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An Act to amend an act, entitled, an act to incorporate the Lexington and Danville Railroad Company. 1851 497 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0700 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. § 4. This company shall be entitled to three hundred 1851. members, who shall be exempt from military duty, except in time of war. § 5. Said company shall have power to pass all such by- laws and ordinances for the government and management of said company, as may or shall be deemed necessary, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state. Approved December 27, 1851. CHAPTER 177. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, an act to incorporate the Lexington and Danville Railroad Company, approved March 5, 1850. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common. wealth. of Kentucky, That the Lexington and Danville rail- road company be and it is hereby authorized to indorse and assign the bonds of the county ot Fayette and of the coun- Hond o ey ty of Boyle, which may be issued to said company by the county courts of Fayette and Boyle county, and, also, any other bonds which may be issued to said company for stock subscribed, or which may be subscribed to the capital stock of said company, and, by the indorsement and assignment of said bonds, to bind the assets of said company, as by any other contract which said company might make under their charter. § 2. That being a tax payer in any county or town which Tax payer I has subscribed or shall subscribe stock in said company, county subscrib- shall not be regarded an interest in said company sufficient Ing gives no In- to disqualify any person from testifying as a witness, sitting terest as a juror, or performing any judicial function involving the interests or rights of said company, in condemning land for the right of way for said road, or acting upon any right, claim, or interest of said company. § 3. That the board of directors of said company may require the county court of any county through or into which it may be proposed to locate and construct said railroad, except the county court of Mercer, to submit to Vote to be sub- the legal voters of said county a proposition for said county mitted. to subscribe for stock in said railroad company to an amount not exceeding three per cent. of the taxable prop- erty in said county, said subscription to be made upon such conditions as said company may propose, in writing, to said court; and it shall be the duty of said county court to submit to the legal voters of said county, at such time as said company may designate, the question whether or not said county shall subscribe the sum proposed to be sub- scribed, according to the conditions which may be proposed by said company; the said court shall cause public notice of said election to be given to the voters of the county, and

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