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An Act for the benefit of the widow and heirs of James P. Taylor, deceased. 1836 109 (1836)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0293 and id is 1 raw text is: LIAW OF KENTUCKY. 1 and the route between the two; and the said President and Di- 1837. rectors shall then select that one which to them shall seem the best. 4th. That the said Company shall have the full time of two years, from the passage of this act, to commence said road, mence and and the period of five years to complete it. 5th. The eleva- completa. tion and declension of said road, in the grade thereof, shall not Road how exceed two degrees, and the said road shall not exceed sixty constructed. feet in width,and shall be graded to the width of thirty five feet at least, except in the cots and lills the grade may be reduced to twenty five feet; and (he stone part of said road shall not be less than fifteen feet, where the road is graded thirty five feet, and eighteen feet where the grade is reduced to twenty five feet; and the metal upon said road shall not be less than twelve inches in depth, and may be constructed with a pavement of not less than seven inches in depth, and the balance with broken stone on the top thereof. 6th. The shares of stock shall be Amount of one hundred dollars each, in lieu of fifty dollars; and corpora- shares. tions and bodies politic, shall have the power and authority to subscribe for stock in said Company. 7th. The Commission- Books to be ers shall open the books for the subscription of stock, at such opened. times and places as they shall deem fit, and may appoint agents for the purpose of receiving subscriptions of stock, &c. 8th. All and every part of said act, inconsistent with the provisions State sub- of this act, are hereby repealed: Provided hozevcr, That the scrptiontwhet stabscriptions on the part of the State, authorized by this act, to be made. shall not be made until after the Board of Internal Improve- ment shall, by their engineer or engineers, cause an examina- tion of the proposed road, and shall be of opinion that the said subscription can be advantageously made on the part of the State. Approved, February 3, 1837. CleAP. 214.-AN ACT for the benefit of the widow and heirs of James P. Tay- lor, deceased. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwvealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the administrator of Asaleofreal estate authori- James P. Traylor, deceased, to file a bill in chancery, in the zed to pay Louisville chancery court, against the widow and hecirs of the debts. said Tay!or, alledging that the personal estate is not sufficient to pay the debts, and that it would he to the interest of the wvi- dow and heirs of said Taylor, to have the real estate sold, and apply so much of the proceeds as would be sufficient to the dis- charge of the debts, and have the residue invested in profitable stocks or other lands for the benefit of the widow and heirs; and the court shall cause the accounts of the administrators to be settled, and the whole personal estate applied to the pay- payment of the debts, retaining the* slaves for the use of the widow and heirs, and after ascertaining the amountof the debts and the value of the real estate, may decree a sale of the land, 109,

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