someness and purity of the food produced, manufactured or sold in food factories, grocery stores, bakeries, slaughter houses, dairies, milk depots or creameries, and all other places where foods are produced, prepared, stored, kept or offered for sale; for studying the problems connected with the production, preparation and sale of foods; investigations for standards; for expert witnesses attending grand juries and courts, clerk hire, and all other expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of the said act, including salary of the experts engaged in the work. Provided, that the total expense from all sources shall not exceed, in any one year, thirty thousand dollars. § 2. The Board of Control of said Experiment Station shall furnish to the Auditor of Public Accounts an itemized statement of the expenditure of money under this act, in the manner required by the statutes governing claims. The expenditures reported to the Auditor shall be paid by the Commonwealth to the Treasurer of the Experiment Station, upon the written request of the Board of Control of the said Experiment Station, and the Auditor, for the payment of the same, is directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer as in all other claims. against the Commonwealth. 3. The said Experiment Station may fix reasonable fees for the examination of samples of foods or drugs, or labels for the same, submitted by manufacturers or dealers, for the purpose of determining as to whether any such products or labels comply with the provisions of said law, and reasonable fees for the examination of labels and inquiry into other matters connected with the enforcement of the said act, and which may be requested of the said Station. And, whenever a sample has been found to be adul tered or misbranded, the said Experiment Station shall collect a fee, not to exceed fifteen dollars, to cover the costs of investigation or analysis, to be taxed as costs and paid by the magistrate, police judge, or clerk of any court in which prosecution is brought, and is in favor of the Commonwealth, to the Auditor of Public Accounts or by the Experiment Station, at civil suit, and all such fees, so collected shall be paid to the Auditor of Public Accounts and set aside as a fund for the partial maintenance of the appropriation made herein, and for the further enforcement of the act in the event that the fees amount to more than the appropriation made herein. § 4. The said Experiment Station, or its Food and Drug Department, shall analyze samples submitted by county and city health officers, provided such samples are submitted in accordance with the terms of the said act; and the Experiment Station, or its Food and Drug Department, shall have the right to require county and city health officers, or food and dairy inspectors, to make inspections and to collect and send samples for examination, and to call upon all other county and city officials for assistance in carrying the said act into effect. As means for further carrying out the provisions of this act, the experts employed under the provisions of this act shall give instruction, free of cost, to any county or city health officer or employe of any county or city health department, who may request the same, in matters pertaining to the inspection and practical remedies for insanitary conditions in the preparation and sale of foods, examination of samples, and similar matters; and such courses of instruction may be conducted in connection with other courses of instruction at the State University. § 5. Whereas the Kentucky Food and Drug Act is left without funds for its enforcement, an emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall take effect from and after its approval by the Governor. Approved March 23, 1916. CHAPTER 45. AN ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 31 of the published Acts of 1910, which is "An Act providing and appropriating money for a contingent fund for the use of the Governor of this Commonwealth," and which was approved by the Governor March 19, 1910. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act entitled "An Act providing and appropriating money for a contingent fund for the use of the Governor of this Commonwealth," which is Chapter 31 of the published Acts of 1910, be and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: That there be and is hereby appropriated annually out of any funds of the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the use of the Governor of this Commonwealth in defraying such necessary contingent expenses as are incident to the office of Chief Executive of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Said fund so appropriated shall be known as the contingent fund for the use of the Governor, and shall be drawn and used during the calendar year from January first to December thirtyfirst in each year. 2. Whenever it shall be necessary in the judgment of the Governor to meet an expense such as is indicated in the first paragraph of this act, he shall issue an order to the Auditor of Public Accounts for the amount required, and the Auditor of Public Accounts shall thereupon issue a warrant in favor of the Governor for the amount indicated in said order. 3. This act shall not be construed as increasing said annual appropriation, or so as to permit the payment of any amount greater than was authorized under Chapter 31 of the Acts of 1910. Approved March 23, 1916. CHAPTER 46. AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Sections 556, 770 and 771, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the § 1. That Section 556, Kentucky Statutes, Edition 1915, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows: When the agreement is signed, acknowledged and recorded in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be, the separate existence of the constituent corporations shall cease, and the consolidated corporations shall become a single corporation in accordance with the said agreement, and subject to all the provisions of this chapter and other laws related to it, and shall be vested with all the rights, privileges, franchises, exemptions, property, business, credits, assets and effects of the constituent corporations without deed or transfer, and shall be bound for all their contracts and liabilities; Provided, that no consolidated company formed under this chapter or the laws of this State shall be re quired to pay any organization tax on the amount of capital stock on which the organization tax has been paid by the constituent companies prior to the consolidation, and when a foreign corporation consolidated with one or more corporations in this State the organization tax as required by the laws of this State shall be paid on the amount of capital stock of such foreign corporation and the organization tax shall be paid on any increase of the capital stock of the consolidated corporation over the aggregate capital stock of the constituent corporations prior to consolidation. § 2. That Section 770, Kentucky Statutes, Edition 1915, be and the same is hereby repealed and reenacted so as to read as follows: Any two or more companies may, unless otherwise provided by law, consolidate into a single company in the manner provided by Section 556, Kentucky Statutes, as amended by this act. § 3. That Section 771, Kentucky Statutes, Edition 1915, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows: Corporations organized under this law shall have power to borrow such sums of money as may be neccessary for funding their floating debt or for completing, equipping or operating their road or any part thereof, or for paying any debt incurred for such purpose, and to issue and dispose of their bonds. and obligations for any amount necessarily borrowed for such purpose, and to mortgage their corporate property, franchise or any part thereof to secure the payment of any debt contracted or to defray any expenditures for the purposes aforesaid; and may in the manner provided in article 1 of this chapter increase or decrease in its capital stock; and the increased stock may be common or preferred as shall |