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An Act for the benefit of George O. Thompson. 1844 123 (1844)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0438 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. jurisdiction of claims against the Company, and the mesne 1845 and final process may be sent to any county in the State. Approved January 22, 1845. CHAPTER 83. AN ACT to allow an additional Constable in Ballard county, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly that the citizens residing in that part of Ballard county, north of Humphreys' creek, labor under great inconvenience for the want of a Constable: for remedy whereof, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com- monwealth of Kentucky, That an additional Constable be al- Ballard. lowed to the county of Ballard, to reside north of Hum- phreys' creek, and near Esquire Turk. SEC. 2. That there shall be, and is hereby, allowed one ad- ditional Justice of the Peace and Constable to the county of Hardin, and when the County Court of said county shall pro- Hardin. ceed to elect said Justice they shall have due regard to the claims of Elizabethtown, in said county. SEC. 3. That an additional Constable shall be, and is here- Carroll. by, allowed to the county of Carroll, who shall reside in the third School district in said county. Approved January 22, 1845. CHAPTER 85. AN ACT for the benefit of George 0. Thompson. WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly, that, some time in the spring of 1839, a certain negro man named Sam, then owned by - Wilson, of Trigg county, was con- victed on the charge of rape, inflicted on the body of a white woman, and was legally committed to the jail of Chris- tian county, whilst George 0. Thompson was Jailer of said county, and, in consequence of the insecure condition of the prison, and not by the negligence of said Thompson, said fel- on made his escape: AND, WHEREAS, The said Thompson, at the instance of many of the citizens of Christian county, of- fered and paid a reward of one hundred dollars for his apprehen- sion : therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the County Court of Christian be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the said George 0. Thompson, out of the county levy, the sum of one hundred dollars, with all accruing interest, from the 1st day of June, 1839, until paid. Approved January 22, 1845.

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