tion, when amended and re-enacted shall read as follows: "Civil actions, other than those for the recovery of real property, shall be commenced within the following periods, after cause of action has accrued, and not after; an action upon a judgment or decree of any court of this State or of the United States, or of any State or territory thereof, the period to be computed from the date of the last execution thereon; an action or suit upon a recognizance, bond or written contract; an action upon the official bond of a sheriff, marshal, sergeant, clerk, constable or any other public officer, or any commissioner receiver, curator, personal representative, guardian, committee, or trustee appointed by a court or authority of law; an action upon an appeal bond, or bond given on a supersedeas, attachment, injunction, order of arrest, or for the delivery of property, or for the forthcoming of property or to obey or perform an order or judgment of court in an action, or upon a bond for costs, or any other bond taken by a court or judge or by an officer pursuant to the directions of a court or judge in an action, or after judgment or decree or upon a replevin, sale or delivery bond taken under execution, decree or warrent of distress, upon an indemnifying bond, taken under a statute or upon a bond to suspend a proceeding or sale under execution, distress warrant, order or decree, or other judicial proceedings, or upon a bond or obligation for the payment of money or property, or for the peformance of any undertaking shall be commenced within fifteen years after the cause of action first accrued; and no promise, or acknowledgment, or payment of money by any person bound on any bond or obligation for the payment of money secured by a lien shall oper ate as a prolongation or extension of the time within which such lien may be enforced as against purchasers or creditors, unless the promisor and the holder of the lien, before fifteen years after the maturity of the debt shall enter a memorandum on the margin of the record of the deed or mortgage, attested by the clerk, showing that the debt is extended, and for what time it is extended, and the amount still due thereon. § 2. The payee, shall pay the clerk, a fee of 25 cents for his services. Approved March 29, 1918. CHAPTER 133. AN ACT relating to charitable institutions, and to appropriate money to the Eastern State Hospital, the Western State Hospital, the Central State Hospital, and the Kentucky Institute for Feeble Minded Children, to pay existing indebtedness of and deficits in accounts of said aforenamed charitable institutions, and to provide for certain improvements at the Western State Hospital, and the Eastern State Hospital. Whereas, It is conceded without without argument, because of the enormous increase in the prices of commodities and necessities in the last few years, and particularly in the last twelve months, to such an extent that it has been and is utterly impossible for the charitable institutions of the Commonwealth to live and to have existed within the means provided by the laws fixing the per capita allowance of said institutions; and Whereas, Due to said increased prices, it was necessary to incur indebtedness or to close the institutions and return the numerous unfortunate inmates thereof to their respective counties to become charges thereupon; and, Whereas, In view of the premises set out, it was absolutely necessary for the following institutions to incur the amounts of indebtedness herein set out up to March 1st, 1918, without the expenditure of all the funds in the local treasury, which are necessary to pay the employes and emergencies of the in Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That there be and there now is appropriated the following sums to the following named institutions of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to-wit: To and for the use of the Eastern State Hospital, $29,537.34, and in addition thereto the sum of $5,000.00 to be used for the purpose of repairing boilers for the heating plant at said hospital or for installing new boilers. To and for the use of the Central State Hospital the sum of $60,464.16, and to and for the use of the Western State Hospital, the sum of $38,293.48, and in addition thereto the sum of $10,000.00 to be used for the segregation and care of the tubercular patients at said hospital; each of said sums appropriated to be used exclusively for the payment of the respective indebtedness aforesaid, and said additional sums for the purpose herein set out, and for said sums the Auditor shall draw warrants payable as and in the same manner as warrants are drawn and payments made to the foregoing institutions. As the greater part of the sums hereinbefore set out are long since due and payable on behalf of the aforesaid institutions, an emergency is declared to exist and this act shall become a law as soon as enacted and duly approved by the Governor of the Commonwealth. Approved March 29, 1918. CHAPTER 134. AN ACT to amend Section 1358 Kentucky Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Section 1358, Chapter 36, of the Kentucky Statutes, John D. Carroll's Edition of 1915, be and the same is hereby amended by adding after the words "mortgage of record" the words: "or any lien given under the statute laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky," and by adding after the words "foreclosure of the mortgage" the words: "or lien." So that said section when so amended shall read as follows: If any person shall fraudulently sell, conceal or dispose of any personal property on which there is at the time, a mortgage of record or any lien given under the statute laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, with intent to prevent the enforcement of the lien thereon, or the foreclosure of the mortgage or lien and sale of the property, he shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not less than fifteen nor more than ninety days, or both so fined and imprisoned. Approved March 29, 1918. CHAPTER 135. AN ACT to provide a method whereby an election on constitutional amendments, submitted to the people for their approval or rejection, may be contested, providing inspectors and challengers in such election, providing penalties and defining crimes in connection with such election. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. Any qualified elector may contest an election, or demand a recount of ballots on constitutional amendments, submitted to the voters of the State for their ratification or rejection, as herein provided. Such elector having the right to vote on the question submitted, and having voted, may file petition setting forth the grounds of the contest with the clerk of the Franklin Circuit Court, not more than fifteen days after the official canvass and the announcement of such vote for the State by the State Board of Election Commissioners. The contestant may file with the clerk of the said court and the clerk of the Court of Appeals, a notice of his intention to contest the election before the announcement of the official count by the State Board of Election Commissioners, and thereupon the clerk of the Court of Appeals shall forthwith notify all the county boards of election commissioners in the counties involved in such contest to hold the ballots cast at such election on such question subject to the order of the Franklin Circuit Court. Such notice shall be served by the clerk of the Court of Appeals by mailing a true and certified copy of such notice of contest, and order to hold such ballots subject to the order of the court, by registered mail to the sheriff of the counties in question, and such sheriffs are required to acknowledge receipt thereof on receiving same. 2. If the Franklin Circuit Court be not in session at the time of the filing of the notice of such contest, the clerk of the court shall immediately notify the judge of such court of the filing of such contest, and the judge thereof shall within five days |