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An Act for the benefit of Nancy Eastin. 1845 158 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0476 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. .1846. SEc. 2, That the title to any land, which may be purchased Lands pur. in virtue of any decree which may be rendered by said Circuit chased may be Court, shall be vested in the said adminisfrator, in trust for vested in ad- the benefit of the devisees. And in any settlement which the ministrator. said administrator may hereafter have, he shall be chargeable with the net proceeds of the sale of said slave, and credited with the money paid for the land, if said court should ratify the sale of the one and authorize the purchase of the other. Approved February 13, 1846. CHAPTER 162. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, an act to incorporate the town of Lan- caster. SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Corn- Powers ofpo- monwealt/i of Kentucky, That the sixth section of the act, lice Judge may entitled, an act to incorporate the town of Lancaster, ap- beexercised by proved February 23, 1837, be amended; and that the powers Jutsices of the Peace. and duties conferred on the Police Judge of said town may be exercised and discharged by any of the Justices of the Peace of the county of Garrard, residing within the limits of said town. on the same terms and under the same restrictions. as the said Police Judge might have done or could do: Provi- ded, however, that two Justices shall sit as a court of enquiry in all criminal cases occurring in said town, as is provided for by existing general laws: And provided, also, that this act shall not be so construed as to give them jurisdiction of all claims under one hundred dollars, arising in favor of the trus- tees of said town, or agiinst them, as given to said Police Judge under said section. SEc. 2. It shall and may be lawful for the trustees of said Town Marshal town, annually, to elect a Town Marshal, whose duty it shall may be elect- be to execute all precepts issued by said Justices, on account ed, & his pow. of violations of the law, within the limits of said town, and ers and duties. to collect and account for the same according to the provisions of the said act, to which this is an amendment; and whose fees shall be the same as are allowed to Constables for like ser- vices. Approved February 13, 1846. CHAPTER 163. AN ACT for the benefit of Nancy Eastin. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for William J. Walker, of Madison county, to file a petition in chancery, in the Cir- cuit Court for Madison county, setting forth that he is the trustee for Nancy Eastin, and holds, for her separate use, two slaves, named Tom and Lucy: and if it shall be made to ap.

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