CHAP. CCCLII. AN ACT for the benefit of Caleb Linsey. APPROVED, February 8, 1816. WHEREAS the agent of Caleb Linsey through mistake, has paid into the treasury of this state, sixty dollars eighty cents, which he did not intend to pay, on part of Christian county court certificate, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five, and a patent hath issued to said Linsey, on the survey made on said certificate of four hundred acres, when it should have issued on a re-survey of ninety-six acres: For remedy whereof, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That as soon as said Linsey surrenders the said patent to the Register, the Auditor of public accounts is hereby directed to issue is warrant on the treasurer of this state, for the sum of sixty dollars, eighty cents, which he shall receive and pay as in similar cases; and the Register of the land office is hereby authorized and directed to receive and take back the patent issued for four hundred acres, and cancel the same; and when the proper time arrives, he may issue a patent for the said ninety-six acres according to the said re-survey: Provided, always, that the said Linsey shall have no right or title to the said four hundred acres under the patent therefor, but said patent is hereby declared absolutely void. CHAP. CCCLIII. AN ACT to legalize the appointment of Commissioners, to take in lists of taxable property for the the county of Casey. APPROVED, February 8, 1816. WHEREAS the county court of Casey county failed to appoint their commissioners for taking in lists of taxable property for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, at the time appointed by law, owing to high water, which prevented said court from meeting. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the appointment of commissioners to take in lists of taxable property for the county of Casey, by the county court of said county, at their April term last, bé, and the same is hereby legalized, and shall be as valid as if the said appointment had been made at the time prescribed by law. CHAP. CCCLIV. AN ACT for the relief of William White. APPROVED, February 8, 1816. WHEREAS it is represented to the present General Assembly, that James M Chord obtained a certificate from the county court of Warren at their September term, one thousand eight hundred and one, for two hundred acres of land, number two hundred and thirty-six; and that the clerk of the court in noting down such certificate on the record, through inadvertance or mistake, put it down in the name of John M.Chord, instead of James M Chord; and that the certificate stands on the books of the Auditor, in the name of John M.Chord, number two hundred and thirty-five; and the said certificate has been surveyed in the name of William White, assignee, and registered, agreeable to law: SEC. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Thạt the Register of the land office is hereby authorized to issue the patent to said William White, on said survey, for said two hundred acres of land, so soon as he shall file in the said Register's office, the Auditor's quictus in full on said certificate so standing on his books, in the said name of John M Chard, number two hundred and thirty-five; and when the said plat and certificate of survey shall have remained in the Register's office six months, as in other cases. CHAP. CCCLV. AN ACT for the benefit of Elizabeth Prichard, APPROVED, February 8, 1816. WHEREAS it is represented to the present General Assembly, that Elizabeth Prichard, the widow of Thomas Prichard, deceased, has a large family of children, in indigence and distress, and that the said Elizabeth is unable to pay the state price of one hundred and thirty acres of land, on which she now lives: SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That so much of the state price as remains unpaid for said one hundred and thirty acres of land, be, and the same is hereby remitted: And the Register of the land of fice is hereby directed to issue a patent to the heirs of the said Thomas, for the said one hundred and thirty acres of land, upon their filing in the land office a plat and certificate of survey: Provided, however, that the said grant shall not be so construed, as to give to the said heirs a preference to any prior claim which may exist. CHAP. CCCLVI. AN ACT to amend and explain an act, concerning witnesses in certain cases, and venire men. APPROVED, February 8, 1816. WHEREAS it is represented to the present General Assembly, that an ambiguity exists in tho existing law allowing a compensation to witnesses, fer explanation whereof: SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That each, and every witness summoned to attend on trials before justices of the peace of this commonwealth, shall be allowed the same compensation per day, which by the present law is allowed to witnesses for attending courts, commissioners, referees and surveys of land. CHAP. CCCLVII. AN ACT to compel the manufacturers of Salt petre, to inclose their works, prior to making Suit petre.. APPROVED, February 8, 1816. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That all and every person or persons, who shall proceed to make saltpetre, without having previously enelosed his or their works, so as to render it inaccessable to cattle, and every other kind of stock that may receive injury by drinking the Salt-petre water, brine, or bitter water; or who may at any time after such enclosure shall have been made, shall by leaving down gaps, or otherwise, whereby such cattle or stock as aforesaid, can have access to such Salt-pe tre water, brine or bitter water; for every such offence, shall be subject to pay a fine of twenty dollars; which may be recovered by warrant before any justice of the peace in this commonwealth; which fine shall be applied to lessening the county levy, in the county where the offence shall have been committed. * This act shall commence and be in force, from and after the first day of June next. CHAP. CCCLVIII. AN ACT to enable owners of slaves to protect them from the violence of the wanton and unfeeling. APPROVED, February 8, 1816. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That if any person shall hereafter, whip, strike, or otherwise abuse the slave of another, without the consent of the own-er of such slave, the person owning such slave shall have a right to commence and prosecute an action of trespass in any circuit court in this commonwealth, against the person so offending, notwithstanding the slave may not be so injured that the master may lose his or her services thereby, and notwithstanding the slave shall not have been in the possession of the master at the time he or she was so whipped; and the court shall render judg ment for such damages as the jury shall assess, and the cost: Provided, that nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to prevent any person or persons from inflicting such punishments on slaves, as the laws now in force permit. CHAP. CCCLIX. AN ACT for the benefit of the heirs of David Simp son. APPROVED, February 8, 1816. WHEREAS it is represented to the present General Assembly, that David Simpson, deceased, of South Carolina, did in his life time purchase a certificate, No. 276, for two hundred acres of land, now in Wayne county, from Andrew Hite, with the view of moving his family and settling on said land; but in going after his family he died, leaving a widow and three helpless infants: SEC. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That if the relatives to the heirs of the said David Simpson shall, within twelve months from the passage of this act, pay into the treasury of this state, the balance of the money due for the said two hundred acres of land, without interest, the Register shall issue a grant therefor to the said heirs, under the same rules and regulations as for persons actually settled on lands. |