1830. land office be, and he is hereby directed to issue to Henry Waddle of the county of Pulaski, without the state price being paid for the same, a patent for one hundred acres of land adjoining on either side, or end, of the tract on which said Waddle now resides, and to be surveyed in a square, upon his producing the plat and certificate of the surveyor of Pulaski county, meting and bounding said land: Provided however, that nothing in this act contained shall give to the said Waddle's claim a superiority to any other claim now existing to said land.

Preamble.

Garrard circuit may di rect the ad

ministrator of Mason to fin

ish a house.

CHAP. CCXLII.

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AN ACT for the benefit of the widow and heirs of Benjamin Mason, deceased.

Approved, January 14, 1830. WHEREAS, Doctor Benjamin Mason, a few days ago, departed this life, intestate; his death was sudden and unexpected; and whereas, it is represented to the present General Assembly by the widow and the administrator of said Mason, that a short time before his death, he had commenced building a comfortable house on his farm near Lancaster, Garrard county, with an intention of moving out of town and settling on his farm, that said Mason had expended considerable sums upon the work already done, and also in collecting materials to complete the building. It is also represented that the estate is amply sufficient to pay all debts, and complete the building. When the building is finihsed it will enable the widow and children to move out of town, which to them is very desirable: for remedy whereof,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That upon the said widow and heirs of said Benjamin Mason, and also the administrator, exhibiting their petition in the Garrard circuit court, stating substantially the facts set out in this act; and upon the court being satisfied that the facts herein stated are in substance correct and true; and that it would be for the interest of the heirs to go on and finish the house; to order and decree that the administrator of said Mason shall, out of the property in his hands to be administered, to finish and

complete said house; and upon a settlement of his accounts as administrator, he shall be allowed a credit for all reasonable disbursements and expenditures in finishing said house.

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CCXLIII.

AN ACT to legalize the proceedings of the court of assessment in the third regiment of Kentucky militia.

Approved, January 14, 1830.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the present General Assembly, that the officers of the third regiment of Kentucky militia, were unapprised of the change in the time appointed for holding the court of assessment, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight,and held the saine on the last Monday in November, instead of the last Monday in October, as provided by law: Therefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the proceedings of the said court of assessment, and the fines assessed by them upon delinquents, on the said last Monday in November, shall be as valid, to all purposes, and shall be enforced in the same manner as if said court had been held, and said proceedings had, on the last Monday in October.

CHAP. CCXLIV.

AN ACT to incorporate the trustees of the Union Meeting-house in Logan county, and of the Union Meetinghouse in Russellville.

Approved, January 14, 1830.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Trustees apCommonwealth of Kentucky, That Thomas Foster, pointed, and Vincent Higby and Drury W. Poor be, and they are to the Union" incorporated, hereby constituted a body corporate, to be nown meeting house, and designated by the name and style of the trustees Logan county. of the Union Meeting-house in Logan county.

Sec, 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall and May own four may be lawful for the said trustees and their succes- acres of land. sors in office, and they are hereby invested with full

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Trustees of

Union meeting

house, in Rus selville, incorporated.

Title to a lot

the re-ac

power and authority, in their corporate capacity, to purchase or receive by donation, and to hold the title to any tract of land so purchased or received by donation, not exceeding four acres, on which the Union Meeting-house in said county may be built, and to hold the same aforesaid, to themselves and their successors in office, for the use and benefit of said institution. And whereas, Spencer Curd heretofore conveyed a certain lot or parcel of ground in Amos Edwards' addition to the town of Russellville, to the trustees of the Baptist and Cumberland Presbyterian Societies, and their successors in office, on which said trustees built a house of public worship, called the Union Meeting-house: And whereas, doubts are entertained whether said conveyance vested in said trustees, for the use and benefit of said societies, a legal title thereto, for the purposes contemplated therein; Therefore,

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That said trustees be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, to be known and designated by the name and style of the trustees of the Union Meeting-house in Russellville.

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for said Curd to re-acknowledge the to vest in the said deed of conveyance, and admit the same to retrustees, upon cord according to law, which, when done, shall vest knowlegement the title to the same, in said trustees and their sucand recording cessors in office, to be chosen as is directed in said deed of conveyance, for the use and benefit of said religious societies, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as if said trustees had been legally incorporated and authorized to receive said deed.

of the deed.

CHAP. CCXLV.

AN ACT to incorporate the Union Meeting-house in
Warren county.

Approved, January, 14 1830. SEC. 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That William Harris, Zachariah Morris and John M. Robertson be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, to be known and designated by the name and style of the trustees of the Union Meeting-house, in Warren county.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said trustees and their successors in office, and they are hereby invested with full power and authority, in their corporate capacity, to purchase or receive by donation, and to hold the title to the tract of land on which the Union Meetinghouse, in Warren county, now stands, not exceeding four acres; and to hold the same aforesaid, to themselves and their suceessors in office, for the use and benefit of said institution, and according to the direction of the donor or donors of said land, and not otherwise.

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CHAP. CCXLVI.

AN ACT to authorize the county court of Owen county to sell and convey the lot of ground on which the old jail stands.

Approved, January 5, 1830.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the county court of Owen county, may at any term of their court, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, appoint a commissioner to sell and convey the lot of ground on which the old jail stands; and the commissioner so appointed, shall, before he proceeds to sell, advertise the same at least one month at the door of the court-house, and at two other of the most public places in said county. And the commissioner shall sell the same at such credit and under such limitations and restrictions as the court in their order may direct, taking bond and security from the purchaser, payable to the justices of said court and their successors in office.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the money arising from the sale of the lot of ground as aforesaid shall be applied toward lessening the county levy of said county; and upon the whole of the purchase money being paid, the commissioner shall convey to the purchaser all the right, title, and interest which the county court of Owen or trustees of Owenton may have, in and to said lot of ground,

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CHAP. CCXLVII.

AN ACT to allow an additional Justice of the Peace and Constable for Garrard county."

Approved, January 18, 1830.

WHEREAS, a respectable portion of the citizens of Garrard county, in the neighbourdood of Harmin's Lick, petitioned for an additional justice of the peace and constable, to reside in that section of the country: Therefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That one additional justice of the peace for the county of Garrard shall be appointed and commissioned according to law: and the county court of Garrard shall appoint an additional constable for said county, to reside in the neighborhood of Harmin's lick.

County court of Morgan authorized to change the state road.

CHAP. CCXLVIII.

AN ACT to change a part of the State road in Morgan county..

Approved, January 18, 1830. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the county court of Morgan county, shall have full power to appoint four disinterested commissioners, any three of whom may act, after being duly sworn, impartially to review that part of the road leading from Mountsterling to Prestonsburg, which passes through the land of Thomas Prater and Mason Williams, beginning at the second crossing of the branch above Thomas Prater's house, thence crossing Licking river twice, to the end of John Williams' lane; and the said commissioners shall report to the court the conveniences and inconveniences, the public as well as individuals may sustain by the change which is contemplated; and on the return of said report, the county court shall have full power, if they deem it advantageous to the public, to make an order to change said road, at the expence of said Prater and M. Williams; the road shall be opened and completed, in every respect, agreeably to the provisions of the act of Assembly authorizing the opening of the road from