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An Act for the benefit of Benjamin Bridges. 1820 163 (1820)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0111 and id is 1 raw text is: ( 163 3 shall have the same validity and effect, when cer. tified by the editors, as if the same had been in- sorted in any newspaper in this commohlwcalth. CHAP. CXXXVI. An CT for the benefit of Benjamin Ridgeie. Approved, December 21, 1820. WHEREAS the said Benjamin Bridges was, Preamble, on the 28th day of March 1 S20, appointed by the acting governoi, of this state, agent on the part of this state, to apply for and receive into his custody, and conduct to the proper authority in the county of Jefferson, one Thomas Perry, and a negro man slave named Essex, the property of David L. Ward, fugitives from the justice of this state, then supposed to be in confinemeut in the state of Ohio : And whereas the said Bridges incurred much personal risk and trouble, and expended considerable sums of money in pursuit of said fugitives, and in the employment of guards to assist in conveying back to the proper authority in the county aforesaid, said Perry, for all which he has not, and cannot, according to the existing laws, receive any compensation Therefore, Be it enacted by the General 3ssembly of the Commonwealth of K~entucky, That the auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby authorise- and required to issue his warrant on the treas- urer, in favor of the said Benjamin Bridges, for the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars. CHAP. CXXXVIL A ACT appointing persons to view a way for a Road from Danville to the Tennessee Line. Approved, December 21, 1820. WHEREAS it is represented to the present Preamble general assembly, that it would conduce greatly to the benefit of the public to open a road from

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