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cause to be delivered, to the person owing the taxes, and to the person owing him, anywhere they may be found, written notice, in substance as follows:

"Mr. A. B.: The taxes due by C. D. to the town of Owingsville, amounting to the sum of dollars and

cents; to that extent you are notified not to pay or deliver to him any money or property which you now are or may hereafter be indebted to him, and to appear before the police judge of Owingsville on the day of one thousand eight hundred and to show cause why you should not be adjudged to pay said taxes. This day of

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Which notice shall be served five days before it Publication of can be heard. Which notice shall be signed by the marshal or collector, or other person having said taxes for collection, and shall operate to enjoin the persons named in it from paying the amount mentioned in the notice-money, property or other thing of value-owing at the time of the service of the notice, or accruing thereafter, until the matter is heard by the said police judge. On the hearing by the police judge, the debtor of the delinquent shall be compelled to disclose all matters in relation thereto, and which proceeding shall then be heard and determined by said judge under the general law applicable to attachment action in civil cases: Provided, however, That the delinquent shall not be entitled to any exemptions; which proceeding shall be docketed in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for the use of the town of Owingsville.

§ 2. That said article six be further amended by adding to the end of section nine thereof these words: "That all sidewalks in said town caused to be made or repaired by the council under said section nine of said article sixth, shall be well curbed with stone and made of good hard brick, and those in front of or binding on property used for business purposes shall

Repair sidewalks.

be not less than nine feet wide; all other sidewalks so
made shall be well curbed with stone, and made of
hard brick, not less than six feet wide, and that the
costs of said repairs and the costs of construction of
said sidewalks, when caused to be made by the coun-
cil, shall be a lien on the property, which lien shall be
enforced as a mortgage lien by proper proceedings in
the Bath Circuit Court or Bath Common Pleas Court,
in which proceedings a sale of said property, or suffi-
cient thereof, may be sold or rented out to pay the
cost of the suit and the cost of the construction of said
sidewalks, together with ten per cent. thereon."
§ 3. That this act shall be in force and effect from
its passage.

Approved February 25, 1890.

CHAPTER 240.

AN ACT to incorporate the board of trustees of the Kentucky Univer salist Convention.

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

§ 1. That Frank Teague, G. G. Clark, S. L. Grady, Incorporators. H. C. Knox, John P. Prowse and B. F. Ligon, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby, appointed and created a body-politic and corporate, by the name of the "Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Universalist Convention," and by that name shall have perpetual succession; may have and use a common seal, and may change the same at discretion; and may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall have all rights and powers of religious corporations, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State and the Constitution and laws of the United States of America.

Board of trustees.

§ 2. That the said persons above-named shall constitute the board of trustees for said convention.

until the regular election for trustees under the rules and regulations of said convention; and their successors shall be elected as required by said rules and usages, and by the laws and discipline of the same. A majority of the said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall elect from their number a chairman, who shall vote only in case of a tie; and the secretary of the said State convention shall be also the secretary of the said board of trustees. They shall keep a record, which shall at all times be open to the inspection of the officers and members of the said State convention.

board.

§ 3. The said board of trustees shall have full power Powers of to take by gift, purchase, devise, bequest, release, assignment or otherwise, any real or personal estate or property; and the legal title to such property now so owned or held for the use of the said State convention shall vest in the. said board of trustees, and they shall own and control all property so as aforesaid received or acquired, and now own or hold as aforesaid for the use and benefit of the said State convention, and in connection with the general convention of Universalists of the United States, and according to the discipline thereof.

4. The said board of trustees are hereby authorized and empowered, upon the advice and by the consent of the said State convention, held according to the usages and discipline of the said convention and the said general convention, or under such usages, rules or discipline as may be hereafter established by them for such purpose; to sell, exchange and convey any such property as is herein before provided for. And they are further empowered and authorized, under like conditions and restrictions, to pledge, mortgage or encumber any other property so held by said State convention for its use and benefit; but nothing herein contained is intended to permit the said board of trustees to divert any funds held by

said State convention for any special use or trust; but they are required to see to the faithful application to the purposes for which they may have been created.

§ 5. All deeds, mortgages, contracts, pleadings, and every other instrument of writing necessary to be executed by the said board of trustees, shall be signed by the chairman and attested by the secretary, and delivered and acknowledged by them as such; and such instruments so executed, attested, acknowledged and delivered shall be binding upon, and shall pass any title of the said board of trustees or State convention according to the tenor of such instrument of writing. § 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from its passage.

Approved February 25, 1890.

CHAPTER 241.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the town of Catlettsburg, Boyd

county.

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

§ 1. That the police judge of the town of Catlettsburg, in addition to the jurisdiction heretofore conferred upon him, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the quarterly court of Boyd county in civil cases within the corporate limits of the town of Catlettsburg, and within magisterial districts numbers six and seven, which two districts are partly located within the corporate limits of said town, where the amount in controversy does not exceed two hundred dollars; and the Civil Code of Practice regulating proceedings in the quarterly courts shall govern the said police judge in cases arising under this section; and the police judge shall have the same fees as are given judges of the quarterly courts in similar cases. § 2. That the police judge of the town of Catletts

burg shall have concurrent jurisdiction as justices of the peace now have with the circuit court in prosecution of offenses, the punishment of which is limited to one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding fifty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, and in all cases of riots, routs, breaches of the peace, affray and unlawful assemblies.

$3. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 25, 1890.

CHAPTER 243.

AN ACT to authorize the Pendleton County Court to borrow money in aid of building turnpike roads and provide a sinking fund therefor.

WHEREAS, The county court of Pendleton county has heretofore, under authority granted it by the Kentucky Legislature, issued its bonds for turnpike purposes, seven thousand five hundred dollars of which falls due July sixth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and also has outstanding turnpike orders amounting to about sixteen thousand dollars, and is in need of more funds to build turnpike roads in said county; therefore,

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

§ 1. That the county court of Pendleton county, when the county judge and a majority of the justices of the peace in commission are present, may issue the bonds of said county in an amount sufficient to pay off said bonds falling due July sixth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and said turnpike orders, and for further construction of turnpike roads in said county. The sum of money to be raised under this act shall not exceed forty thousand dollars.

Issue bonds.

§ 2. Said bonds shall be payable at the Bank When payable. of America in New York City, New York, or the

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