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An Act to amend and reduce into one the several acts concerning the town Ghent. 1855 vol. I 401 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0751 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. AICHATR 304. t 856. AN ACT to amend nixaxtc enutided, an act to incorporate the Perryville and Mitchellsburg Turnpike Road Company, approved March, 1854. WHEREAS, it is represented to this present General As- sembly that the Perryville and Mitchellsburg Turnpike Road is a fraction over four miles long, and that the com- pany, at considerable expense, have erected a bridge on said road across the main fork of Chaplain, and covered the same with a good frame anl rooft Wherefore, Br it enacted bq the General Assembly of 'the Commonwealth of lKentucky: That the said Perryville and Mitclellsburg Turnpike Road Company be allowed to colleot the 3ame amount of toll as they would be if the road was five miles in length. And in regulating the toll of the neighborhood travel and transportation the bridge across Chiiplain is to be regard- ed and estimated as equal to one mile of road. Approved March 4, 1856. CHAPTER 305. AN ACT to amend and reduce into one the several acts concerning the town GIent. Bc it enacted Inj the General Assembly of the Commonwalth of Kcntuek: § 1. That the town of Client, in .the county of Carroll, noundaa a as laid off in lhe original plat of said town, and bounded tow,. as follows, viz: beginning at low water mark on the Ohio river, at the terminus of Ferry street, where the samne in- tersects the said river ; thence with the north-east line of said street to south-east corner of Ferry and Liberty streets; thence along the south line of Liberty street to south- west corner of Fishing street; thence along the west line of said Fishing street to the Ohio river, at low water mark; thence up the same at low water mark to the beginning, is hereby declared the town of Ghent; and inhabitants thereof, by and in the name of the Board of Trustees of the town of Ghent, shall be capable in law of contracting and being contracted with. of sucing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of answer- ing and being answered, and do and perlbrui all such other acts and things, either in law or equity, as bodies politic and corporate, having perpetual succession, may rightfully do and perform. § 2. That the l)rudential and fiscal affairs of said town whohnvo o of Ghent shall be vested in five Trustees, who shall e1 elected on the second Monday in May, 1856 ; and after the year 1856 the election for Trustees shall be held on the second Monday in March in each and every year, at the school house, or such place as the Board of Trustees may direct, by the free white male citizens of said town, 26

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