town marshal or policeman of the county in which the offence is committed, and such conductor or agent shall give to the court or authority to whom they may turn over such person arrested, such description by name or otherwise as will enable the court to identify the offender, also give the offence; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the court or officer to whom such prisoner is delivered, to deal with such offender as in any other violations of law within their jurisdiction; and it shall be the duty of such officer or court to whom any offender arrested by any conductor or agent is delivered, to prosecute said offender in the manner provided by law. If any such officer to whom shall be delivered the offender by any railway conductor or agent, shall wilfully or negligently refuse to prosecute said offender, he shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100 for each offence and shall forfeit his office; and it shall be the further duty of such railway conductor or agent arresting the offender to give information of the failure of any delinquent officer.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 86.

AN ACT authorizing Fraternal Benefit Societies to issue certificates for the payment of sick, death or annuity benefits upon the lives of children.

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

$ 1. Any fraternal benefit society authorized to do business in this State and operating on the lodge plan, may provide in its constitution and bylaws, in addition to other benefits provided for therein, "for the payment of sick, death or annuity ben

efits upon lives of children between the ages of one and eighteen years who have been examined and approved in accordance with the laws of such society." Any such society may at its option, organize and operate branches for such children and membership in local lodges and initiation therein shall not be required of such children, nor shall they have any voice in the management of the society. The total benefits payable as above provided shall in no case exceed the following amounts at ages at next birthday at time of death, respectively, as follows: Two, thirty-four dollars; three, forty dollars; four, forty-eight dollars; five, fifty-eight dollars; six, one hundred and forty dollars; seven, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars; eight, two hundred dollars; nine, two hundred and forty dollars; ten, three hundred dollars; eleven, three hundred and eighty dollars; twelve, four hundred and sixty dollars; thirteen to fifteen, five hundred and twenty dollars; and sixteen to eighteen years, where not otherwise authorized by law, six hundred dollars.

§ 2. No benefit certificate as to any child shall take effect until after medical examination or inspection by a licensed medical practitioner in accordance with the laws of the society, nor shall any such benefit certificate be issued unless the society shall simultaneously put in force at least five hundred such certificates, on each of which at least one assessment has been paid, nor where the number of lives represented by such certificate falls below five hundred. The death benefit contributions to be made upon such certificate shall be based upon the "Standard Industrial Mortality Table," or the "English Life Table Number Six" and a rate of interest not greater than four per cent. per annum, or upon a higher standard; provided that contributions.

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may be waived or returns may be made from any surplus held in excess of reserve and other liabilities, as provided in the by-laws, and, provided further that extra contributions shall be made if the reserves hereafter provided for become impaired.

3. Any society entering into such insurance agreements shall maintain on all such contracts the reserve required by the standard of mortality and interest adopted by the society for computing contributions as provided in Section 2, and the funds representing the benefit contributions and all accretions thereon shall be kept as separate and distinct funds, independent of the other funds of the society, and shall not be liable for nor used for the payment of the debts and obligations of the society other then the benefits herein authorized; provided, that a society may provide that when a child reaches the minimum age for iniation into membership in such society, any benefit certificate issued hereunder may be surrendered for cancellation and exchanged for any other form of certificate issued by the society, provided that such surrender will not reduce the number of lives insured in the branch below five hundred, and upon the issuance of such new certificate any reserve upon the original certificate herein provided for shall be transferred to the credit of the new certificate. Neither the person who originally made application for benefits on account of such child, nor the beneficiary named in such original certificate, nor the person who paid the contributions, shall have any vested right in such new certificate, the free nomination of a beneficiary under the new certificate being left to the child so admitted to benefit membership.

4. An entirely separate financial statement of the business transactions and of assets and liabili

ties arising therefrom shall be made in its annual report to the Insurance Commissioner by any society availing itself of the provisions hereof. The separation of assets, funds and liabilities required hereby shall not be terminated, rescinded or modified, nor shall the funds be divested for any use other than as specified in Section 3, as long as any certificates issued hereunder remain in force, and this requirement shall be recognized and enforced in any liquidation, reinsurance, merger or other change in the condition of the status of the society.

§ 5. Any society shall have the right to provide in its laws and the certificate issued hereunder for specified payments on account of the expense or general fund, which payments shall or shall not be mingled with the general fund of the society as its constitution and by-laws may provide.

$6. 6. In the event of the termination of membership in the society by the person responsible for the support of any child, on whose account a certificate may have been issued, as provided herein, the certificate may be continued for the benefit of the estate of the child, provided the contributions are continued, or for the benefit of any other person responsible for the support and maintenance of such child, who shall assume the payment of the required contributions.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT empowering owners of farms to name them, and providing for the registering thereof; and preventing the use of the registered name for any farm, other than the one registered.

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

Owner of Farm May Register Name of Same. -Any farm owner in this State may, upon the payment of one dollar to the Commissioner of Agriculture, have the name of his farm duly recorded in a register which said Commissioner shall keep for such purpose; and shall be furnished by said Commissioner a certificate, issued under seal, and setting forth the name and location of the farm and the name of the owner: Provided That when any name shall have been recorded as the name of any farm, such name shall not be recorded as the name of any other farm in the State.

§ 2. The funds secured under this act shall be applied by the Commissioner of Agriculture in the furtherance of and in maintaining the Agricultural Department of the State.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 88.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section 3523 of Carroll's Edition of the Kentucky Statutes.

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

§ 1. That Section 3523 of the Kentucky Statutes be and the same is hereby amended by striking therefrom in the third line thereof and immediately after the word "jurisdiction," the following words "and for the trial of civil cases there shall be a monthly term, to be held on the first Tuesday of each month, and continue as many days as the business may require," and by inserting in lieu thereof the following words "both civil and criminal,"

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