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An Act for the benefit of Mary D. Stewart, an infant. 1843 105 (1843)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0412 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 105 thence down the main road leading to Harrodsburg, which 1844, boundary includes the farm on which said Constable now re- - sides. Approved, January 12, 1844. CHAPTER 16. AN ACT for the benefit of Mary D. Stewart, an infant. WunEAs, Mary D. Stewart, living in Henry county, is an infant, about four years old, and owns two slaves, and two small tracts of land, in said county, and her father and mother being dead, and Madison Stewart, her guardian and uncle, be- ing about to remove to the State of Missouri, where the-grand mother of said infant resides ; and it being represented, that it is to the interest of said Mary D. Stewart, to sell said two tracts of land, and one of the negroes, being an old man, who has a wife in Henry county-therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That said Madison Stewart may exhibit his bill in chancery, in the Henry Circuit Court, against said Mary, setting out all the reasons in favor of a sale of said negroes and two tracts of land ; and the court shall, upon the hearing of the case, if it shall believe it to the interest and advantage of said infant, lary D. Stewart, decree a sale of said slaves and lands, on such terms as may seem right, and cause the guardian to give bond with two or more good securitie, pay. able to the Commonwealth, in such penalty as said court may fix, for the faithful accounting to said Mary D. Stewart, for the proceeds of such sales, and to invest the same in land in the State of Missouri ; and upon a breach of said bond, any person or persons interested in a breach of the same, may sue thereon for their use. Approved, January 12, 1844. CHAPTER 17. AN ACT to establish the town of Downingsville. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com- monwealth of Kentucky, That John 11. Downing be, and he Town laid off. is hereby authorized to lay off a town on the land on which he resides, in the county of Grant, to include four acres, to be laid off in lots of one quarter of an acre, with streets And alleys of such dimensions as said Downing may direct; and when said town shall be laid out as said Downing may direct, a plat thereof shall be made out by some Surveyor, and record- ed in the County Court of Grant county. SEC. 2. That said Downing shall enter into bond and secu- Priet, to rity to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in the Grant County eecute bona. 14

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