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An Act for the benefit of the children and heirs of Michael Duvane and Penelope Thornton. 1850 vol. II 205 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0677 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. property and other interests of the lodge; and may have 1851. and use a common seal, and change the same at pleasure ; and in conveying real estate, it shall be necessary for the whole board of trustees to join in such conveyance. § 4. That the members of Daviess chapter, No. 29, of roy- Member of al arch masons, in said town, be and the same are hereby in- Daviess Cpter corporated, under the name and style of Daviess chap. incorporated. ter, No. 29, of royal arch masons, with the same rights, powers, and privileges, and under the same restrictions and limitations as are granted Warren lodge, No. 53, of free and accepted masons, in the foregoing sections. The con- cerns of said chapter shall be under the control and direc- tion of the following board of trustees: Moreau B. Pul- liam, Muscoe T. Garnett, Philip B. Thompson, Samuel Wingfield, Isaac N. Thompson, and John W. Cardwell, for the time being, and their successors in office, as trustees thereof. § 5. The general assembly hereby reserves the right to repeal or change this act at pleasure. Approved February 17, 1851. CHAPTER 286. AN ACT for the benefit of the children and heirs of Michael Duvane and Penelope Thornton. Whereas, it is represented to the general assembly of the commonwealth of Kentucky, that, in the year 1850, Pat- rick Duvane, a native of Ireland and naturalized citizen of the United States of America, departed this life without wife or child, having previously made his will, devising his estate, consisting of a small tract of land in Nelson county, Ky., one slave, and some personal property, as follows: To the Rev. John B. Huchens, one-third of what I now or may hereafter possess-I also leave and be- queath, at my death, one half of the remainder of my property to Michael Duvane, and the half of the same to my sister, if they be then living; which will was in due time recorded in the Nelson county court clerk's office, and John B. Huchens, the executor named in said will, quali- fied thereunder, and executed bond with good security, in the penalty of $2000 ; and that, since the death of Patrick Duvane, it has been ascertained that his said brother and sister, who were natives and residents of Ireland, had de- parted this lifU before the testator, leaving children and heirs; and, by the law of this commonwealth, they cannot inherit the bequests to their ancestors, but the same will escheat to the commonwealth; and they are anxious that the commonwealth of Kentucky shall relinquish her claim to the estate of the said testator, and that the same be vested in John B. Huchens, as trustee, for their benefit,

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