1850. Persons to be SEC. 12. That all persons who subscribe stock in said road, and have had to work upon said road, are hereby exempt from working on any other road, provided said road exempt is located so that the present road does not have to be kept open. SEC. 13. That all persons who subscribe stock in said road, shall be exempt from toll, going to or from church, elections, mills or funeral processions, or any member of their families. SEC. 14. The Sheriff, for collecting and paying over the road tax to be assessed by the County Court under this act, shall be allowed five per cent. on the amount so collected and paid over; and for failing to collect and pay over, shall be liable to all the penalties which he would incur for a like failure in the discharge of his duties as collector of the State revenue: Provided, that in no event, or by any construction, is the State to be held responsible for any aid in the construction of said road. Approved January 19, 1850. from working roads. Who exempt from toll. Commissions of Sheriff for collecting levy for road. CHAPTER 29. AN ACT for the benefit of Jefferson Hall, of Marion county. Whereas, it is represented that the Marion County Court, at its levy laying Court for the year 1849, failed, from oversight, to make an appropriation to pay Jefferson Hall of said county for keeping William Branham and Elizabeth Branham, two paupers of said county, and said Court now thinks it cannot make said compensation. Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the Marion County Court, a majority of the Justices of the Peace of said county being present, to make an allowance to Jefferson Hall for keeping William Branham and Elizabeth Branham, two paupers of said county, for the year 1849; to be paid out of any funds belonging to said county not otherwise appropriated, if any; if none, then to be levied at the levy laying Court of said county, for the year 1850. Approved January 24, 1850. CHAPTER 30. AN ACT to change a part of the State road leading from Paducah to Grey's Ferry. Dycus & John. son may change Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That William Dycus and Alfred Johnson be authorized to change that part of the State road leading road. from Paducah to Grey's Ferry, for a distance of about thirty five rods, where it runs upon the lands of said Dycus 1850, point three com. view route, &c. and Johnson, between Paducah and Benton: Provided, Marshall Conn application be first made to the Marshall County Court for ty Court to ap said change; whereupon, said Court shall appoint three missioners to competent Commissioners, house keepers and not of the neighborhood, to view and report upon the proposed change, the convenience or inconvenience to the public, and upon the report to said County Court duly made out and sworn to, the said Court may then order a change in said road, as above indicated, if in their opinion said road will not thereby be put upon worse ground: Provided further, that two thirds of all the Justices of said county concur in making the order for the change, and that said Court shall not order any change in said road, until the proposed new road shall be opened as wide, and put in as good order, as the present State road. Two thirds of the Justices to concur in order to change road. Approved January 24, 1850. CHAPTER 31. AN ACT for the benefit of Robert S. C. A. Alexander. Whereas, Robert S. C. A. Alexander, a native of this State, has inherited an estate in the Kingdom of Great Britain, the title to which required his removal to the said Kingdom; and whereas, it is the wish of the said Alexander to spend a portion of his life, and to hold real property in his native State. Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the title of all real estate, which the said Alexander has heretofore purchased, or may hereafter acquire by purchase or otherwise within this Commonwealth, shall be held and considered as perfect and complete in the said Alexander, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been purchased or acquired by a resident citizen of this State. Approved January 24, 1850. CHAPTER 33. AN ACT for the benefit of Henry G. Stemmons and Almyra, his wife. Whereas, it is represented that Henry G. Stemmons and Almyra, his wife, late Almyra Sartain, are the owners, in fee simple, by descent from Elijah Sartain, the father of said Almyra, of one undivided fifth of a small tract of land in Garrard county, near the town of Lancaster, purchased by said Elijah Sartain of H. D. Samuel, and known as the "Samuel tract," containing between fifty and sixty acres, which they hold in common with Samuel Lusk, the vendee of the other heirs of said Elijah Sartain; and whereas, it is further represented that a sale of the interest of said ર Stemmons and wife in said tract will redound to their advantage, which, however, cannot be made owing to the non-age of said Almyra. Therefore, 1850. H. G. and Almyra Stemmons to interest in land, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That said Henry G. Stemmons, and Almyra, his wife, shall have and are hereby invested with full pow- authorized er to sell, alien, convey and dispose of their interest in sell and convey said land; and any conveyance which they may execute &c. therefor, otherwise valid by the laws of this State, shall be as binding and valid as though said Almyra had attained. full age. Approved January 24, 1850. CHAPTER 34. AN ACT to amend the act authorizing a Fire Company in the town of Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That an act, entitled, an act to authorize a Fire Company in the town of Russellville, and for other purposes, approved January 11, 1830, be so amended as to allow said Fire Company to have as many as forty members, instead of thirty, as provided in the first section of said act. Approved January 24, 1850. CHAPTER 35. AN ACT to incorporate the Ghent and Eagle Creek Turnpike Road Com Company. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That a company may be formed and created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Ghent and Eagle Creek Turnpike Road Company, for the purpose of making a Turnpike Road from Ghent to Eagle Creek, in the direction of New Liberty. SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be thirty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each. Name & style. Capital stock. Books for subscription of stock-when & where opened. Com'rs names. SEC. 3. That books for the subscription of stock shall be opened at Ghent, under the direction of the following gentlemen, as commissioners: W. Craig, T. Fisher, J. P. Cox, R. C. Lindsey, and Levi McCann-on the 10th day of February, 1850, or as soon thereafter as the said commissioners may direct; and they may continue the books open as long as they may think proper. The subscribers shall, in the book of the commissioners, enter into the following obligation, viz: We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do respectively promise to pay the President and Directors stockholders. of the Ghent and Eagle Creek Turnpike Road Company, Obligation of 1850. crs to call meet ing of stockhol President, Di ders to elect rectors, &c. fifty dollars for each share of stock set opposite to our SEC. 4. So soon as ten thousand dollars is subscribed to Commission the capital stock of said company, it shall be the duty of the commissioners named in the third section of this act, to give notice, in such manner as they may think proper, for a meeting of the Stockholders, at such time and place as they may think proper to designate, for the purpose of electing a President and five Directors; and one vote shall be allowed for each share of stock; and the President and Directors shall continue in office for one year, and until their successors are duly elected. The times and places for all elections, after the first, shall be fixed by the President and Directors for the time being. A majority of the Board shall be competent to transact business. Quorum. When compa powers and pri vileges. SEC. 5. So soon as said company is organized by the election of officers, the President and Directors shall be a ny is organized; body politic and corporate in fact and in law, under the name and style of the President and Directors of the Ghent and Eagle Creek Turnpike Road Company, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and all the privileges and franchises incident to a corporation; shall be capable of holding their capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof, and of taking and holding, by purchase or gift, all such lands, tenements, hereditaments, real or personal property, as may be necessary for the prosecution of their work or the objects of this corporation. They shall have power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, in any court of law or equity or elsewhere; also to have and use a common seal, and generally to do all or any act, matter or thing, which a corporation may lawfully do, to effect the objects for which this corporation is created. ter of Warsaw as part of this. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That so much or an act, Part of char entitled, an act to incorporate the Warsaw Turnpike ComTurnpike Company, passed and approved February 12, 1849, as is empany re enacted braced in sections 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, be and the same is hereby re-enacted and adopted as a part of this act, except that part of section 9, where the name of Gallatin is used, in said section, the name of Carroll shall be used in this State not to act: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall authorize any subscription of stock upon the part of the State. Approved January 24, 1850. take stock. CHAPTER 36. AN ACT to amend the charter of the City of Lexington. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That so much of the 22d section of the act, entitled, "an act to reduce into one and digest and amend the acts and amendatory acts incorporating the city of Lexington," approved February 25, 1842, as requires the Mayor and Council of the city of Lexington to appropriate annually the sum of ten thousand dollars towards paying the interest and extinguishing the debt of said city, be and the same is hereby so amended as to require the said Mayor and Council to pay, of said interest and debt, in and during the year 1850, only the sum of five thousand dollars. Approved January 24, 1850. CHAPTER 37. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, an act to extend the limits of the town of Hopkinsville, and the act amending the same, approved February 26, 1849. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That said recited act be so amended as to read after the words and figures, "to a stake in S. I. Hawkins' field;" thence N. twenty two degrees E. to the turnpike road; thence eastwardly, with said road, to the bridge over Little river; thence up said river, with the several meanders thereof, to the beginning. Approved January 24, 1850. CHAPTER 39. AN ACT for the benefit of James R. Mitchell and others. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for Edward Berry, or his transferree, to file his bill in chancery in the Washington Circuit Court, against James R. Mitchell and the heirs of Mary Ann Mitchell, deceased, wife of James R. Mitchell, praying the said Court to decree the specific execution of a contract for lands in said county, entered into between the said Edward Berry and the said James R. Mitchell, and Mary Ann his wife. The said Court shall have power to decree, and appoint a Commissioner to convey on the part of the said infants: Provided, it shall appear to the said Court that it will be to the interest of the heirs of said Mary Ann to so decree: And, provided further, that before said Court shall enter such decree, it shall take, from the said James R. Mitchell, bond with good security, conditioned to secure 1850. |