Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-30
LEGISLATIVE NEWS.

Since our last report the following
bills have passed the Senate: To
adopt the new edition of the General
Statutes of Kentucky, edited and
published by Joshua +. Bnllitt and
John Feland in the year 1887 to reg.
ulate the distribution of estates con-
veyed to assignees for the benefit of
creditors: to allow Clerks of the
County Courts of this Common
wealth to employ ladies as deputies,
passed, then recommitted; to incor-
porate the Standard Club, of Owens
boro to grant license to ladies to sell
or peddle notions or jewelry in Muh-
lenberg county; to protect Light
house Stations of the Government in
this State on its navigable waters
to amend the charter of the town OF
Glasgow; TO amend the insurance
laws of the Commonwealth, giving
the insured the power to go in the
courts regardless of conditions stipu-
lated and imposed by companies; to
benefit j. j. White, late Sheriff of
Campbell county, also one for the
benefit of Il. NJ. White, late Sheriff of
same county; to create a special road
law for Grant county to incorporate
the Baptist church of Hartford, ohio
county. TO authorize greensboro to |
aid the Greensboro and Indiana
Bridge TO authorize Carroll county |
to prohibit stock from running al
large to amend the charter of Mays
vile; to authorize Fayette county to
aid the Jacks Creek Turnpike Road
TO prohibit the formation of trusts,
pools, syndicates and other combina-
tions in this Commonwealth; to in
corporate Lamasco, in Lyon county
TO authorize Bell county to vote on |
location of Jail and courthouse and |
cost of same to provide for the pun
ishing of petit larceny in Hickman
county; concerning the pay of guards
for removing prisoners from one
county 10 another; to incorporate the
town of Loves, in Graves county to
benefit p. II. Gupton, late Sheriff of
Ballard county; TO benefit Oscar
Mckenzie to define the boundary
lines between the counties of Butler
and Edmondson to provide for the
removal of the remains of the re-
mains of the Elder Humphrey Mar
shall to the State Cemetery at Frank
fort the change the boundary lines
between Taylor and Green counties I;
to amend the charter of Louisville ;
to keep certain turnpike roads in
Shelby county in repair; 10 provide
for vote on prohib on in Gsr.ard
county; to authorize Casey county to
vote on the sale of liquors; to reduce
into one the several acts relating to
Madisonville; to incorporate the
Manufacturing Establishment for the
Blind to incorporate the Maysvile
Fair Company and one to regulate
elections in Franklin county.
Bills as follows passed the House
since our last report: To provide
for the converting of the Branch Pen
itentiary at Eddyville, into reform
atory institution for police regula-
tions at Crittenden Springs; TO re-
peal an act entitled, "An act to pro-
hibit the sale Of intoxicating liquors
in the county of Muhlenberg" to reg
ulate the sale of spirituous liquors in
Trimble county to incorporate the
Bell County Building and Loan As,
ISOLATION to amend the charter of
the city of Bowling Green; to au-
thorize the voters of Trigg county to
vote at the August election next, on
the proposition as TO whether or not
spirituous or malt liquors, or any
mixtures thereof, shall be sold in said
county after said election; to prohibit
the sale of liquors in Boyle county ;
To incorporate the Kentucky and
West Virginia Bridge Company; TO
create the Office of Inspector of live
stock in the city of Louisville; to in
corporate the Peoples Lightning and
Fuel Company; TO incorporate the
National Institute at Madisonville /;
to incorporate the Mt. Olivet Bank (;
TO incorporate the Louisville Deposit
Bank; to incorporate the Bedford
Loan and Deposit Company to create
Board of Commissioners and Treas
urer for Knott county; to incorporate
the Bellevue and Cincinnati Tunnel
and Bridge Company to amend the
charter of the town of Arlington, in
Carlisle county; to incorporate the
town of McGee's Spring, in Carlisle
county to benefit Ruth Il. Smith, of
Wayne county; to incorporate the
Meadowthorpe Kennel to authorize
and empower the Town Marshall of
Eddyville, to execute certain process
and to take bail bonds; TO incorpo-
rate the Kentucky Development and
Contract Company to protect water
works companies in Fayette county
TO prohibit wife beating Ia this Com
monwealth, and prescribe the pun
ishment for such offenders; to incor-
porate the Boxville Male and Female
Seminary, of Union county to change
the time of hold the Bourbon county
Quarterly Court to amend the char
ter of the city of Hopkinsville; to
protect the privacy of telegraphic
messages to regulate the operation,
and provide for tho safety of steam
boilers and steam generating appa.
rstuses within CITY limits and one to
incorporate the Western Kentucky
Coal and improvement Company.