567 To provide for building a black-smith's shop

within the walls of the penitentiary,

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ACTS

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

CHAP. CCLXXIII.

AN ACT for the relief of William Kester, senior.

APPROVED, December 12, 1815.

WHEREAS, it appears to the General Assembly, that William Kester, senior, purchased of Adam Shephard a tract of land lying in the now county of Shelby, on the waters of Elk creek, containing five hundred and fifty seven acres, believing that the said Shepherd had a title to the same regularly derived from the commonwealthand that the said Kester and those claiming under him, have resided on the said land for upwards of twenty years. And Whereas, it also appears, although there is an entry appropriating the said land in the name of Peter Shepherd, under whom the said Adam claimed, that no grant ever issued for the same; and justice as well as policy require, that protection should be extended to the honest and unfortunate settler:

SEC. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That all the right, title, claim and interest which the commonwealth has, or might have by escheat, forfeiture, or by office found thereon, or otherwise, in, and to, any part, or the whole of the said five hundred and

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Preamble.

Right of the to certain land William Kester.j

commonwealth,

relinquished to

Provise.

fifty seven acres of land, possessed by the said William, and those claiming under him, and purchased of the said Adam Shephard shall be, and the same is hereby granted and vested in the said William Kester, senior, and his heirs.

Provided, That the rights and claims of any individual, or individuals, bodies politic or corporate shall not be impaired thereby, if the same shall have accrued in any other right than by escheat or forfeiture to this commonwealth.

Boundary of Da vies county alter sil.

CHAP. CCLXXIV.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, an act for the erection of a new county out of the county of Ohio.

APPROVED, December 14, 1815.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That from and af ter the passage of this act, the county of Daviess, shall be bounded as follows: Beginning at the mouth of Blackford's creek, thence up the same opposite to Joseph Wright's, thence with the straight line marked by Moses Cummins, to the upper end of Crane Pond on Panther creek; thence with the line marked by the deputy surveyor of Ohio county, to the East Fork of Buck creek; thence down the same to Green river; thence down Green river to the Henderson county line; thence with the said line to the state line; thence up the said Ohio river with the state line to the beginning.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws or Repealing clame parts of laws, coming within the provisions of this act, shall be hereby repealed.

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CHAP. CCLXXV.

„ÎN ACT to regulate the town of Greensburg, in Green county.

APPROVED, December 21, 1815.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the free male Trustees, how o inhabitants of the said town who shall have attain- leated. ed the age of twenty-one years or upwards, and have been residents of said town for three months, previous to the time of election, together with those who may be the fee-simple owners of ground in said town, are hereby authorized and required to meet at the court-house of the county aforesaid on first Monday in April next, and on the same day in each succeeding year, and to elect seven trustees for said town; which trustees, or a majority of them, shall form a board, and shall be authorized to make any bye-laws for the regulation and government of said town, which they may deem necessary, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this commonwealth.

Their powers,

May impose a

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to impose such a tax annually, on the tax on said town. inhabitants of said town, and persons owning property within the limits thereof, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per year, as to them may seem proper, for keeping in repair the public springs, streets and other works of public utility in said town, or for any other purposes which the trustees aforesaid, or a majority of them, may think proper for the benefit of said town: which tax shall be apportioned among its inhabitants and persons owning property within the limits thereof, by laying such a per centum on the value of all such property, both real and personal, within the limits of the town aforesaid, as the said trustees, or a majority of them, may think proper; or they may, at their discretion raise the sum aforesaid, or any part thereof, by a capitation tax on the inhabitants of said town, andpers ns owning property therein.

Commissioners

His duty.

Penalty for giv. ing a false list.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the aforesaid trustees, or a majority of them, shall have full pow to be appointed. er to appoint a commissioner annually; whose duty it shall be to apply to the inhabitants of the town respectively, and to such inhabitants of the county of Green, as may own property within the limits of the town, for the purpose of receiving from each, a list of all such property, and the value thereof, as may have been subjected to taxation in the manner above mentioned. It shall be the duty of each person so applied to, to furnish the commissioner with a list of such property, with the value annexed thereto, as he may have been the owner of, on the first day of March preceding the application; and on refusal or failure when applied to, or on giving in a false and fraudulent list, shall be subject to a fine of ten dollars and costs, to be recovered in the name of the trustees, or a majority of them, upon warrant before any magistrate, to be applied to the same purposes as the taxes above mentioned are directed to be applied. The application by the commissioners above mentioned, shall be made at any Further duty of the commission- time in the months of April or May annually: the commissioners shall return the lists aforesaid, to the clerk of the trustees so soon as he may have them compleud, alphabetically arrranged in a book prepared for that purpose. Such property in said town, as may be owned by persons who are not residents of the county aforesaid, shall be valued by the commisssioner, and lists thereof arranged as above. directed in a separate book, be also returned to the clerk at the same time.

How recoverable

ers.

Qualifications of
Trustees.

A clerk to be ap”. pointed.

Fines how re overable.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That no person shall be eligible as a trustee of said town, unl ess he shall have resided in the limits thereof for six months previous to his election, nor unless he be the fee simple owner of groundtherein, and at least twenty-five years of age.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or a majority of them, shall appoint their clerk annually, and any other officers they may think proper; and they, or a majority of them, shall have power to inflict a fine not exceeding ten dollars for every breach of their bye-laws, to be sued for, and recovered in their name, before any justice of the peace, and applied to the uses above specified.