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An Act for the benefit of Sabina Turpin, and others. 1845 195 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0482 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY.

sected by the northern line of Eglantine Alley of said town,  1846.
if the same were extended eastwardly; thence north 37*0 E.,
41 29-100 poles, to a stone pillar; thence north 34*0 E., 100
poles, crossing James Taylor's creek twice, (being a bend there-
of,) to a stone pillar on the west side of said creek, and near
the bank of the same; thence north 84J° west, 35 7-10 poles,
to a stone pillar on the'westwardly side of said Taylor's mill
creek, on the Ohio river, about half way between high and
low water mark; thence parallel with the Ohio river, or near-
ly so. south 33J0 W., 38 poles, to a point about half way be-
tween high and low water mark; thence south 3640 vest,
79 9-10 poles, to a stone pillar at a point about 'half way be-
tween high and low watermark, and where the last mention-
ed course would be intersected by the eastern line of said East
Row, if said eastern line of said East Row were extended ;
thence with the eastern line of said Eastern Row south 400 E..
32 poles, to the place of beginning; it being the same land
that has been regularly plated, and a regular map or plat
thereof recorded, due reference being had thereto, containing
about thirty acres, be the same more or less.
SEC. 2. That an act, entitled, an act to amend an act con-  Act of 1845
cerning the town of Newport, and for other purposes, approv- amended in
ed February 10, 1S45, be and the same is hereby so amended, relation torep-
i resentation in
so far as that each of the wards mentioned in said act, shall wards.
be entitled to a representation in the Board of Trustees of said
town, of two members only; and the representation from said
wards is hereby reduced to the number of two from each ward
aforesaid.
SEC. 3. That in all meetings of said Trustees, four Trus-  Number of
tees and the President of the Board, or, in his absence, five Trustees  to
Trustees, shall form a quorum to do business; but in levying form quoruns.
the taxes, or in passing any by-law or ordinance, a majority of
the whole shall concur.
Approved February 17, 1846.
CHAFTER 201.
AN ACT for the benefit of Sabina Turpin, and others.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth  Court mu,
of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for Anderson J. Turpin thorized  to
and Sabina Turpin, his wife, to file their bill in chancery, in confirm an ex-
change slaves
the Bourbon Circuit Court, against Wilkerson Turpin, and the held in trust,
children of said Sabina, to-wit, Josephine, Mary A., William for ahouse and
C., Louisa, Gustavus, Genevieve, Alonzo, and Clifton Turpin, lot-
alleging the conveyance from George Linney to Thomas Botts,
in trust for the separate use of said Sabina and her children,
of a negro woman and her four children,Allen, Julia, Isabella,
and Joseph; in which bill they shall exhibit said deed of
conveyance, or an authenticated copy thereof, and alleging
and showing, also, that, by a decree of the Montgomery Cir-

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