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ACTS
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION
OF
THE THIRTY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
FOR THE
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY,
BEGUN AND HELD IN THE TOWN OF FRANKFORT,
ON MONDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF DECEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR
LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE, AND
OF THE COMMONWEALTH THE THIRTY-EIGHTHI.
THOMAS METCALFE, GOVERNOR.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
FRANKFORT:
J. G. Dana and A. G. Hodges,
PULLIC PRINTERS.
..........
1830.
L11552
APR 27 190
CONTENTS.
AN ACT authorizing certain ad-
vertisements to be inserted in the
"Kentucky Intelligencer," print-
ed in Flemingsburg,
To change the time of holding the
Spencer circuit and county courts,
To enlarge the stock of the Louis- ville and Portland Canal Co.
For the benefit of Ann Angel, relict
of William Angel, deceased,
To provide for the appointment of
trustees to the Lancaster Semi-
nary,
To amend an act entitled, an act
appropriating fines and forfeitures
for the purposes of promoting ed-
ucation,
To authorize the Lexington White
Lead Manufacturing Company to
close and dispose of said estab-"
lishment,
Authorizing the sale of certain
ground in the town of Russellville,
To incorporate the Lewis Pottery
Company, for the purpose of ma-
nufacturing Queensware and Chi-
na at Louisville,
For the benefit of Temple and Sally
West,
To establish an election precinct in
Green county,
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For the regulation of the town of
Cadiz,
To continue in force "an act for the
benefit of the Headright and Tel-
lico settlers, and for other purpo- ses,"
For the benefit of Edward M. Hol-
den,
To authorize the trustees of the
Rittenhouse Academy to transfer
and convey the property, both
real and personal, belonging to
said academy, to the trustees of
the Kentucky Baptist Education
Society at Georgetown, Scott co.
For the benefit of Port William in
Gallatin county,
For the benefit of Shippingport,
To authorize the several county
courts of this commonwealth to
extend the districts of town con-
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stables beyond the town bounda-
ries,
For the benefit of the South Fork
Separate Baptist Church in Ca-
sey county,
9Appointing commissioners to settle
with the keeper of the Peniten-
tiary,
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To change the name of William L.
Shelly, or Oxshear, to William L.
White,
To incorporate the Female Litera-
ry and benevolent institution of
Nazareth, near Bardstown,
ry and Benevolent Institution of
Loretto, in Washington county,
For the benefit of Josiah Elliott and
Eliza Sexton,
To establish a Warehouse at the
mouth of Jonathan's creek in Cal-
loway county, and for other pur-
poses,
To authorize the opening of a State
road from Prince's ferry to the
Tennessee line, in the direction to
Dover,
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For the benefit of the heirs of John
Head,
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tisements in the Spy, and Reli-
gious and Literary Intelligencer,
Authorizing the sheriff of Wayne
county to be qualified at the
March term,
To change the time of holding
courts in certain counties,
To authorize a Fire Company in
the town of Russellville, and for
other purposes,
For the benefit of Peggy Gillock,
For the benefit of Mary Pedigo,
To reduce the number of trustees of
the New Castle Seminary to five,
For the benefit of Thomas Vaughn
and others,
For the benefit of Foster's devisees,
To allow additional Justices of the
Peace and Constables to certain
counties,
To amend an act requiring certain
duties of the clerks within this
commonwealth,"
To amend the laws defining the
powers of the trustees of the town
of Newport,
To change the time of holding cer-
tain circuit courts, and for other
purposes,
For the benefit of the clerk of the
Cumberland county court,
Allowing further time for the com-
missioners of the Smithland and
Waidshoro roads to make their
reports,
For the benefit of the trustees of the
Simpson county seminary,
To organize two fire companies in
the town of Lexington, and for
For the benefit of Anner Taylor,
For the benefit of Mary Cale,
To declare the Bayou de Chien,
Obion, and Mayfield's creek nay-
igable streams,
For the benefit of John Cottrel and
others,
For the benefit of Henry Waddle,
For the benefit of the widow and
heirs of Benjamin Mason, dec'd,
To legalize the proceedings of the
court of assessment in the third
regiment of Kentucky militia,
To incorporate the trustees of the
Union Meeting house in Logan
county, and of the Union Meet-
ing house in Russellville.
To incorporate the Union Meeting
house in Warren county,
To authorize the county court of
Owen county to sell and convey
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To amend the laws in relation to
crimes committed on the Ohio,
Mississippi, and Big Sandy rivers, 119
To change a part of the boundary
line between Rockcastle and Lau-
rel counties,
heirs of Robinson Shelburn, dec.
To amend the several laws concern-
ing the trustees of the town of
Lexington,
For the benefit of Kitty B. Gray
and the President and Directors
of the Greensburg branch bank,
To amend "an act appointing com-
missioners to lay off and mark a
state road from Harrodsburg to
Smithland in Livingston county,
approved February 9th, 1828,
For the benefit of John Hogan,
To declare Big Caney a navigable
stream,
Concerning the towns of Versailles
and Danville,
In relation to the clerks of county
courts,
122
123
To authorize James G. Lindsey, of
Campbell county, to remove his
ferry,
To organize the Fire Company in
the town of Augusta,
146
147
To add part of Ohio to Daviess cty, 149
For the benefit of Francis Mara-
man and others,
For the purpose of opening a road
from Bell's in Barren county, to
the cross roads near the Simpson
county line, and the Tennessee
state line,
150
151
For the benefit of Polly Flowers,
124 For the benefit of Gabriel L. Bour-
land,
163
164
124 To change the time of holding the
Edmondson and Barren county
courts, and for other purposes,
To appropriate some of the vacant
lands in Casey and Wayne coun-
ties to improve the roads in said
125
For the benefit of Thomas Lewis and
Minerva Laswell,
126
To incorporate the Lexington and
Ohio Rail Road Company,
For the benefit of William Great-
165
166
Requiring the clerk of the Court of
Appeals to deliver over certain
records to the Register of the
Land Office,
To amend the several acts incorpo-
rating the Louisville turnpike
company, and for other purposes, 167
For the benefit of the heirs of Ben-
jamin Mason, deceased,
For the benefit of the devisees of
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