general laws of the State within the provisions of said general laws. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 21, 1888. CHAPTER 1203. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine and Beattyville Railroad Company," approved March 10, 1888. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine and Beattyville Railroad Company is hereby so amended as to authorize and empower said railroad company to extend, construct and operate its railway from the terminus on the Woodford county line, now fixed by its charter, across Woodford county to a point at or near Versailles, and from the terminus at or near Beattyville, now fixed by its charter, across the county of Lee, in the direction of Breathitt county; thence along or near one of the forks of the Kentucky river, through Breathitt county, or to such point therein as said company may designate as its terminus: Provided, It shall not be lawful for Woodford county to subscribe any additional sum to the capital stock of said company, nor for Breathitt county to subscribe for an amount exceeding fifty ($50,000) thousand dollars, the bonds in payment there for only to be delivered to said railroad company when the road, as located, is completed in said county; and the application mentioned in section eight of said charter, so far as it relates to Breathitt county, shall be made to the county court, composed of the county judge and justices; and before an election can be ordered in said county upon the question of such subscription, a majority of the court so constituted shall, in their discretion, vote in favor of so ordering. Except as herein provided, said act incorporating the Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine and Beattyville Railroad Company shall apply to the extensions herein authorized. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 21, 1888. CHAPTER 1205. AN ACT to authorize the city of Lexington to subscribe for stock in the Kentucky Union Railway Company, and issue bonds in payment thereof. WHEREAS, At an election duly ordered by the mayor and general council of the city of Lexington, held on the first day of August, 1887, at all the voting precincts of the city of Lexington, to take the sense of the voters of said city on the proposition to subscribe for stock in the Kentucky Union Railway Company, for and on behalf of said city, to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and in a further and additional sum sufficient to pay for fifteen acres of land to be purchased by said city and deeded to said railway company, which shall be free from taxation by said city for the period of twenty years, to be held and enjoyed by said company upon the terms and conditions stated in the proposition of said company addressed to the mayor and general council of said city, accepted by said mayor and council by resolutions approved July 14, 1887, and the question of said subscription was at said election decided in the affirmative; and whereas, it is deemed important to remove all doubts as to the legality of said election, and to make more certain the powers and duty of the mayor and general council of said city to carry into effect the purposes and intentions of said election; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the election held in the city of Lexington on the first day of August, 1887, to take the sense of the voters of said city upon the question submitted to them as to subscribing to the capital stock of the Kentucky Union Railway Company, as stated herein, be, and the same is hereby, ratified and declared to have been a legal election; and all acts or things which should have been done in and about said election, but which were omitted, if any, are hereby held to have been waived, and to be cured and supplied by virtue hereof. § 2. The mayor and general council of the city of Lexington are hereby empowered and directed to subscribe to the capital stock of the Kentucky Union Railway Company to the extent of fifteen hundred shares of the par value of one hundred dollars each, amounting to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and to the extent of a further number of shares, amounting at their par value to such sum as shall be the purchase price of fifteen acres of land located in the suburbs of said city, not more than one and onefourth miles from the Fayette county court-house, to be selected by mutual agreement of said railway company and the mayor and general council of said city, and deeded to said company, to be held and enjoyed as herein provided. § 3. It shall be the duty of the mayor and general council of the city of Lexington to provide means for the payment of said subscription to be made by said city in the manner pointed out in section nineteen of an act approved March 10, 1854, entitled "An act to incorporate the Kentucky Union Railway Company;" and for the purpose of said subscription, and providing means for paying the same, the said section is hereby declared to be in full force and effect. § 4. No bonds shall be issued under the provisions of this act unless work on the grading and construction of said railway, in addition to that now constructed from Kentucky Union Junction, in Clark county, to Clay City, in Powell county, shall be actually commenced within ninety days from the approval hereof; nor shall any of said bonds be issued unless said railway company shall, within twenty-four months from the date of approval of this act, complete its road so that a train of cars shall run over the same on a separate road-bed of its own, and not over the road-bed or right of way of any other road, in a continuous line from the city of Lexington to Breathitt county; but the said mayor and general council may withhold the issuing of any of said bonds, provided convict labor is employed in the construction of said road, as herein provided, in Fayette county. ន § 5. That the act, entitled "An act to repeal all acts and parts of acts, so far as the same authorize the county of Fayette and the city of Lexington hereafter to subscribe stock in railroad companies," approved April 22, 1880, be, and the same is hereby, repealed so far, and only so far, as it is in conflict with the provisions of this act; and said act, which was approved April 22, 1880, except in so far as it conflicts with this act, is declared to be in full force and effect. § 6. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 21, 1888. CHAPTER 1206. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend and to reduce into one the several acts relating to the charter and amendments thereto of the town of Winchester," approved February 2, 1882. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the board of councilmen of said town shall have power to require the owners of real estate within said town to set out shade trees in front of and binding on their real estate in said town; and if the owner of said real estate fail, for forty days after the owner or occupant thereof shall have been notified by the board of councilmen to set out said shade trees as designated in said notice, then said board. shall have the power to cause said trees to be set out, and recover the amount so expended and the cost of any suit in any court of competent jurisdiction, and they may have all the remedies to recover the same that any other creditor has to recover and coerce all debts due him; and in all cases under this section, the recorder of the town of Winchester shall have full jurisdiction. § 2. That this act shall go into effect from and after its passage. Approved April 21, 1888. CHAPTER 1207. AN ACT to require the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and its assigns, to provide safety gates, and to keep a watchman at the crossing of its road over the Shelby Turnpike, near Clifton, in Jefferson county, Kentucky. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That it shall be the duty of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, and its assigns, |