. be approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and not conflict with the Constitution of the United States or with the Constitution of the State of Kentucky, or laws thereof. § 2. The Board of Trustees shall annually make . a written report of their action hereunder to the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Approved March 22, 1918. CHAPTER 19. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, An Act to incorporate the Confederate Home and provide for the maintenance thereof, approved March 7, 1902; amended March 26, 1904; March 21, 1906; March 19, 1910; March 18, 1912; March 16, 1916. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Whereas, heretofore, by Chapter 22 of the Acts of 1916, it is provided that for a period of two years commencing February 1, 1916, there is appropriated for the maintenance and support of the Kentucky Confederate Home the sum of three thousand, five hundred ($3,500) dollars per month, and Whereas, since that time it has been found impossible to support and maintain the Confederate Home with said sum of $3,500 per month, which condition has been brought about by the great advance in the cost of food, clothing, fuel, and materials of all kinds. 1. Now, therefore, in order to enable the Kentucky Confederate Home to pay the deficit created by reason of the very large and extraordinary advance in the price of food, clothing, fuel, and articles of all kinds necessary for the care and maintenance of the inmates of the said home, there is hereby ap propriated for the care and maintenance of the inmates of the Kentucky Confederate Home, the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars per month. This appropriation is subject to the law governing elemosynary institutions of the State. The bills are to be examined as heretofore and in case it is not necessary to use said sum, then only the amount required for the maintenance and care of the inmates, for food, clothing, fuel and other articles necessary for their comfort and convenience shall be used. § 1. Whereas the necessity for the care of said infirm soldiers is urgent and the present appropriation is not sufficient properly to support the home, and emergency is is hereby declared to exist and this enactment shall take effect from and after the ap proval of the Governor. Approved March 23, 1918. CHAPTER 20. AN ACT to provide for the payment of the clerical assistance of the Auditor of Public Accounts and for additional assistance for the proper conduct of said office. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That in addition to the amount now ap propriated for clerk hire for the conduct of the business of the office of Auditor of Public Accounts, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars annually, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed monthly by the auditor, for such clerical assistance and for such additional clerk hire as may be necessary for the proper conduct of said office. § 2. The amount now allowed by law for the employment and payment of clerical assistance in said. department being inadequate for the proper transaction of the public business, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall take effect and be in full force from the date of its passage and approval by the Governor. Approved March 26, 1918. CHAPTER 21. AN ACT entitled "An Act to repeal and re-enact Subsection 4 of Section 2739 Kentucky Statutes (Carroll's Edition of 1915), relating to motor vehicles." Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That Sub-section 4 of Section 2739 of Kentucky Statutes (Carroll's Edition of 1915) relating to motor vehicles be and the same is hereby repealed and that the following is enacted in lieu thereof, viz. : 4. Lamps.-Every motor vehicle, when stationary, standing or at rest while on any public alley, street or highway shall carry, during the period one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise and at such other times as atmospheric conditions render the operations of such vehicles on such alleys, streets or highways without reasonable illumination, dangerous to traffic; motorcycles at least one (1) and all other motor vehicles at least two (2) lighted lamps showing white or tinted, other than red, lights visible at least two hundred (200) feet in the direction such cycle or vehicle is headed and at least ten (10) feet to both sides thereof. Every motor vehicle and every vehicle that is trailed or towed by a motor vehicle shall, while being operated or when stationary, standing or at rest on any public alley, street or highway, during the period above mentioned, carry at least one (1) lighted lamp showing a red light visible from the rear and which throws a white light of sufficient force on the rear license or registration marker as to render the numerals thereon visible and decipherable for at least fifty (50) feet from the rear of said vehicle. Every motor vehicle while being operated on any public alley, street or highway shall carry, during the period above mentioned; motorcycles at least one (1) and all other motor vehicles at least two (2) lighted lamps showing white or tinted other than red, lights of sufficient force to clearly reveal, under ordinary atmospheric conditions, substantial objects for a distance of at least two hundred (200) feet ahead of said vehicle, Provided that all lights of a greater strength than four (4) candle power which are equipped with a reflector shall be so designed, arranged or deflected as to prevent any portion of the main shaft or beam of clear condensed light at any point within a distance of seventy-five (75) feet ahead of such vehicle to rise more than forty-two (42) inches above the surface on which said vehicle rests. Spot lights are prohibited from being used on any public alley, street or highway unless for emergency in locating or reading road signs, street numbers or similar temporary use unless when protecting rays of light directly upon the ground and at a distance not exceeding thirty (30) feet in front of said vehicle, 4a. Mufflers.-Every motor vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine shall be equipped with an adequate muffler or silencer or other device to reduce to a minimum the noise of the exhaust from such engine. Such muffler, silencer or other device shall not at any time be cut out; and no person operating a motor vehicle shall permit such muffler, silencer or other device, or the pipes of the engine to emit sounds of exhaust in a loud and annoying manner, and all motor vehicles shall be oper ated in as noiseless a manner as possible. If any person shall violate any provision of this section he shall be fined not less than five ($5.00) dollars nor more than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for each offense, provided that any person who shall extinguish all or any of the lights required herein for the purpose of avoiding identification or arrest, shall be fined not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars. No subdivision of the Commonwealth can alter, change or add to the provisions of this section and all laws, parts of laws and municipal ordinances inconsistent and in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such inconsistence or conflict, hereby repealed. Approved March 26, 1918. CHAPTER 22. AN ACT regulating the weight of load that may be hauled over public streets, highways, bridges and culverts, and regulating speed of automobile trucks and automobiles and providing penalties for violation. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Maximum Load On Roads Or Streets.-No traction engine, trailer, wagon, truck, steam roller, automobile truck or any vehicle, whether propelled by muscular or motor power, weighing in excess of fifteen tons, including weight of vehicle, object or contrivance and load shall be operated over and upon |