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said district, under the orders and directions of said board of trustees, by its treasurer; shall be used only for the purpose of purchasing or renting school grounds and buildings, or erecting the same, and providing suitable furniture for the common school or schools of said district, paying the teachers, and paying the other necessary cost and expenses of conducting and carrying on said public schools, and the costs of having said taxes assessed and collected, in such manner and in such proportion as said board of trustees shall, in their discretion, deem necessary and proper to promote the welfare and prosperity of said public school or schools for the education of white pupils.

§ 13. That the assessor appointed by said board of trustees to assess the property, money and choses in action of said district, as provided by the last proceeding section of this act, shall take the same oaths, and shall have the same powers and duties, and be under the same responsibilities in making said assessment as county assessors under the general laws of this State; and he shall make said assessment, and make return thereof to said board of trustees, at such time as they may direct; and he shall receive a compensation for his services not exceeding ten cents for each list.

§ 14. That upon the return of said assessment to said board of trustees the president of said board shall appoint three members of said board who shall constitute a board of supervisors in said district; they shall hold their meetings at the public school-house, or at some other convenient public place in said district; and their duties and powers in regard to said district assessment and tax shall be the same as those of county supervisors as provided in article 7, chapter 92, of the General Statutes, in regard to county assessments and tax, and they shall be under the same obligations; but no list shall be raised or increased or added until after

actual notice to the tax-payer interested, if he be a resident of said county, or if a non-resident, to his agent, if any, in said county, and a reasonable opportunity to be heard; and the action of said board of supervisors shall be final.

§ 15. The collector appointed by said board of Collector. trustees, in the collection of said local school tax, shall have the same powers and be under the same responsibilities as sheriffs in the collection of the State revenue. He shall have the same power to sell property for taxes as sheriffs now have in like cases; and for his compensation for collecting such ad valorem and capitation tax he shall be paid out of the funds so collected a commission of not exceeding five per cent.

§ 16. That before said board of trustees shall exer- Vote. cise the power to assess, levy or collect the ad valorem or capitation tax in this act provided for, there shall be submitted to the qualified white voters of said school district, as defined in the first section of this act, at the election to be held on the first Saturday in June, 1888, for the election of trustees for said school district, the proposition for assessing said tax; and if a majority of the qualified votes cast at said election upon said proposition be in the affirmative upon said proposition, the said board of trustees shall cause said tax to be assessed, levied and collected each year thereafter, or such proportion thereof as may, in their judgment, be necessary to carry out the provisions and intent of this act, not exceeding forty cents upon the one hundred dollars' worth of property, money and choses in action, and a capitation tax of not exceeding two dollars, as provided in the twelfth section of this act, in any one year.

§ 17. That property exempt from taxation under Exemption. the revenue laws of this State shall be exempt from taxation under this act.

§ 18. That if the proposition to assess, levy and Restriction.

collect the tax provided for in this act shall be decided in the affirmative by the vote provided for in section 16, then the said trustees shall not have the right or power to assess, levy or collect any other ad valorem or capitation tax for common school purposes except as provided in this act.

19. That this act shall only apply to the public schools of said district for white pupils.

20. That the capitation tax mentioned in section 12 of this act shall not apply to voters sixty years of age or over who do not pay an ad valorem tax. § 21. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 12, 1888.

CHAPTER 1009.

AN ACT to authorize the county court of Warren county to subscribe stock in turnpike roads in said county.

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

§ 1. That the county court of Warren county be, May take stock. and it is hereby, empowered to pay to any turnpike

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company which has been, or may hereafter be, incorporated by the county court of said county, or by the Legislature of the State of Kentucky, the sum of one thousand dollars towards the erection and completion of every mile of turnpike which may be made in said county, in manner and form, and upon the condition and subject to the limitations as hereinafter expressed: Provided, however, That if one thousand dollars shall exceed two-thirds of the cost of the erection and completion of any mile of turnpike built under the provisions of this act, said county court shall pay only two-thirds of the cost of the erection and completion of such mile.

§ 2. Said county court shall not pay or advance any money until the company making application therefor shall have completed one mile of well-con

structed and durable turnpike road, of gravel or stone, as required by the plans and specifications of the Warren county court, made or hereafter made, for the purpose of regulating and controlling the building of pikes in said county, nor until said company shall have given in writing a statement showing that said company has ample means or private subscriptions on hand with which, and the amount per mile to be drawn from the county, to construct and put in operation at least three miles of turnpike road. Before paying such subscription the said court shall cause said road to be carefully examined.

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3. Upon the payment of the amount to be paid by Certificates of the county upon each mile, the company to which it is paid shall issue a certificate of stock to the county of Warren for the amount so paid by her; and said county, acting through the county court, shall participate in the control and management,` and share in the dividends of any such roads as any other stockholder.

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§ 4 Said county court, in making payments and Not give prefertaking stock as hereinbefore provided, shall not give preference to any road over any other road which is in process of construction, or is in good faith proposed to be built; but in taking such stock shall be as nearly just to every portion of the county as possible; but in no event shall said county court pay towards, or said county be a stockholder in, the roads of said county, under the provisions of this act, beyond the sum of thirty thousand dollars, this sum being in addition to the amount already voted by said county.

§ 5. All proceedings touching subscription of stock Record. by said county shall be kept of record in the county court clerk's office, and the county court clerk shall keep a book in which shall be recorded the date and amount of each subscription of stock by the county of Warren, in what company, and when said subscription was made.

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§ 6. All dividends received by the county of Warren, on the stock held by her in any turnpike company, shall be paid into the county treasury as of the county named.

§ 7. Before said county court shall make any subscription of stock to any turnpike road company, as authorized by this act, said court shall submit to the qualified voters of Warren county the question whether or not the county of Warren shall subscribe stock in the turnpike companies in said county. Said question may be submitted as aforesaid at any time. after at least twenty days' notice shall be given of said election; said notice to be given by publication for at least twenty days in some weekly newspaper published in Bowling Green, and also by printed posters displayed conspicuously in each of the voting precincts in Warren county. Said election shall be held in the same manner and by the same parties now authorized to conduct a general election in Warren county; and if a majority of those voting shall vote in favor of such subscription, then the county court shall make the payments and take the stock as herein provided. For the purpose of ascertaining the will of the people on said question, two columns shall be opened in each poll-book for each precinct in the county at said election, one headed "For turnpikes," and the other headed "Against turnpikes." Before such question is voted upon, said county court shall cause notices of the fact of such submission to the voters of Warren county for at least twenty days before said election, such notices to be published in posters and weekly newspapers.

8. If the county court deem it best, it may, instead of paying the subscription herein authorized in money, pay the same in bonds of the county, to be issued in denominations of one hundred dollars and five hundred dollars, payable to bearer twenty years after date, redeemable at any time after five years from date, bearing five (5) per cent. interest from date,