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An Act for the benefit of Thomas Green, of Christian county. 1847 112 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0556 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 184R. CHAPTER 74. AN ACT for the benefit of Thomas Green, of Christian county. WHEREAS, it is represented to the General Assembly, that Thomas Green, of Christian county, is desirous of pur- chasing and bringing back to this State, from the State of Tennessee, for his own use, a negro mani slave named Albert, of which negro he owns the wife and children. Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That said Green be and is hereby authorized and permitted to bring into tiis State, from the State of Tennes- see, said slave Albert, who is aged about forty-five years, for his own use, without incurring any of the penalties of the act of 1833, prohibiting the importation of slaves: Pro- vided, the said Green shall, within thirty days after bringing said slave into this State, go before some Justice of the Peace for said county, and make oath that he has brought said slave into this State for his own use, and not for sale, and that he will not sell said slave within three years from that date; which affidavit shall be filed in the Clerk's office of the Christian County Court. Approved January 24, 1848. CHAPTER 75. AN ACT to. incorporate the Trustees of Liberty School House, in Trimble county. SEC. 1. Be it enacted 1 the General Assembly of the Com- monwealth of Kentucky, That John B. Floyd, Madison May- field, Hugh McEntire, Tarrence Conner and Samuel Morris, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby con- stituted and appointed a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the Trustees of Liberty School House in Trimble county, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, with all the powers incident to corporations, for the purpose of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, so far as may be necessary to protect the rights, titles, property, privileges, possessions and immunities of said school house, its appendages, and the lot of ground upon which said house now stands. SEC. 2. That it shall be lawful for the above named Trus- tees, or their successors, to procure from Baxter Mayfield, the title to the lot of ground on which said school house now stands, which title shall vest in said Trustees, and their successors, in their corporate capacity, to be held by them for school purposes. SEC. 3. That the above named Trustees shall continue in office until the first Saturday in January, 1849, or until their successors are duly elected by a majority of the quali- fied voters who may be subscribers or contributors to any 112

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