purpose, and reserves the right to alter, amend or repeal this charter.

11. This act shall take effect and be in force from

and after its passage.

Approved April 2, 1890.

CHAPTER 490.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Augusta and Berlin Turnpike Road Company, in Bracken county," approved March sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

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

1. That an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Angusta and Berlin Turnpike Road Company, in Bracken county," be, and the same is hereby, amended, by adding thereto the following, namely: “The said Augusta and Berlin Turnpike Road Company may, whenever the convenience or safety of the traveling public require it, change the location of any part of their road leading from Augusta to Berlin, in Bracken county; and if said company can not agree with the owner or owners of land over which any proposed change in the location of said. road is to be conducted as to the damages such owner or owners will sustain by reason of the proposed change, said Augusta and Berlin Turnpike Road Company may, by application and proceedings in the county court of the county in which the land lies over which a proposed change is to be conducted, as provided in chapter ninety-four (94) of the General Statutes of the State of Kentucky, in case of an application to the county court to alter a public road, condemn land for a right of way of any width, not exceeding sixty feet, for the proposed change in their said road.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 2, 1890.

CHAPTER 491.

AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the town of Pleasureville, in Henry county, approved twenty-second March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and to enlarge and define the boundary of said town, and establish a police court therein, and so forth.

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WHEREAS, The town was incorporated by an act of the Legislature, and there being grave doubts as to the county court's authority to appoint officers; and as the trustees, with two exceptions, appointed for said town by act Legislature approved thousand eight hundred and eighty -, have died and moved out of said town, and the authorities have failed or neglected to hold any election for trustees, and the town is now without trustees or officers; therefore,

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

§ 1. That W. V. Shivell, S. W. Mays, J. E. Jacoby, J. W. Ellis and John T. Long be, and they are hereby, appointed trustees for said town; and they shall take an oath before a justice of the peace, or some other person authorized to administer an oath, before they shall act, and they shall hold office until the next regular election for town officers, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified; and if, from any cause, any one of the aforesaid officers should fail or refuse, from any cause, to qualify or act, the remaining ones who do shall appoint some one to fill the vacancy until the next regular election, and until his or their successor is duly elected and qualified. Said board of trustees shall consist of five.

§ 2. That William Dunavant, Esquire, is hereby appointed police judge, who shall be commissioned as such by the Governor, and take an oath required by law, and shall hold his office until the next regular election, and until his successor is duly elected and qualified. J. W. McKendrick is appointed marshal,

who shall execute bond and take an oath as is now required of constables, and shall hold his office until the next regular election, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

3. That the boundary of the town be, and the same is hereby, defined and enlarged as follows, to wit: Beginning at Lycurgus Smith's, including his place; thence to the toll-gate house on the Pleasureville, Bethlehem and Kentucky River Turnpike, including it; thence to Thomas Shuck's, on the Pleasureville and Sweet Home Turnpike, not to include him; thence to the bridge or culvert on the turnpike road leading from Pleasureville depot to Pleasureville (this culvert is near the school-house); thence to Lycurgus Smith's, the place of beginning, shall be hereafter known as the true boundary of said town.

§ 4. That at the next election held in said town under their charter, all persons living in said town at that time, and are twenty-one years old, shall have the right to vote for town officers of said town.

§ 5. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and all orders, if any, made by the Henry County Court attempting to appoint trustees for this town, is now held to be nugatory and void, and of no force and effect.

§ 6. That this act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 2, 1890.

CHAPTER 492.

AN ACT to incorporate the Gibson Lodge, number five hundred and fifty-three, of Free and Accepted Masons.

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

1. That W. B. Eversole, T. S. Ward, J. H. Blackburn, J. S. Bailey and H. L. Howard, and their suc69-LOCAL LAWS, VOL. 1.

cessors in office, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body-corporate, under the name and style of the Gibson Lodge, number five hundred and fifty-three, of Free and Accepted Måsons; and that the officers and members of said lodge, and their successors in office, shall have perpetual succession; and by the name and style aforesaid are hereby made capable in law to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to answer and be answered, in all the courts of law and equity in this State or elsewhere; to make and have and use a common seal, and to break, alter, amend or change the same at the pleasure of said lodge.

2. The five above-named members shall constitute the officers of this corporation to transact the business and affairs of the corporation until the regular election of the officers of said lodge in December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, at which time the members of the lodge shall proceed to elect officers to transact the business of this lodge and carry out the object of this corporation, who shall hold their office for one year from date of election. The time of holding elections and term of office may be changed at the pleasure of the members of the lodge. The lodge may adopt the same rules and by-laws for the government of such election and terms of office as are now enforced in said lodge for the government of other officers of the lodge.

§ 3. Said corporation shall have the right to take and hold, by purchase, gift, or devise, any real or personal estate, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in value, and may dispose of same in such way and manner as it pleases: Provided, That said lodge shall not hold any real estate which it may acquire, except for lodge purposes, for a greater length of time than five years.

§ 4. The members of said lodge shall prescribe the rules and regulations of the corporate officers, whose

duty it shall be to carry out the designs of the lodge and the objects of this corporation.

5. A majority of the corporate officers shall constitute a quorum to do and transact the business of the corporation; and they shall have power to pass such by laws, rules and regulations, for their government, and for the controlling, improving and management and safe-keeping of the property and interest of the lodge as are not inconsistent with the prescribed rules, by-laws and regulations of the lodge or the laws of the United States or the State of Kentucky. § 6. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved April 2, 1890.

CHAPTER 493.

AN ACT for the benefit of common school district number twentythree, in Livingston county, Kentucky.

WHEREAS, The trustees of common school district number twenty-three, in Livingston county, Kentucky, have had a school-house erected for said district, under the common school law of this Commonwealth, but which has not been paid for by about fourteen hundred dollars, owing to the insufficiency of the revenue arising from the taxation as now fixed by the common school law; therefore,

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

§ 1. That the trustees of common school district number twenty three, in Livingston county, Kentucky, be, and they are hereby, empowered and authorized to levy and assess an ad valorem tax of not exceeding one dollar on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in said district, and a polltax not exceeding two dollars on each poll in said district, for the purpose of discharging the unpaid balance on the school building for said district.