the sheriff to pay

from said county.

allowed him for the year, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen: For remedy whereof,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Auditor One year given be, and he is hereby restrained from proceeding the revenue due against him by motion, or otherwise, until the expiration of one year, from and after the passage of this act, for, and on account of his having failed to pay into the public treasury, the whole amount of publie revenue which accrued in the county of Nicholas, during his sheriffalty. But nothing in this section shall be construed to impair his liability, or the commonwealth's remedy against him for the aforesaid amount of revenue, after the expiration of the time herein above limited.

Proviso.

ren

further time to

quencies of militia fines.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the county Court of Nicholas, may at their October or November term next, proceed to examine and, allow the said delinquent list, the same as if it had been examined and allowed at the last November term ; and on its production to the auditor, properly certified, he is hereby authorized to receive and allow the same, as if produced in the usual time and if the said Archelaus Vanhook should punctually comply with the requisitions of this act, all damages and interest, is hereby remitted, and the auditor is directed to give him a quietus, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

:

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That Jesse C. Sheriff of War Rountree, deputy sheriff of Warren county, shall allowed a be allowed the further time until the meeting of the return his delin- court of assessment for the twenty-fifth regiment of Kentucky militia, on the last Monday in November next, to make his return to said court, the delinquents for muster and other militia fines put into his hands to collect for such regiment; and the paymaster of said regiment shall stay the collection of the sum of forty-two dollars on account of said delinquencies, until after the sitting of said court of assessment, and shall then credit the sheriff of Warren county, for the amount of delinquencies allowed by said court of assessment, to be returned by said Jesse C. Rountree, not exceeding the said sum of forty-two dollars, which it is now alledged is the amount of said delinquents.

CHAP. CCLXXVIX.

AN ACT to authorize the citizens of the town of Lebanon, in Washington county, to appoint trustees in said town, and for other purposes,

APPROVED, December 21, 1815.

Owners of lots

Powers of trustees.

To appoint a

Elections, how conducted.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the owners of lots in the town of Lebanon, in Washington to elect trusteescounty, shall, on the first Monday in March annually, elect five fit persons as trustees for said town, who shall establish such rules and regulations respecting the police of said town, as to them may seem best; which trustees when elected, shall possess the power, and perform the duties hereinafter enumerated. The return of persons so elected, shall be made to a clerk to be appointed by said clerktrustees, and by him to be recorded in a journal to be provided for that purpose: In all future elections, the election shall be conducted by one or more of the then acting trustees, to be appointed for that purpose by the board of trustees; and ten days previous notice thereof shall be given by the clerk of said board, in the most public place in said town; and the return of persons, so elected, shall be made to the clerk of said board, and by him recorded in their journal. The said trustees, before they proceed to business, shall take an oath Oaths of true, to discharge the duties of their office as trustees, without favor, affection or partiality. And the clerk of the said board shall have power to administer the oath, as also oaths to any person coming before the board under the direction of this act : All vacancies occasioned by death, resignation, or Vacancies, how otherwise, of any of the said trustees, shall be supplied by an election to be holden on some day named by the clerk of said board. The clerk so appointed, shall receive a compensation for his services, to be paid by the trustees out of the money arising from the tax aforesaid; and shall hold his office until the next annual election for trustees; but for good cause, may be removed. And the clerk before he enters upon the duties of his office,

tees.

filled.

Compensation to clerk.

Clerk to be worn.

shall take an oath, to be administered by the chairman of said board, That he will, to the best of his skill and ability, make true entries of the proceedings of said board, and that he will safely keep the books and papers given him in charge. The said Trustees may trustees shall have power to levy an ad valorem,

levy taxes.

Appoint a collector.

or capitation tax, according to their discretion, on the property both real and personal, in said town, or its citizens; and enforce the collection of a sum not exceeding fifty dollars annually, if they think proper, and apply the same to repairing or improving the streets and alleys of said town. The trustees when they have apportioned the tax, shall appoint a collector, whose duty it shall be to account for such tax within three months after a list of the same shall be put into his hands; and if any person or persons shall refuse to pay the same, the said collector shall have power to seize and sell so much of his, her or their property, as will be sufficient to make the tax by him or her due : and the collector shall deliver the money so collected to the trustees, deducting therefrom such compensation for his services, as said board may think proper: Provided, however, that before the said collector shall proceed To enter int6 to business, he shall enter into bond with sufficient security, in a penalty of one hundred dollars; and should he fail to comply with the conditions, it shall and may be recovored in the Washington circuit court, by motion made by any one of the board.

His compensation.

bond.

How proceeded against.

er of trustees.

ers

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the trustees Further pow shall have power to make such bye-laws as they may deem necessary, for their internal government, not inconsistent with the provisions contained in this act, or the constitution of this state, or the laws of the United States. All actions or motions as pointed out in the provisions of this act, shall be in the name of the trustees of the town of Lebanon.

Further time

of lots to

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the citizens allowed to own and owners of lots in said town, be, and they are complete build. hereby allowed one year from the third day of April one thousand eight hundred and sixteen to complete the buildings in said town.

ings.

CHAP. CCLXXX.

AN ACT prescribing certain duties to the surveyors of Bath and Warren counties.

APPROVED, December 21, 1815.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That until a surveyor is duly commissioned and has taken the oaths and given the bonds of office, in and for the county of Montgomery, the surveyor of Bath county may by himself, or deputies, do any official business as surveyor, or execute any survey required, permitted or directed by law, throughout the whole county of Montgomery, in as legal a manner as he is authorized to do in the county of Bath. And all work or surveying done in Montgomery county, by the surveyor of Bath county, under this act, shall be as legal and valid as if done by a duly qualified surveyor of Montgomery county.

Surveyor of Bath may act.

ren surveyor.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be Duty of the Wars lawful for the surveyor of Warren county to record the several surveys made by himself and deputies, that were made within the present boundary of the county of Allen before the division of the said county of Warren; and that the Register receive and register the same as in other cases,

CHAP. CCLXXXI.

AN ACT for the relief William Reddick, former sheriff of Campbell county.

APPROVED, December 21, 1815.

allowed him to

pay the amount the Auditor

of judgments by gainst him.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Further time the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the further time of one year from and after the passage of this act be, and the same is hereby given and allowed to William Reddick, former sheriff of Campbell, county, to pay into the public treasury, the amount of the judgments obtained by the Auditor against him as a delinquent collector of revenue of that

Interest and

ted on paying up

one year.

county; and the Auditor is hereby restrained from proceeding upon the said judgments, against the said Reddick, for and during the time aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And it is hereby further enacted, That damages remit upon the said Reddick's paying into the publie the principal in treasury, within or at the expiration of the year aforesaid, the deficit of revenue for which he was originally liable, that the interest and damages thereon, for which judgment has been entered up against him, shall be and the same is hereby remitted; and the Auditor is hereby empowered and directed to enter of record, a release therefor.

To be allowed

a credit for delinquents.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That in paying up the amount aforesaid, within or at the expiration of the year herein allowed to the said Reddick for the payment thereof, he shall be allowed by the Auditor, credit for the amount of delinquent lists properly certified, if there be any not heretofore allowed.

precinct

CHAP. CCLXXXII.

AN ACT to establish an election precinct in Jefferson

county.

APPROVED, January 4, 1816.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That all that part of the Boundary of county of Jefferson, contained within the following boundaries, viz. Begining at colonel Richard Clough Anderson's; thence on a direct line to Leonard Yenowine's; thence to George Evinger's mill; thence on a line to the sign of the Fish; thence with the Shepherdsville road to the Bullitt county line, and with the said Bullitt and Jefferson county lines until it intersects the Shelby county line; thence with the Shelby county line to the road leading through the town of Jefferson, from Louisville to Shelbyville, and with the said road to the widow Seaton's; thence to William Forwood's; thence to Henry Kalfrus's; thence to George A. K.Pomroy's; · thence to the beginning; shall be, and the same is hereby established into an election precint; and