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tucky, and endowed it with certain appropriations,
for special purposes: and whereas a suitable building
had been erected, which by casualty or otherwise,
has been unfortunately consumed by fire: and where. Preamble.
as about six hundred dollars of said fund has not
been disbursed or used, but is yet in the hands of the
trustees of said Southern College: and whereas the
said trustees have title to some land, which, under
this Commonwealth has been carried into grant for
the benefit of said College, together with a library
and some apparatus: Therefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the said trustees Trustees of are hereby empowered and authorized to use any the Southern money or property in their possession as trustees, for orized to use the special purpose of erecting a portion of a building their funds in for said College, such as will hereafter be a suituable erectingbuildell or wing to said College or building, when, in bet- ings. ter times, said building may be completed or ex

tended.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That if said trustees think it advisable, they may, in consideration of suffi- May grant the privilege of cient contributions that may be offered and made by using the the Masonic lodge or its members, at Bowlinggreen, same to the grant certain privileges, rights and title to said lodge, Masoniclodge in and pertaining to and to be confined exclusively to conditions. the upper room or rooms in said ell or wing, and make said lodge such title thereto as may secure them remuneration for their contributions.

upon certain

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the scite or loca- Scite of the tion for said College shall not be changed from where College buildthe building for said College originally stood, unless ing not to be changed. in the opinion of a majority of said trustees, a better situation can be procured, and without the expenditure of the aforesaid means, or any part thereof.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That said trustees Books, &c. of shall, if possible, accomplish the object aforesaid, to- the College wit, the erection of said ell or wing, without the dis- not to be sold, position of their books or apparatus, first using every lutely necesother resource, and trying, in addition thereto, to sary. procure private donations.

unless abso

Trusteesto re

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the turn an acc't. duty of said trustees, in relation to the above money the monies exannually of and property, to be thus appropriated, once in each pended by year, by their Clerk, or some one appointed out of them, and to their board for the purpose, to give a full account of Warren C'ty the disposition of said money or property, by written Court ann'ly.

settle with the

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Lancaster
Academy.

affidavit, before the County Court of Warren, to be filed and recorded in said court: and said trustees shall from time to time, settle with said court, shewing their receipts and expenditures: and said court is hereby authorized to enforce said settlement as by law they may enforce settlements with guardians, &c.

AND WHEREAS great inconvenience is experienced from the great number of trustees to the Lancaster Academy, and from the inattention and locality of said trustees to said institution: For remedy whereof, SEC. 6. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Present trus- Commonwealth of Kentucky, That said trustees, and each of them, shall be and are hereby declared out of office, on the 1st day of June, 1828.

tees declared

out of office in June next.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the County Garrard City Court of Garrard county, at their May term, 1828, Court author- shall and are hereby authorized to appoint five fit point trustees and suitable persons for trustees to said institution,

ized to ap

who shall be forthwith notified of said appointment,

and who shall be in office so soon as the present trustees are out of office by this act: and said trustees so Vacancies to appointed by said court, shall have power to fill all be filled by the vacancies and appoint their successors, when any vacaney shall occur by death or otherwise.

trustees.

Trustees of the town to

Approved, December 31, 1827.

CHAP. 15.-An act to divorce Sally Cole from ber husband James
Cole.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the marriage contract heretofore existing between Sally Cole and James Cole, her husband, as to the said Sally, be, and the same is hereby annulled and set aside, and the said Sally Cole be and she is hereby restored to all the privileges and immunities of a feme sole.

Approved, December 31, 1827.

CHAP. 16. An act further to regulate the powers of the trustees of the town of Mount Vernon, in Bullitt county, and for other purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the be elected an- Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the elections for the nually. trustees of the town of Mount Vernon, in Bullitt

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cancies in the

county, shall hereafter be holden on the second Monday in August, in each year, at the house of Abraham Job, in said town, instead of the time heretofore pre- And to fill vascribed by law; and that in case of vacancies by board. death, resignation or otherwise, that the board of trustees so elected, shall have power to elect, and are hereby directed forthwith to elect and fill said vacancies.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That said trustees May levy and shall have power to levy upon the holders of proper- collect taxes. ty in said town, an ad valorem taxation, not exceeding thirty-seven and a half cents upon each hundred dollars worth of property, to be appropriated as said trustees may deem necessary, for the good and inter

est of said town.

Approved, December 31, 1827.

Thos. Smith.

GILAP. 17.-An act for the benefit of Thomas Smith and others. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Register of the Provision for land office be, and he is hereby directed to issue a patent to Thomas Smith, of Barren county, for twenty-five acres of land, according to the lines and corners of the survey whereon the said Smith now resides, without fee.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Register be, and he is hereby directed to issue a patent to Jane Shipley, for fifty-four acres of land, whereon she now resides, in Allen county, upon the production of a plat signed by Hugh Brown, without fee.

Jane. Shipley.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the Register of the land office be, and he is hereby directed to re- For the wiceive a plat and certificate of survey made in the dow & heirs name of James Manes, assignee, for two hundred of Jas. Manes, acres of land, upon a certificate No. 980, granted by deceased. the Pulaski County Court, to Samuel Hand, and to issue a patent therefor in the name of Margaret Manes, the widow, and her children, the heirs of James Manes, deceased, without the payment of the State price, and without fee, on the survey made by James Hardgrove, surveyor of Pulaski county, in the name of the said James Manes, assignee as aforesaid. Provided, that said patents shall not interfere with older or better claims to said tracts of land, and the patents shall contain this proviso.

Approved, December 21, 1827.

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term to be

CITAP. 18.-An act making a Chancery term to the Montgomery
Circuit Court.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Montgomery Circuit Court, to hold A chancery annually, a term for the trial of Chancery causes, commencing on the third Monday in February, and held annually to continue twelve juridical days, if the business shall ry, in Febru- require it; and the Judge presiding, shall have the same powers over all chancery proceedings which he may or can have at the regular terms of said Circuit Court.

in Montgome

ary.

Approved, December 31, 1827.

CHAP. 19.-An act to authorize the trustees of the Hart county
Seminary to sell their donation lands.

WHEREAS, it is represented to the present General Assembly, that the trustees of the Hart county Seminary, have been heretofore authorized by law to sell two thirds of the land located for that Seminary, and that it would greatly promote the interest and prosperity of said institution to allow the said trustees to sell and convey the remaining third of said land for the benefit of the Seminary as aforesaid:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the Hart county Seminary, to sell and convey the whole or any part of the land located for said Seminary, and apply the proceeds thereof in the erection of a building for the accommodation of said institution.

Approved, January 2, 1828.

CHAP. 20.-An act for the benefit of David Morgan. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com⚫monwealth of Kentucky, That the County Court of County Court Floyd county, shall have full power to appoint four of Floyd au- disinterested Commissioners, any three of whom may act, after being first duly sworn, impartially to rechanges in the view that part of the road leading from Mountsterling to the Virginia line, by way of Prestonsburg, which passes through the land of David Morgan, beginning at the first crossing of the branch above

thorized to make certain

State road.

his house, and to intersect the State road at the ford of Sandy river, known by the name of Haws's ford; and the said Commissioners shall report to the said Court, the convenience and inconvenience the public as well as the individual may sustain by the change which is contemplated, and on the return of said report, the said County Court shall have power (if they deem it expedient,) to make any order to change said road, at the expense of said Morgan. The road shall be opened and completed in every respect, agreeably to the act of Assembly for opening the road from Mounsterling to the Virginia line, which road, when so changed, shall be governed in all respects by the laws now in force.

Approved, January 2, 1823.

CHAP. 21.-An act for the benefit of Jesse Bailey, Ephraim
Blackford and others.

WHEREAS, a survey has been made and executed on the 2d day of June, 1800, in Warren county, Kentucky, for William Powell, assignee of John M'Niel, who was assignee of Wyatt Anderson, of two hundred acres of second rate land, by virtue of the Commissioners certificate granted to Wyatt Anderson, No. 2092: And whereas, said two hundred acres of land was sold by the Register of the land office on the 19th day of December, 1807, to Jesse Bailey for the first instalment, amounting to $9 07, which land has never been redeemed, as appears by the Register's return in the Auditor's office: And whereas, Ephraim Blackford, a remote assignee of said Bailey, has paid $63 08, the State price in full, as also appears from the Auditor's receipt, and the title to said land should therefore pass to said Bailey, from all that appears in the land office of this Commonwealth: And whereas, the said certificate of sale by the Register to said Bailey is lost, and the said Bailey's necessary affidavit cannot be procured as to the loss of said certificate of sale to said Bailey: For remedy whereof,

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Recital,

thorized to is

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com- Register aumonwealth of Kentucky, That the Register of the land sue to Bailey office of this Commonwealth, be authorized, and a patent for he is hereby directed, upon the duplicate of the 200 acres of certificate of sale by the Auditor, and a certified certain condi-copy of the original survey being filed from the Sur- tions.

land, upon