LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 89 CHAPTER 33. AN ACT to authorize cities of the second class to acquire parts of turnpike roads lying within the corporate limits of such cities. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Turnpike road street of city. § 1. That all cities of the second class are hereby authorized and empowered to contract with any person, company or corporation owning or controlling any turnpike road in this Commonwealth for the surrender and transfer to any such city of so much of or any part of any turnpike road as may be within to become the limits of such city; and when a contract for such surrender or transfer is ratified by the legislative boards of such city, then the part of such turnpike road embraced in such surrender or transfer shall become and be a public highway and street of such city, and shall thereafter be held, controlled and used as other streets. § 2. If any such city and the person, company, or corporation owning or controlling such turnpike road, cannot agree upon the terms of surrender or transfer of such part of such turnpike road, then power and authority are hereby conferred upon such city to acquire the part of, or any part of, such turn- Condemnation pike road within the corporate limits of such city by proceedings in condemnation in manner and form as such city is now by law authorized to acquire other property for street and highway purposes. proceedings. § 3. Because the acquisition of parts of turnpike roads within cities is necessary, there is an emer- clause. Emergency gency that this act take immediate effect, and this act shall take effect upon its approval by the Gov ernor. Approved March 15, 1898. Amendment of 1891-2-3. K. S. Chap. 89, public. CHAPTER 34. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for the government of cities of the first class," approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the mayor, with the consent of the genChap. 244, Acts eral council may by contract enter into an arrangement for a period not exceeding five years, and renew the same from time to time thereafter, with the association or corporation owning or controlling an existing library in any such city, which contains not less than fifty thousand volumes, to the end that such library shall be free and open to the public, and all persons residing or sojourning in any such city, at all reasonable times and under proper and Library to be reasonable regulations (except that it may be closed on Sunday, if deemed proper by such association or corporation). In said contract it shall be provided that such library shall, during the period thereby covered, be open and free to the general public as aforesaid, the uses, privileges and facilities, thereof, subject to the reasonable and proper direction and regulation of its governing body, being equal and free to all persons applying therefor; that it shall be non-sectarian and be so conducted, and its reading room or rooms, and its circulating department shall be maintained free and open to the general public. library uses. § 2. As consideration for such public use, such city shall annually in its annual ordinance fixing the tax rate, include a levy for library purposes not exceeding two cents on each one hundred dollars Tax levy for worth of property assessed for taxation for city purposes, and the amount levied as above shall annually be passed to the credit of the library fund upon the books of said city, and the said amounts as collected shall be paid over to the association or corporation aforesaid, by the treasurer in regular weekly installments, the first payment to be made within one week after the collection of the said amount shall have been commenced, and the other payments to be made weekly thereafter in current money by the said treasurer as collected; all money so received by such association or corporation shall be used in conducting and maintaining said library for the public purposes aforesaid and for none other. Said corporation or association shall annually, in the month of September, make a report to the mayor, showing statistics covering the attendance at, and the use of the books of the library, the receipts and expenditures of all moneys handled by it during the year, and such other information as may bear upon the usefulness of said library to the public. Annual report to Sec. 196, 1891-2-3. 1014. § 3. That section one hundred and ninety-six, Amendment chapter two hundred and forty-four, acts eighteen Chap 244, Acts hundred and ninety-one-two-three, an act entitled, K. S. Chap; 89, "An act for the government of cities of the first Sec. 2981, Page class," approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be amended by inserting before the words "and deficit tax," in lines ten and eleven thereof the following words; "A levy for library Section as amended. purposes;" so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: In the ordinance fixing for any year the tax rate the general council shall subdivide its levy as follows: A levy for schools, a levy for the sinking fund, a levy for police purposes, a levy for the fire department, a levy for street and sewer cleaning, a levy for sprinkling streets, a levy for the reconstruction of streets, a levy for street repairs, a levy for construction and repair of sewers, a levy for the House of Refuge, a levy for charitable institutions, a levy for parks, a levy for general purposes, a levy for library purposes, and a deficit tax. The general council may omit any of the foregoing levies when not demanded by the public "interests". Approved March 15, 1898. Per capita appropriation. CHAPTER 35. AN ACT to provide for the operating expenses of the House of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That there is now and hereby appropriated for the maintenance of the house of Reform the sum of seventy-five dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, per annum, for each inmate in such house, or houses of Reform, and it is now made the duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts to draw his warrant on the Treasury quarterly for such amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, upon the report of the president of the board of trustees of the House of Reform, when approved by the Governor, as herein provided. report. § 2: It shall be the duty of the president of the Quarterly board of trustees of the House of Reform, to make quarterly written reports, showing the number of inmates in such house, or Houses of Reform, received since the last report, the number discharged, the total number confined, and the time each has been detained since the last report, and the amount necessary to maintain such inmates after deducting such receipts from the proceeds of the labor of the inmates as herein after provided, and such report, when approved by the Governor, shall authorize and require the Auditor of Public Accounts to draw his warrant on the Treasury as provided in Section one herein. propriation. $ 3. In addition to the amount herein appro- xpense appriated, there is now and hereby appropriated the further sum of five thousand dollars payable quarterly on the warrant of the Auditor to provide for the expenses of the said institution; Provided, That only so much of said sum shall be necessary for the payment of such subordinate officers, agents and employees, shall be drawn from the Treasury for that purpose, which amount shall be determined by the board of Trustees and approved by the Gov ernor. § 4. It shall be the duty of the board of Trustees Inmates to be employed, etc. of the Houses of Reform, so far as the same can be done consistently with the purpose of the Act establishing the Houses of Reform, to employ the inmates in useful labor, and the proceeds of such labor shall be used by them in reducing the expenses of such institutions. |