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An Act for the benefit of Nelson T. Asbury, and others. 1849 652 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0654 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1850. Provided, that said board shall not erect a gate within less than one mile of Shelbyville. SEC. 5. That the report required of said board, by the Report to C'ty fourteenth section of said act, shall be made annually to the Court. County Court of Shelby county, and not to the Legislature as therein requiied. SEC. 6. That the said board shall, in the year one thou- Board to be sand eight hundred and fifty one, fix on a day and place elected, for the election of their successors in office, which shall take place in the same month every year thereafter. SEC. 7. That the number of votes to which each stock- Votes on stocK. holder shall be entitled, according to the number of shares he shall hold, free from all arrears or calls unpaid, shall be one vote for each share. SEC. 8. That so much of said original act, hereby re- Repealin vived, as is inconsistent with the prbvisions hereof, be and claus. the same is hereby repealed and declared void. Approved March 7, 18.50. CHAPTER 537. AN ACT for the benefit of Nelson T. Asbury, and others. SEC. 1. Be it enacted byz the General Assembly of the Com- monwealth of Kentucky, That the guardian of1 the infant heirs of Nelson T. Asbury is hereby authorized to file a pe- tition in the Mason Circuit Court, setting forth the necessi- ty of the sale of the interest of said infants in a certain tract of land, situate in the said county of Mason, (the same they inherited from their grand father, Saml. P. Allen,) and containing about eighty four acres; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of said Chancellor, from the petition and proof, that it would redound to the interest of said infants that a sale should be male of their interest in said tract of land, then it shall be lawful for said chancellor to decree a sale of the same, upon such conditions and times as may seem proper to the Chancellor of said Court, requiring such bond or bonds as is now required by existing laws authorizing the sale of infants' real estate: Provided, that the adult heirs may also join in said petition. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Judge of the Todd Circuit Court may render a decree in chancery for the sale of a negro man named Cary, belonging to the estate of W. A. Garth, deceased, upon petition being filed in said court, by the administrator and administratrix of said decedent, praying a decree for said sale. The Court being satisfied that it will be advantageous to the heirs of said Garth to have said slave sold, may make such further order or orders for the safe keeping and profitable investment of the pro- ceeds of the sale of said slave. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of this

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