1830. To the commissioners of the public buildings, for the completion of the capitol, twelve thousand five Commissioners hundred dollars. of public buil dings. P. S. Loughborough. B. R. Pollard. To same.. To Aulitor To P. S. Loughborrow, for making Index to the acts of one thousand eight hundred and twentyeight, fifteen dollars. To Benjamin R. Pollard, for transcribing fifty three pages in manuscript of the militia law, at last session, fifteen dollars. To B. R. Pollard, for postage of letters to Louisville, by the direction of the chairman of the committee of the Senate, on the nomination of Charles L. Harrison, seventy cents. To the Auditor of public accounts, to enable him to pay an additional clerk, required by "the act reguand Register. lating the duties of the clerks of this Commonwealth;" and to the Register of the land office, to enable him to pay an additional clerk, required to record the surveys in his office, four hundred dollars each Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Auditor of The auditor to public accounts be directed to settle with Albert G. Meriwether for the residue of his account for public printing, and not included in his present bill, and issue his warrant on the Treasury in his favor for such sum as may be found to be due him. settle Meriwether's account for public printing. To Littleberry Batchelor, per account rendered, L. Batchelor. twenty seven dollars and twenty-five cents. John Wood. Reuben. J. Batchelor. Bacon & John son. A. Crockett. J. H. Holeman A. Crockett. Wood and To John Wood, per account rendered, three dollars. To Reuben, a black boy, for making fires in Senate chamber during the present session, ten dollars. To James Batchelor, a boy employed as a runner in the Senate, five dollars per week. To Bacon and Johnson per account rendered, three dollars and fifty-cents. To Anthony Crockett, as per account rendered for wood furnished the Senate, eighty-eight dollars. To Jacob H. Holeman, as per account rendered, thirty dollars. To Anthony Crockett, as per account, four dollars and fifty cents. To William Wood and A. C. Keenon, for binding two thousand copies of the acts of the present General Assembly, three hundred dollars each, also, sixty-two dollars and fifty cents each, for binding two hundred and fifty copies of each, of the journals of the present session, one half of which sum shall be paid in advance and the balance upon their producing to the Auditor the Secretary's certificate of the delivery in his office, of the number of copies hereby authorized to be bound: Provided, that if the full number of copies allowed to be bound as aforesaid, shall not be furnished the Secretary, a deduc tion at the rate of thirty-three and one third cents for each copy of the acts, and fifty cents for each copy of the journals, so wanting, shall be made. 1830. To A. C. Keenon, for folding and stitching one A. C. Keenor. hundred and fifty copies of a pamphlet relating to rail roads, one dollar and fifty cents. CHAP. CCCXLVIII. AN ACT appropriating some of the vacant lands in Laurel and Knox counties to the improvement of a road. Approved, January 29, 1830. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Land warrants Commonwealth of Kentucky, That warrants for the lo- appropriated cation of lands to the value of five hundred dollars Madison fork to improve the be, and the same are hereby appropriated to im- of the Wilderprove the road leading from the Madison fork of the ness road. wilderness road, and intersecting the wilderness road in the county of Knox. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That Samuel Wilson Commissioners and Jesse Moore, of Laurel county, and Ezekiel appointed to Jones, of Knox county be, and they are hereby ap- such improvesuperintend pointed commissioners to superintend the improve- ment. ment of said road. issue the war Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That upon the appli- Register of the cation of the said commissioners to the Register of Land Office to the land office, it shall be his duty to issue (without rants. fee) to them, land warrants to the value of five hundred dollars; and it shall be lawful for the said com- Warrants may missioners, for the purpose of improving said road, be assigned. to assign and transfer to any person or persons the May be locawarrants aforesaid; which said warrants may be lo- ted in Laurel cated on any vacant lands in the counties of Laurel and Knox and Knox, east of the wilderness road, and it shall counties. not be lawful to locate them upon the vacant lands in any other county. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That upon the per- Register to issons to whom the commissioners may assign the land sue patents on 1830. warrants, producing to the Register of the land of-fice, plats and certificates of survey, it shall be his the return of duty to issue to them grants for the land. surveys. CHAP. CCCXLIX. AN ACT to allow an additional Justice of the Peace to Approved, January 29, 1830. WHEREAS, it is represented to this present General Assembly that great inconvenience is suffered by that portion of the citizens of Allen county residing in the neighborhood of Motley's mill, on account of not having a justice of the peace in said neighborhood: For remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the county of Allen be allowed one justice of the peace, in addition to the number now allowed by law. CHAP. CCCL. AN ACT for the benefit of Jarrett Willingham. Approved, January 29, 1830. WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly, that Jarrett Willingham did, on the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, enter, through mistake, a quarter section of land, at eighty dollars, which had previously been appropriated: Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be the duty of the receiver of public money for said land district, to permit the said Willingham to appropriate the sum aforesaid in entering other lands. CHAP. CCCLI. AN ACT defining and declaring the true boundary line between the counties of Greenup and Lawrence. Approved, January 29, 1830. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the true boundary line between the counties of Greenup and Lawrence, shall hereafter be as follows, to-wit: beginning at the mouth of Savage's creek, on Big Sandy, and thence up the main fork of the same, and to the dividing ridge between Laurel Run and Little Bear creek, and with said dividing ridge to the mouth of Little Bear creek; thence up the east fork about one quarter of a mile, to the mouth of white oak run; thence up white oak run to its head, and to the dividing ridge between the east fork and Williams' creek, and thence with the said dividing ridge to the dividing ridge between Stincen's creek and Straight creek, and to the mouth of Straight creek; thence with the present county line to Little Sandy river; thence up said river to the mouth of Clifty, on the west side of Little Sandy river; thence up the left hand fork of Clifty, and to the dividing ridge; thence a due west course to the Fleming county line; thence with the said county line to the Morgan county line, and with said line to the county line between Lawrence and Morgan county. 1830. CHAP. CCCLII. AN ACT to amend the election laws of this state. The poll books containing the votes for mem bers of the Legislatur, Congress, &c. to be returned to, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That hereafter the sheriff or other officer who may be legally possessed of the poll books of the annual or other elections of members to the General Assembly of this state shall, on before the tenth day after said election shall have terminat- and kept in, the ed, deposit said poll book or books in the clerk's office of the county wherein said election shall have been of the county. held. And it shall be the duty of said clerk to keep the said book or books safe in his office, there to be kept, subject to the free inspection of any person who may wish to examine the same. Provided how- Proviso. ever, that whenever an election occurs for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or members of Congress, the sheriff or other officer shall have until thirty days. after the comparison of votes shall have taken place to make said deposit. clerk's office 1830. A company incorporated, and the style thereof. Directors thereof appointed, &c. Books for the subscriptions of stock to be opened and notice thereof given. Mode of be perty, and sub scribing to the stock. CHAP. CCCLIII. AN ACT to incorporate the Louisville Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Approved, January 27, 1830. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That John J. Jacob, Robert Ormsby, Benjamin Lawrence, James Hughes and James Rudd, together with all those who shall hereafter become corporators in the manner herein af'ter directed, shall be, and are hereby created and made a corporation and body politic, by the name, style and title of the Louisville Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Sec. 2. Said Jacob, Ormsby, Lawrence, Hughes, and Rudd are vested with the powers of said corporation, and made the directors of its concerns until others shall be appointed by the corporators as as herein after directed. 1. They shall, within sixty days from the passage of this act, cause the same to be transcribed into a well bound book, and by advertisement in some public paper printed in Louisville, apprize the public of their readiness at some convenient place to receive subscriptions thereto. 2. Any owner of a dwelling, store or warehouse, situate in the City of Louisville, desirous of becomcoming a member of the coming a member of said corporation, shall make applipany, and ef- cation therefor in writing, giving a description therefecting insuof, together with such back buildings attached thererance on proto as he may wish to have insured, where situate, and to what purpose the same is appropriated, for the time being; the value thereof and how much of said value he wishes insured. If said applicant can agree with the directors as to the sum to be insured, and the rate of premium to be given, he shall subscribe his name to this charter in said book, mediately succeeding a short description of the property, a statement of the sum to be insured thereon, the rate of premium, and the time at which the risk shall commence. So in like manner for each and every house, where the applicant wishes to insure A general meeting of sub scribers to be called as soon as $200,000 more than one. im 3. When a sufficient number of subscribers shall have been thus obtained, to make the amount proposed not less than two hundred thousand dollars, said directors shall notify the public thereof, by ad |