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An Act to reduce into one and digest and amend the acts and amendatory acts incorporating the city of Lexington. 1841 244 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0385 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1842 1540, be, and the same is hereby, released to the said Benja- min Wickersham, and no execution shall thenceforth issue upon said judgment against said Wickersham: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed so as to release said Wickersham from the costs of suit. Approved, February 25, 1842. CHAPTER 339. AN ACT for the benefit of Nicholas L. Oliver, late Sheriff of Henry county. WHERlEAs, it is represented to the General Assembly, that Nicholas L. Oliver, former Sheriff of Henry county, through misfortune, was prevented from paying into the Treasury of this Commonwealth the full amount of the revenue due from said county for the year 1840; and, whereas, the said Nicho- las L. Oliver has heretofore, and since execution has issued against him, discharged the principal part of said debt, and is prepared to discharge the remainder--therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- wealth of Kentucky, That the said Nicholas L. Oliver be, and he is hereby, released from the payment of all interest and damages due on the above debt, and the Second Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby directed to issue to said Oliver a quietus, on proof being made that the principal of such execu- tion has been fully paid by him, or some one for him. Approved, February 25, 1812. CHAPTER 340. AN ACT to reduce into one and digest and amend the acts and amendatory acts incorporating the city of Lexington. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Corn- Boundary of monwealth of Kentucky, That so much of the county of Fay- city defined. ette as is contained within the following bounds, to-wit: one mile from the court house in every direction, shall be, and hereby is, declared to be a city, and the inhabitants thereof are created a body corporate and politic, with perpetual suc- cession, by the name and style of the City of Lexington, Corporate and as such, by that name, shall be capable in law of contract- powers. ing and being contracted with, or suing and being sued, plead- ing and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, in all courts and places, and in all matters whatsoever; and may have and use a corporate seal, and change, alter and re- new the same at pleasure. SEC. 2. That the fiscal, prudential, and municipal concerns Mayor and of the said city, with the government and control thereof, shall council to be be vested in one principal officer to be called the Mayor, and appointed, and one City Council, consisting of twelve persons, to be denomin- 244

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