1830.

Trustees to

make deeds for lots sold for taxes after the

period for redemption has expired.

Provise.

of said court, in favor of the trustees of the town of Newport, against the owner or owners of such lot, or part of a lot, if known, or againat the unknown owner or owners thereof; which shall constitute the title of the suit and proceedings on the record; and where the proceeding is against an unknown owner or owners, it shall be the duty of the trustees, or a majority of them, to file with the papers in said suit, their written affidavit, made before some justice of the peace for Campbell county, that the name or names of the owner or owners, or his or their place of residence, is wholly unknown to them; and upon such publication being inade and properly certified, and the affidavit aforesaid duly filed, it. shall be the duty of the court, during the said succeeding term, to decree a sale of the said lot or part of a lot, or so much thereof as shall be necessary to satisfy said tax and costs, and to appoint a commissioner to make such sale; and it shall be the duty of the said commissioner to sell the property so decreed to be sold, at the door of the court-house in Newport, on the first day of the next county court thereafter, between the hours of ten o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the evening, to the highest. bidder, for cash in hand, and to make report thereof to the next circuit court, which report shall be entered of record in said court; and it shall be the duty of the trustees of said town, at any time the same may be demanded, after the expiration of one year from the day of such sale, to make a conveyance to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, of the property by him purchased at such sale; which deed shall pass all the estate, legal or equitable, of the owner or owners of such lot or part of a lot, whether known or unknown: Provided however, that the owner or owners of such lot or part of a lot, shall have a right to redeem the same within two years after such sale, by paying to the trustees the amount for which the same was sold, together with one hundred per cent. damages thereon, which, by the trus tees, shall be paid over to the purchaser, his executors, administrators or assigns; and such redemption shall be noted and entered on the books of said trustees.

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That a majority of the trustees of said town, with the consent of the may make al- owners of the lots in that part of said town called

The trustees

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the streets, alleys and lots, and sell the same, with the consent of the

owners.

"the Licking addition," may make any alteration in the streets and alleys and lots in that part of said town, and to close up any alley or street running terations in through the same, and sell and convey to the purchaser, any and all claim, legal or equitable, which they, may have, or pretend to have, to any lot or lots, streets or alleys in that part of said town; which alteration shall be signed by a majority of the trustees of said town, and the owner or owners of said lots, and certified by the clerk of the board of trustees of said town, to the clerk of the county court of Campbell county, who shall record the same; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of trustees of said town, to record any such alteration, in the record book of the trustees thereof, which alteration, if made, shall have the same force and effect as though it formed a part of the original plan ̧ of said town; and should said trustees sell and convey such right as aforesaid, the deed of conveyance so made by them, shall be executed, acknowledged and recorded in the manner that deeds made by them are now executed, acknowledged and recorded by law.

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all infants, femes covert, and persons of unsound mind, shall have two years from the time their respective disabilities shall have been removed, to redeem their lands or lots sold under the provisions of this act, and shall not be charged with any interest only from the time. of removal of their respective disabilities aforesaid.

Any alteration the town to be in the plan of

recorded.

Time of redemption in fants &c.

favor of in

CHAP. CCXXXII.

AN ACT to change the time of holding certain circuit courts, and for other purposes.

Approved, January 13, 1830.

such time as

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the The Barren Commonwealth of Kentucky, That so much of said act chancery term as makes it imperatively the duty of the judge of to be held at the Barren circuit court to hold a chancery term of the judge may said court, be and is hereby repealed; and that the designate. said judge is hereby authorized to hold such chancery term as described in said act, if he shall be of opinion that the business of said court requires it.

H.

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An additional chancery term to be held in Fayette.

The time of

courts in Lau

rel,

Rockcastle,

Whitley,

Knox,

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That there shall be annually held in the county of Fayette an additional chancery term, to that now authorized by law, commencing on the third Monday in October, and to continue in session two weeks if the business of the Court shall require it.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the circuit court of Laurel county shall hereafter be held on the Wedholding circuit nesdays preceding the second Mondays in March, June and September, and continue in session four juridical days if necessary; the circuit court for the county of Rockcastle on the second Mondays in March, June and September and continue in session six juridical days if necessery; the circuit court for the county of Whitley on the third Mondays in March, June and September, and continue in session six juridical days if necessary; the circuit court for the county of Knox on the fourth Mondays in March, June and September and continue in session six juridical days if necessary; the circuit court of Harlan on the Thursdays preceding the third Mondays in April, July and October, and continue in session three juridical days if necessary; the circuit court for the county of Perry on the Tuesday after the third Monday in April, July and October and continue in session five juridical days, if neceseary. And all judicial process made returnable to the times now fixed by law for holding the circuit courts in the counties aforesaid, shall be returned and held valid to the times fixed by this section.

Harlan,

And Perry counties.

Process made returnable to the terms as fixed by this

act.

The times of

courts in Hickman,

McCracken,

Graves,

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the times of commencing and holding the Hickman circuit court, holding circuit be, and the same is hereby changed to the second Mondays in April, July and October in each year; and the times of commencing and holding the McCracken circuit courts, be, and the same are hereby changed to the third Mondays in April, July and October in each year; and the times of commencing the Graves circuit courts are hereby changed to the Thursday next succeeding the third Mondays in April, July and October in each year; and the times of commencing and holding the Calloway circuit courts are changed to the fourth Mondays in April, July and October in each year; and the times of commencing and holding the Christian circuit courts, be, and the same are hereby changed to the first Mondays in May, August and November in each

Calloway,

Christian,

year; and the times of commencing and holding the Trigg circuit courts, be, and the same are hereby changed to the fourth Mondays in May, August and November in each year.

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And Trigg

counties.

said counties.

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That there shall be Time of holdno terms of the county courts, for the counties men- ing the countioned in the fourth section of this act, holden in ty courts in the same months that the circuit courts are; but there shall be terms of the county courts holden in each of said counties, in every other month in each year, to commence on the same days they now do, respectively, in each of those counties, except as to the county of Christian, in which there shall be an additional term of the county court holden in said county, on the last Monday in each month, immediately preceding those months in which the circuit courts are hereby required to be holden; and the terms of the Christian county courts now holden on the last Mondays in March, June and September, are hereby abolished.

Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That there shall be but one week allowed to the circuit court of Caldwell county, at their June terin in each year.

The circuit court of Cald

well to sit one week in June.

Regulation as to the return

of

process in

Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That all process whatever, which shall or may issue in any of the counties mentioned in the fourth section of this act, made returnable otherwise, shall stand for trial at the first said courts. term of the court succeeding, after the issuing of the same.

county in February &c.

Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the February Chancery term chancery term of the Christian circuit court, shall for Christian be an appearance term for all chancery causes, and all process whatever, shall be made returnable to said term, in the same manner that process is made returnable to any other term; and any and all process heretofore made returnable to the said February term, or to the succeeding April term be, and the same is hereby legalized.

Sec 9. That the county court of Laurel shall, County courts after the first day of March next, be held on the first in Laurel, Monday; the county court of Clay on the second Clay, Monday; the county court of Whitley on the third Whitley, Monday; the county court of Knox on the fourth Monday, and the county court of Harlan on the first Monday, in those months respectively, in which no circuit courts are held; and the proceedings of Proceedings of

Knox,

Harlan.

1830.

the county court of Laurel legalized.

the county court of Laurel, at their last February term, shall be held and deemed as legal as if it had been held on the day prescribed by law.

Allowed further time to

execute his official bond.

CHAP. CCXXXIII.

AN ACT for the benefit of the clerk of the Cumberland county court.

Approved, January 13, 1830. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the clerk of the county court of Cumberland county be, and he is hereby allowed the further time of six months, from and after the passage of this act, to comply with the requisitions of an act passed January twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and ten, and that such bond when executed, shall be as valid and effectual, as if executed within the time now prescribed by law; and that no penalties, or forfeitures, shall be incurred by said clerk on account of having so failed to execute his bond.

.

allowed to

CHAP. CCXXXIV..

AN ACT allowing further time for the commissioners of the Smithland and Waidsboro roads to make their reports.

Approved, January 13, 1830. WHEREAS, in some instances, the commissioners appointed to view and mark out a State road from Harrodsburg to Smithland, and from Elizabeth town to Princeton, thence to Waidsboro, have not had time to perform their duty as enjoined by the acts establishing said roads: For remedy whereof,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the ComTwelve months monwealth of Kentucky, That the further time of twelve months is hereby allowed to the commissioners of the Smithland and Waidsboro roads to make out a map and report thereon, as is directed in the several acts establishing said roads.

make their reports.