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An Act for the benefit of Elizabeth Wathen. 1845 161 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0477 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. siness at any regular meeting, or at such meetings where all 1846. have notice of the time and place. SEC. 4. That the said Trustees, and their successors, shall Professor- have power and authority to constitute all such professorships ships to be es- tablished and in said College as they may choose and think best for the in- prfessors ap terest of the said College; and may appoint professors, tutors, pointed. masters, or instructors; to fill said professorshipi, for the pur- pose of having the students in said College properly instructed in all those branches of learning and science that said Trus- tees may determine upon, one of whom shall be appointed and styled the President of said College; and said professors, so constituted and appointed, shall exercise all the powers, and confer all the degrees upon the students, from time to time, as the Trustees, by their by-laws, shall direct and determine; and to that end, the said Trustees shall have power to pass all By-laws may by-laws which shall be necessary to the interests, and advance- be adopted. ment of the interests, of said College, and not inconsistent with the laws of the State. SEC. 5. That the-professors, so appointed, shall hold their Professors to offices during good behavior, or so long as a majority of the holdoices du- ring good be- Trustees may determine. havior. SEC. 6. That the Legislature shall have full power, at any Power to re- time, to alter, amend or repeal this charter, peal, &c., re- served. SEC. 7. That James Campbell, Hiram Smedley, Henry En- Trustees for ders, A. Slee, and Braxton Small, be and they are hereby ap- Paducah Sem- pointed Trustees of the Female Seminary in the town of Pad- inary appt'd. ucah; and they are hereby invested with all necessary powers to regulate and carry on said Seminary for the public good, according to law. M section of SEC. 8. That the third section of an act, entitled, an act to acts concern- amend the several acts concerning the Newport Seminary or ing Newport Academy, and for other purposes, approved February 7th, Seminary or 1 Academy re- 1845, be and the same is hereby repealed. pealed. Approved February 13, 1846. 'CHAPTER 169. AN ACT for the benefit of Elizabeth Wathen. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com- Her trustee monwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for Benjamin may petition Wathen, trustee of Elizabeth Wathen, the wife of John Wa- forsaleoftrust then, to file his bill in chancery in the Washington Circuit property & for the investin't Court, making the said Elizabeth and her husband parties thereof in real thereto, and also the child of the said Elizabeth, should it be estate. deemed a necessary party, and therein pray the chancellor to decree a sale of a certain'slave called Baptiste, held by him as trustee aforesaid, and the investment of the proceeds of sale in a tract of land, to be held in trust in the same manner that said slave is now held; and if, upon the hearing of the cause, the said court shall be of opinion that such sale and invest- 21

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