upon the office of Geological Survey and the Board of Forestry.

§ 2. That said commissioner shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars to be paid out of the State Treasury of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for his services, and his deputy shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars out of the State Treasury for his services.

§ 3. Said commissioner and his deputy shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the consent of the Senate for two years and from and after the expiration of this period they shall be appointed for a term of four years; they shall reside in Franklin county, and shall maintain the office of said commissioner in the State Capitol and they shall give their entire time to the duties of said office.

§ 4. Said commissioner and his deputy are hereby invested with the authority to and they shall discharge all the powers, duties and privileges now conferred by law on the State Geologist and the State Forester and said offices are hereby abolished.

5. Sub-section 30 of Section, 1905, c, Kentucky Statutes Carroll's Edition of 1915, providing an appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars for the use of the State Board of Forestry is hereby repealed.

6. The appropriation provided in Section 2007, b, Kentucky Statutes Carroll's Edition of 1915, shall be used for the work of the State Board of Forestry as well as that of the Geological Survey.

§ 7. All laws and parts of laws in conflict here with are hereby repealed.

Approved March 26, 1918.

CHAPTER 36.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 126 of the Acts of 1912. being Section 4758a of the Kentucky Statutes, entitled, “An Act to regulate the assignment, sale, pledge, mortgage and other transfer of wages to be earned or paid in the future where a whole or a part of the consideration therefor is a sum of money of less than $200.00," approved March 18, 1912.

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

That chapter 126 of the acts of 1912, being section 4758a of the statutes entitled, "An act to regulate the assignment, sale, pledge, mortgage and other transfer of wages to be earned or paid in the future where a whole or part of the consideration therefor is a sum of money of less than $200.00," be amended by striking out of section 2 thereof the following words, to-wit:

"Provided, however, that if notice of said assignment be given to said employer by delivering to him a copy of said instrument within three days after the date of the making thereof, the acceptance of said employer shall not be necessary to the validity of said instrument," so that said act, as amended, shall read as follows, to-wit:

Section 1. No assignment, sale, pledge, mortgage or other transfer of wages to be earned or paid in the future where the whole or a part of the consideration for said assignment, sale, pledge, mortgage or other transfer, is a sum of money of less than $200.00, shall be valid unless the instrument evidencing the same

(a) Be in writing subscribed by the assignor, and bear the true date of its signature by the assignor, and the true date of delivery of such sum of

money.

(b) Contain a true statement of the considera

tion, the amount of money advanced or paid, of the interest and all other fees and charges paid or agreed to be paid by the assignor and the time when said debt matures; and if said debt is to be paid in installments, the date of payment of each install

ment.

(c) The full name or names and address or addresses of the assignee, vendee, pledgee, or mortgagee; if a firm or partnership, the name of each member of the partnership; and in the case of a nonresident partnership or individual, and of a corporation, the name and address of some person in the state upon whom process may be served in any liti gation involving said instrument.

§ 2. No such instrument shall be valid against the employer of the person to whom such wages are payable unless and until said employer shall signify in writing upon said instrument his assent to said assignment, sale, pledge, mortgage or other transfer.

§ 3. No such instrument shall be valid against such wage earner unless a full, true, and complete copy thereof be delivered to the wage earner at or before the time of the payment of the consideration to him; nor shall any such instrument be valid. against any such such wage earner in any case where it shall appear that said copy was taken from his possession with or without his consent thereafter by the assignee, pledgee, vendee, or mortgagee, altered or or destroyed directly or indirectly by such assignee, vendee, pledgee, or mortgagee, or his agent, with or without the consent of said wage earner or his agent. Said assignee, vendee, pledgee or mortgagee shall upon demand furnish an exact copy of said instrument to said wage earner upon the payment of the sum of ten cents, and any false

statement made in such copy shall make the original instrument invalid against such wage earner. The time and amount of all payments made by such wage earner under the terms of such instrument shall be endorsed on said copy and on the original and shall be a part thereof; and a failure to so endorse such payments, if any thereon, shall make such instrument invalid.

4. No such assignment, sale, pledge, mortgage or transfer shall be valid or enforceable unless it be for a fixed and definite part of the wages earned or if wages to be earned during a period not exceeding ninety days immediately following the date of said instrument. Any such instrument which shall be dated any other date than that of its execution shall be void.

§ 5. National banks and all state banks and trust companies shall be exempt from the provisions of this act.

§ 6. The validity of any portion of this act shall not effect the validity of any other portion thereof, which can be given effect without such invalid parts. Approved March 26, 1918.

CHAPTER 37.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1456, 1457, 1459, 1462 and 1465 Kentucky Statutes (Carroll's Edition 1915), relating to elections, subhead how conducted, declaring who is an "absent voter," permitting him to register, and to vote in all general elections, except for municipal officers, members of school boards and trustees of common schools, and provid. ing a method therefor, and fixing penalties for a violation thereof.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com monwealth of Kentucky:

1. That Section 1456 of the Kentucky Statutes

(Carroll's Edition 1915), be amended by striking therefrom (a) the word "sixty" wherever it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof the words. "seventy-five", (b) the word "thirty" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "forty-five," and (c) the word "fifteen" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "forty-five," so that when said section is so amended it shall read as follows, viz:

"Sec. 1456. Certificates and Petitions to be Filed Before Election.-Certificates and petitions of nomination filed with the Secretary of State shall be filed not more than seventy-five days, and not less than forty-five days, before the day fixed by law, for the election of the person in nomination. Certificates and petitions of nomination herein directed to be filed with the clerk of a county shall be filed not more than seventy-five and not less than fortyfive days before election.'

2. That Section 1457 of said statutes be amended by striking therefrom the word "twenty" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "forty," so that when said section is so amended, it shall read as follows, viz:

"Sec. 1457. Secretary of State to Certify to County Clerks Names of Candidates-Vacancy in General Assembly.-Not less than forty days before the election of such officers as are required to file their certificate of nomination with the Secretary of State said Secretary of State shall certify to the respective county court clerks of the various counties which are entitled under the law to participate in the election of the respective candidates, the name and place of residence of each candidate for each respect office, as specified in the certificates and petitions of nomination filed with him, and shall designate therein, subject to the provisions of this