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An Act for the benefit of the estate of Foster Hurst, deceased, and for other purposes. 1859 vol. I 495 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0803 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. a stated annual compensation to be paid out of the city 1860. treasury. § 24. This act shall take effect from its passage: Provi- ded, That the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nine- teenth sections shall not take effect until the same shall have been submitted to the legal voters of said city, and approved of by a majority of those voting, which submis- sion shall be made at the next municipal election; and all persons who shall vote illegally at such election shall be liable to the same pains and penalties as are imposed for illegal voting at other elections held in said city. The proper officer of said election shall propound to each qual- ified voter the following questions: 1. Are you for or against the sixteenth section of the amended charter as adopted by the convention? 2. Are you for or against the seventeenth section of said amended charter? 3. Are you for or against the eighteenth section of the said amended charter? 4. Are you for or against the nineteenth section of said amended charter? And the vote of each shall be recorded for or against each section as indicated by the answer. Within ten days after the holding of such election, the mayor of said city shall make proclamation of the vote, and such sections as shall have received a majority of the votes cast shall be adopted, and be in full force from the time of such proclamation ; and such as shall not have received a majority, as aforesaid, shall be rejected and constitute no part of the law. Approved February 18, 1860. CHAPTER 301. AN ACT for the benefit of the estate of Foster Hurst, deceased, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the State of Kentucky hereby releases and re- linquishes unto the estate of Foster Hurst, deceased, and to the personal tepresentative of said estate, all right, title, and interest which the State has, or might have had, in and to the proceeds arising from the sale of William Henry, a runaway, sold by order of the McCracken county court, and purchased by said Foster Hurst, deceased; and the security of said Hurst, for the purchase price of said slave, and the personal representative, are hereby acquitted and released from paying to the State the proceeds of sale of said runaway.

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