for the same, to which he was justly entitled; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the sum of forty-two dollars and two cents be paid said David Proctor out of the interest due on the Rockcastle county bond for the school year ending June 30th, 1875, and the commissioner be authorized to draw his draft upon the Auditor for said amount, which, when countersigned by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Auditor shall issue his warrant upon the Treasury in favor of said David Proctor for said sum, to be paid from the aforestated fund. § 2. This act shall take effect from January 10th, 1877. Approved March 1, 1876. VOL, I-LOC. L.-31 1876. CHAPTER 317. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Paducah. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be the duty of the collector of the city taxes for the city of Paducah, when the person owing the taxes has no personal property in the said city out of which he can collect the taxes, and he has reasonable cause to believe that another person is indebted to him, to proceed by attachment to collect the taxes in the same manner as is provided for the collection of revenue and county levy in sections one and two of article nine, chapter ninety-two, of the General Statutes. The notice therein provided for shall not prevent the payment to the person owing the taxes of any wages for services rendered or work done after the service thereof; and the proceedings shall be docketed in the name of the city of Paducah. § 2. If there is no personal property out of which the collector can make the taxes due, and the same is not paid within three months after the same is due and payable, the collector may levy on any real estate in the said city belonging to or listed by such delinquent tax-payer, and sell so much thereof for cash as will pay the taxes due, his commissions, and legal costs, in the same manner as lands are sold under execution, except the land need not be valued; and if no one will bid for and purchase the same at the price of taxes due, commissions, and costs, it shall be the duty of the mayor of the city to purchase the same for the city, bidding therefor the taxes due, commissions, and costs of sale. The owner of such real estate, his representatives, heirs, or assigns, shall have the right to redeem the same from the purchaser thereof at any time within two years from the day of sale, such redemption to be as is now provided in the charter of the said city as amended herein; any minors, married women, or other persons laboring under disability, shall have two years after the removal of the disability in which to make such redemption. § 3. The collector shall give the purchaser a certificate of purchase, containing a description of the land, time of sale, quantity sold, the price for which it sold, the amount of taxes due thereon, and the year such taxes were due, § 4. The certificate referred to in section 3 shall be recorded and indexed by the county clerk in the book in which such certificates of sale of lands for revenue and county levy are now recorded; said certificate shall be recorded within twenty days after the sale. § 5. If the lands sold by the collector of Paducah for taxes due the city are not redeemed within the time provided herein, it shall be the duty of the collector, or his successor, to convey, by deed, the lands to the purchaser. § 6. The city of Paducah is hereby empowered and authorized to order,. by resolution of the common council of the city, the lands bought by the city for taxes to be sold, and the mayor shall sell and convey the same, by deed, to the purchaser; the resolution of the council ordering the sale shall be recorded by the clerk of the county court with the mayor's deed. The city shall sell all lands bid in for taxes, and deeded to the city, within one year from the date of the deed, and the collector shall convey all such lands to the city within six months after the time for redemption has expired. § 7. The sale herein provided for by the mayor shall be made at public outcry to the highest bidder, for cash, at the court-house door in McCracken county, after being advertised in the same manner as is provided by law for the sale of real estate under execution. § 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved March 1, 1876. 1876. CHAPTER 318. AN ACT to empower the county court of Henry county to levy an ad valorem tax of fifteen cents on the $100 of the assessed value of the property of said county, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness of the county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall and may be lawful for the county court Ad valorem tax. of Henry, at any term of said court that may be held after the passage of this act, to levy an ad valorem tax upon all the tax-payers of said county of fifteen cents upon each one hundred dollars of the assessed value of the property of said county, to be applied to the payment of the indebtedness of the county. 1876. How collected. § 2. The tax herein provided for shall be collected by the sheriff of said county, and for so doing he shall be entitled to the same commissions now allowed him by law for collecting the revenue tax, and shall be responsible on his official bond for its collection and payment to the person who may be designated by said court to receive the same. § 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage, and continue in force for one year only. Approved March 1, 1876. CHAPTER 320. AN ACT for the benefit of S. S. Johnson, late sheriff of Warren county. WHEREAS, By judgment of the Warren circuit court, rendered February, 1873, three persons were tried and condemned in said court for larceny, and, on account of their tender age, the judge of said court ordered them carried to the House of Reform, at Anchorage, and S. S. Johnson, sheriff of Warren county, under said order, carried said three persons and delivered same in said House of Reform; and said S. S. Johnson, sheriff of Warren county, expended, in conveying said three persons to said House of Reform, one hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-one cents, as shown by his and his guards' accounts, which are assigned, him properly proved and certified by the proper officers; and whereas, there is no law providing for the payment of said claim; for remedy whereof, 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, for the sum of one hundred and eighteen dollars and seventyone cents, in favor of S. S. Johnson, late sheriff of Warren county; and that same be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved March 1, 1876. CHAPTER 323. AN ACT to consolidate the Louisville, Harrod's Creek, and Westport Rail. way Company with the Westport, Carrollton, and Covington Railway Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Louisville, Harrod's Creek, and Westport Railway Company may be consolidated with the Westport, Carrollton, and Covington Railway Company, and by such consolidation make one company, which, when so formed, shall have all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities named in the charters and amendments thereto of said companies, and be subject to all the liabilities, restrictions, and obligations recited in said charters and amendments thereto. Said consolidation shall be made by contract made by said companies with each other, and shall be recorded in the county court clerk's offices of the counties through which said railway passes. In said contract shall be fully recited the terms and conditions of said consolidation, and when said consolidation is completed, said consolidated company shall be called and known by the incorporate name of the Louisville and Covington Narrow Gauge Railway Company." § 2. That the wages of laborers and employes doing work or service for said railroad shall have a priority of lien for the payment of the same on the rolling stock of said road and its earnings, every mortgage to the contrary notwith. standing. § 3. This act shall be in force from its passage. 1876. Approved March 3, 1876. CHAPTER 324. AN ACT for the benefit of Richard H. Collins. WHEREAS, Richard H. Collins claims that the Commonwealth ought to carry out the provisions of "An act directing the purchase of Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky," which was passed on the 20th day of March, 1871; and that he has been injured by the delay and refusal of officers of the State to comply with same, and is thus far without remedy of any kind; therefore, |