when any tax has been paid, it shall be the duty of the president or treasurer of said company to enter the word "paid" upon the record in said office in the proper column, or to enter the amount so paid. The said taxes are to be used by said company for the purposes thereof, as set out in the preamble of this act. 11. After the first day of December of any year for which taxes may be due, the Jefferson Southern Pond Draining Company may file in the Louisville chancery court, in said proceeding in which said report had already been confirmed, the affidavit of its president, or of other officer, stating that the taxes are due upon a certain tract of land and the amount thereof, and giving a sufficient description of said land, together with the names of the owner or owners or holders, and alleging that said land is included in the assessment and apportionment aforesaid, whereupon it shall be the duty of said court to cause a rule to be issued against said owner or owners, or holders, to show cause, if any they have or can, why he or they should not be compelled to pay said tax; and such proceedings shall be had as upon rules issuing from the Louisville chancery court; and the said court may render a personal judgment for said tax, interest, and costs against the person owing the tax, and may render a judgment enforcing the lien for taxes, and ordering a sale of the property described in said affidavit, and payment of said taxes, interest and costs, out of the proceeds. Costs shall be paid by the losing party. § 12. The taxes provided for in this act shall be collectible either by rule as aforesaid or by action, equit able or ordinary, or by either of said remedies, except that both proceedings shall not be pending at the same time. Suits for taxes shall be in the name of the Jefferson Southern Pond Draining Company; and said suitor shall have all the rights of other suitors in courts of law and equity; may obtain a personal judgment against the person or persons to whom the land assessed and taxed as aforesaid belongs for the amount of said tax, with interest and costs, as well as the enforcement of the lien herein given; and said company shall have all the rights and privileges secured to litigants by the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. § 13. The equitable actions herein authorized and the judgments and subsequent proceedings therein (except as herein provided), shall be conducted in all respects like suits upon liens arising out of contracts, and the Louisville chancery court and Louisville law and equity court shall have jurisdiction of all amounts of ten ($10) dollars and over, exclusive of interest; the taxes due for earlier and later years may be included in the petition and in the judgment. Suit for taxes against different persons owing taxes may be joined in one action, and all persons interested in the questions raised in the pleadings, or having or claiming an interest in the land sought to be sold, may be joined as plaintiffs or defendants, and the proof in said action may be read for and against all parties who are properly brought before the court. § 14. The commissioners hereinabove mentioned shall be compensated out of the treasury of the Jefferson Southern Pond Draining Company, at a rate not exceeding three ($3) dollars to each for each day's service. For copying and certifying the assessment and apportionment herein above mentioned, the clerk of the Louisville chancery court shall be entitled to compensation, to be paid by the Jefferson Southern Pond Draining Company, at a rate not exceeding five cents (5 cts.) for each separate parcel of land therein assessed; and the clerk of the Jefferson county court shall be entitled to the same fees for recording the same in his office. That the board of directors of the Southern Pond Draining Company shall, annually, in the month of January, file with the clerk of the Jefferson county court a detailed statement of all money received (and from whom by said board and expended by them under the provisions of this act. 15. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved May 4, 1888. CHAPTER 1553. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act to repeal section 4 of an act to amend an act, entitled 'An act amending and reducing into one the several acts relating to the town of Scottsville," " approved February 28, 1860, and the amendments thereto, which act was approved 2d April, 1884, and to re-enact and amend said section 4. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the act approved May 7, 1886, entitled "An act to repeal section 4 of an act to amend an act, entitled 'An act amending and reducing into one the several acts relating to the town of Scottsville,'" approved February 28, 1860, and the amendments thereto, which act was approved April 2, 1884, the act designated as "chapter 968," in volume 2 of the published acts of 1885 and 1886, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the said section 4 and the amendments to said section are hereby re-enacted. § 2. That the said section 4 herein re-enacted be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word "twenty-five," wherever it occurs in said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the word “fifty.” § 3. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. 4. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 4, 1888. CHAPTER 1554. AN ACT for the benefit of the county roads leading from East Bernstadt, Laurel county, to Booneville, and from Mrs. Jesse Bowling's, on said Booneville road, to Manchester. WHEREAS, The said roads are extensively traveled and much freight is hauled over same; and whereas, said roads are now in a very bad condition, and the work of the malicia on same insufficient to put them in a condition to meet the wants of the traveling public, and render them safe for wagons and other vehicles to pass over; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That the county court of Laurel county be, and they are hereby, authorized to erect a toll gate across said road at or near the residence of William H. Littons, near East Bernstadt, and one across the said roads at the lower end of H. C. Eversole's farm, and one on said road leading to Manchester, at McWhorten's, Laurel county. Said roads must first be put in good condition, and no fees shall be charged on said roads until the judge of the Laurel county sball, by an order of court, declare that travel over the same is safe. 2. Be it further enacted, That the county court shall have power to fix the rate of toll on said road to be charged and collected at each gate; said rate to be fixed by an order of the county court. § 3. Be it further enacted, That if any person shall surround any one of said gates with the view or for the purpose of avoiding the payment of his toll, he shall be charged with the toll, and it may be collected by as other debts are collected. 4. If any person shall attempt, by force, to pass through any one of said gates, or shall, by force, pass through the same without first paying his toll, he shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. § 5. The proceeds arising from tolls collected under this act shall be used and applied to the purpose of keeping said road in good repair. § 6. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved May 4, 1888. porators and corporate powers CHAPTER 1555. AN ACT to incorporate the Cumberland River Bridge Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That H. F. Finley, A. Gatliff, J. W. Siler, J. Names of incor- T. Freeman, H. C. Harman. S. Stanfill, William Ellison, Sr., J. F. Snyder, R. Bird, and R. H. Early, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, created a body-corporate, with perpetual succession, with power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued; to acquire and hold personal and real estate, and sell the same when necessary for the advancement of the purpose of the corporation, and to be known as "The Cumberland River Bridge Company." § 2. The business of said company shall be the erecBusiness, class of tion and maintenance of a bridge for footmen and wagons across Cumberland river, from some point in the town of Williamsburg to opposite side of said river. Its principal place of business shall be at Williamsburg, Kentucky. Capital stock. Limit of indebtedness. § 3. The capital stock of said company shall be thirty-five thousand dollars, divided into fourteen hundred shares of twenty-five dollars each, which shall be issued as same may be needed, and subscribed and paid for at such times as the board of directors may prescribe; it may take in payment of stock any sort of real or personal property, and dispose of the same for the benefit of the company. § 4. The said company shall at no time owe a greater indebtedness than the amount of its capital |