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An Act to incorporate the Kentucky State Colonization Society. 1846 64 (1846)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0505 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1847 failure or refusal of such President and Directors to comply with the provisions of the act aforesaid, or to adopt the modi- fications contemplated by this act. Sisc. 4. Be it further enacted, That should any one or more If company of the Turnpike Companies fail to be represented in the con. fatil toattend, templated Convention, such Company or Companies shall nev- may avail it- ertheless have the privilege, thereafter, to adopt such change self of change. or modification in their rates of toll as shall receive the appro- val of the Board of Internal Improvement; and for failing or refusing to do so, at tile instance of said Board, such Company shall be subject to the same process, and the Managers thereof held accountable, and subject to the same penalties for such failure or refusal, as herein provided, in regard to the Compa- nies represented in said Convention. Approved MIarch 1, 1847. CHAPTER 490. AN ACT to incorporate the Kentucky State Colonization Society. Src. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly qf the Con- Persons in- monwealth of Kentucky, That James Davidson, A. G. Ilodges, corporated. Tho. S. Page, Jacob Swigert, Orlando Brown, and H. I. Bod- ley, and their associates and successors, shall be nnd the same are hereby created and declared to be a body politic and cor- porate, by the name, style and title of The Kentucky State Style. Colonization Society; and by that name sl .11 have perpetual succession; and shall be able to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of Their powers. law or equity in this State; may have and use a common seal; form a constitution and by-laws; shall have full power to have and enjoy, to them and their successors, in fee or oth- erwise, any land, tenements, or hereditarnents, by gift, bar- gain and sale, devise or other act, of any person or persons, body politic or corporate, whatsoever; to take and to receive any sum or sums of money, goods or chattels, that shall be given, sold or bequeathed to them in any manner whatsoever: Proviso. Provided, That tie yearly value of which real estate exceeds not the sum of five thousand dollars; and do nil other neces- sary acts not incompatible with tile constitution and laws of this State, and constitution of the United States. S.. 2. That the objects of this Society shall be, to use ..ny Objects ofthe gift, devise or other act, of any person or persons, body poli- Society. tic or corporate, according as the constitution and by-laws of said Society shall determine to be most conducive to colonize, with their own consent, in Africa, the free people of color re- siding in this State, and for no other uses and purposes what- soever. Constitution SEc. 3. lrhat the constitution and by-laws of said Society, and by-laws in which mav be in force at the time of the passage of this act, force.

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