1836 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the auditor of public accounts shall draw his warrant upon the treasury, in favor of James Ramey, for the sum of one hundred dollars; and the treasurer is directed to pay the same to the said James Ramey, or his agent, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; being for the apprehension of said criminals, and every charge incidental thereto, including the pay of guards, and furnishing horses. Approved, February 29, 1836. CHAP. 344.-AN ACT for the benefit of the administratrix and heirs of John Hawkins, deceased. Whereas, John Hawkins, of Woodford county, has departed this life, leaving a wife and five children; and whereas, his personal estate will be insufficient to the discharge of his debts, which will amount to near seven thousand dollars; and whereas, two of his children, since his death, have become of age, and are desirous of obtaining their portion of their father's estate: Wherefore, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Administra- the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and trix may file may be lawful for Casarina G. Hawkins, the adminher petition in istratrix of John Hawkins, deceased, to file a petition, in the Woodford circuit court, making the children of the said John Hawkins, defendants thereto, and setting forth the condition of said estate of said deceased, both real and personal, and also the amount of debts due by said deceased. the Woodford circuit court. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That if the judge Court may of the Woodford circuit court should, upon the filing decree a sale of said petition, be of the opinion, that the land and negroes and negroes, or either, should be sold to promote the inappoint a com- terest of said children, it shall and may be lawful for of land and missioner. the court to enter a decree to that effect, and appoint a commissioner to sell the same, who shall give a bond and approved security for the faithful discharge of the same. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the money Procceds, how arising from the sale of said property, shall go first in discharge of the debts due by the deceased John Hawkins, and the remainder shall be paid to the children of the said John Hawkins, deceased, who to be used. are of age, and to the guardian or guardians of those who are minors. 1836 Approved, February 29, 1836. CHAP. 345.—AN ACT subjecting to county levy, in the counties of Caldwell and Livingston, all slaves that may each year hereafter be hired, or otherwise introduced into said counties. Whereas, it is represented to the general assembly, That there are annually hired and brought into the counties of Caldwell and Livingston, a large number of slaves by the owners of iron works, who are not subject to county levy, although the presence of so many hired slaves greatly increases the necessity of patrols: For remedy whereof, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of County courts the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That hereafter all may tax all slaves that shall reside in the counties of Caldwell slaves hired or brought into and Livingston, on the tenth day of January in each the county. year, or that may be hired by any person living in either of said counties before that day in said year, shall be charged with the county levy in said counties; and those who shall hereafter hire such slave or slaves shall pay the county levy for the same in the county where they are employed; and that the commissioners of the revenue, in taking in their lists, shall administer an oath, inquiring what time the slave or slaves brought from other counties, were ister oath. hired, and if they have been so hired, by the person who may have them in possession or employ before the tenth of January in each year, to charge them against such person or persons as subject to county levy, agreeably to the intent and meaning of this act. SEC. 2. That all such slaves shall be exempt from county levy where their owners reside in the county. Approved, February 29, 1836. Commissioners to admin CHAP. 346.-AN ACT to amend an act, approved, December 22, 1831, entitled, an act to incorporate the Green River Rail Road Company. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 14th section the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That so much of of act of 1831 the fourteenth section of an act of the general as- repealed. N* 1836 sembly of the state of Kentucky, approved, the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to incorporate the Green river rail road company, as fixes the point at which said rail road shall commence, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that instead thereof, the president and directors of said company shall have full power and authority to commence said rail road at Russellville, Point at in Logan county; and running from thence the most said practicable route to Elkton, in Todd county; thence road shall to Hopkinsville, in Christian county; and from commence & thence, through Princeton, in Caldwell county, to Ed which terminate. dyville on Cumberland river: Provided however, The said company shall have full power and authority to continue said road from said town of Princeton, at such time, and to such point on the Ohio river, in Livingston county, as seems to them most practicable and best: And provided further, That said road may be extended hereafter from Russellville to the town of Bowlinggreen by the present or some other company. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the limitation Time of com- for the commencement and completion of said road, mencement & mentioned in the twenty-third section of the before recited act, be made to commence on the first day of May next, instead of the time therein mentioned. completion. When indivi SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That so soon as it shall satisfactorily appear that stock to the amount of duals take fifty thousand dollars has been, bona fide, subscribed stock state to and taken in said rail road by individuals or bodies subscribe, and corporate, it shall be the duty of the board of interhow paid. nal improvement of the state of Kentucky to subscribe a like amount, to be paid out of the present internal improvement fund south of Green river, at the same time, and in the same proportion, that subscriptions by individuals or bodies corporate are required to be paid. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in case Further sub- there shall remain, at the expiration of two years scription on from the of this act, the further sum of fifty passage state on cer- thousand dollars of said internal improvement fund condi- for the south of Green river, that has not been sub part of tain tions. the scribed for, or for which legal application has not been made in behalf of turnpike or McAdamized roads south of Green river, that then, and in that case, it shall be the duty of the board of internal improvement to subscribe, for stock in said rail road, what ever amount may so remain: Provided, That the whole amount to be subscribed out of said fund does 1836 not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars: Not to exceed And provided further, That a like amount shall be $100,000. subscribed by individuals or bodies corporate, it being the meaning and intent of this and the foregoing section of this act to put said rail road, so far as respects the sums herein authorized to be subscribed, on the part of the state, in all respects on the same footing and conditions that are required in turnpike or McAdamized roads south of Green river. not in turn SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That in case the If board subboard of internal improvement shall subscribe stock scribe stock in in said rail road, as aforesaid, that then, and in that rail road, shall event, all laws authorizing or requiring stock to be pike roads. subscribed on the part of the state to any turnpike or McAdamized road within any county, through which said rail road may be located, or to which the said road may run, be, and the same are hereby repealed, except the county of Warren. Approved, February 29, 1836. CHAP. 347.-AN ACT for the benefit of the county of Jefferson. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the pro- High school visions of an act for the benefit of the high school, in Louisville. in the city of Louisville, and the male and female orphan asylum in Middletown, shall be confirmed as to the high school of the city of Louisville, and the real estate referred to in said act, shall be, and the same is hereby vested in the mayor and council of said city, for the benefit of said high school; and whereas, the male and female orphan asylum of Middletown, has been abandoned without using the fund appropriated by said act, therefore it shall be Estate grantlawful for the county court of Jefferson to devote ed by Jefferand appropriate that part of the real estate which court to asycounty was granted to the said male and female asylum, to lum at Midthe payment of the costs of the court house and dletown may public buildings, which the county court of Jeffered to pay for be appropriatson and city of Louisville have agreed to construct, court house. and for that purpose may elect any three or more of their own body trustees of the Jefferson seminary, and authorize them, by an order of said court, to sue for and recover said land, and to sell and con son 1836 Proviso. and clerk's vey the same, and appropriate the proceeds to the SEC. 2. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the mayor and council of the city of Louisville, to pay City to pay the county court clerk of Jefferson, and to the sheriff half of sheriff of Jefferson county, in each year, thirty dollars each, being one half of the ex officio services of said officers, directed to be paid out of the county levy of the county, and one half of all other expenses which the county court of Jefferson are bound, by law, to provide for, and pay, in which the city are equally benefited or interested. ex-officio services, &c. County court may lay their levy. And whereas, it is represented to this general assembly, that the county court for the county of Jefferson, have omitted to lay her county levy for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, at the period fixed by law for laying the said county levy: Therefore, SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful, and the county court of said county of Jefferson are authorized to lay their county levy for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, at their ap proaching March or April term, and the proceed ings of the court, in relation thereto, shall be as legal and valid as though the said levy had been laid at the former period, as allowed by law. Approved, February 29, 1836 |