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An Act for the benefit of Jael Holder, and the heirs of Fielding Holder. 1831 90 (1831)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0208 and id is 1 raw text is: 90 KENTUCKY. 1831. Suc. 13. Be it further enacted, That the said board of trustees shall, at their first meeting after their an- A president of nual election, appoint some one of their own body, to the board to be chosen-his du- act as president of the board; whose duty it shall be, ty., &c. to preside over their meetings, and keep order, and sign the record of their proceedings, to be kept by their clerk: and in case of the death, absence, or re- signation, of the said presiding trustee, his place may he supplied by the appointment of another. CHAP. DCLII. AN ACT for the benefit of Jael Holder, and the heirs of Fielding Holder. Approvcd, December 12, 1831. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- wealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the heirs The Barren cir- of Fielding Holder, the infant heirs by their mother cuit court au- Jael Holder, to petition the Barren circuit court, set- thorized to de- ting forth the facts which make it necessary and pro- cree a sale of ta eti certain saes. per, that certain slaves, to-wit, Visa a negro woman, and Porter a child, about one year old, owned by said heirs, and in which Jael Holder is entitled to dower, should be sold; and the court shall, thereupon, investigate the matter, and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court, that it would be to the inter- est of the said heirs, owing to the character of said slaves, to have them sold, the court may direct a sale thereof, and appoint a commissioner to carry the de- cree rendered, into effect: Provided, howcv r, that the mother of said heirs, shall unite in the petition to the court, giving her assent to the sale of the dower in said slaves. Be it further enacted, That the Barren circuit court, The connmis- in case it decrees a sale of said slaves, shall take bond, sioners to give bond, &c. g with approved security, from the commissioner ap- pointed to make the sale, conditioned for the faithful performance of all such duties as the court may assign him; the bond shall be made payable to those inter- Proceeds of the ested in the slaves to be sold: and it shall be the duty sale to be ap- of the court, to cause the money arising from the sale plied to the pur- of the slaves, to be laid out in the purchase of other chase of other slaves, for the heirs of said Holder; giving, however, in slaves. the property so purchased, the same estate to the wife of said Holder, as she possessed in the slaves sold.

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