 Also in the 1878 session , tax assessments for railroad property were raised to match those of other property . Agrarian interests were pleased that the legal interest rate was again lowered , now reaching the six percent they had proposed in the previous session . Non @-@ economic reforms included the separation of Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical College ( later the University of Kentucky ) from Kentucky University ( later Transylvania University ) and the establishment of a state board of health . Bills of local import again dominated the session , representing 90 percent of the acts and resolutions passed by the Assembly . 
