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An Act for the benefit of the devisees of Ben. Hardin. 1853 vol. I 209 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0713 and id is 1 raw text is: LOCAL AND PRIVATE ACTS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, Passed at the session which was begun and held in the City of Frankfort, on Saturday the 31st of December, 1853, and ended Friday the 10th of March, 1854. LAZARUS W. POWELL, GOVERNOR; HENRY G. BIBB, SP'EAKER OF THE SENATE; CIIARLES G. WINTERSMITH, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; JAMES P. METOALFE, SECRETA- RY OF STATE. CHAPTER 1. AN ACT for the benefit of the devisees of Ben. Hardin. 1854. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- wealth of Kentucky, That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the county court of Nelson county to order and di- rect a division, in kind, of the slaves belonging to the dev- isees of Ben. Hardin, pursuant to the provisions of the will of said Hardin. § 2. The division hereby authorized shall be ordered up- on the filing in said court the petition of infant devisees, by their statutory guardians, and the adult heirs, making as defendants the executors of said Hardin, such of the adult heirs as may fail or refuse to join in the petition, and such infant devisees as may not have statutory guar- dians; such of the defendants as may reside in the state shall be served with process unless their appearance be entered by themselves, attorneys at law, or infant non- residents may be brought before the court by indorsing on the petition, when filed, a warning order ; and if ten days intervened between the filing of the petition the court may proceed, by the consent of the executors, to order a division. 27

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