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An Act for the benefit of Rebecca Dye. 1835 91 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0276 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF IRENTUCKY. Clur. 101.-AN ACT for the benefit of the heirs of Benjamin 1836 Long. SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of John Low, the Commonwealth of Kentdcky, That it shall and may file a pe. may be lawful for Benjamin Long, of the county of tition in the Jessamine,.as t1h,, gurdian C'or lhis children, William esain cr a icuit court. Long, Lucy Ann Long, and Alfred Long, to file a pe- tition in the Jessamine circuit court, setting forth the condition of a tract of hind containing four acres, deeded by George Bronaugh and Sarah his wife to the above named children of the said Benjamin Long. SEc. 2. Bc it further enacted, That upon the filing Court may S~c. 2. B it 11 - decree a al of said petition, the judge of the above named circuit d aa court should deem it advisable to promote the interest of the above named children of Benjamin Long, that the land should be sold, then, and in that event, it shall and may be lawful to decree the sale of the Commission- same, and shall appoint a commissioner to sell the cr to bc ap- same, who shall give a bond with gooi and sufficient pointed. security, that the proceeds of the above sale shall be faithfully laid out in lands in some of the western How pro- states, in the name, and for the benefit of the above ceds to be named children of the said Benjamin Long. laid out. Approved, February 9, 1936. C:p. 102.-AN ACT for the benefit of Rebecca Dye. Whereas, John Duncan, by his will, devised certain Preamble. slaves, and an interest undivided in a tract of land equal to fifty acres in the county of .Nelson, in trust to his son Charles Duncan, for the use and benefit of his daughter Rebecca Dye and her childreg, (eight in number,) under the apprehension that her husband, John Dye, owing to his then dissipated habits, would be unable to manage and take care of the same; and that said John Dye has since become a sober, indus- trious, and frugal man, and is anxious, with his growing family, to remove to the state of Missouri, and to take the slaves devised in trust; and the said Charles Duncan, having, as acting executor, ac- cepted the trust, it is doubtful whether he can trans- fer the estate in trust to said Dye and permit him to manage it for the use of his said wife and his child- ren, and remove the slaves with his family to the;. state of Missouri: Therefore,

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