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clerk shall write under the head of "remarks," opposite his name, not naturalized," and such alien shall not be entitled to vote at any election unless he produces his naturalization papers to the officers of election in due form of law. In making the registration the clerk shall act as the recording officer, and the judges shall decide all questions relating to the qulaifications of persons offering to register, except that in case of a difference of opinion between the judges the clerk shall have the casting vote. It shall be the duty of the clerk to number consecutively the names recorded under each letter of the alphabet as they are taken down, and at the close of the registration he shall sign his name as clerk after the last name is recorded, in such manner as that no other name can be recorded above his; and he shall also foot up and certify the whole number of names recorded at that registration, and this certificate shall be signed by all the officers before leaving the place of registration, and in the presence of any other person who may witness it. The clerk shall also sign his name at the foot of each page. On the day following the clerk of each ward shall deliver said books into the hands of the city clerk, and take his receipt therefor. It shall be the duty cf said clerk to keep said books safely in his office, and not to suffer the same to be taken therefrom. The clerk shall immediately make a list of the voters of each ward from said registration books, and have the same published in at least two newspapers published in said city of Frankfort, previous to said election. Any person who shall cause himself to be registered in more than one election ward, or more than once in the same ward, or shall cause himself to be registered, knowing himself that he is not entitled to registration, and any person who shall aid and abet in the commission of said acts, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than five hundred dollars, and imprisoned in

the county jail not more than one year, or both. Any officer of registration or other person who shall unlawfully alter any registration book, or add any name thereto, or shall willfully secrete, suppress or destroy any 'such book, or shall make or aid in making, any false or fraudulent registration book, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction shall be confined in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years; and shall forfeit any office he then holds, and shall forever be disqualified from holding any office. Any person who shall willfully make any false statement, under an oath, administered by the officers of registration, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years. Any person who by himself, or in aid of others, shall forcibly break up, or attempt to break up, a registration held under this act, or shall forcibly prevent, or attempt to prevent, any person from approaching or entering a place of registration for the purpose of registering, shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. No witness shall be excused from testifying before any grand jury, or in any prosecution or indictment under this act, on the ground that his testimony will criminate himself; but no such testimony shall be used against him, except for perjury in giving the same. The cost of the registration books and expenses of the registration under this act shall be paid by the city of Frankfort, and the registration officers shall receive for their services three dollars each per day.

§ 10. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

§ 11. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved April 30, 1888.

CHAPTER 1343.

AN ACT to incorporate the Louisville Automatic Refrigerating Com

pany.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com

monwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. M. H. Gunther, R. T. Scowden, Laf. Joseph, Corporators. Thos. H. Sherley and Wm. L. Bridgeford, their associates and successors, be, and are hereby, constituted a body-politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Louisville Automatic Refrigerating Company, Corporate name. and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded; have a common seal, to be altered by them at pleasure; to make by-laws not repugnant to the laws of this State or of the United States, for the management of their corporate concerns, and have and enjoy all the rights and powers of a corporation. § 2. Said corporation is hereby authorized and em- Powers. powered to purchase or lease such real estate, and to erect and maintain and operate such buildings and machinery as may be necessary to conduct the business of said company.

ness.

§3. The particular business of said company shall Nature of busibe that of operating, using, buying and dealing in refrigerating appliances, apparatus and machinery of all kinds, and selling and dealing in refrigeration produced thereby; and to manufacture, buy and sell such articles, wares and merchandise as may be kept or made by the process of refrigeration; and in the conduct of their business, as set out in the title hereof, may buy, sell and deal in all patent rights connected with said business, and in carrying on and conducting the same.

§ 4. The principal place of business shall be in the General office. city of Louisville and Jefferson county, Kentucky.

§ 5. The capital stock of said corporation shall be capital stock. four hundred thousand dollars, said stock to be di

vided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and the

Directors.

Indebtedness limited.

When commence business.

said corporation shall have the right to issue full paid stock for the purchase of real and personal property and patent rights of any kind necessary for the business of said company.

§ 6. The affairs of said company shall be conducted by a board of directors, consisting of five (5) members, three of whom shall constitute a quorum, elected annually by the stockholders of said corporation on the first Monday in June of each year; and until the first annual election, the incorporators named herein shall be the board of directors. Said incorporators or board of directors, when elected, may elect of themselves a president and vice-president. The said board of directors shall elect or appoint such other officers and agents as may be provided by the by-laws of the company.

7. The said company may incur an indebtedness not exceeding one-third of the capital stock subscribed, and may secure the payment of the same by mortgage of the property of the company.

§ 8. Said company shall commence doing business within three (3) years from the passage of this act, and when the sum of twenty thousand dollars of said capital stock shall have been subscribed.

§ 9. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved April 30, 1888.

CHAPTER 1344.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to take the sense of the voters of Simpson county on the question of selling spirituous, vinous or malt liquors," approved April 22, 1886.

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

§ 1. That an act, entitled "An act to take the sense of the voters of Simpson county on the question of selling spirituous, vinous or malt liquors," approved

April 22, 1886, be amended as follows: That under the provisions of said act, it shall be the duty of the county judge of Simpson county to make an order on the order-book of the county court, as provided in said act, for holding an election for the purpose of retaking the sense of the voters of said county upon the proposition whether or not spirituous, vinous or malt liquors shall be sold therein. And it is made the duty of the county judge of said county to certify and enter the result of said election on the orderbook, and should a majority of the voters who vote, of said county, vote for the proposition to sell spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, it shall thereafter be lawful to sell the same in said county under the license laws of this State.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved April 30, 1888.

CHAPTER 1345.

AN ACT repealing an act to prohibit the sale of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, in any quantity less than ten gallons, in precinct No. 8, in Bourbon county.

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

§ 1. That "An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, in any quantity less than ten gallons, in precinct No. 8, in Bourbon county," ap. proved April 4, 1884, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

2. This act shall be submitted to the qualified voters of precinct No. 8, in Bourbon county, at the August election, to be held on the first Monday in August, 1888; and if a majority of all the votes cast at said election on this question shall be in favor of this law, then this law shall be in full force and effect.