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An Act for the benefit of the Jailer of Adair county. 1859 vol. I 285 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0797 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. their successors, be, and they are hereby, constituted and 1860. incorporated as a company, who shall have perpetual suc- cession, and may sue and be sued, and enter into such contracts as lie within the scope and purposes of their organization, under the name and style of the Jacksonville Cemetery Company. § 2. That said company shall have a right to acquire by Howland to be purchase and conveyance to them, a lot of ground near the acquired. town of Jacksonville, in Bourbon county, not to exceed ten acres, which ground shall be set apart and perpetually held sacred as a burying ground. § 3. That said Wesley Sparks, Silas Corbin, and Samuel Trustees. Allison, shall be the trustees of said company till their suc- cessors shall be chosen at the next general election. § 4. That an election shall be held in Jacksonville, on the Trustees to be first Friday in April of each year, at which three trustees elected. shall be chosen, who shall continue in office till their suc- cessors are elected, and shall be intrusted with the manage- ment and control of all the business affairs of said company. § 5. That said trustees shall lay off the ground acquired To lay off by them into lots of convenient size, and lay off suitable avenues, sub-dividing the same, and may sell and convey lots to purchasers, to be used by them only as places for the burial of the dead. § 6. That each purchaser of a lot shall become thereby a Purchaser of lot to be stock- stockholder and member of said company, and shall be holder. entitled to one vote at each election of officers. § 7. That the proceeds of all sales of lots shall be devoted How groundA perpetually to the improvement and embellishment of the to be improv'd. grounds of said company. § 8. That no purchaser of a lot shall have a right to sell or convey the same, except by the written consent of the majority of the trustees. § 9. That the company hereby incorporated shall have May make by- authority at any regular meeting of the same, to make and laws. publish a code of by-laws for the government of the same: Provided, That said by-laws shall not be in conflict with any provision of this bill, or with the constitution and laws of the State. § 10. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved January 16, 1860. CHAPTER 70. AN ACT for the benefit of the Jailer of Adair county. WHEREAS, It is represented to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky that there is now confined in the jail of Adair county a runaway slave, and the owner

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