1830. CHAP. CCXXI. AN ACT authorizing the sheriff of Wayne county lo be qualified at the March term. Approved, January 11, 830. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the sheriff of Wayne county, hereafter to be qualified and sworn in at the March term of the Wayne county court, instead of the term now required by law. Time of holding circuit courts in Campbell, Boone, And Grant. The judge of the second ju dicial district may hold a chancery term annually in Harrison. CHAP. CCXXH. AN ACT to change the time of holding courts in certain counties. Approved, January 11, 1830. SEC. 1. Ee it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the circuit court of Campbell county shall commence on the fourth Monday in April, July and October, in each year, and may continue twelve juridical days; that the circuit court of Boone.county shall commence on the second Monday in May, August and November, in each year, except when the months of April, July or October shall contain five Mondays, then the circuit court of Boone shall commence on the first Monday in May, August or November, as the case may be, and the circuit court of Boone may continue twelve juridical days each term; and the circuit court of Grant county shall commence on the fourth Monday in May, August and November, except when the months of April, July or October shall contain five Mondays, then the circuit court of Grant shall commence on the third Monday in May, August or November, as the case may be, and the said court may continue twelve juridical days at the May and August terms and six juridical days at the November term. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful, if the business requires it, for the judge of the second judicial district to hold an extra chancery term, for the county of Harrison, to commence on the third Monday in February in each year, and continue the same six juridical days. 1830. court in Lewis. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the circuit court for the county of Lewis, shall commence on the third Mondays in March, June and September, in Time of holdeach year, and sit, at each term, six juridical days, if ing the circuit the business thereof shall require it; and all writs, subpoenas, recognizances, attachments or other pro- Recognizances cess, which has been or may be made returnable to and process the next term of the Lewis circuit court, shall be re- made returnaturnable to the same at the time herein provided for ble to the term its sitting, and no proceeding in said court shall be be held by this invalidated or avoided by reason of the change of act. its commencement, as herein provided for; and no county court shall be held in said county, in either of the aforesaid months, in each year. as directed to Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the circuit court Anderson cirfor the county of Anderson, may sit twelve juridi- cuit court may cal days at their May and November terms, if the in May and business of said court may require it, and there shall November. be no county court held in said county in the months of May and November. CHAP. CCXXIII. AN ACT to authorize a Fire Company in the town of Approved, January 11, 1830. The citizens of the town may company and organize a elect officers. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That any of the citizens of the town of Russelville, not exceeding thirty in number, shall be, and they are hereby authorized to organize a Fire Company, which shall, as soon as twenty citizens shall have joined the same, proceed immediately to the election of their officers, consisting of a captain, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, and also a clerk and treasurer; the captain shall have the The officers full command of the company, and appoint such other may appoint officers as may be necessary, and adopt such regula tions and by-laws as may be proper for the management and discipline of said company. and make bylaws &c. inferior officers The company to meet for the purpose of ex Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said company, for the purpose of exercising the engines, which shall be surrendered to their control by the ercise &c. trustees of said town, and that they may be properly disciplined, shall, from the first of October until the 1830. To attend at all alarms of fire. Liable to be fined for nonattendance or disobedience of orders &c. ed as militia fines. sessment. month of May, convene together once every two weeks, at the place where said engines are deposited, and under the direction of the officers, proceed to practice and exercise the engines not less than one nor more than two hours; and also, from the first of May until the first of October, they shall convene as often as once in each calendar month, for the same purposes and in the manner as above stated; and it shall be the indispensable duty of every member of the company, when alarms of fire are given, to meet promptly to extinguish the same, and during their labors at such time, they shall be entirely obedient to the orders of the captain of said company; and for failing in their duty in this particular, each member or officer so failing, shall be liable to a fine of three dollars, to be collected as militia fines are now collected; and in the absence of the captain, the next officer in rank shall take the command for the time being, and so in the absence of the next in rank; and the captain is authorized, when he may deem it necessary, to call and order other meetings of said company. Sec. 3. Ee it further enacted, That if either of the To be collect- officers or members of said company shall fail in their attendance or in the performance of their duties as required by this act, they shall be subject to a fine of one dollar, to be collected as militia fines are now collected by law: Provided, that if the non-attendance or failure in duty is caused by absence from the county, sickness or other reasonable cause, they shall be discharged from their fines; and the captain Officers to form and first and second lieutenant and clerk, shall form a board of as- and constitute a court of assessment, to try all such causes as may come before them; and the clerk shall keep a record of all the fines assessed, and of the proceedings of the court, and also of the regulations of the company; and all fines which shall be, and are hereby made coliectable as militia fines now are, which may be collected, shall be paid over to the Treasurer, and be applied, as occasion may require, to the repairing of the engines and hose, and to the purchase of ladders, buckets, &c. and for all experces thus incurred, the clerk, by order of the captain, shall draw an order on the treasurer for the amount necessary. Duty of the clerk. Pines how to be applied. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That every member Members of the of the said company and also the officers, shall, as long as they continue such, be exempt from militia duty and from serving on grand or petit juries. 1830. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this company exact shall be so construed as to divest the right of em ted from militia duty property to the said engines out of the trustees of and serving as said town, but that said trustees and their successors jurors. shall have the power and authority to resume the possession and control of said engines, when in their Engines to res opinion it shall seen proper. main town property. CHAP. CCXXIV. AN ACT for the benefit of Peggy Gillock, Approved, January 11, 1830. WHEREAS, it is represented to the present General Assembly, that John Gillock, late of Bourbon county, died, having devised by will to his wife, Peggy Gillock, during her natural life, with reversion to his heirs at law, a certain negro woman slave, named Charity, who is so very refractory and turbulent in her disposition as to render no service to the said Peggy Gillock: Wherefore, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and may be lawful for said Peggy Gillock to make sale of said negro for the best price that can be had, having first entered into bond in the Bourbon county court, with sufficient security, in the penalty of eight hundred dollars, payable to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, conditioned for the faithful performance of her duty under the provisions of this act: Provided, upon a breach of the conditions of said bond any person aggrieved thereby shall be permitted to prosecute a suit upon the same. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, When sale shall be made of said slave, it shall be the duty of said Peggy Gillock to re-invest the proceeds thereof in one or more negroes, to be subject to the same disposition as the said slave Charity would have been had she not been sold. 1830. CHAP. CCXXV. AN ACT for the benefit of Mary Pedigo. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the sum of one hundred dollars be, and is hereby allowed to Mary Pedigo, for keeping James Nichols, an Idiot, for two years, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the Auditor of public accounts is directed to issue his warrant on the treasury for that sum, in favor of the said Mary Pedigo, to be paid out of any Commonwealth's bank paper in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. CHAP. CCXXVI. AN ACT to reduce the number of trustees of the New- Approved, January 11, 1830. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the number of trustees to the New-Castle seminary, in Henry county, be reduced to five, viz: Joseph Brinker, Edward C. Drane, Robert O'Brien, Willis Long and William I. Graves. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said trustres shall be governed by the same laws and regulations now in force in relation to said seminary. Recital. AN CHAP. CCXXVII. AN ACT for the benefit of Thomas Vaughn and others. WHEREAS, a survey has been made and executed on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, in Livingston county, (now the county of Caldwell,) for Thomas Vaughn, of one hundred and seventy-six acres, part of a two hundred acre certificate, granted by the commissioners to Thomas Vaughn, number two hundred and forty-eight: And whereas, said tract of land was |