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An Act for the benefit of William H. Bransford. 1841 147 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0375 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 117. AN ACT for the benefit of Coleman Graves. 1842 WHEREAS, it is represented that Captain Harvey Bledsoe, of the eighth regiment of Kentucky Militia, about the year 1830, with Coleman Graves, Dary Veal, and William H. Ro- gers, his securities, executed to the Commonwealth their joint bond for the safe keeping and return of certain public arms, received by said Bledsoe for the use of his company; that the said Bledsoe departed this life about the year 1833, and that his estate, as well as that of William H. Rogers, is insol- vent, and Dary Veal, another security, has removed to the State of Missouri; that the remaining security, Coleman Graves, has used all diligence to collect the said arms, and has succeeded in securing and returning about one-half the num- ber; that at the last January term of the General Court a judgment and execution was obtained against him, and an ex- ecution thereon issued, for the sum of two hundred and thirty- six dollars, which, with the costs, he has paid to the Sergeant of the Geneial Court, and now petitions to have the amount of the said judgment refunded to him-therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- wealth of Kentucky, That upon the said Coleman Graves pre- senting to the Auditor of Public Accounts the receipt of the Sergeant of the General Court, given in discharge of the ex- ecution aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said Auditor to draw his warrant, in favor of said Graves, on the Treasury, for the sum of two hundred and thirty-six dollars, the amount of the judgment aforesaid, which shall be paid by the Treasurer out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 1, 1842. CHAPTER 118. AN ACT for the benefit of William H. Bransford. WHEREAS, it appears that William H. Bransford, without a knowledge of the act of 1833, and after he became a citizen of Daviess county, purchased, for his own use, in the State of Virginia, a family of slaves, consisting of a man, his wife, and three children ; that he has not brought them to this State, and cannot do so without incurring the penalties of the act, entitled, an act to amend the law prohibiting the importation of slaves into this State, approved February 2, 1833-for re- rnedy whereof, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com- monwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the said William H. Bransford to import into this State, for his own use, the slaves aforesaid, to-wit: Nicholas, Rhoda, Newton, Harriet, and Booker: Provided, the said William H. Bransford shall, within thirty days after he imports said slaves into this

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