1850. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Second Auditor be and he is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer, in favor of the said George W. King, for the sum of one thousand dollars, being in full compensation for said injury: Provided, the said King executes and files with said Auditor a release declaring that he accepts the said one thousand dollars in discharge of his claim. Approved March 4, 1850. CHAPTER 355. AN ACT for the benefit of Jacob Corbett. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Jacob Corbett be and he is hereby released from the payment of the balance of a bond executed by Lewis R. Richards, and said Corbett, as security, payable to the Commonwealth, for the purchase price of a negro boy named Stapleton, sold as a runaway slave out of the Ballard county jail, which bond is on file in the Ballard Circuit Court Clerk's office: Provided, that said Corbett shall execute bond, with approved security, in the penalty of seven hundred dollars, in the Ballard Circuit Court, conditioned to indemnify the State of Kentucky against any claim that Edly Powell, or any person, may have against the State on account of said negro. Approved March 4, 1850. CHAPTER 306. AN ACT for the benefit of the children of Bob Reese, (a free man of color,) deceased. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the estate of Bob Reese, deceased, a free man of color, after the payment of his debts, shall not go into the Treasury of said Commonwealth, but shall vest in Henry F. Cromwell, of the town of Cynthiana, in trust for the use and benefit of Wesley, John, Harman, and James, the children of said Bob Reese, deceased; but said estate shall in no wise be subject to the order or control of any master, as such, of either of said children, but the estate shall be managed and controlled by said Cromwell, as trustee for said children, and for their exclusive use and benefit, should the masters of said children assent thereto : Provided, said Cromwell give bond, with adequate and approved security, in the County Court of Harrison county, payable to the Commonwealth, but conditioned for the faithful accounting for the estate which may come to his hands, as trustee aforesaid, to the said children, together with the increase of such estate, when required to do so by said court: And, provided further, that should said Cromwell refuse to act in the premises, or be guilty of any dereliction, the said County Court may appoint some other discreet trustee. Approved March 4, 1850. 1850. CHAPTER 307. AN ACT for the benefit of the Trustees of Peters Meeting House, in Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the Trustees of Peters Meeting House, in Simpson county, to sell the said house, and the grounds thereunto belonging, on such terms, and at such place as they may deem best: Provided, that the said Trustees do invest the proceeds thereof in the purchase of a parsonage, for the benefit of the Minister who may have the charge of the congregation now worshiping in said Meeting House. Approved March 4, 1850. CHAPTER 308. AN ACT incorporating the Oxford and Georgetown Turnpike Road style. Company SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That a company shall be and is formed, name & hereby formed, for the purpose of constructing an artificial McAdamized turnpike road from Oxford, in Scott county, to Georgetown, in the same county, to be known by the name and style of the Oxford and Georgetown Turnpike Road Company; and by that name shall be a body politic and corporate. SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each. Subscriptions for stock in said company shall be opened on the first Saturday in April next, or in a convenient time thereafter, and continue open two years, (unless the whole stock shall be sooner subscribed,) at Oxford, Georgetown, or some other point in said county, under the commissioners hereafter named. Capital stock, books to be opened. Com'rs to SEC. 3. The following persons are hereby appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions of stock, viz: B. F. open books. Elliott, C. A. Ward, James H. Jouett, D. S. Allen, J. V. Risk, A. H. Offutt, and John M. Glenn, at Oxford; and James F. Beatty, John J. Daviess, and D. G. Hatch, at Georgetown at each of the above places, any two commissioners may act. 1850. Obligation to be signed by sub scribers. When meeting of stockholders to be held to elect officers. SEC. 4. That such of the commissioners as shall act, to open books for the subscription of stock, shall procure one or more books, and the subscribers shall sign the following obligation, viz: "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do respectively promise to pay to the Oxford and Georgetown Turnpike Road Company, the sum of fifty dollars for each share opposite our names, in such proportion, and at such times, as shall be determined by said company." SEC. 5. That, so soon as five thousand dollars are subscribed in stock, it shall be the duty of said commissioners to give notice of a meeting of the stockholders, in the town of Oxford, for the purpose of choosing officers; the notice to be advertised fifteen days previous to such meeting, in the "Georgetown Herald," and by written notices at Oxford; and the voters, in choosing officers for said company, shall be regulated by the number of shares, allowing one vote for each share. SEC. 6. That so soon as the company is organized, the Stamping Gr. President, Managers, and other officers of said company, & Great Crowe shall possess all the powers, authority, rights, and priviroad charter leges, and may do all acts and things necessary for carry Cross Ing turnpike adopted. be erected. ing on and completing said turnpike road, as well as laying out or locating said road, and shall be subject to all the duties, qualifications, restrictions, penalties, fines, and forfeitures, (if any,) and be entitled to like tolls and profits as are given and granted to the Stampingground and Great Crossing Turnpike Road Company; and all the provisions of the act incorporating said Stampingground and Great Crossing Turnpike Road Company, are hereby enacted as part hereof, except so far as they are local in their application, or come in conflict with the foregoing or succeeding sections of this act. SEC. 7. The President and Managers may erect a toll Toll gate may gate for every five miles of continuous road that may be finished: Provided, no gate shall be erected within less than one mile of Georgetown or Oxford. The right is hereby reserved to the General Assembly to alter or amend this act at pleasure. Court may take SEC. 8. That the Lincoln County Court be and is hereby Lincoln City authorized to take stock, to such an amount as it may deem stock in Lancas expedient, in the Lancaster and Crab Orchard Turnpike ter and Crab Or Road Company; and said court is authorized to levy a sum not exceeding, annually, for the term of three years, three cents on the hundred dollars worth of property, to meet such subscription. chard road. Com'rs ap. pointed Nicholasville & SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That John G. Sims, Tho. D. Elmore, Tho. E. West, and Nathaniel Russell, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and that they Jessamine turn have all the powers and privileges vested in the original commissioners appointed in an act to incorporate the Nich pike road Co. olasville and Jessamine Turnpike Road Company, approved 27th February, 1849. 1850. Cynthiana & Newtown turn ter amended. SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, That the charter of the Cynthiana and Newtown Turnpike Road Company be so pike road charamended as to permit the company to go on and construct said road so soon as four thousand dollars shall be subscribed, to be expended between Newtown and Leesburg; and said company are allowed to expend said money, together with any other money so subscribed between said points; and that so soon as six thousand dollars shall be subscribed, to be expended between Leesburg and Cynthiana, the said company shall be allowed to expend the same, and as much more as may be subscribed, between said points. Approved March 4, 1850. CHAPTER 309. AN ACT for the benefit of the children of John Crutcher, of Spencer county, and for other purposes. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for John Crutcher, as the guardian of his infant children, James B. Crutcher, Mildred Ann Crutcher, Sebret Crutcher, Stephen Crutcher, and Mary E. Crutcher, to file his petition in the Spencer Circuit Court, setting out that he has sold the negroes which descended to the said children from their grand father, James M. Beard, deceased, and the price at which said negroes were sold; if it shall appear to said Court that the sale was an advantageous one for the said children, said Court shall have power to ratify the same, but shall first require of the said guardian the like bonds to those required by law to be executed by guardians on application to sell infants real estate. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That Henry Graddy, of Hopkins county, may file his bill in chancery, in the Hopkins Circuit Court, against William Inglish's executrix and John Kelly's widow and heirs, and upon his setting forth in said bill that John Kelly, in his life time, held the legal title to a sixty acre tract of land in Hopkins county, which tract the said Inglish, in his life time, bought of John Keneda, and Alice B. D., his wife, and that said Kelly acknowledged that he held the legal title for the use and benefit of William Inglish, and agreed, since the death of Inglish, to convey the same to Inglish's executrix; said facts shall also be proved to said Court aforesaid; the said Hopkins Circuit Court may, upon a state of facts as set forth and proven, decree the legal title to the said Graddy from the heirs of said John Kelly, deceased, notwithstanding the agreement between said Inglish and Kelly, deceas 1850. ed, was not in writing: Provided, that said Court shall observe all the rules and regulations as required in other chancery causes: And, provided further, that William Inglish's executrix shall consent to such decree. Approved March 4, 1850. CHAPTER 310. AN ACT for the benefit of James M. Harrlson, of Lewis county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Second Auditor be and he is hereby required to issue his warrant on the Treasury of this Commonwealth, for the sum of three dollars and eighty cents, in favor of James M. Harrison, and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. Approved March 4, 1850. CHAPTER 311. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, an act to enlarge the town of Stanford. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That an act, entitled, an act to extend the limits of the town of Stanford, approved February 23, 1846, shall not be so construed as that the Trustees or Police of said town shall lay a tax or levy upon the negro or negroes employed in the cultivation of their farms, of those persons whose lands and houses, now included in the boundary of said town, as extended by said act of February 23, 1846; but the same be and they are hereby exempt from taxation by said town. Approved March 4, 1850. CHAPTER 312. AN ACT for the benefit of Joshua T. Bradford, of Bracken county. Whereas, John Schoolfield owned and possessed a ferry, from the town of Augusta, in the county of Bracken, across the Ohio river to the opposite shore; and, whereas, the said John Schoolfield conveyed the same to the trustees of Augusta College; and, whereas, the said trustees of Augusta College conveyed the said ferry to Sarah Armstrong, who mortgaged the same to one John Armstrong; and, whereas, the said John Armstrong filed his bill in chancery in the Bracken Circuit Court, foreclosing said mortgage, and the said ferry was sold under a decree of said court, and Joshua Taylor Bradford became the purchaser of the same; and, whereas, the said trustees of Augusta College, as well as the trustees of said town of Augusta, and the |