be certified in writing by the warden of the penitentiaries and by the Board of Penitentiary Commissioners, and entered upon the minutes of the meeting of said board. The penitentiary guards shall be paid at the rate of $75.00 per month for each day they are actually employed, but each of said guards shall be allowed a vacation of two weeks during the year at such time and in such manner as the Board of Penitentiary Commissioners may determine and for such vacation period, of two weeks, no deduction shall be made from the compensation of penitentiary guards.

The Board of Penitentiary Commissioners shall meet at least once a month at each of the institutions under its control, and shall hold such special meetings as the needs of the institutions require. The board may make such investigations as it may deem necessary for the performance of its duties and to that end any member of the board shall have the same power as a justice of the peace, to administer oaths, to enforce the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers, and it shall keep a record of such investigations, stating the time, place, charges and subject, and witnesses examined and its conclusions.

§ 2. Chapter 50 of the Act of 1912, being an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to create a Board of Penitentiary Commissioners, and regulate the penal institutions of this Commonwealth,'" and passed on the 5th day of March, 1898, over the veto of the Governor of Kentucky, and same being the veto beginning on page 8 and running to and including page twentysix of the printed Acts of the session of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight of the General Assembly

of Kentucky, and to further regulate the management of the penal institutions of this Commonwealth, is hereby repealed.

Approved March 23, 1916.

CHAPTER 48.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to amend Section 4645a of the Kentucky Statutes (Carroll edition, 1909) increasing the salary of the stenographer to the Governor."

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

That an Act entitled "An Act to amend Section 4645a of the Kentucky Statutes (Carroll Edition 1909), increasing the salary of the stenographer to the Governor," be amended by adding after the word "stenographer" and before the word "for" the words "or clerk or aide" so that said section when amended shall read as follows:

"Section 4645a. Stenographer for Governor. That the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is hereby empowered to employ a stenographer or clerk or aide for his own use, at a salary of not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per annum, payable monthly in installments of one hundred and twenty-five dollars each out of the Treasury of the State, upon the warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts. Said stenographer or clerk or aide shall be subject to removal at the pleasure of the Governor."

Approved March 23, 1916.

CHAPTER 49.

AN ACT in relation to pandering; to define and prohibit the same; to provide for the punishment thereof; for the competency of certain evidence at, and the venue of the trial therefor.

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

$ 1. Any person, who (a) shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution, or (b) who shall by promise, threat, violence or by any scheme or device cause, induce, persuade or encourage a female person to become or to remain an inmate of a house of prostitution, or (c) who shall induce, persuade or encourage a female person to come into this State or to leave this State for the purpose of becoming an inmate of a house of prostitution or (d) who shall knowingly transport or cause to be transported, or aid or assist in obtaining transportation for any female person from one point within this State to another point within this State, with the intent or purpose of inducing, persuading or forcing said female to become an inmate of a house of prostitution, or (e) who shall knowingly accept or appropriate any money or other thing of value, without lawful consideration, from a prostitute and from the earnings from her prostitution, or (f) who shall receive or give, or agree to receive or give, any money or other thing of value for procuring, or attempting to procure an inmate for a house of prostitution, or (g) who shall procure for another a person for the purpose of illicit sexual intercourse and shall directly or indirectly receive therefor a consideration shall be guilty of pandering; and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for

a term of not less than one nor more than five years.

2. If any part of any of the acts mentioned in section one of this act shall have been committed within this State, the offense may, in such case, be deemed to have been committed, and the offender may be indicted, tried and convicted in any county in which any part of said offense shall have been committed.

§ 3. Any female person referred to in any of the foregoing sections may be a competent witness, in any prosecution under this act, to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction, or as to any conversation with the accused, or by him with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this act, whether called as witness during the existence of the marriage or after the dissolution thereof.

Provided, The provisions of this section shall not apply where the parties have lived together as man and wife for a period of three years or more. Approved March 23, 1916.

CHAPTER 50.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act providing for the payment of interest on warrants issued for claims against the State of Kentucky, and fixing the order of payment thereof, and the funds from which said warrants shall be paid,' approved May 8, 1897, by repealing said Act and enacting a substitute therefor," which was neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor, being Chapter 72 of the Acts of 1910, and to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend Section 3 of Chapter 72 of the Acts

of 1910," approved by the Governor on March 17, 1914, being Chapter 27 of the Acts of 1914, by repealing both of said acts and enacting a substitute therefor.

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

§ 1. That the act entitled "An Act to amend an act entitled 'An Act providing for the payment of interest on warrants issued for claims against the State of Kentucky, and fixing the order of payment thereof, and the funds from which said warrants shall be paid,' approved May 8, 1897, by repealing said act and enacting a substitute therefor," which act was neither approved nor disapproved by the Governor, being Chapter 72 of the Acts of 1910, and "An Act to amend Section 3 of Chapter 72 of the Acts of 1910," approved March 17, 1914, being Chapter 27 of the Acts of 1914, be and both of said acts are hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following is enacted:

§ 2. The Treasurer shall receive, in payment of claims against the State of Kentucky, the warrants for current purposes drawn by the Auditor of Public Accounts in conformity with the laws of the State of Kentucky, or redeem the same if there be sufficient money in the treasury appropriated for that purpose; and the Treasurer shall write on the face of said warrant, "redeemed," and shall register in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, when presented, the number, date, amount and the name of the person or persons to whom the same. are made payable, and opposite the registry of each warrant, in separate columns, the date of payment, and the amount of interest, if any, paid thereon.

3. The Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners of the State of Kentucky may borrow money in