not less than two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00.) § 17. This act shall be liberally construed, and if any section or provision thereof shall be declared unconstitutional by the courts it shall not affect the remaining sections or provisions. 18. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. Approved March 16, 1918. CHAPTER 13. AN ACT to amend Section 3486 and 3502 of Kentucky Statutes (Carroll's Edition 1915) relating to cities of the fourth class. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: $ 1. That Section 3486 of Kentucky Statutes (Carroll's Edition of 1915) be amended by striking therefrom the words "A majority shall be a quorum of the board" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "A quorum shall consist of a majority of the board or of one-half of the members of the board and the mayor: A quorum is invested" so that said section when so amended shall read as follows, to-wit: 3486. Mayor, Chairman-Pro Tem. ChairmanQuorum-Eligibility of Members.-The mayor shall be chairman of the board, and in his absence a mayor and chairman pro tempore shall be elected from the members; but such person shall not perform the functions of the office of mayor unless the regular mayor has been absent from the county for at least three days, or is, for any reason, unable to discharge his duties. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the board or of one-half of the members of the board and the mayor: A quorum is invested with power to act, and in the absence of a quorum two members shall have power to adjourn from time to time until a quorum is secured. In case of a vacancy in the board by death, resignation or any other cause, such vacancy shall be filled as hereinafter provided. The board shall meet at such times. and places as shall be provided by ordinance. It shall judge of the eligibility and election returns of its members, adopt rules for its proceedings and government, and enforce the same by appropriate fines, not exceeding ten dollars for each offense; and three-fourths of the members voting affirmatively may, for any good cause, expel any member. § 2. That Section 3502 of the Kentucky Statutes (Carroll's Edition of 1915) be amended by inserting after the words "He shall only vote in case of a tie" the following words "or when his vote is necessary to make a quorum" so that said section when so amended shall read as follows, to-wit: 3502. Mayor shall preside at council meetingsvote in case of tie. The mayor or chief executive shall preside at all meetings of the board of council, and decide all points of order. He shall only vote in case of a tie or when his vote is necessary to make a quorum. He may call special sessions of the board of council by reasonable notice, whenever, in his judgment, it may be necessary, and shall do so upon the written request of four members of the council. He shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinance not inconsistent with this charter. §3. Whereas the administering of the civic affairs of cities of the fourth class is impaired by the difficulty of securing under the present law, quorums, of its boards of council, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall take and be in effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved March 19, 1918. CHAPTER 14. AN ACT relating to charitable institutions, and providing and appropriating an annual per capita for the pauper and part pay inmates of the Eastern, Western and Central State Hospitals, and for the Kentucky Institute for Feeble Minded Chil dren, and fixing the amount of per capita to be paid by inmates of said institutions who may be able to pay, and repealing laws in conflict. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. The annual per capita appropriations for the years 1918 and 1919, and until June 30, 1920, to the Institutes named in Section 2 shall be, and are, and shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and ninety dollars per annum. 2. The Board of Control and the Superintendents, respectively, of the Eastern, Western and Central State Hospitals, and of the Kentucky Institute for Feeble Minded Children, shall, at the end of each and every month, jointly certify to the Auditor of Public Accounts the number of inmates actually supported by the institutions, specifying the number of inmates who pay nothing, the number who pay in full and the number who pay in part, and if paying in part the amount so being paid, and the Auditor shall, in the manner provided by law, draw his warrant for each pauper patient in the sum and at the rate of fifteen dollars, eighty-three and one-third cents per month; and for each part pay inmate or patient for the difference between the amount shown to be paid and the sum of fifteen dollars eighty three and one-third cents per month, the total in any one year for any one inmate not to exceed the sum of one hundred and ninety dollars. § 3. Part pay and full pay patients or inmates are to be charged, and are to pay at the rate of fifteen dollars eighty-three and one-third cents per month, and for special attention patients or inmates who are able to pay more may pay such a monthly sum as may be agreed upon by the head of the institutions and the friends or relatives of such patient or inmate, however, to exceed ten dollars per month. § 4. It is the intention of the General Assembly in enacting this law to fix the per capita of each of the institutions above named at the rate of one hundred and ninety dollars annually, and any and all laws fixing any other per capita rate and all laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, but this act shall not be held to repeal any law making general appropriations to any of the above named institu tions. 5. It is beyond argument that the prices of commodities and necessities have advanced greatly in the last twenty-four months, and that the institutions named cannot be operated on the present per capita and appropriations; hence, an emergency is declared to exist, and this law shall become effective for all purposes as soon as enacted and approved. Approved March 19, 1918. CHAPTER 15. AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Article 15, Chapter 32, Kentucky Statutes, which article is entitled "Sale and purchase of corporations" and consists of Section 883, b, of Carroll's Kentucky Statutes, Edition of 1915, by substituting the terms of this Act therefor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That, Article 15, Chapter 32, of the Kentucky Statutes, which article is entitled "Sale and Purchase of Corporations," and is Section 883, b, of Carroll's Kentucky Statutes, Edition of 1915, be repealed and re-enacted so that the same shall hereafter read as follows: "b1. Any corporation now or hereafter organized under the laws of this State or of any other State or territory of the United States shall have power to sell and convey all of its property, rights, privileges, franchises, easements, rights of way, and all other property and property rights it may use or possess. 2. Any such corporation shall be authorized to purchase the corporate assets of any other corporation organized under the laws of this State or of any other State or territory of the United States and engaged in the same character of business. 3. No such sale shall be valid unless consented to by the holders of not less than three-fourths (3-4) of the capital stock of the vendor corporation, which consent shall be given either in writing or by vote at a special meeting of the said stockholders called for that purpose upon the same notice as that required for the annual meetings of the corporation, which notice shall clearly state the purpose for which the meeting is called. Any stockholder of the vendor corporation may notify its secretary in writing on or before that date of such meeting that he objects to the proposed sale. If the proposed sale shall be consummated, the vendee, therein, thirty (30) days thereafter, upon the demand of such dissenting stockholder and upon his surrender of his stock therein to the vendor corporation for cancellation, shall pay to such dissenting stockholder the market value of his stock, |