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Treasurer, W. A. Huliman; for Attorney-General, 

 George T. Smith ; for Superintendent of .Public In- 

 struction, W. J. Keyes; for Chief-Justice, W. A. 

 Campbell ; for Associate Justice, T. A. Hurd. 



A convention of Republicans favoring a re- 

 submission to the people of the prohibitory 

 amendment was held. They supported the 

 Republican national ticket, but co-operated 

 with the Democrats on State issues. The 

 Democratic nominee for Lieutenant-Governor 

 was a resubmission Republican. On the 4th 

 of November the Republican ticket was elect- 

 ed. The following is the vote for Presidential 

 Electors: Republican, 154,406; Democratic, 

 90,132; Greenback, 16,341; Prohibition, 4,- 

 495. Seven Republican Congressmen were 

 chosen. For Governor the vote was: Re- 

 publican, 146,819; Democratic, 108,284; oth- 

 ers, 10,036. The Republican vote for the other 

 State officers ranged from 150,811 for Auditor, 

 to 155,265 for Treasurer. The Legislature of 

 1885 consists of 37 Republicans and 3 Demo- 

 crats in the Senate, and 107 Republicans, 11 

 Democrats, and 7 Independents in the House. 



KENTUCKY. State Government. The State 

 officers during the year were the following: 

 Governor, J. Proctor Knott, Democrat ; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, James R. Hindman; Secre- 

 tary of State, James A. McKenzie ; Treasurer, 

 James W. Tate; Auditor, Fayette Hewitt; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Joseph 

 D. Pickett ; Attorney-General, T. W. Hardin ; 

 Register of Land-Office, John G. Cecily Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture, John F. Davis ; In- 

 surance Commissioner, L. C. Norman. Judi- 

 ciary, Court of Appeals: Chief-Justice, T. F. 

 Flargis; Associate Justices, Thomas H. Hines, 

 William S. Pry or, and Joseph H. Lewis. In Sep- 

 tember the term of office of Judge Hargis ex- 

 pired. His successor was William H. Holt. 

 Judge Hines became Chief-Justice. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature, which 

 convened on the 31st of December, 1883, ad- 

 journed on the 12th of May, 1884. Among the 

 acts passed were : 



the sale of intoxicating liquors 



Several prohibitin; 

 in various localities. 



Establishing a criminal court in the Sixteenth Judi- 

 cial Circuit. 



Amending the acts regulating the incorporation of 

 insurance companies. 



Providing for a registration of voters in the city of 

 Louisville. 



For the building of a branch Penitentiary at or or 

 near Eddyville, in Lyon county. 



Extending the boundaries of the city of Louisville. 



Creating the county of Knott from portions of Floyd, 

 Letcher, Perry, and Breathitt counties, with a county- 

 seat to be located and called Hindman. 



Providing for and regulating the ventilation of coal- 

 mines, and for the better orotection of miners. 



Establishing an institution for the education of col- 

 ored deaf-mutes at Danville in connection with the 

 institution for whites there. 



To legalize $1,500,000 of 4 per cent, coupon bonds of 

 the city of Louisville, issued under an ordinance voted 

 upon by the voters of said city on May 19, 1883. 



To prohibit the circulation of immoral literature. 



To incorporate the Kentucky Humane Society for 

 the Prevention of Cruelty. 



For the continuation of the Geological Survey and 

 Bureau of Immigration. 



In relation to corporations and associations organ- 

 ized under other authority than the laws of this State 

 for the purpose of furnishing life indemnity or insur- 

 ance upon the assessment plan. 



To authorize the trustees appointed by courts of 

 other States where the cestui que trust resides to col- 

 lect, receive, and remove to such place of residence any 

 personal estate of the cestui que trust. 



To provide for funding the State debt now owing to 

 the banks. 



To equalize assessments for revenue purposes, and 

 to provide for a State Board of Equalization. 



To provide for liberty of conscience. This 

 declares that " all persons committed to any 

 State prison, reform-school, house of refuge, 

 or other place of confinement in said State, 

 shall be allowed spiritual advice and spiritual 

 ministration from any recognized clergyman of 

 the denomination or church to which such per- 

 sons so committed or received may respective- 

 ly belong or have belonged." 



Constitutional Amendment. There was also 

 passed " An act for taking the sense of the good 

 people of this Commonwealth as to the neces- 

 sity and expediency of calling a convention to 

 amend the Constitution, and to ascertain the 

 number of persons entitled to vote for. Repre- 

 sentatives." The vote is to be taken at the 

 August election in 1885. The following is the 

 provision for ascertaining the number of legal - 

 voters : 



That all assessors are hereby required to enroll, in 

 a column which each shall open in his assessors book 

 for that purpose, the names of all citizens having the 

 ri^ht to vote for Representatives for the year 1885. 

 But said assessors shall not enroll in such column the 

 name of any person unless they shall at the time know 

 that he is entitled to vote for Representatives at said 

 election, and such knowledge shall be founded only 

 upon (1) the personal acquaintance of the assessor ; or 

 (2) sufficient information obtained by him directly 

 from the person whose name is enrolled ; or (3) a sat- 

 isfactory statement, under oath, from other creditable 

 persons who know the facts necessary to the qualifica- 

 tion of such voter. 



The Prison. The new prison is intended for 

 male criminals under thirty years of age, and 

 not known to have been previously sentenced 

 in this or any other State or country. The dis- 

 cipline to be observed in said prison shall be re- 

 formatory in its tendency, and the said mana- 

 gers shall have power to use such means of 

 reformation, consistent with the improvement 

 of the inmates, as they may deem expedient. 

 Agricultural labor or mechanical industry shall 

 be chief elements in any plan adopted for the 

 reformation of said criminals." 



Education, Perhaps the most important act 

 of the session was one to amend and reform 

 the common-school laws of the Commonwealth. 

 The following are its most important provis- 

 ions : 



There shall he throughout the State of Kentucky a 

 uniform system of common schools in accordance 

 with the Constitution of the State and the provisions 

 of this act. No school shall be deemed a " common 

 school," within the meaning of this chapter, or be en- 

 titled to any contribution out of the school fund, un- 

 less the same has been, pursuant hereto, actually kept 



