kept within a period of one year, thereafter, the court, or, in vacation, the judge, may, if satisfied of his good faith, order the premises which had been closed under the order of abatement, to be released to said owner and said order of abatement canceled so far as the same may relate to said property; and if said bond be given and costs therein paid before judgment and order of abatement, the action shall be thereby abated as to said premises. The release of the property under the provisions of this section shall not release it from any judgment, lien or liability, to which it may be otherwise subject by law.

§ 8. That wherever a permanent injunction issues against any person for maintaining a nuisance as herein defined, or against any owner or agent of the building kept or used for the purpose prohibited by this Act, or when the case shall be disposed of under Section 7 of this statute, the court shall allow to the attorney for the plaintiff a reasonable fee which shall be taxed as a part of the costs of the action.

9. That the Commonwealth Attorney or County Attorney or other attorney representing the plaintiff in any proceeding under this statute, may, with the approval of the court, grant immunity from prosecution to any witness who shall testify for plaintiff.

§ 10. That the costs of the action provided for hereunder shall constitute a lien upon any ground and improvements involved in the case, and the judgment shall provide for the enforcement thereof, but any personal property seized as herein provided shall be first sold and the proceeds applied to the payment of such costs before said ground or improvements shall be sold.

§ 11. If any person be convicted in any court of this State, of keeping or maintaining a bawdy or disorderly house or house of ill fame, or house of assignation, the County Attorney or Prosecuting Attorney of such court, in which such conviction shall have occurred, shall, or any citizen of the State may, institute injunction proceedings against such person in a court of equity, as provided in this act and the said judgment of conviction shall be warrant for the court of equity issuing an injunction as provided therein against said person and the property unlawfully used as provided herein.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 62.

AN ACT to amend Section 227 of the Constitution of the Com monwealth, relating to removal of officers for misfeasance, malfeasance or neglect of duty.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That upon the concurrence of three-fifths of all the members elected to each house of the General Assembly, the yeas and nays being taken thereon and entered in full in their respective journals, that Section 227, of the Constitution be amended by adding after the last word in the section as it now appears, the following:

"Provided, also that the General Assembly may, in addition to the indictment or prosecution above provided, by general law provide other manner, method or mode for the vacation of office, or the removal from office, of any sheriff, jailer, constable or peace officer, for neglect of duty, and may provide the method, manner or mode of reinstatement of such officers."

So that said section as amended will read as follows:

Section 227. Judges of the county court, justices of the peace, sheriffs, coroners, surveyors, jailers, assessors, county attorneys and constables shall be subject to indictment or prosecution for misfeasance or malfeasance in office, or willful neglect in discharge of official duties, in such mode as may be prescribed by law; and upon conviction his office shall become vacant, but such officer shall have the right to appeal to the Court of Appeals. Provided, also, that the General Assembly may, in addition to the indictment or prosecution above provided, by general law provide other manner, method or mode for the vacation of office, or the removal from of fice of any sheriff, jailer, constable or peace officer, for neglect of duty, and may provide the method, manner, or mode of reinstatement of such officers.

The foregoing amendment shall be submitted to the voters of the State for their ratification or rejection at the time and in the manner provided for under Section 256 of the Constitution of Kentucky, and Section 1459 Kentucky Statutes, 1915 Edition, and all and any other laws pertinent thereto.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 63.

AN ACT proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky prohibiting after June 30, 1920, the manufacture, sale or transportation of spirituous, vinous, malt or intoxicating liquors with certain exceptions and providing for the enforcement thereof, and a way by which it shall be submitted to the people for their approval or rejection.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That upon the concurrence and agreement

of three-fifths of all the members elected to each House, the yeas and nays being taken thereon, and entered in full in their respective journals, that the following amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, be, and hereby is, proposed to the voters of the State for their ratification or rejection:

"After June 30, 1920, the manufacture, sale or transportation of spirituous, vinous, malt or other intoxicating liquors, except for sacramental, medicinal, scientific or mechanical purposes, in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is hereby prohibited. All Sections or parts thereof of the Constitution, insofar as they may be inconsistent with this Section are hereby repealed and nullified. The General Assembly shall enforce this Section by appropriate legislation."

2. This proposed amendment shall be submitted to the voters of the State for their ratification or rejection at the time and in the manner provided for under the Constitution of Kentucky and under the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in force at the time of the submission, except there shall be provided and furnished each voter a separate ballot on which there shall only be printed this amendment clearly indicated upon said ballot, and two spaces shall be left upon the right of same, one for votes favoring the amendment to be designated by the word "Yes," and the other for votes opposing the amendment to be designated by the word "No." The elector or voter shall designate his vote by a cross mark thus "X" placed opposite the word "Yes" or the word "No."

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 64.

AN ACT relating to the drainage and the prevention of overflow of lands, towns, cities, roads, streets, the establishment, organization and maintenance of drainage, levee, and reclamation districts, the construction and maintenance of public ditches, canals, drains, sewers, dams, levees, and the straightening, widening, deepening, enlarging, and otherwise improv ing public ditches, drains, creeks, rivers or other streams, prescribing the method of procedure, the levying and collec、 tion of assessments for the payment of the costs and expense of establishing and organizing such districts, the construction of such improvements, creating and incorporating boards of drainage commissioners, and prescribing the duties of commissioners and other officers and employes, and providing for the payment of such officers and employes performing duties, the issuing and selling of district bonds, with which to secure funds with which to defray the cost and expenses of improve. ments hereunder.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

$ 1. That jurisdiction, power and authority is hereby conferred upon all county and circuit courts of this Commonwealth to establish and organize (drainage), (levee) and (reclamation) districts in this Commonwealth, and to the end that the purpose, design and intention of this act may be carried into full force and effect, power and authority is hereby conferred upon said courts to provide ways and means consistent with the provisions of this act for the establishment, organization, operation and maintenance of drainage, levee and reclamation districts in this Commonwealth. The original jurisdiction, hereby conferred upon county courts and circuit courts of this Commonwealth to establish, organize and provide for the operation and maintenance of drainage, levee and reclamation districts, shall be concurrent, the one with the other.

Sub-section A. There is also hereby conferred