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ture elections for trustees in the town of Danville, Qualification of no person shall be entitled to vote for trustees, unless he shall have resided six months in said town, previously to the election.

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SEC. 23. Be it further enacted, That the trustees of the town of Louisville, be, and they are hereby Trustees vested empowered to prevent the making of brick within prevent making the limits of said town; and are hereby invested with power to prevent the diging of any earth, or the raising of any scaffolding for the purpose of making brick, by an order of the board, and may take down and destroy all preparations made for that purpose; and may moreover, impose any penalty on the violation of said order, not exceeding five dollars per day, to be recovered by warrant in the name of the trustees, against the offender, before any magistrate of Jefferson county.

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SEC. 21. Be it further enacted, That so much of the 11th section of an act passed the 18th day of January, 1810, for the better regulating the town lections repealed of Monticello, in the county of Wayne, as requires the trustees of said town to meet in March, June, September and December annually, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 25. Be it further enacted, That the election

of Trustees of said town, may be had before any How elections two justices of the peace of said county, without be- to be held. ing previously appointed for that purpose by the county court, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

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SEC. 26. Be it further enacted, That the trustees of the town of Russellville, shall, in their discretion, have to levy and collect a tax, (according to to levy a tax for power the laws regulating said town,) for the purpose of paving. paving Main Street in said town.

CHAP. CXCVII.

AN ACT authorizing the Editors of "The Western Monitor," printed in Lexington, and "The Eagle,” printed in Maysville, to insert certain advertise

ments.

APPROVED, January 26, 1815.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly,

of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and may be lawful for any advertisements which are required by law to be published in a News-paper, to be inserted in The Western Monitor," at Lexington, and "The Eagle," printed in Maysville: And the Editors of said papers shall be en-/ titled to the same fees, and to be governed by the same regulations, as other printers in this Commonwealth: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall be so construed, as to authorize the insertion in The Western Monitor," and "The Eagle," of such advertisements as are particularly required by law, to be published in the paper of the Public Printer.

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CHAP. CXCVIII.

AN ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Pendleton Academy.

APPROVED, January 26, 1815.

WHEREAS it is represented to the present General Assembly, That the trustees of the Pendleton Seminary, by virtue of powers invested in them by the county court of Pendleton under former acts, have proceeded to purchase a scite and erect a house for the accommodation of a school in the town of Falmouth, by an application of a part of the funds raised by the sale of donation land, aided by the liberality of individual subscription: Wherefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That James King, Trustees incor Alexander Monrow, Samuel Lockwood, Stephen Thrasher, James Naylor and James Wilson, acting trustees, shall be, and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, to be known by the name of The Trustees of the Pendleton Academy:" and by that name, shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to change and alter the same at pleasure and as a body corporate, shall be authrized to exercise all the powers and privileges that are enjoyed by the Trustees of any

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And on the death or resignation, or other dis-
qualification of any of the trustees aforesaid, or
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tees shall fill such vacancy or vacancies: and the
person or persons so appointed, shall be vested with Vacancies--how
the same power and authority, as is specially
named by this act, and by the name and style of the Name and sile
trustees of the Pendleton Academy, may sue and be
sued, implead and be impleaded, in any court of
law or equity, or before any tribunal having cogni-
zance of the same, or jurisdiction in like cases.

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SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said trustees and their successors, shall have power in their corporate capacity, to purchase or receive by dona- to receive donation, any lands, tenements or hereditaments, monies, rents, goods and chattles-and to hold the same by the name aforesaid, to them and their successors forever, for the use of said academy, and to sell, aliene or transfer any such lands, goods or chattles, and apply the proceeds to the benefit of the institution.

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SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the trustees shall hold two stated sessions in each year, to-wit: ings, regulations On the first Monday in April and on the first Mon- relative thereto. day in November, at said academy: And in case a sufficient number of members do not attend to constitute a quorum, those who do attend may adjourn to a future day, and shall give reasonable notice of the time and place of adjournment to, by advertising the same, at the Court-House and Academy door.

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SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That a majority of all the Trustees shall be necessary to form a Majority quorum to do business: Nevertheless a smaller ness: a smaller number may adjourn to a future day, or fill vacan- journ or fill va cies as is provided for in the foregoing sections of this act and any member failing to attend any meeting of the board, having had legal notice of the same, or being informed thereof by any of the members, shall be considered to have vacated his seat: Provided always, That his absence were not unavoidable, from sickness or other inability, or from his absence from the county, or attending a

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court of justice in obedience to legal process, or in the military service of this state or the United States and in each case his excuse shall be heard and adjudged of by the board.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the trustees shall have power to make and ordain such bye laws, and regulations. rules and ordinances as they may deem proper for the government of said institution, not inconsistent with the laws or constitution of this state-to elect their President Treasurer and Clerk, or other officers, and to remove them again at pleasure-to engage and employ a competent number of professors or teachers to said academy-to fix their salaries and the salary of their clerk, and purchase books and stationary for the use of the board-to employ agents and attornies to manage the fiscal concerns of the institution-to fix the terms of tuition; and on the misconduct of any professor, tutor or student, may expel him or them from said academy.

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Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That the trustees shall have power to purchase or take by subscripPurchase Bank tion, (as they may deem most advantageous to the interest of the institution) any number of shares of bank stock in any chartered bank, or in the bank of the United States, if any such shall hereafter exist, not exceeding three-fourths of the nett proceeds of the land sold, and which may be sold, belonging to the Pendleton academy.

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Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That it shall be Called metings. lawful for the principal teacher or president, or any two of the members of the board, when they shall deem it necessary, to call a meeting by advertising, as is directed by the third section of this act; and any member failing to attend said meeting, may be proceeded against in the same manner as for failing to attend a stated meeting, or meeting appointed to be held by adjournment, Provided, however, That the board when convened without such notice, shall have as full power to act and transact all necessary business at any time and place, as if such notice had been given by advertisement.

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Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That all the lands, given up to the goods, chattels, rights and credits, heretofore belonging to the trustees appointed by the county

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court of Pendleton, or belonging to said court for the use of any academy in said county, shall be, and are hereby vested in the trustees constituted by this act, and their successors. And the said trustees appointed by this act and their successors, are hereby empowered to recover by suit or otherwise, all debts and demands of every description heretofore contracted with the former trustees, or the county court of Pendleton, for the use and bencfit of an academy in said county.

CHAP. CXCIX.

AN ACT to incorporate the Directors of the MountSterling Library Company, and to amend the act incorporating the Winchester Library Company.

APPROVED, January 26, 1815.

porated.

SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Thomas Moseley, David Barrow, George Howard, Micajah Har- Directors ineor rison and William C. Hayden, and their successors, duly elected or appointed, in manner hereinafter direeted, be, and they are hereby made, declared and constituted, a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, by the name, style and title of the "Directors of the Mount- Name and stile, Sterling Library Company."

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Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all and singular the sums of money, books, goods and chattels, Property or mo which may have been subscribed and paid, or which the corporation, may be subscribed and remain due, or which may books, &c. hereafter be subscribed, given, granted, or devised, to the said company, or to any person or persons for the use thereof, shall be vested in and confirmed to said corporation; and that the said corporation may take and receive any sum or sums of money, or any goods, chattels or other effects of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted or bequeathed unto them by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable

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