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An Act for the benefit of Joseph Botts. 1845 87 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0463 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 57. 1846. AN ACT to change the name of a place in Madison county from Arcadia to that of Rogersville. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the place, including the residence of Adam Rogers, Esq., Robert Reed, and Adam Rogers, Jr., commonly called Arcadia, in Madison county, shall hereafter be called Rogersville, in honor of the first settler, the ancestor of the present occupants of that name, who was a brave defender, in early time, of this country. Approved January 24, 1846. CHAPTER 58. AN ACT for the benefit of Joseph Botts. WHEREAS, it is represented to the present General Assem- bly, that Joseph Botts stands indicted, in the Bracken Circuit Court, for aiding and assisting a slave, the property of Peter Helm, to escape to the .State of Ohio, and that owing to the prejudice of the people of said county against him, he cannot have a fair trial in said county. For remedy whereof: SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com- monwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the said Joseph Botts to appear before the Bracken Circuit Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, and make his election to be tried in the Nicholas Circuit Court, which election shall be noted on the record; and, thereupon, the Bracken Circuit Court shall recognise the said Botts to appear on the first day of the next ensuing term of the Nicholas Circuit Court; and upon said indictment and such proceedings as may have been had thereon being certified to the Nicholas Circuit Court, said court shall take cognizance of said case in the same manner as if said offence had been committed in the county of Nicholas, and shall do and perform all acts and things relating thereto in as full and complete a manner as though said indictment had originated in the county of Nicholas: and all the officers of the Nicholas Circuit Court shall perform all the duties pertain- ing to their offices in relation to said indictment: and the Judge of the Bracken Circuit Court, in case said Botts makes his election as herein provided, recognise the witnesses, as well on the part of the said Botts as the Commonwealth, to appear in the Nicholas Circuit Court and give evidence in said prosecu- tion. And the Nicholas Circuit Court shall proceed on all recognizances entered into in said case, in the same manner as if entered into in that court; and in case said indictment shall be found defective and be quashed, or the judgment ar- rested, said Botts shall not for that cause be discharged, but a special grand jury shall be summoned, if the regular grand jury shall have been discharged, and a new indictment found, if the evidence shall warrant it, and the defendant tried there-

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