Monday in August, 1888, and every two years thereafter. § 36. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. § 37. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved May 3, 1888. CHAPTER 1474. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend and reduce into one the several acts concerning the town of Versailles," approved March 6, 1868, so as to authorize the board of trustees of said town to remodel, improve, rebuild and furnish the public school buildings of said town, and to borrow money and issue bonds therefor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the board of trustees of the town of Versailles be, and they are hereby, granted and vested with power and authority, for and in the name of said town, to remodel, improve, rebuild and furnish the public school buildings of said town, and erect on the grounds thereof a dwelling-house, at such time and in such manner as they may deem expedient. 2. That to enable them to carry out the above purposes the said board of trustees may issue and sell, in pursuance of orders by them made in regular meeting assembled, the bonds of said town to an amount not exceeding seven thousand and five hundred dollars ($7,500), which bonds shall bear interest not exceeding the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable annually or semi-annually, as they may order, with coupons for interest attached, and shall be issued for such amounts, and the principal and interest payable at such bank, and mature at such times, as may be letermined by said board of trustees; and shall be signed for and in the name of the town of Versailles by the chairman of the board of trustees. § 3. That in case of the issue and sale of such bonds, or any part of them, the said board of trustees may, for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of said bonds as the same become due, levy, in addition to the tax they are now authorized to levy, an ad valorem tax upon the property in said town, not exceeding twenty-five cents per annum on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property therein. for so long a time as such taxes may be required, to pay and liquidate the said bonds and interest; and said tax shall be collected in the same manner that other tax is directed to be collected in said town. § 4. That nothing contained in this act shall restrict or prohibit the said board of trustees from appropri ating and applying other revenues of said town to the payment of said bonds and interest. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 3, 1888. Creating and boundary. CHAPTER 1475. AN ACT to create a turnpike road district in the Verona magterial district of Boone county, and to provide funds for the parpose of building turnpike roads in said district. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com monwealth of Kentucky: 1. That there is hereby created in the Verona magisterial district of Boone county a turnpike road district, whose boundaries shall be co-existent with the boundaries of said magisterial district, subject only to such exceptions and limitations as may be hereinafter provided. The object and purpose of creating such district shall be to enable the residents and property-owners of the said Verona district t authorize the levy and collection of a tax for turnpike road purposes in said district, and to apply the money so collected to the construction of such roads. ། 2. There shall be elected by the duly qualified Commissioners. voters of the Verona district a board of turnpike commissioners, at the first regular election held in said district after the adoption by the people of said district of this act, as is herein provided. The qualifications of said board shall be, that they are each residents of said district, householders and propertyowners therein, and not less than twenty-five years of age. Each member of said board shall, before entering on the discharge of his duties, execute a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, to be approved by county court, for the faithful performance of his duties under this act. The board of commissioners, when elected and qualified, as provided herein, shall be deemed, and are hereby created, a body-politic and corporate, with the right of succession; and shall have power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, and generally to do and perform all such acts and have all such powers as are needful to enable them to carry out the purposes for which they are created. The board shall have power to select from among their number a president, secretary and treasurer, who shall, in common with said board, hold office for two years, unless sooner removed by a twothirds majority thereof. § 3. The board elected shall by lot determine who Terms of office. of their number shall serve for two, and who for four years, and one-half of the board so selected shall serve two years, and the other half so selected shall serve for four years; and an election shall be held every two years thereafter, on the same day on which the first regular election was held under this act, to fill the places of the members of said board whose term of office have expired, or the places of those who may have from any cause become vacant. § 4. A tax of five cents on each one hundred dollars Tax. of property, real or personal, is hereby levied on all the property of said district, and a poll-tax of one dollar imposed on each voter therein, to be collected President of board. judge. by the sheriff of Boone county, in each year after the passage of this act, at the same time and in the same manner that other taxes are now collected by said sheriff, who shall receive the same compensation now received by him for the collection of other taxes, and shall be responsible for the same upon the same bond executed by him for county purposes. It shall be the duty of the said sheriff to pay over said tax, when collected, to the said board of turnpike commissioners. For the purpose of this act, and to save the expense of another assessment, the tax here levied shall be levied and collected on the property of said district, as shown by the assessor's books for said county in such years; and in view of the uncertainty of district lines, and to avoid the splitting up of tax receipts, every property-owner of said district, whether resident or non-resident, shall be held to pay this tax on all such real estate as shall lie partly in this district and partly in another district, in case of the resident owner, if the residence of said owner shall be in the Verona district; or, in case of a non-resident owner, if the larger part of said real estate shall lie in the said turnpike or magisterial district. § 5. The president of said board shall preside over all the meetings of said board, and the secretary shall keep a full and complete and written record of all the proceedings of said board. The treasurer shall take and hold all moneys belonging to said turnpike road district, and shall pay them out under the order of said board, which must always be in writing. He shall execute to said board a good and sufficient bond for the faithful performance of his duties. § 6. It shall be the duty of the county judge of Duty of county Boone county to notify the voters of said district that an election will be held in said district, as provided in the succeeding section, and to appoint the officers to hold the same, and, with the county clerk and sheriff, count the vote and declare the result thereof, and in general to perform such duties under this act as are required of them in cases that pertain to elections in magisterial districts in said county under existing laws. 7. There shall be an election ordered and held Election. under this act on Saturday, the 26th day of May, 1888, in said Verona district, and each voter shall be asked if he is in favor of the tax of five cents on property, and the poll-tax of one dollar on each voter in said district; and if a majority thereof answer affirmatively, then that fact shall be certified by the aforesaid county officers, and placed on record in the county clerk's office, and this law shall, from and after that date, be in full force and effect. Approved May 3, 1888. CHAPTER 1476. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to prevent stock from running at large in the first magisterial district, outside of the city of Covington, in Kenton county," approved March 4, 1884. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That so much of section three of an act approved 4th, 1884, entitled "An act to prevent stock from running at large in the first magisterial district, outside of the city of Covington, in Kenton county," as exempts the of Ludlow from the provisions of said act, is hereby repealed. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved May 3, 1888. |