er organization receiving any of the benefits of this act, shall fail or refuse to require such nurse to perform the duties herein imposed, the benefits of this act shall be withdrawn for not less than one nor more than two years, in the discretion of said board, and if such nurse fails or refuses, except in case of severe illness or disability, to perform the duties herein imposed, she shall be suspended without salary for three months. Provided, that in any period of twelve months the State Board of Health shall not require more than twenty days services for such war or emergency work. Approved March 26, 1918. CHAPTER 52. AN ACT abolishing the fellow servant rule of law and modifying the doctrine of contributory negligence and assumed risk between master and servant, in actions arising between common carriers and their employes in this State. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That every common carrier by railroad while engaged in commerce in this State shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or in case of the death of such employe, to his or her personal representative for such injury or death to such employe resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employes of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, docks, boats, wharves or other equipment. § 2. In all actions hereafter brought against any such common carrier by railroad, or by virtue of any of the provisions of this act to recover damages for personal injury to any employe, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employe may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employe: Provided that no such employe who may have been injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute, State or Federal enacted for the safety of employes contributed to the injury or death of such employe. § 3. That in any action brought against any common carrier by railroad under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this act to recover damages for injuries to, or the death of, any employe, such employe shall not be held to have assumed the risk of his employment in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute, State or Federal, enacted for the safety of employes contributed to the injury or death of such employe. Approved March 26, 1918. CHAPTER 53. AN ACT for the benefit of the Kentucky Illiteracy Commission, appropriating money thereto. Whereas, the 1910 census of the United States Census Bureau shows 208,084 illiterate men and women in the State of Kentucky, and the Kentucky Illiteracy Commission is reducing that number and attempting to confer upon all the benefits and privileges of education, and Whereas, the work of said commission is greatly handicapped by lack of funds; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That there be and is hereby appropriated to the Kentucky Illiteracy Commission the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars annually, until June 30th, 1920, and on or before June 30th, 1918-June 30th, 1919, and June 30th, 1920, the Auditor of the Commonwealth is directed to draw his warrants for said sum above annually appropriated, upon vouchers or warrants signed by the chairman and secretary of said commission. § 2. The fund thus appropriated shall be expended for County Field Agents, clerical help and other legitimate expenses as may, in the judgment and discretion of the commission be necessary in the efficient and economic methods of teaching illiterate men and women. Provided, however, that no part of the money herein appropriated shall be applied or be used to pay a salary, or any part of a salary, to any member of the Kentucky Illiteracy Commission. 3. The Commission shall have the power to appoint county field agents in as many of the counties of the Commonwealth as it may deem proper for the purposes of furthering its work. It shall be the duty of such field agents so appointed to aid and assist the commission in carrying out the purposes of this Act and its general purposes; to do any and all things directed to be done by said commission, and in addition to lend aid and assistance to county superintendents, school boards and trustees in increasing the attendance of pupil children in and upon the common schools of the State, at all times, however, acting under the direction and supervision of the said Illiteracy Commission. 4. That the title President of the Illiteracy Commission be amended to read Chairman of the Illiteracy Commission. § 5. On July 1, 1920, this commission shall cease to exist. Approved March 26, 1918. CHAPTER 54. AN ACT to provide for the commitment, care, treatment, training, segregation and custody of feeble-minded, epileptic and insane persons; to provide an appropriation therefor and to repeal all acts inconsistent herewith, and specifically Sections 264 to 271 inclusive of the Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition of 1915, which concern the Kentucky Institute for the Feeble-Minded Children, and Sections 2156 to 2171 inclusive, of the Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition of 1915, which concern idiots and lunatics, and to provide penalties for the violation of this act. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. Definitions.-The term "feeble-minded person" means a person with a defect in mental development, which is due to causes operating at birth, or at an early age, and which is of such a degree that he is incapable therefrom of caring for himself or managing his affairs and requires supervision, care, training, control or custody for his own welfare or for the welfare of others or the community. The term "epileptic person" means a person who has epileptic attacks and is known to be losing his mental capacity as a result of these attacks, and is so distinctly enfeebled that he needs care and custody for his own welfare, or for the welfare of others, or for the community. The term "Board of Control" means the State Board of Control of Charitable Institutions. The farm provided for by this act shall be known as "The Farm Colony for the Feeble-Minded," and the present institution in Frankfort for the feeble minded shall be known as "The Training School for the Feeble-Minded," and the colony and training school shall be known collectively as "The State Institution for the Feeble-Minded." § 2. Home and Farm Colony for Feeble-Minded. -There shall be established and maintained a training school for feeble-minded and epileptic persons. There shall also be established and maintained a farm colony for the feeble-minded and epileptic persons to be located on land suitable, or which may be made suitable for farming, stock raising and fruit growing, and equipped with dormitories and other buildings sufficient to accommodate at least five hundred inmates, the farm colony to be conducted as a part of the training school and under the general supervision of the superintendent with the approval of the Board of Control. The Farm Colony shall be located in the same county or in a county adjoining that in which the training school is located. 3. Objects and Purposes.-The object and purpose of said State institutions for feeble-minded and epileptic persons shall be the mental and physical training, the treatment and custody of feeble-minded and epileptic persons, the promotion of their happiness and well-being and the study of mental deficiency; and such institutions shall have all rights and powers which may be necessary and proper for carrying out the purpose for which they are established. § 4. Management of Institutions.-The Kentucky State Board of Control for Charitable Institutions shall have the management and control of the State institution for the feeble-minded and epileptic and shall appoint the superintendent for such institution. § 5. Superintendent-Qualifications.-The su |