in determining the amount for which such license shall be issued."

§ 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 3. Inasmuch as there is great uncertainty and confusion in the license laws of cities of the first class, and it is highly important that the same should cease to exist, so that said cities may at once collect revenue by way of license, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall take effect from and after its approval by the Governor.

Approved March 14th, 1898.

CHAPTER 15.

AN ACT concerning the employes and servants in mining work or industry in this Commonwealth.

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

§ 1. That all persons, associations, companies and corporations employing the service of ten or more persons in any mining work or mining industry in this Commonwealth, shall on or before the sixteenth day of each month pay for the month previous such servant or employes on his or their order in lawful money of the United States the full amount of wages due such servant or employes rendering such services. But if such person, corporation or company, after using due diligence, is unable to make said

payment as above required he or it shall within fifteen days thereafter make out a payroll and statement of amount due each employe and also a due bill for said sum bearing interest from said sixteenth day of the month, and deliver same to each of said employes.

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, association company, or corporation employing others, as described in section one, either directly or indirectly, to coerce or require any such servant or employe to deal with or purchase any article of food, clothing or merchandise of any kind whatever, from any person, association, corporation or company, or at any place or store whatever. And it shall be unlawful for any of such employers as described in the first section to exclude from work, or to punish or blacklist any of said employes for failure to deal with any other or to purchase any article of food, clothing or merchandise whatever from any other or at any place or store whatever.

§ 3. Any person or persons, company or corporation described in the first section that shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and the doing or failure to do any act or thing required by this act shall constitute a separate offense.

Received by the Governor March 2, 1898.

Became a law at the expiration of ten days without the Governor's approval.

CHAPTER 16.

AN ACT Providing for a Custodian of Public Buildings, for the Capitol, its wings, and the Governor's mansion, and grounds thereof, defining his duties and fixing his salary.

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

§ 1. That a custodian for public buildings for the capitol building and its wings, and the Governor's mansion shall be elected by the Judges of the Court of Appeals as soon as this act shall go into effect, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

duties.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the custodian of public Custodian's. buildings to take full charge of the public buildings named in this act and the grounds thereof, and to have same kept in perfect repair, and in a clean and presentable condition. He shall employ the porters, and such other labor as is necessary to accomplish this and shall fix their salaries and see that they discharge their duties; Provided, That the total amount expended for such services, including the salary of the custodian, shall not exceed twentyfive hundred dollars for each year. He shall at the end of each month, make out a pay roll, giving names of the laborers, porters or others employed by him, the length of time they worked, and the compensation to which they are entitled, and shall file same with the Auditor, and upon this the Auditor shall draw his warrant for the amount due each such employee.

§ 3. The Custodian shall contract for all the lights and fuel used in the buildings over which he has

Keep books.

Report.

Salary.

supervision, for the water used therein and upon the grounds. He shall have charge of the furniture and fixtures of all the offices, see that they are kept in repair and upon the order of the head of a department and approval of the Governor, if such shall be necessary, shall purchase such new furniture or fixtures as may be necessary, for the full discharge of their official duties. He shall with consent of the Governor dispose of all old, disused, discarded furniture or fixtures to the best advantage possible, and shall turn over the receipts therefor to the Auditor of Public Accounts, stating what said receipts were for, and taking the Auditor's receipt for same.

§ 4. The Custodian shall keep a complete set of books, wherein he shall keep a record of all expenditures authorized by him, charging each department with the amount of expenditures incurred therefor. He shall also keep a record of the amounts authorized to be paid by him, the person to whom said amount was paid, and the purpose for which it paid. All amounts paid out for repairs of any kind upon the buildings shall be charged to the account of public buildings.

§ 5. He shall annually report to the Court of Appeals the amount total he has authorized to be spent, to whom it was chargeable, and for what expended, and every two years he shall make a similar report to the Legislature.

§ 6. He shall receive for his compensation the sum of twelve hundred dollars per year, payable monthly, and at the end of each month the Auditor shall draw his warrant in his favor for the amount

due for that month. He shall give bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties, which bond shall be approved by the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals and two other Judges.

§ 7. He shall have charge and supervision of all the janitors and porters of the Court of Appeals, and all acts or parts of acts in conflict with any of the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Became a law without the Governor's approval, he having failed to sign or return it to the House in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution.

CHAPTER 17.

AN ACT to amend section six, article one, chapter two hundred and ten, concerning juries and entitled "Juries," approved May twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and to re-enact said section as herein amended.

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

Acts 1891,

That section six, article one, chapter two hundred and ten of an act entitled an act concerning juries and entitled juries approved May twenty second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be, and the age 955. same is hereby amended by striking out the word "ten" from said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twenty." Said section as amended, is hereby re-enacted and shall read on the whole as follows: Section Six. Within twenty days of the date of to which said grand and petit jurors are to be summoned, the clerk shall open the