An act author ising a lottery for the benefit of the Warren Semina ry, revived. er or owners, so failing or refusing, in like manner, as other monies may, or can be by law levied and collected from the inhabitants of said town, for any other purpose, SEC. 15. Be it further enacted, That the second section of the act entitled," an act, concerning the Seminary of Warren county, and authorising a lottery for the benefit of said institution," approved the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force, under the terms and stipulations therein contained. CHAP. CCCLXXXI. AN ACT for the relief of the Sheriff of Breckenridge APPROVED, February 10, 1816. WHEREAS it is represented to the present Gen, eral Assembly, that a number of the sheriffs in this Commonwealth, have failed to return their dclinquent lists to the courts of assessment as the law directs: For remedy whereof, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and may be lawful for the several sheriffs in this Commonwealth, who have failed to return their delin quent lists to the courts of assessment, for their inspection, shall make oath to the same before some justice of the peace, who shall certify the same to the paymaster, who shall give such sheriffs a credit for the amount of said list in his settlement lists before the next court of assessment; and if the court should deem them to be good, or any part thereof, the judge advocate shall certify the same to the commandant of the regiment, who shall relist the same with the sheriff for collection. This act shall continue in force twelve months from its passage, and no longer. CHAP. CCCLXXXII. AN ACT for the benefit of the Breckenridge Semin ary, and to allow a further time to survey certain seminary lands. APPROVED, February 10, 1816. WHEREAS it is represented to the present General Assembly, that no trustees have heretofore been appointed for the Breckenridge seminary lands: SEC. 1. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Joseph Allen and John P. Oldham, of Hardinsburg, be, and they are hereby appointed trustees, with full power and authority to sell and convey the said lands, and appropriate the proceeds of such sales in the manner prescribed by an act passed the last session of the General Assembly of this state, authorising the trustees of seminaries to sell their seminary lands, with the further privi- · lege of vesting the proceeds of such sales, in the purchase of stock of any Bank which now is, or hereafter may be incorporated by the legislature of this state. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the further time of two years be given to survey the donation lands for the several seminaries in this Commonwealth. CHAP, CCCLXXXIII. AN ACT to settle the Boundary Line between this APPROVED, February 10, 1816. WHEREAS a dispute exists as to the true position of the boundary line between this state and the state of Tennessee, which has produced many Preamble: attempts at accommodation hitherto unsuccessful; and the state of Tennessee, by an act of its legisla ture, passed on the seventeenth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, has appointed a commissioner to wait on the constituted authorities of this state, and adopted the principles for adjusting the said boundary line; and although this state cannot meet every proposition contained in the said recited act, and pass one on the part of this state in all respects similar: because, first, the establishment of Walker's line (as it is usually called) would not determine the whole extent of boundary between the two states; and secondly, because this legislature is forbidden by our own Constitution, to form any compact with a sister state, or do any other thing within the purview of legislative authority, which might take from individuals a right of property in lands near the contemplated line, without previously paying the claimants a compensation therefor. Yet, the legislature of this state, being willing to keep open the door of accommodation and adjustment, and feeling desirous that mutual harmony beetween the two states should not be molested by a territorial controversy, do propose the following terms: SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the line usually called Walker's line, so far as it was originally run and marked, to wit: From a point near the mouth of Obed's alias Aba's river, to the Tennessee river, be the true jurisdictional line between this state and the state of Tennessee. And as to the residue of the line between the two states, the following shall be adopted as the true position thereof: At the eastern extremity of Walker's line, near the mouth of Obed's river aforesaid, a line shall be run at right angles either north or south, as the case may require, till it reaches the true chartered limits of the two states, in the latitude of thirty six degrees and thirty minates north; and from that point the line shall be extended to the cast, still keeping the same latitude, till it reaches the eastern boundary of this state. And at the west extremity of Walker's line, to wit: At the Tennessee river, a line shall be extended up or down said river, (as the case may require) till it reaches the true chartered lati tude of thirty six degrees and thirty minutes north; Lines to be as inarked at the both states. FIRST. The lines so pointed out, shall be marked or re-marked, and well cleared, at the joint certained and expence of each state, by two commissioners, at- joint expence of tended with proper surveyors, chainmen, markers and laborers. And one of said commissioners shall be appointed by each state. And in running that part of the line (called Walker's line) the commissioners shall be governed by the old marks, if they can be found, or the most notorious places how to ge of the line, as now acknowledged, still making the erned in running line as straight as can be practicable, if the old line shall be found to be crooked. SECOND. The true chartered limits between the two states, shall be run on that part now supplied by Walker's line, and marked in numerous places, so that hereafter, it may be found with ease and convenience, and may furnish evidence of the situation of claims when they shall be adjusted as hereafter directed. Commissiouers lines, &c. Second article. THIRD. If the true chartered limits in that part Third article, of the line supplied by Walker's line, shall turn out to be north of Walker's line, and encroach on what is now under the jurisdiction of Kentucky, and any fair connected titles to land derived under the laws of the states of North Carolina or Tennessee, completed by patent from the proper authority, shall appear between Walker's line and the true chartered line, and shall interfere with any title or cover any occupant, holding title under the laws of this state or the state of Virginia, the claimants, at their option, may relinquish such claim, and be entitled to compensation for the value thereof, from the state of Kentucky, ascertained in a manner pointed out by this act; or such claimants may take any remedy to recover Fourth article. Fifth article. Six article. the land which may be most proper for their case. And if, on the contrary, the true chartered limits shall be south of Walker's line, and include a portion of the land now under the jurisdiction of the state of Tennessee, and any fair connected titles to land derived under the laws of the states of Virginia or Kentucky, completed by patent from the proper authority, shall appear between Walker's line and the true chartered line, and shall interfere with any title, or cover any occupant holding title under the laws of the states of North Carolina or Tennessee, the claimants at their option, may relinquish such claim, and be entitled to compensation for the value thereof, from the state of Tennessee, ascertained in the manner pointed out by a stipulation between the two states; or such claimants may take any remedy to recover the land which may be most proper for their case. FOURTH. If any claimant holding title under one state, shall not elect to take compensation for the land, according to the next preceding article, and shall by any suit in law or equity, recover the land from any occupant holding title under the laws of the other state, he shall be compelled, in a mode pointed out by the laws governing such court, where the recovery may be had, to compensate the occupant for his improvements on the land, according to their intrinsic value, without any deduction for rents or waste and for such compensation the occupant shall have a lien on the land so recovered; and shall not be disturbed in the posession thereof, till the compensation legally ascertained, shall be paid to such occupant. FIFTH. If any claim for land shall fall between Walker's line and the true chartered limits, and shall come nnder the jurisdiction by this arrangement, of the state from which such title did not originate, and shall not be patented when the line is thus settled, and shall interfere with a title derived from the state to whom the jurisdiction shall be assigned by this compact, no patent shall ever issue threfor; and all patents issued contrary to this article shall be void. SIXTH. If in the territory ceded by this com pact, there shall exist any claim between Wal |