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An Act for the benefit of the Devisees and Heirs of James F. Moore and Elizabeth Moore, deceased, and for the Heirs of John Hughes, Jr. 1834 253 (1834)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0266 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. wu~r. 803.-AN ACT for the benefit of the Devisee$ and Heirs of 1835 James F. Moore and Elizabeth Moore, deceased, and for the Heirs _ of John Huhes, Jr. SEc. 1. *Be it enacted by the Gcneral Assembly of the Upbn bill Commonwealth of Kentuc,'y, That it shall be lawful filed,co,,rtmay for the heirs and devisecs of James F. Moore and decree asaleof the estate to Elizabeth Moore, or any of them, to file a bill in pay the debts, chancery in the Jefferson circuit court, to which bill for a distribuo- all of said devisees and heirs, and those claiming their tion. shares of said estates, shall be either complainants or defendants, alleging that said (states are indebted, and that the cst:ites cannot he beneficially divided among the parties interested; and it shall he lawful for said court to decree a sale of the whole or any part of said estates for the pa) ment of debts, and for distribution amongst those entitled to the same, if the court shall be of opinion, that in equity and right, a sale would be advantageous to those interested in said estates; and the court may order a sale at public auction or at private sale, as shall be deemed most advantageous to said devisees and heirs, and shall, in all other respects, proceed as directed by an act, entitled an-act vesting jurisdiction in the circuit courts, to authorize the sale of the real estate of infants in certain caFe;, approved February thi d, eighteen hundred and thirteen. And whereas, it is rcpresenred to the General As- sembly, that Join Hughes, jr. of Washington county, died on the - day of June, 1833, intestate, leaving a widow and seven children, who are infants; that he was posses~cd of two tracts of land in the county in which he died, the one upon which he lived, and an- other of four hundred acres, one or two miles off, some daves and other personal property. That Tho- mas B. Highcs administered on the estate, dispcsed of the personal property (negroes excepted,) and ap- plied the proceeds of the sale thereof to the discharge of the debts due therefrom, that there are yet out- standirg debts unpaid against said estate, the precise amount of which is unknown, supposed to be at least two thousand dollars; in order to pay which, it will be ncccs'ary to dispose of nearly all of the slaves or part of the land. It is further represented that the ne- gro-s are young, very productive, and yielding a con- siderable income to the estate annually; whereas, that portion of land which is proposed to be sold, to-wit: two hundred acres off the tract of four hundred acres, is in a state of nature, yielding no income to the e&-

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