support of the tax commission shall continue until the expiration of the next regular session of the neral Assembly and until any law passed by said. General Assembly in lieu hereof becomes effective.
2. The State Tax Commission now having on hand an enormous amount of work and not sufficient funds to employ the necessary assistants, an emergency is declared to exist and this act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor. Approved February 8, 1918.
AN ACT to amend Section four thousand six hundred and fortytwo Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, relating to fees of official stenographic reporters in counties having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand or more.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
§ 1. That Section 4642 of the Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition, 1915, be amended by adding to said section the following words:
Provided, further, that in counties having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand or more, the reporters of the common pleas and chancery branches of said court shall be paid for their services at the rate of eighteen hundred dollars per annum in each calendar year, or a proportionate amount where they serve for less than a year, such salaries to be paid in monthly installments by the fiscal court of the county in which said reporters are appointed, out of the county treasury from money raised for county purposes, and all fees collected by said reporters for services rendered in their respective offices, not exceeding eighteen hun