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cant who has not completed the equivalent of the 10th grade of the public schools.

§ 2. The determination of the question as to what institutions are entitled to the privilege set forth in the preceding section of this act shall be in the hands of a board to be known as the Board of Regents for Normal School Inspection, to be composed of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction ex-officio member and chairman, and four members to be appointed by the Governor of the State as follows: One member from the faculty of the Department of Education of the University of Kentucky, one member from the faculty of each State Normal School and one member from the faculty of the Normal School of a city of the first class. Two of the members first appointed to serve for a period of two years and two for a period of four years and thereafter all members to serve for a period of four years.

Provided that not more than two appointive members shall be from the same political party and no two members of the same church.

No institution shall be entitled to the privileges conferred by the preceding section of this act unless the following requirements have been fulfilled.

First. Such institution shall be fully incorporated and the corporation shall have at least $50,000 invested and available for use in the school.

Second. Such institution shall be a member of the Kentucky Association of Colleges and Universities, or on the list of the accridited secondary schools and junior colleges of the University of Kentucky.

Third. This act shall not apply to any institution supported in whole or in part by State funds.

The State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, upon request of any institution desiring recognition under Section 1 of this act, direct the above named commission to inspect the institution. and to report within sixty days upon its application. Each year the State Board of Education shall satisfy itself that the requirements of this act have been met before any certificate shall be granted the students of such institution.

§ 3. The expenses of inspection shall be borne by the institution asking for recognition under the provisions of this act. All schools asking privileges under the provisions of this bill shall be subject to the lawful authority and inspection of the State Inspector and Examiner so far as the faithful enforcement of the course of study is concerned.

The Board of Regents provided for in this act shall have power to make all needful rules and regulations to carry into effect the provisions of this act.

§ 4. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 152.

AN ACT to require incorporated cities and towns to maintain government by the election of officers and the levying and collecting of taxes of such cities and towns and providing for forfeiture of charter and manner of proceeding therein.

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

§ 1. If any incorporated city or town in this Commonwealth shall fail for the period of one year to maintain city or town government by the election

or appointment of city or town officers and the levying and collection of taxes for the maintenance of the streets and alleys of such city or town, its charter shall be forfeited.

§ 2. Any bona fide resident of the county in which such incorporated city or town is located may petition the circuit court of proper jurisdiction and upon the proof of such failure to maintain the government of such city or town as set out in section 1 of this act, the circuit judge hearing such proof shall declare the charter of such city or town forfeited.

3. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 153.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Sub-section 1, Section 4780a, Chapter 133 of the Kentucky Statutes, relating to oil, warehouses.

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

§ 1. That Subsection 1 of Section 4780-a of Chapter 133 of the Kentucky Statutes be amended and re-enacted so that same will read as follows:

"Section 4780-a. (1) Establishment of. That cotton seed oil, copra oil, grape seed oil, gasoline, kerosene, peanut oil, cocoanut oil, soya bean oil, corn oil, plam oil, olio oil, lard oil, all kinds of fish oils, turpentine, crude and refined petroleum oils of all kinds, vegetables, animal, fish and petroleum oils, fats and greases, molasses, syrups, and other liquids and all other oils, may be received and stored by the owner of any oil warehouse, and warehouse

receipts may be issued therefor as herein provided; the owners of such warehouse shall, before transacting any business, obtain a license and give bond as provided for by Sections 4782 and 4783 of the Kentucky Statutes in the case of grain warehouses, such bond to be in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 154.

AN ACT to amend an Act, entitled: "An Act creating the Thirty-sixth Judicial district of Kentucky; fixing the time of holding courts thereof; providing for the appointment of and election of a circuit judge and Commonwealth's attorney, and changing the Twenty-third, Thirty-first and Thirty-second Judicial districts of Kentucky so as to provide for said Thirty-sixth district, and fixing the time for holding the courts in said district and in the other districts affected."

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

That an Act entitled An Act creating the Thirtysixth Judicial district of Kentucky; fixing the time of holding courts thereof; providing for the appointment of and election of a circuit judge and Commonwealth's attorney, and changing the Twenty-third, Thirty-first and Thirty-second Judicial districts of Kentucky so as to provide for said Thirty-sixth district, and fixing the time for holding the courts in said district and in the other districts affected, passed by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1916, being Chapter 80 Session Acts 1916, pages 614-616 inclusive; be amended by substituting for the concluding portion of Paragraph 2, beginning with the words "in

Magoffin county," to the end of said paragraph the following, "in Magoffin county first Monday in April, second Monday in August and third Monday in November" so that said section when so amended shall read as follows, to-wit:

The present judge and Commonwealth's attorney in the Thirty-second, Thirty-first and Twenty-third districts shall remain in force and be unchanged for the time provided by law. The Governor shall appoint and commission a circuit judge and Commonwealth's attorney in the Thirty-sixth Judicial district, who shall hold their offices until their successor is elected and qualified. An election shall be held in said district to elect a circuit judge and Commonwealth's attorney at the regular November election, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to succeed the officers appointed under this act. The time of holding court in the Thirty-sixth Judicial district shall be in Wolfe county beginning the first Monday in February the fourth Monday in May and the first Monday in September, and continue each term for eighteen juridical days; in Morgan county first Monday in March, third Monday in June and fourth Monday in September, and continue eighteen juridical days; in Magoffin county first Monday in April, second Monday in August and third Monday in November, and continue eighteen juridical days.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 155.

AN ACT to amend Section 428 of the Civil Code of Practice.

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

That Section 428 of the Civil Code of Practice be amended by adding to and at the end of Sub

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