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Money, how pose; and the price aforesaid shall be a fund in to be applied. the hands of said trustees in aid of the town tax

Proviso.

es, for the benefit of the said town; and after the
sale and conveyance aforesaid, all that part of
Green street lying west of Water street, shall
cease to be a street of the said town: Provided,
that the said sale and deed of conveyance be made
within twelve months from the passage of this

act.

Recital.

CHAP. CCC.

An ACT for the benefit of Azariah Roberts.

APPROVED February 4, 1818. WHEREAS it is represented to the present general assembly that Azariah Roberts, of Scott county, is in indigent circumstances, with a considerable family to support, and has by misfortune sustained great loss by having ignorantly appropriated 200 acres of land as vacant, when it was in fact previously appropriated, and it is decmed expedient that relief should be extended to him: Therefore,

§1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Register to Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Register of issue warrant. the land-office be, and he is hereby directed to issue to the said Roberts a warrant for 200 acres of land, upon the production of a certificate of the county court of Scott, that he is really the person who obtained the certificate of his actual settlement for the said 200 acres, on which the survey has been returned; which said warrant may be located on any vacant land in this commonwealth.

Warrant to be located.

Proviso.

§ 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the surveyor of the county in which the land may be located, to survey the same, and to make out and return a plat and certificate of survey, as in other cases; and it shall be the duty of the Register to issue a patent therefor, without fee for the same: Provided, that said grant shall not be so construed as to give to said Roberts a preference to any prior claim which

may exist.

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CHAP. CCCI.

An ACT for the benefit of Martha Snodgrass.
APPROVED February 4, 1818.

WHEREAS it is represented to the general Recital.
assembly that Martha Snodgrass is entitled to
four hundred acres of land, lying in Logan coun-
ty, granted to said Martha by the county court
of said county, at the September term 1802, by
certificate, No. 109, her name then being Mar-
tha Barnett; and whereas said Martha after-
wards intermarried with Joseph Snodgrass, who
is now dead, having left said Martha in a poor
and helpless situation, and a fit object of chari-
ty: Therefore,

issue

grant.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Register to re Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Register ceive plat & of the land-office issue a grant to said Martha Snodgrass for two hundred acres of the aforesaid land, and that he receive into his office a plat and certificate of survey, and register the same without charging any fees therefor, if said claim has not been already registered: Provided, that Proviso. nothing in this act contained shall prejudice the rights of any person or persons whatever.

CHAP. CCCII.

An ACT authorising the Independent Banks to deat in the Stock of the Bank of Kentucky, of the United States, and of the United States' Bank.

APPROVED February 4, 1818.

BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the several banks established by the act passed at the present session, entitled "an act to establish Independent Banks," and the act supplemental thereto, to deal and trade in the capital and joint stock of the Bank of Kentucky, and the stock of the United States, and the stock of the Bank of the United States.

distribute

acts.

CHAP. CCCIII.

A ACT to provide for the distribution of the acts of Congress in this Commonwealth.

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BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the Secretary to Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be the duty of the secretary for the time being to distribute the acts of the Congress of the United States which have been, or may hereafter be transmitted to his office for the use of the state, to the persons hereinafter named, and in manner following, to wit: On such persons' application at his office, or if no application is made previous to the distribution of the acts of the generat assembly of this state, they shall be sent out by the person employed to carry said acts, and lodged with them in the respective counties where the persons entitled to receive such acts of Congress may reside ; and the members of the genof general as-eral assembly shall be entitled to one copy each; sembly. the clerks of the respective courts in this comTo clerks of monwealth one copy each, to be preserved in their offices for the use of the courts of which they are clerk, and such other persons as may choose to examine them; to the judges of the circuit courts, one copy each; to the judges of the court of appeals, one copy each.

To members

courts.

To judges.

Recital.

CHAP. CCCIV.

An ACT for the benefit of Peter Simmerman, Andrew Erwin and Matthew Huling.

APPROVED February 4, 1818. WHEREAS Peter Simmerman, Andrew Erwin and Matthew Huling are engaged in boring for salt-water in the county of Adair, on Wolf creek, and also in the county of Wayne, on the Big South fork of Cumberland river, and that they have made considerable progress therein: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the said Sim

merman, Erwin and Huling be, and they are Authorised hereby authorised to locate and survey four thou- to locate unappropriated sand acres of waste and unappropriated land, in land. one or more surveys, so that no survey shall be less than 500 acres, unless the same is bounded round by other claims, in the county of Wayne, within five miles of the place they are boring for salt-water, on the South Fork of Cumberland river, and also 3000 acres in Adair county, on any waste and unappropriated land within five miles of the place they are boring for salt-water, on Wolf creek: Provided, however, that the said Proviso. Simmerman, Erwin and Huling shall, within one year from and after the passage of this act, and shall within two years thereafter, return the said plats and certificates to the Register of the landoffice, and at the same time pay into the treasury of this commonwealth twenty dollars per hundred acres for so much as they may survey, and the register shall issue grants as in other cases.

CHAP. CCCV.

An ACT allowing an additional number of Justices of the Peace to certain Counties.

APPROVED February 4, 1818.
BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the county of
Washington shall be entitled to three justices of Washington.
peace in addition to the number now allowed

by law, one of whom shall reside in the town of Le-
banon; and the county of Green, one, who shall Green.
reside in the town of Summersville; and the
ty of Adair, one; and the county of Hardin, one.

coun

Adair.

Hardin.

CHAP. CCCVI.

An ACT concerning the Town of Danville.

APPROVED February 3, 1818.

1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of Trustees of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the trustees of Danville au

thorised to the town of Danville are hereby authorised, after sell part of two weeks notice in some public newspaper, to sell the public to the highest bidder, such portion of the public ground.

Proceeds,

ground in said town as remains unsold, lying on the Main street, running back ninety feet, or such distance as the lots already sold on said Main street run back, and on such conditions as they may think advantageous.

§ 2. Be it further enacted, That half the proceeds of the foregoing sale shall, when collected, how to be ap- be delivered to the trustees of the Danville Acpropriated. ademy, for the purposes mentioned in the act establishing said academy; the remaining half to be applied to such improvements in said town as the trustees may think proper.

3. Be it further enacted, That the trustees Empowered of the town of Danville are hereby empowered to levy and to levy and collect a town tax, not exceeding five collect a tax. hundred dollars.

confirmed.

4. Be it further enacted, That the sale made Former sale on the first day of last March, of a portion of the public ground in said town, be confirmed, and all conveyances that shall be made in consequence thereof, are hereby legalized and established.

Allowances to speakers of senate and H.

R.

Clerks.

CHAP. CCCVII.

An ACT for the Appropriation of Money.

APPROVED February 4, 1818.

1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the following allowances be made to the persons hereinafter mentioned, viz.

To the speakers of the Senate and House of Representatives, four dollars per day each.

To the clerks of the senate and house of representatives, sixty dollars per week each.

To the sergeants-at-arms of the senate and Sergeants-at- house of representatives, eighteen dollars per

arms.

Committee clerks.

week each.

To the clerks of the committees in the senate and house of representatives, eighteen dollars per week each.

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