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An Act for the benefit of J.M. Martin, administrator of Ephraim Ball, deceased. 1848 343 (1848)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0615 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 479. 1849. AN ACTto amend the charter of the Lancaster and Crab Orchard Turnpike Road Company. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- wealth of Kentucky, That so much of an act, entitled, an When meeting of stockholders act to incorporate a Turnpike Road Company from Lan- to be called. caster to Crab Orchard, be and the same is hereby so amend- ed as to allow the Commissioners of said road, so soon as the sum five thousand dollars is subscribed, to call a meet- ing of the stockholders, and organize according to the pro- visions of the original charter, approved February 28, 1835. SEC. 2. That the Garrard County Court shall have pow- Garrard C'ty er and authority to sell, dispose of, and convey, all the va- Cut rmaydsao cant lands in said county, and appropriate the proceeds vacant lands. thereof to the construction of the said road. SEC. 3. Thai the stockholders of the Lexington, Nicho- Other turnpike copanies may lasville, Lancaster and Danville Turnpike Road Company, scbscribe tock. or Companies, or the President and Directors of said Com- pany, or Companies, are hereby authorized to take stock in the aforesaid Lancaster and Crab Orchard Turnpike Road, Company, if a majority of the stockholders, voting accord- ing to the ratio of stock, shall deem it advisable-the amount of said stock to be limited according to their own discre- tion. SEC. 4. That, in place of the Commissioners named in New Com'rs the act to which this is an amendment, the following per-: apptnted. sons are hereby appointed to perform the duties required by said act, to-wit: Thomas R. Salter, Samuel Lusk, James M. Bryant, James H. Yantis, and David Anderson, of Garrard county; Thomas Buford, Robert Graham, Hi- ram Roberts, John Owsley, Henry Davenport, of Lincoln county. Approved February 26, 1849. CHAPTER 480. AN ACT for the benefit of J. M. Martin, administrator of Ephraim Ball, deceased. WHEREAS, Ephraim Ball, who died intestate, was the owner of a tract of one hundred acres of land, one undivi- ded half part of a tract of fifty acres, both situate in Mon- roe county, in this State, on the Cumberland river; and an- other tract of land and some slaves and personal estate; and it is represented that said personal estate is not suffi- cient to pay the debts against his estate, and that it would be more beneficial to his estate that said tract of one hun- dredi acres, and the undivided half of the fifty acre tract should be sold to raise means to pay the debts of said es- tate, than to sell said slaves. Therefore, 343

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