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An Act for the benefit of Margaret Bogus. 1835 555 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0286 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. Cu&. 387.-AN ACT for the benefit of Margaret Bogum. 1836 Whereas, it is represented to the general assembly - that Betty Young, a free woman of colour, lately deceased, did, in her life time, purchase Margaret, her grand daughter, but died intestate, without having liberated the said Margaret as she intended to do. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com- monwealth of Kentucky, That the said Margaret be considered, taken and held, as a free woman of colour; and she is hereby made, and rendered papa- ble of taking and inheriting from her said grand mother, Betty Young, any property of which she may have been possessed, and which she owned at her death. Approved, February 29, 1836. CHAr. 388.-AN ACT to reduce the number of Justices of the Peace in Bullitt county. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commanuwalth of Kentucky, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for the county court of Bullitt county to recommend to the governor of this commonwealth, for commission, any person to fill the office of justice of the peace for said county, until the whole number of justices of the peace for said county shall be reduced to ten, so that there shall, at no time, be more than eleven justices in said county: Provided, That the reduc- tion shall not be so made that there shall be less than two justices of the peace in either of the towns of Shepherdsville or Mount Washington. SEC. 2. Be itfurther enacted, That it shall be the duty of the county court of said county, whenever a vacancy in the office of justice of the peace shall occur in said county, to cause the records and pa- pers of the office becoming vacant to be delivered to the justice for said county, residing nearest to him whose office is vacated, until the reduction contem- plated by the first section of this act, shall be ef- fected; after which, the records and papers of justi- ces of the peace in said county shall be disposed of as heretofore provided by law, Approved. February 29, 1836..

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