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An Act for the benefit of John Reid, and others. 1849 328 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0645 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1850. satisfactory evidence of his having taken and received three hundred and seventy six dollars and twenty eight cents in shares of the stock of said Road Company, then the said Board of Internal Improvement shall cause to be paid, to said Morton A. Rucker, the sum of seven hundred and fifty two dollars and fifty seven cents, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, said Ruck- er first execute a receipt in full to said Board for all work and labor done and materials furnished on said Logan, Todd, and Christian Road. Approved March 4, 1850. CHAPTER 281. AN ACT for the benefit of John Reid, and others'. Whereas, Sampson Reid departed this life in the year 1833, in Montgomery county in this State, after having first made and published, (what was intended to be,) his last will and testament; by which, said instrument of wri- ting, certain slaves of said decedent, therein named, were to be free, on certain terms and conditions after the pay- ment of his debts; and, whereas, also, it appears, that all of said debts have been paid off and discharged, and said slaves have been retained in slavery from the death of their said master, and a portion of them are still so held and re- tained, and the conditions of said intended will have not been fully complied with in this respect, and by reason of natural causes, which have arisen since the death of said Reid, cannot now be complied with in full; and, whereas, also, doubts are entertained as to the validity of said in- strument of writing, as a last will and testament, because of a supposed defect in the attestation. thereof, although it has been regularly recorded and treated as such for up- wards of sixteen years; and that by reason of' such sup- posed defect, and an entire failure of heirs and legal dis- tributees, of said Sampson Reid, deceased, that said slave property, is undisposed of and has thereby vested in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, as well as the profits of hire and the earnings of said slaves since their master's death. For remedy whereof, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Corn- Claim of the monwealth of Kentucky, That all and any right, title, inter- State slaves est, claim, and demand, which the Commonwealth of Ken- tucky has acquired, or may hereafter acquire, to the per- sons or personal services of the negro woman 'Eleanor, and her children, Sophia, Caty, and John Quincy Adams, named in the said intended last will and testament of Sampson Reid, deceased, as well as to Sampson and Ab- igail, the two children of said Eleanor who have been born since the death of said Reid, and to the children of Caty,

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