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An Act for the benefit of the children of Reuben Graves, deceased. 1842 255 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0409 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. Shelbyville; the persons thus enrolled to be exempt from mi- 1843 litia duty in time of peace, and from paying poll tax to the corporation. Approved, March 10, 1843. CHAPTER 313. AN ACT to incorporate the Kentucky Oyster Company. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Robert G. Carter, Martin P. Marshall, Dr. Nesbit Taylor, Robert Robb, and Charles Marshall, with their associates, shall be, and they are hereby, constituted a body corporate, for the purpose of making an experiment in the raising of Oysters in this State, by means of an artificial salt pond or lake, and they shall be styled The Kentucky Oyster Company, and by that name may sue and be sued, in all courts, and have a common seal. The capital stock shall be ten thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, twenty five dollars of which shall be paid in as soon as the company is organized, and the residue as it may be ordered. The stockholders shall meet at such time and place as Robert G. Carter shall direct, after the subscription shall be taken, and shall elect a President, two Directors, a Secretary, and Treasurer, and these shall be the officers of said corporation, and they shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors shall be elected. The said Treasurer shall give bond with security, in such sum as may be demanded. The said company shall have power to make such by-laws and or- dinances for their government, as shall not be inconsistent with the law of the land. They shall have no power to do any thing but what shall be necessary to raise Oysters in this State; and the said company may hold real estate and personal effects to the value of not more than one hundred thousand dollars; and this act may be amended or repealed at pleasure. Approved, March 10, 1843. CHAPTER 315. AN ACT for the benefit of the children of Reuben Graves, deceased. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the personal represen- tatives of Reuben Graves, deceased, to exhibit their petition to the County Court of Woodford county, stating therein that it will be for the interest of the children of said Graves to purchase, for their service, a negro man slave; which petition shall be sworn to, if filed ; and if it shall appear to said court that it will be for the interest of said children to purchase 255

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