first class," be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the whole of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The bailiff shall be assisted in the performance of his duty by two assistants to be appointed by him. The bailiff and his assistants shall receive no fees, but shall receive such salaries as may be allowed by ordinance." Approved February 24, 1894. CHAPTER 26. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled "An act to regulate the laying out and working public roads in Clinton county," approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two; also to repeal the act amendatory thereto, approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That an act to regulate the working and laying out public roads in Clinton county, approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and the act amendatory thereto, approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and declared to be null and void. Approved February 24, 1894. CHAPTER 27. AN ACT to promote the study of medicine and surgery in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com monwealth of Kentucky: to give bond bebodies. § 1. It shall be lawful for the professor of any med- Medical colleges ical college or school which is or may be incorporated fore receiving under the laws of this State, and which has executed bond as herein required, to procure the unclaimed body intendent, &c. of any person dying in this State, for the purpose of being dissected and examined by the professors and students of such college, for the advancement of science, as hereinafter provided. § 2. It shall be the duty of any superintendent, Duty of super- Warden, coroner, or other. person having in his posession the dead body of any person which may be unclaimed, to notify the relatives or friends of the deceased person (if they are known) of the death of the person and place where the body is; and on the failure of such deceased person's relatives or friends, within three days, to claim and bury the body, it shall be the duty of such officers or other persons, on the demand of a professor of any medical college or school, as herein contemplated, to deliver the body to such professor, who shall at once cause such body to be embalmed, and shall preserve the same for thirty days before dissecting it. During said thirty days it shall be the duty of such college, or the professor thereof, to deliver the body, without any charge, to the friends or relatives of the deceased who may demand it for interment. 3. If such body be not claimed for interment When may dis- during said thirty days, it shall be lawful for the professors or students of the college, after the expiration of thirty days, to examine or dissect such body. sect. Burial. Bond. § 4. After such body has been dissected as herein contemplated it shall be decently buried at the expense of the professor to whom the body was delivered, or of the college represented by him. § 5. No school, college or professor thereof shall be entitled or permitted to receive any such body until a bond shall have been given in the penal sum of one thousand dollars by such college, with good personal security, to be approved by the clerk of the county court in and for the county in which such college or school may be situated, conditioned for the faithful disposition of all dead bodies which may come into the possession of such college, or any professor there office. of, as required by law. The bond shall be filed in File in clerk's such clerk's office, and therein safely kept. Said bond shall be renewed every twelve months, and as a fee for taking and approving such bond, the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of one dollar. be Shall not sell body outside of of Sate. § 6. It shall be unlawful for any such body to used for any other purpose than the promotion science in the college represented by the professor claiming it; nor shall any such body be sold or removed from this State. kept. 7. It shall be the duty of the college receiving the Record to be body to keep a record thereof, in a book to be kept for that purpose at the college, and which shall, at all times, be subject to inspection by any officer of the State or county, or relative or friend of any deceased person whose body it is supposed may have been delivered to or be in possession of such college. The record shall show the name, if known, age, sex, date and cause of death, and final place of interment, and the date when the body came into the possession of the college and date of interment, together with any distinguishing marks by which the body may be identified. § 8. Upon the failure to comply with the provisions Penalty. of this chapter in any respect, on the part of the college or any professor thereof, there shall attach a liability of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, on the last bond which may have been executed as herein provided, for each violation of this law, which may be recovered by action in the name of the Commonwealth, and which action shall be prosecuted by the Commonwealth's attorney of the district in which such college may be situated. Approved February 24, 1894. CHAPTER 28. AN ACT to protect game and small birds. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. It shall be unlawful for any person within this Dates unlawful State to catch, kill, or pursue with such intent, any to kill deer. Squirrels. Wild goose or duck. Wild turkey. Woodcock. Quail or partridge. buck, doe or fawn, or have the same in possession. after it has been caught or killed, between the first day of March and the first day of September in each year. § 2. No person shall catch, kill, or pursue with such intent, or have the same in possession after it has been caught or killed, any black, grey or fox. squirrel, between the first day of February and the fifteenth day of June in each year: Provided, Grey squirrels may be killed for protection of crops. § 3. No person shall catch or kill, or pursue with such intent, or have the same in possession after it has been caught or killed, any wild goose, wood-duck,. teal or other wild duck, between the first day of April and the fifteenth, day of August in each year. § 4. No person shall catch, kill, or pursue with such intent, or have the same in possession after it has been caught or killed, any wild turkey, between the first day of February and the first day of September in each year. § 5. No person shall catch, kill, or pursue with such intent, or have the same in their possession after it has been caught or killed, any woodcock, between the first day of February and the twentieth day of June in each year. § 6. No person shall catch, kill, or pursue with such intent, or have the same in possession after it has been caught or killed, any quail, partridge or pheasant between the first day of January and the fifteenth day of November in each year. § 7. No person shall catch, kill, or pursue with such intent, or have in possession after it has been caught Dove. § 8. No person shall at any time catch, kill, or pur- Thrush, &c. sue with such intent, or have in their possession after the same has been caught or killed, any thrush, meadow-lark, finch, martin, swallow, woodpecker, flicker, oriole, red bird, tanager, cat-bird, blue-bird or other song or insectivorous bird, except where the same shall be destructive to the fruit or grain crops. 9. No person shall at any time catch, kill or take by means of net, trap, box or snare, or have in posses- Pheasant. sion after having been so caught, killed or taken, any quail, partridge or pheasant. § 10. No person shall rob or destroy the nests or Bird's nests. eggs of any wild bird whatsoever, save only those of a predatory nature, and destructive of other birds or fowls. § 11. Any person guilty of violating any of the Penalty. provisions of either of the preceding sections shall be fined for each offense not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars. $12. The possession of any of the animals or birds Evidence. intended to be protected by this law within the periods for which their killing or pursuit is hereby prohibited shall be prima facie evidence that the said animal or bird was unlawfully caught or killed, and the possession thereof unlawful. 13. Any person exposing for sale any of the animals or birds intended to be protected by this law within the periods for which the taking or killing thereof is hereby prohibited shall, for each animal or bird so exposed for sale, be subject to the same penalty as herein provided for the unlawful killing or taking of such animal or bird. Sale of. 14. The unlawful killing, catching or possession of Separate offense. each and every one of the animals or birds intended to be protected by this law shall constitute a separate and distinct offense, and shall be punished accordingly, |