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An Act to incorporate the town of Somerset. 1845 219 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0492 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. those who are not. The Society shall have the rght to fill any 1846. vacancy in said board, to remove a Trustee for misconduct, and to elect Trustees as often as they may ordain in their con- stitution and by-laws, which Trustees, and their successors, shall hold the property of the corporation for the se and ben- efit of the Society. SEc. 3. That said corporation shall not be allowed to own Restrictions. more than ten thousand dollars worth of property, and not more than two thousand dollars worth of real property; and any property held by the Trustees, for the use and benefit of the Society, shall be liable to judgment and execution. SEC. 4. That any person hereafter elected a member of said Society, shall be a member of this corporation, and they, to- gether with the present members, shall constitute a corpora- tion in perpetuity, for literary purposes. Should said Society Whba char- at any time fail, for the space of one year, to meet, it shall be ter forfeited. deemed a forfeiture of this charter; and should its existence terminate by forfeiture, demise, withdrawal or removal of its members, all its property shall vest in the County Court, for Property to the use and benefit of any College or Academy in Murray, or %est in Comrly its immediate vicinity, and if there should then be none such, Court if char. said court shall hold the saine until one shall be established : ter forfeited. Provided, that the library shall not be converted into either Proviso. money or property, but they shall have a right to sell and con- vey the real estate. SEC. 5. That said Society shall contract, by its President, Pres't may he having first obtained the consent of the Society; but no makecontracts debt exceeding twenty dollars shall be contracted, but by the not above $20. consent of a majority of all the members. Approved February 18, 1846. CHAPTER 248. AN ACT to incorporate the town el Somerset. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Corn- lat of monwealth of Kentucky, That the town of Somerset, as de- 1801 and 1819 scribed, bounded and demarked in the plat thereof, executed describes the boundary of in the year eighteen hundred and one, by James Hardgrove, the town. and the plat executed in the year eighteen hundred and nine- teen, by Joseph Porter, and recorded in the Clerk's office of the Pulaski County Court, shall be and is hereby declared to be the town of Somerset; and the said plats are hereby de- clared to be the true plats and plan thereof; and that the original or attested copies of the said plats may be used in ev- idence in the same manner that attested copies of other papers duly recorded in said office are authorized to be used. SEc. 2.' That the fiscal, prudential, and municipal concerns Shall bave of said town, with the government and control thereof, shall five Trustees. be vested in five Trustees, three of whom shall constitute a quorum to transact business, and all of whom shall have re-

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