CHAPTER 1023.

AN ACT to incorporate Morrisson Lodge[sic], No. 76, at Elizabethtown, in Hardin
county.

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

§ 1. That the members of Morrisson Lodge, No. 76, of Free and Accepted Masons, of the town of Elizabethtown, in Hardin county, be, and they are hereby, created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of Morrisson Lodge, No. [76] with perpetual succession; and by that name shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, upon all contracts hereafter to be made or liability incurred ; that any contract heretofore made by said lodge, through an individual member thereof, be, and the same is hereby, legalized, and may be sued on by said lodge, and collected as contracts between individuals; of pleading and being impleaded, of purchasing and holding all such real and personal estate as may be required for the use of said lodge; to receive all necessary conveyances; to sell, convey, and dispose of all such real or personal estate as they may have or hereafter acquire: Provided, The amount vested in real estate, exclusive of buildings thereon, shall at no time exceed ten thousand dollars.

§ 2. That the management of the concerns of said corporation shall be, and is hereby, confided to the master, senior and junior wardens of said lodge, and their successors in office, as trustees thereof, who, or a majority of them, shall have power to make all contracts pertaining to the real or personal estate of said lodge; and service of notice or process on any two of said trustees shall be sufficient notice to said corporation.

§3. That said trustees named in the second section of this act shall hold their offices until their successors are duly elected: Provided, That said board of trustees shall have power to fill vacancies in their own body, and pass such by-laws, rules, and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, as may be necessary to the management and safe-keeping of the property and other interests of the lodge; and may have and use a common seal, and change it at pleasure ; and in conveying real estate it shall be necessary for the whole board of trustees to join in such conveyance.

§ 4. The Legislature reserves to itself the right to change or repeal, alter or amend this act at pleasure.

§ 5. This act to take effect from its passage.

Approved March 1, 1860.

The funeral took place on the 11th. The morning train from Louisville had brought a large number of friends of the lamented dead. Crowds came in from the country to witness the last funeral rites over the remains of their fellow-citizen, who had in his life-time shown himself to be so sincerely their friend, and the consistent advocate of their interests. They came to show their respect for the man, and to do honor to the office to which the people had so recently elevated him. Most of the State officials who had come to his inauguration were present at his funeral. The scene in and about Elizabethtown was mournfully impressive and deeply respectful to the deceased. Upon every face was depicted the sincerest grief. The court-house and many other buildings, public and private, were draped in black, and, at several points, the avenues through which the procession was expected to pass were crossed by festoons of crape. The church bells tolled their measured knell, as if speaking from their mid-air steeples to a sorrowing world. The members of Morrison Lodge, No. 76, of the Masonic Fraternity, to which the late Governor had been attached, headed by a band playing a funeral dirge, and followed by a large concourse of citizens and strangers, formed in procession and slowly marched from the town to Helm Place.
A march of a mile and a quarter brought the procession to the family mansion of the deceased Governor. So immense was the concourse that comparatively few could gain admission to the house. The State officials, the clergy, the pall-bearers, and some others, gathered with the bereft family around the form of the Governor, now "hearsed in death," and after many last fond looks upon his placid, memorable features, the funeral service of the Methodist Episcopal Church was begun. This service was brief and simple, but indelibly affecting. It consisted in the reading of the 19th Psalm, the 15th Chapter of Paul to the Corinthians, and the offering of a singularly appropriate and eloquent prayer-all by the Rev. A. L. ALDERSON, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
After the exercises at the residence, the procession was reorganized. The corpse was taken in charge by the Masonic pall-bearers, and by them conveyed in the prescribed order of march to the family burying-ground, on a commanding eminence distant from the house about one thousand yards. When the rites of the church were concluded at the grave, the honors of Masonry, in all their imposing solemnity, were conferred by Worshipful Master FAYETTE HEWITT, Rev. E. B. SMITH, Masonic Chaplain, and the brethren in attendance. And thus closed the final tributes of love and respect. to the memory of Kentucky's fallen chief.

WHIEREAS, It has pleased the Supreme Grand Master to summons from our midst our much esteemed brother, JOHN L. HELM, whose virtues have long been the pride of his Lodge, and whose shining example of uprightness and
integrity has been a jewel in the Temple of Universal Masonry; be it
1. Resolved, That while the coffin, the spade, and the melancholy grave, remind us that our brother has gone from the portals of our Lodge forever, we will treasure up in our hearts the recollection of his many manly virtues, and of his noble nature, and strive to imitate his worthy example of high morality and unselfish generosity.
2. That in the death of him we mourn to-day this Lodge has lost a true and noble member, whose high morality and dignified and lofty character made him one of the shining lights of the Order; his family has lost a kind and devoted
husband and father; this community one it has ever delighted to honor, and who never proved untrue to the trust reposed in him; the State has lost a Chief Magistrate whose long experience in her affairs, and unbending integrity and lofty patriotism in every place of public trust, gave the highest guarantee of a prosperous and just administration; the nation has lost a patriot and a statesman who had few superiors in intellect, and few equals in integrity of purpose.
3. That we tender to his stricken family the most sincere sympathy in this dark hour of their sorrow and affliction. Though he is gone from them and us, he will live long in the recollection of those who knew him, and who will delight to honor his name and his memory.

4. That a copy of these resolutions be furnished the family of our deceased brother, and also to the press of the State for publication.