Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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J. Bradford, printer to the Commonwealth, 1831 - Law
Includes: public acts, local and private acts. Includes regular, adjourned, called, and extraordinary sessions.

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Page 127 - ... and commit him to the jail of the county, there to remain until discharged by due course of law ; and to make return of his proceedings thereon to the clerk of the county, within ninety days from the date thereof. 1...
Page 151 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all state courts having competent jurisdiction, and in any circuit court of the United States...
Page 39 - and by the said name the said subscribers shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation, and shall be capable of taking and holding their said capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof, and of enlarging the same from time to time by new subscriptions, in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if...
Page 220 - Resolved, That the Governor of this State be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing Preamble and Joint Resolutions, to the President of the United States, and also, a copy to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, to be 214 laid before that body, and one to the Governor of each State in the Union.
Page 11 - Engineers (India)" and by the same name shall have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with power to break, alter and make anew...
Page 214 - May, 1862; and being met, not less than nine in number may elect by ballot a president, three vice-presidents, a secretary and treasurer, who shall hold their office for one year, and until others shall be chosen in their places. If the said delegates should not meet and organize themselves at such time and place as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for them to meet at such other time and place as...
Page 40 - ... sixty, one vote; for every eight shares above sixty, and not exceeding one hundred, one vote ; and for every ten shares above one hundred, one vote ; but no person, co-partnership, or body politic shall be entitled to a greater number than thirty votes. And after the first election, no share or shares shall confer a right of suffrage, which shall not have been holden three calendar months previous to the day of election.
Page 206 - You and each of you do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will well and truly try the matter of difference between plaintiff, and defendant, and true verdict give, according to law and the evidence given to you in court, so help you God...
Page 39 - ... all such lands tenements and hereditaments and estate real and personal as shall be necessary to them in the prosecution of their works and of suing and being sued and of doing all and every other matter and thing which a corporation or body politic may lawfully do...
Page 195 - A person, duly subpoenaed as a witness, who, without a reasonable excuse, proved by his oath or the oath of another person, fails to attend ; or. attending, refuses to testify; must be fined, by the...

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