Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1785-1951, Volume 159 |
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Page 309 - No county, city, town, township, school district or other political corporation or subdivision of the State shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the voters thereof voting at an election to be held for that purpose...
Page 372 - A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of this, act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determined future time, a sum certain- in money to order, or to bearer.
Page 253 - ... no law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended or conferred, by reference to its title only ; but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred shall be re-enacted and published at length...
Page 517 - ... before or at the time of incurring such indebtedness provision shall be made for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof, within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 89 - Contract, then this obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force and effect, subject, however, to the following conditions: 1.
Page 381 - Commissioners, in addition to the levy made for the maintenance of the schools as hereinbefore provided, to levy annually in its tax levy a rate that will raise a sum that shall be sufficient to pay the interest and create a sinking fund for the payment of the bonds at maturity.
Page 372 - ... shall be commenced within five years next after the cause of action accrued.
Page 884 - ... of the county in which its principal office or place of business is situated, a certificate to be indexed by said clerk stating the names in -full of all the members of such partnership and their places of residence.
Page 254 - No law, enacted by the General Assembly, shall relate to more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title...
Page 264 - AN ACT to amend an act entitled, "An Act to amend an act entitled 'An Act for the government of cities of the second class...