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

§ 1. That Section 5 of an act entitled "An Act relating to agricultural extension work and home economics; accepting the provisions of the Act of Congress providing for co-operative agricultural extension work between agricultural colleges, which act was approved May eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen; providing that such work shall be done under the directions of the Kentucky University, Lexington, Kentucky; changing the name of said University to University of Kentucky; amending and re-enacting Section One of Chapter Three Acts of nineteen hundred and eight; amending and re-enacting Section Fifteen Kentucky Statutes, nineteen hundred and three; providing for the appointment of trustees of the University of Kentucky; creating an extension committee to have charge of extension work under the supervision of the University of Kentucky; providing for the election of an executive committee for the University of Kentucky; amending and re-enacting Section Thirteen of the Act of March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, creating the State Board of Agriculture, Forestry and Immigration; repealing Section two of an act for the benefit of the Department of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve; appropriating money for the University of Kentucky; providing for the establishment of a marketing bureau; authorizing the fiscal courts of the counties and the boards of education of counties to appropriate money for extension work, and amending and reenacting Section Five of an act for the benefit of the Department of Agriculture approved March

twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six," which was approved by the Governor March 15th, 1916, is hereby repealed and the following is enacted in lieu thereof:

§ 2. In order to continue agricultural extension work in the State of Kentucky, there is hereby appropriated to the University of Kentucky for the year ending June 30, 1918, sixty-two thousand dollars, and a like sum is hereby appropriated annually thereafter, which shall be used by the Agricultural College of the University of Kentucky to offset funds appropriated by an act of Congress, approved May 8, 1914, entitled: "An Act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture." Any portion of the appropriations herein authorized remaining unused at the close of any fiscal year may be used to offset Federal funds of any succeeding fiscal year.

$ 3. Whereas it is necessary to continue the extension work under the act of Congress aforesaid, if the State is to receive the benefits of the act, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval as required by law.

Approved March 29, 1918.

CHAPTER 128.

AN ACT prescribing the time for filing the annual reports or statements of railway, telephone, telegraph, express and other public utility companies with the Auditor of Public Accounts, Tax Commission and Railroad Commission and repealing conflicting laws.

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

1. That the annual report or statement of every railway company or railway railway corporation, telephone, telegraph, express company or other public utility company now required under the provisions of the Kentucky Statutes to be made and delivered to the Auditor of Public Accounts, Tax Commission or Railroad Commission, between the 30th day of June and the 1st day of October, hereafter shall be made and delivered by every such company or corporation to the Auditor of Public Accounts, the Tax Commission and the Railroad Commission between the 31st day of December and the 31st day of March following, and the information therein furnished as called for by the statutory provisions aforesaid shall cover the period of twelve months ending the 31st day of December, instead of the 30th day of June, as heretofore required, provided, however, the aforesaid State departments are hereby authorized and directed to change the date of the aforesaid reports to conform to any change in date established by Federal regulations.

§ 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 29, 1918.

CHAPTER 129.

AN ACT to amend Section 1632, of the Kentucky Statutes, 1915 Edition, compiled by the Honorable John D. Carroll, relating to rebinding and transcribing of books of records in counties having no official indexer.

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

That Section 1632 of the Kentucky Statutes, Edition of 1915, as compiled by Hon. John D. Carroll, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto and at the end thereof the following words, to-wit:

"In other counties the county court may order arry of the books or records in the clerk's office of such court, or in the office of the surveyor of the county, to be rebound; or, when obliterated, torn or in a ruinous condition, to be transcribed in new books or whenever it shall become necessary to rearrange, classify or re-index the records of the circuit clerk's office, and the fiscal court of said county shall make a reasonable allowance for such service to the commissioner or other person so performing same and to be paid out of the county levy."

So that said section when amended shall read as follows:

"In any county having an official indexer the judges of the circuit court of said county and the judges of the county court of said county, sitting jointly, may order any of the books or records in the county clerk's office, or in the office of the clerk of the quarterly court, or in the office of the surveyor of the county, or in the circuit clerk's office to be rebound, or when obliterated, torn or in a ruinous condition, to be transcribed in new books, and said transcription shall be done by the official indexer without any extra compensation; but when, in the opinion of two-thirds of said judges, said indexer, on account of other pressing work, shall not be able in due time to transcribe said old books into new books, said judges may order said work to be done by the clerk of any court mentioned above as to the books in his own office, and in the order directing said work to be done the amount of said

work and the compensation therefor shall be fixed in advance by the vote of two-thirds of said judges; or they may receive bids for the performance of said work and may award the right to do the same to the lowest bidder under proper rules and regulations for the proper and safe execution of the same, with due regard to the importance of duly safeguarding the original records. The amount allowed for said work shall be chargeable to the county and paid by the fiscal court of said county.

In other counties the county court may order any of the books or records in the clerk's office of such court, or in the office of the surveyor of the county, to be rebound; or, when obliterated, torn or in a ruinous condition, to be transcribed in new books or whenever it shall become necessary to re-arrange, classify or re-index the records of the circuit clerk's office and the fiscal court of said county shall make a reasonable allowance for such service to the commissioner or other person so performing same and to be paid out of the county levy.

And whereas there is now no provision authorizing said work in many counties of this Commonwealth and as a result thereof many of the records are in need of immediate rebinding and transcribing, therefore, an emergency is declared to exist and this act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the Governor.

Approved March 29, 1918.

CHAPTER 130.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Subsection 10 of Section 12, of Chapter 1, of the acts of the extraordinary session of the General Assembly of 1917, relating to the conference of the County Tax Assessors.