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An Act to amend article 5, entitled the sale of land and slaves of married women, of chapter 86, of the Revised Statutes 1853 vol. I 172 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0712 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1854. CHAPTER 944. AN ACT to provide compensation for judges of contested elections of L county officers, and those whose duty it is to compare polls of elec- tions. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- Judges of con- wealth of Kentucky, That it shall be the duty of the several tested elections entitled to $2 county courts in this commonwealth, at their court of per day. Rev. Stat. Re, chap. claims, to make an allowance at the rate of two dollars per 32, art. 7, sec.4, day each to all officers who shall be, by law, required to title Elections. sit as judges of contested elections, for each day they may be thus actually and necessarily employed in adjudicating upon any contested election. § 2. It shall also be the duty of said courts, at the times officers Who aforesaid, to make the officers whose duty it is, by law, to compare polls entitled to 81 attend and compare the polls of any election or elections, per day each. an allowance of the sum of one dollar per day, each, Rev. Stat. 25, for the time they may be thus necessarily employed. chap.,3, art. 5,betsemlyd title Elections. Approved March 10, 1854. CHAPTER 948. AN ACT to amend article 5, entitled the sale of land and slaves of married women, of chapter 86, of the Revised Statutes, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Rev. Stat. 593. of Kentucky, That land or slaves conveyed or devised to any woman, married or unmarried, or in trust for the use Land orslaves of a married woman, or for the use of an unmarried woman of a married wo- man, &c., may to the exclusion of any husband she may have, with re- be sold and pro- mainder over to her children, or to such of them as may ceeds re-invest- ed. survive her, or to the issue of such children, may, by the order of a court of equity not inferior to the circuit court, be sold by the trustee or a commissioner appointed by such court, for the purpose of being re-invested according to the order of such court, in other property to be held for the same uses and trusts and in the same manner in all respects as the property sold ; and the court shall see that the re-investment is made, and the price shall remain a charge upon the land and slaves sold, until the purchase money is paid. But such order of sale shall only be made upon abundant proof to the courtthat the sale and re-in- vestment will be beneficial to all interested in the property, and upon the children, if any, and the issue of such chil- dren as are dead being made parties to the proceedings. Approved March 10, 1854.

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