an emergency exists and his estimate of the cost of the work does not exceed $250.00. In such case the business director may proceed, without action by the board, to do such work directly, or by contract made for the board by him. If in such case he proceed by contract he may award the contract without plans or specifications and without solicitation of bids. In every case coming under this paragraph (c) the business director must report in writing his action to the next regular meeting of the board, and he must state in the writing the cost of the work and his reasons for considering that an emergency existed. (d) Where work is to be done by contract no bid shall be entertained which does not comply with the specifications and with the terms of the letting. (e) The board may withdraw or restrict to such extent as it deems proper any authority by this section conferred upon the business director to do work either by contract or directly. § 2. That Section 20 of said act be amended by striking out the words "fifty" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "one hundred" so that said section as amended shall read as follows: Section 20. The board shall, at or prior to the beginning of each fiscal year, cause advertisements to be made under such regulations as it may provide for proposals for furnishing the supplies required in the schools and by the board in the ensuing year; and every contract therefor shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder complying with the terms of the letting: Provided, however, that said board shall have and reserve the right to reject all bids. If other supplies are required during the year, they shall be furnished under contracts awarded in like manner; but the board may authorize the purchase of supplies not exceeding one hundred dollars in amount without letting or contract. The board shall make distribution of supplies through such agencies and in such manner as it deems proper. Neither approved nor disapproved. CHAPTER 99. AN ACT to provide for the opening of private passways. § 1. Places to Which May Be Opened-Appointment of Commissioners-Report. Whenever it shall appear to a county court that it is necessary for a citizen to have a private passway over the land of one or more persons in the county to enable him to attend courts, elections a meeting-house, a mill, a warehouse (a regular steamboat landing), ferry or railroad depot, most convenient to his residence, the court shall appoint commissioners as in case of a road, who, being first sworn to discharge their duties faithfully and impartially, shall go upon the lands of the person through which the passway is proposed, whether arable or not, and shall report, in writing, to the court whether or not a private passway is necessary to the applicant for the purposes aforesaid; and if favorable to the passway, they shall in their report, designate the exact route for the same by metes and bounds course and distance, and the width thereof, which, in no case, shall exceed twenty feet, and they shall determine and assess which will be a just compensation to each. owner and tenant, if any, for the land proposed to be taken for a passway, in the same manner as upon an application to open and establish a new road. § 2. Notice of Application to Owner. The applicant for commissioners shall give the person through whose land the passway is proposed ten days' previous notice of the intended application. $ 3. Report of Commissioners-Copy to Be Given Owner. The commissioners shall make out a report of their proceedings, and sign the same, and, at least ten days before the court is required to act, deliver a copy thereof to the proprietor, and tenants, if any, of the lands over which the proposed passway is to run. § 4. Trial of Application. When the report of the commission is returned to the court, it shall proceed to establish the passway, or refuse the same as in the case of a road. $ 5. Damages Paid by Applicant Before Road Opened. No passway shall be established without the consent of the owners, until compensation and damages to the owner and tenants, if any, of the land shall be assessed, as in case of a public road, which compensation and damages, and the cost of the whole proceeding, shall be paid by the applicant before the passway shall be established. § 6. Gates to Be Erected and Maintained by $ Applicant. Any gates that shall become necessary by the establishment of a passway shall be erected and kept up at the expense of the applicant for the passway. § 7. Obstructing Passway-Penalty. Any person who shall put any obstructions in a passway, or shall prop open, pull down, injure, or leave open a gate erected across the same, shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars, recoverable by warrant in the name of the Commonwealth, the fine to be laid out in repairing the passway or gate. 8. Change of Passway-How Effected. When the proprietor of lands over which a passway may be established shall wish to change the same, he shall give the applicant for the passway ten days' previous notice, and may, thereupon, apply to the county court; and the court shall appoint commissioners to view the proposed change, who shall be sworn as on original applications, and shall go on the grounds and report the conveniences and inconveniences of making the change. Upon the return the court shall, as may seem proper, make the proposed change or not. But before such change shall take effect the proprietor shall open the new route, and remove and put up the gates across the same, at his own expense, and pay the other costs of procedure. § 9. Discontinuance of-Places Not to be Opened— Appeal. Passways may be discontinued by court in the same manner as roads. The law regulating appeals in road cases shall apply to and govern proceedings concerning passways. No passway shall be established through any town lot, burying ground, buildings or yard (or grounds of any charitable institution of this Commonwealth), without the consent of the owner. Neither approved nor disapproved. CHAPTER 100. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the time for holding courts in the Twenty-fourth Judicial District of Kentucky, shall be as follows: Paintsville, in Johnson county, twenty-rour juridical days: Second Monday in January and continue twentyfour juridical days; First Monday in May and continue twenty-four juridical days; First Monday in November and continue twentyfour juridical days; Inez, in Martin county, eighteen juridical days: First Monday in April and continue eighteen juridical days; Second Monday in July and continue eighteen juridical days; First Monday in December and continue eighteen juridical days. § 2. All laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. Neither approved nor disapproved. CHAPTER 101. AN ACT requiring interurban railway companies operating in this Commonwealth to equip their passenger cars with bundle racks. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. Every interurban railway company in this Commonwealth in transporting passengers for hire shall equip all passenger cars operated in this Com |