and perform the duties assigned him by an act ontitled, an act authorizing the transcript of certain records in the county court of Pendleton, approved February the eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; and the clerk and court, and commissioners appointed by said court, shall do and perform all the duties assigned them by said recited act; and said proceedings shall be as valid as if done and performed according to the provisions of said act, within the time prescribed thereby.

CHAP. CCCXXXII.

AN ACT to add a part of Allen county to the county of Warren.

APPROVED, February 3, 1816.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That all that part of Allen county, included within the following bounds, shall be, and the same is hereby added to the county of Warren, and shall compose a part of the county of Warren, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, viz. All that part of Allen county, lying west of a line to begin at the point where the line dividing the said counties of Warren and Allen, crosses the road leading from Bowling Green to Edward Martin's, called the Bledsoe's lick road, running such course as will leave the house of James Gibson, jr. one half mile in Warren; and from thence such course as will leave Thomas Cooke's house one fourth of a mile in Allen; and from the line opposite said Cooke's, a due south course to the Tennesse state line.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the sheriff of Allen county, to collect in manner and time prescribed by law, the public revenue and levies which are due, or may become due for the last year, from any person or persons residing within said bounds, as though this act had not passed.

CHAP. CCCXXXIII.

AN ACT for the relief of the 20th Regiment of the Militia of this State.

APPROVED, February 3, 1816.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Thomas Holt and Joseph Ward, esquires, of the twentieth regiment, and that James Coleman and David Rees, of the eighty-sixth regiment of the militia of this commonwealth, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, vested with full power and authority, to meet, liquidate and adjust the accounts of the aforesaid regiments, and to ascertain the amount, if any, which remains due from the eighty-sixth regiment to the twentieth regiment, as her proportion of the debts contracted by the said twentieth regiment, before the division thereof, after allowing the said eighty-sixth regiment, all the credits to which they may consider her justly entitled.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That on or before the first day of June next, the said commissioners, shall transmit to the commandants of the before mentioned regiments, each a true copy of their report; after which, the commandant of the twentieth regiment, shall be authorized to draw an order upon the paymaster of the eighty-sixth regiment, for the amount which is found due said regiment, according to the said commissioners report: which sum shall be paid by him out of any money in his hands, not otherwise appropriated.

CHAP. CCCXXXIV.

AN ACT authorizing the county court of Harrison to sell part of their public ground.

APPROVED, February 3, 1816.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and may be lawful for the county court of

Marrison, at their next April or May terms (a majority of all the justices being present,) or as soon thereafter as convenience will permit, to meet at the court house in Cynthiana, and then and there to adopt some suitable plan for disposing of a part of the public ground in said town: and the said justices shall be vested with full power and authority to sell, dispose of, and convey in such manner and under such rules and regulations as they may adopt, whatever part of their said public ground they may deem most proper should be sold, and as much thereof as may not by them be thought necessary for public uses having advertised at the door of their court house, the time and conditions of the sale, at three several court days previous thereto.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the funds arising from the sale of the aforesaid public ground, shall be by the county court appropriated in such manner as they or a majority of them may direct.

CHAP. CCCXXXV.

AN ACT to alter the time of holding the chancery term of the Mason circuit court.

APPROVED, February 3, 1816. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the chaneery term of the Mason eircuit court, shall hereafter commence on the third Monday in March, in every year, instead of the second Monday in February as heretofore directed by law.

CHAP. CCCXXXVI.

AN ACT to legalize the proceedings of the county court of Livingston, and the trustees of the town of Salem.

APPROVED, February 3, 1816. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the sheriff or collector for the county of

Livingston, to proceed, and whose duty it shall be to collect and account for the county tax levied by the court of said county at their November term, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, in the same manner now prescribed by law, notwithstanding a majority of all the justices of said county were not present at said court, and concurred in said levy.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all the acts and deeds of the trustees, for the town of Salem, in the county of Livingston, heretofore performed in their corporate capacity, shall be in all respects as good and valid in law and equity as if the election for the said trustees had been held by two justices of the peace appointed by the county court for that purpose, and in all respects been lawful.

Preamble.

The town of Bed

ed.

CHAP. CCCXXXVII.

AN ACT to establish the Town of Bedford, in the County of Henry, and the Town of Crab-Orchard, in the County of Lincoln.

APPROVED, February 6, 1816.

WHEREAS it is represented to the present General Assembly, that a town has been laid off and part of the lots sold in the county of Henry on 200 acres of land belonging to Henry Young, Jack Pryor, Charles Eastin, Charles Dorsey, jr. and Daniel Farley, who are desirous that the said 200 acres should be vested in trustees, and the town established and regulated as other towns in this commonwealth are: Therefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of ford established, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the said 200 trustees appoint acres of land shall be, and are hereby vested in Henry Davidge, Archelaws Hoskins, Daniel Farley, Jack Pryor and William Gatewood, for the purpose of a town, to be called and known by the name of Bedford ;" and that the said trustees or a majority of them, shall have full power and anthority to lay off the same into lots, streets and

alleys; and dispose of the lots, and adopt necessary rules and regulations respecting the same, and to convey to the purchasers lots which have heretofore been sold, as well as those which may hereafter be sold.

tees.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the trustees of the said town, shall possess all the power and Powers of trus authority invested in the trustees of towns by the act passed 19th December, 1796, entitled "an act concerning the establishing of towns," and the several acts amendatory thereto : and the said trustees, and the said town, shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of the before recited act, and the said acts amendatory thereto.

WHEREAS it is represented that a town has been laid out on the lands of John Daviss, at the intersection of the roads leading from Stanford and Lancaster to Mount Vernon, and that it would be proper to establish said town:

SEC. 3. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That eighteen acres, one rood, and nine poles of land, bounded as follows, to wit; Beginning at a stake the north-west corner of lot No. 45, according to the plan of the town as laid out by the proprietors; thence south eleven degrees cast twenty-six poles; thence north seventy-six degrees east thirty-two poles; thence south thirty-five degrees cast thirty one poles; thence north forty-four degrees east forty-three poles; thence north thirty-five degrees west thirty-six poles; thence south sixty-one degrees west twenty-nine poles; thence north eleven degrees west fourteen and a half poles; thence south sixty-one degrees west eleven and a half poles; thence south eleven degrees cast fourteen and a half poles; thence to the begining, be established a town according to the plan already laid out by the proprietor, John Davis; whose duty it shali be to have a correct plat thereof recorded in the clerk's office of the Lincoln county court, by which plat the boundaries of the lots and direction and width of the streets, shall be known and determined: And the town shall be known and called by the name of Craborchard.”

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Recital.

Crab-Orchard established.