line to Cashe's bridge on the turnpike road, about equidistant between Princeton and Eddyville; thence a straight line to Livingston creeek, at Old Centerville, where the road leading from Princeton to Salem crosses said creek; Rothence down said creek, with the Crittenden line, to Cumberland river; thence up said river with the Livingston county line to the narrows on said river, and thence with said line across to the Tennessee river; thence up said river, with its meanders, to the Trigg county line; thence with said county line to the beginning. 2. The seat of justice for Lyon county shall be and the same is hereby located at the town of Eddyville, in said county. 1854. Seat of justice at Eddyville. Four districts and election pre cincts. Commissioners to lay them off. When commissioners to act. Copy of boundaries of district for safe keeping. 3. The county of Lyon shall be divided into four districts, in each of which there shall be elected two Justices of the Peace and one Constable; which districts shall also be election precincts. James N. Gracey, Robt. L. Cobb, Jefferson G. Smith, Thomas G. Watkins, John F. Kelly, Leisel Stone, and Thos. J. Cobb are appointed commissioners, who, after taking an oath faithfully and impartially to discharge their duties as such, shall lay off said districts and designate the place of voting in each. A majority of said commissioners may act. They shall meet in the town of Eddyville on the first Monday of March next, or as soon thereafter as may be, and proceed to the duties imposed upon them by this act; and may adjourn from time to time, and place to place, until through. They shall lodge a certified copy of the boundaries of said districts in the to be deposited hands of Reuben R. O'Hara or F. H. Skinner, of the town of Eddyville, whose duty it shall be to hold the same in safe keeping, until there shall be an election of a county court clerk for said county of Lyon, and then it shall be delivered to said clerk, who shall file and record the same in his office; and they shall forthwith transmit another certified copy thereof to the secretary of state, who shall carefully preserve the same in his office. They shall also designate in each of said districts two suitable persons to act as judges, and one in each to act as clerk; one in each terms of office. to act as sheriff of the election of a circuit court clerk, a county court clerk, a sheriff, an assessor of tax, a surveyor, jailer, coroner, a presiding judge of the county court, a county attorney, two justices of the peace, and one constable for each district for said county; which election shall be held on the first Monday in April next. Before entering Officers to be elected and how, and the Officers to be Sheriffs to meet and on their duties respectively, each judge, sheriff, and clerk sworn. compare 1854. son having the highest number of votes, and the office to which he is elected; one of which shall be lodged in the hands of said R. R. O'Hara or F. H. Skinner, who shall cause it to be recorded in the county court clerk's office of Lyon county, and the other of which they shall forthwith transmit by mail or otherwise to the secretary of state, of where it shall be carefully preserved; whose duty it shall be forthwith to cause commissions to be issued to those persons elected. persons named in the certificate, to each, for the office to which he shall be elected. Secretary state to cause commissions to be issued to Officers requir oath, and how long to remain ed to take an in office. Caldwell coun. ty to retain ju risdiction unul, &c. How public grounds to be obtained, &c. § 4. Each of said officers shall take an oath, and when by law required, shall execute bond according to existing laws in reference to similar officers; and thereupon their official acts shall be obligatory to all intents and purposes, if done in accordance with the laws of this state. They shall hold their respective offices until the next regular election for like officers, and until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, that the sheriff so elected shall hold his office for the term of two years, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. $5. The county of Caldwell, before this act takes effect, shall have jurisdiction in all things as though this act had never passed. § 6. The presiding judge of the county court, and the justices of the peace of said county of Lyon, a majority of said justices being present, shall be and they are hereby authorized and required to make a suitable selection of lots or parcels of ground in said town of Eddyville, and purchase or accept the same on donation, if tendered by the citizens of said town, for the erection of public buildings for the seat of justice for said county; and it shall be the duty of said county court to make provision for the payment of the purchase money, of said lots or parcels of land, and cause a suitable court house and jail, and such Public build other public buildings as they may think fit, to be erected at the expense of the county; and until such buildings are erected, it shall be their duty to provide some suitable buildings for holding the county and circuit courts of said county, clerks' offices, and other necessary buildings, at the expense of said county. The means for these public conveniences may be raised by a capitation tax on all those persons in said county subject to capitation tax by existing laws: Provided, that said tax shall not exceed one dollar and fifty cents per capita in any one year. ings to be erect ed. vision line to be run. 7. That James G. Glenn be and he is hereby appointBy whom di ed commissioner, with such assistants as he may deem necessary to employ, to run and mark the division line as designated in section first of this act, who shall be allowed three dollars per day for his services, and two dollars per day shall be allowed each of the persons he may engage to assist him, payable out of the county levy of said county of Lyon. 8. The said county of Lyon shall vote for senator in the state legislature, with the eleventh senatorial district, and for county representative with the county of Caldwell, until changed by law; and the sheriffs of said counties in all such elections shall compare the poils of said counties as now prescribed by law. 9. The county court of the said county of Lyon shall hold its monthly sessions on the second Monday of every month in which the circuit court does not sit, and its quarterly sessions on the fourth Mondays in January, April, July and October. Approved January 14, 1854. CHAPTER 52. AN ACT to provide for a special chancery and criminal term of the Fulton circuit court. Special equity and criminal Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That hereafter there shall be holden in the county of Fulton a special term of the circuit court, for the term in Fulton. trial of equity and criminal cases, commencing on the second Monday in July in each year, and to continue for six juridical days, if the business of the court shall require it: Provided, that this act shall not be construed so as to oust the circuit court of said county of any jurisdiction which it now has by law. Approved, January 17, 1854. CHAPTER 54. AN ACT concerning the Louisville chancery court. WHEREAS, doubts exist whether the chancellor of the Louisville chancery court has jurisdiction of proceedings under the 86th chapter of the Revised Statutes of Kentucky. To remove the same, Chancellor of Louisville chan. cery court has jurisdiction D land and slaves under chapter 86 utes, page 591. of infants, &c., 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Louisville chancery court shall have all the equitable jurisdiction of proceedings under said chapter which is conferred on the Jefferson cir-order sales of cuit court, and that the Louisville chancery court shall have all the equitable and chancery jurisdiction which the Jefferson circuit court now has, and that all suits and proceedings in equity, now pending in the Jefferson circuit court, may, on motion of either party, be removed to the Louisville chancery court and there be determined; and that no chancery suits or equitable proceedings shall hereafter be instituted or prosecuted in the Jefferson circuit court. 2. That no suit, in which the chancellor has equitable Revised Stat Suits in circuit court may be re moved to chan cery court. 1854. Suits not to be removed from chancery to circuit court. Chancellor pro tem may be elec ted. utes, 229. jurisdiction, shall hereafter be removed from the Louisville chancery court to the Jefferson circuit court; and when, from any cause, the chancellor of said court cannot properly preside in a cause, the attorneys of said court may, at the request of either of the parties, elect a chancellor, pro tempore, to try said cause. §3. That the chancellor, pro tempore, shall be elected as Revised Stat is provided in chapter 27, article 13, of the Revised Statutes of Kentucky; and said chancellor pro tempore shall have the same compensation and rights, and be governed by the same laws and responsibilities as is provided in said article for the special judges. Executions from court of appeals in chancery court cases from to be directed to the marshal. § 4. That hereafter, when an execution or other process shall issue from the clerk's office of the court of appeals in suits by appeal or otherwise from the Louisville chancery court, the clerk of the court of appeals, instead of directing said execution, or other process, to the sheriff of Jefferson county as heretofore, for collection or service, shall direct said execution, or other process, to the marshal of the Louisville chancery court. Approved January 17, 1854. CHAPTER 74. AN ACT changing the time of holding the court of claims for Boone county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Court of claims of Kentucky, That hereafter the court of claims for the county of Boone shall be held on the first Monday in October in each year. in Boone county Approved January 23, 1854. CHAPTER 93. AN ACT to change the line between the counties of Franklin and Ander son. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth R C. McKee of Kentucky, That the line between Franklin and Ander in Anderson. son counties be and the same is hereby so changed as to include the house in which R. C. McKee now resides within the county of Anderson. Approved January 28, 1854. CHAPTER 108. AN ACT to change the time of holding the terms of the county courts in Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That from and after the passage of this act all the terms of the county court for Henry county, now appointed by law to be held on the first Monday in each month, shall be held on the fourth Monday in each month. Approved January 28, 1854. 1854. CHAPTER 125. AN ACT to establish the county of McLean. County estab. lished. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That from and after the second Monday in May, 1854, all those parts of Daviess, Muhlenburg, and Ohio counties lying within and included in the following boundary, shall be and the same is hereby stricken from said counties and erected into one district or county, to be called, designated and known as the county of McLean, in honor of the late Hon. Alney McLean, deceased, to-wit: beginning on Green river, one half mile above the Boundaries. ferry landing of Samuel C. Harrilson, and running thence a straight line to the northwest corner of Thomas Crow's 4787 acre survey, standing a few poles east of Sand Lick creek; thence along the north line of said survey, and the north line of Jo. Barnett's 4000 acre survey, John and Jas. Barnett's 2500 acre survey, and Jacob Vanmeter's 2675 acre survey, to the northeast corner of the latter survey; thence a straight line to James Baird's residence, including him in the county of McLean; thence a straight line to the residence of Presley Moseley, Sr., also including him in the said county of McLean; thence a straight line to the old Harmon's ferry road, at the point where the old path on the road from Pascal Johnson's old residence intersects or crosses the Harmon's ferry road, leading to the old farm of Remus Griffith; thence with the old Harmon's ferry road, along the middle or centre of said road, to the Ohio county line; thence a straight line to Rough creek, run so as to include the plantation formerly occupied by Henry Taylor; thence down Rough creek to Green river; thence up Green river to the mouth of the Thoroughfare branch; thence up the Thoroughfare branch to the mouth of Big creek; thence up Big creek to a point where the road from Rumsey to Greenville crosses the same; thence a straight line to the head of the island on Pond river, at the Horseshoe bend; thence down Pond river to Green river, and down Green river to the beginning. 2. That the county of McLean shall be laid off into five districts for the election of justices of the peace and Five districts to be laid off by commissioners. |