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An Act for the benefit of Thos. M. Hicks. 1865 vol. I 171 (1865.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0886 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY.

Jul., 1864, and his wife, Ri;becca Warren. qualified as ad.  1805.
ministratrix of her husband's estate; therefore,
Ile it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwcalth
of Kcentuc/cy :
§ 1. That the county court of Russell county is author-
ized to pay to Rehecea Warren, administratrix of Green
B, Warren, the sum of fifty.three dollars and twenty cents,
out of the county levy of said county.
§ 2. This act to take effect from its passage.
Approved February 3, 1865.
CHAPTER 706.
AN ACT for Oe benefit of Thos. M. IIeies.
'WHIMUCAS, A sale was made at the court-house door, in
the city of' Louisville, on the 26th day of January, 1803, by
the sheriff of Jefferson county, under and by virtue of an
order made by the county judge of said county, of a negro
woman named Lucy, about twenty years of age, and her
boy child, named Andrew, about three years old, which
negroes were arrested, adverlised, and sold as runaways,
according to the laws of the State of Kentucky; and hit said
sale Thos. M. Hicks became the purchaser of said woman
and child, for the sum of nine hundred and eighty dollars,
and afterwards paid the same to the sheriff of said county,
and said sheriff has paid the same into the treasury of the
State ; and whereas, on the ninth day of May, 1864g, said
woman and child were forcibly taken from the posncssion
of said Hicks by the military authorities of the United
States, and said Hicks has been deprived of the benefit of
his purchase; therefore,
Be it enacted byt the Generai Assemblh of the Commonwealth
of Kintuc/cy:
§ I. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be, and he is
hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in
favor of said Thomas M. Hicks for the sum of six hundred
and seventy-one dollars and seventy cents, payable out of
the runaway slave fund, which amount the Treasurer is, up-
on the warrant aforesaid, directed to pay, Provided, how-
ever, Bcfore this act takes efl,.ct the said Hicks shall execute
bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the Jefferson
county court, with security to be approved by said court,
conditioned to pay to the lormer owner of said slave, their
heirs and legal representatives, the said sum of six hundred
and seventy-one dollars and shventy cents, whenever said
owner or owners, theirheirs and legal representatives, shall
make the proof now required by law of owners claiming
the proceeds of runaway slaves, and shall fully indemnify
the State from loss on account of the paymet of said sum;

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