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An Act for the benefit of Polly Greenlee and her four youngest children. 1841 274 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0387 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1842 Ssc. 4. That said Trustees, or their successors, shall, at their first session, or any subsequent session, as they may choose, President and elect a President of said Board, to be chosen of their own other officers to be Chosen, body, and such other officers as they may deem necessary, or they may provide for the election of said officers by the sub- scribers to said Academy. That a majority of said Trustees Majoritytobo shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business re- quorum.--By- lating to said Academy; that they shall have power to make laws, &e. may and enact such rules and by-laws for the government of said be enacted. institution as they may deem expedient, not incompatible witi the laws of this Commonwealth; and upon the death, resigna- Vacancies- tion or removal of any of the Trustees of said Academy, a ma- ficw filled. jority of the remaining Trustees shall have power to fill any such vacancy or vacancies, and the person or persons, so ap- pointed, shall hold their office until the next regular election of Trustees. SEC. 5. That said, Trustees, and their successors in office, May purchase shall be capable in law to purchase, receive, and hold, to them and hold lands, and their successors, for the use and benefit of said Academy, &c. any land, tenements, goods and chattels, which may be given, devised, or purchased by them. That said Trustees and their successors, by the name aforesaid, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity. SEC. 6. That a majority of said Trustees, or their succes- Trustees to sors, shall have the approval of all Professors or other Tutors approve ofpro- for said institution, and may dismiss them at any time; that fessors, &c. the President or any two members of said Board of Trustees shall have power to call a meeting of said Trustees, and said Trustees shall, upon such call, convene and transact such bu- siness as shall be deemed necessary for the management of said institution. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the Legislature re- Reservation. serve the right to modify or repeal this act whenever the pub- lic good requires it. Approved, February 28, 1842. CHAPTER 374. AN AC'T for the benefit of Polly Greenlee and her four youngest children. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Corn- Sale of land monwealth of Kentuckyj, That it shall be lawful for Hugh authorized. Hays and Samuel Huston to file, on oath, their petition in the Lincoln Circuit Court, alledging in substance that they are the executors of David Greenlee, deceased, and that his per- sonal estate has been exhausted in the payment of his debts, leaving a considerable portion thereof unpaid, so as to require the sale of his negroes for the payment thereof, and that in their opinion a sale of a certain tract of land, lying in Lincoln county, containing about eighty seven acres, whereof said tes- tator died seized and possessed, and the application of the pro- 274

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