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September; and may sit six juridical days, if the business before it require it.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the circuit. courts for the county of Muhlenburg, shall hereaf ter commence their terms on the second Mondays in the months of March, June and September; and may sit three juridical days, if their business require it.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the circuit courts for the county of Hopkins, shall hereafter commence on the Thursdays succeeding the second Mondays in March, June and September; and may sit three juridical days if the business require it.

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That hereafter the Union courts circuit courts for the county of Union, shall commence on the third Mondays in March, June and September; and may sit six juridical days if the bu siness thereof require it.

Henderson courts *hanged.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That hereafter the circuit courts for the county of Henderson, shall commence their terms on the fourth Mondays in March, June and September; and may sit six juridical days if the business require it.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all process, mesne or original, which has, or may issue from the Prosess made clerk's office of either of the said courts, as heretoLegal. fore held, shall be as binding and valid, to all intents and purposes, the same as if this law had not passed; and all suits now pending in said courts, shall be governed by the same laws and regulations as other suits have been in said courts.

Courts to sit.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the county courts of said counties, shall sit on the same county Mondays in those months in which there is no circuit courts holden, except the county court for the county of Hopkins, which shall commence on the second Mondays in those months in which there is no circuit courts; and said county courts shall be governed by the same rules as heretofore.

Lincoln court

of claims.

SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the county court of Lincoln, shall hereafter hold its court of clains in the months of September and October, instead of October and November, as heretofore directed by law.

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See, 9. Be it further enacted, That after the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, the circuit courts of Lincoln county shall be held on the second Monday in May, the second Monday in August and the second Monday in November, in every year, instead of the second Monday in February, the second Monday in May, and the third Monday in August, as now directed by law. All laws coming within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed.

Lincoln eirras courts changed,

CHAP. CCXVI,

AN ACT to provide for the erecting a Bridge across
Hinkston's fork near Peyton's Lick.

APPROVED, January 31, 1815,

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SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the county courts of Bourbon and Bath counties, shall appoint four commissioners, of which they county court of Bourbon shall appoint two, and the county court of to be appointed: Bath the remaining number; and said courts shall notify each other of said appointments. And said. commissioners or a majority of them, shall convene at Peyton's lick in Montgomery county, and examine the crossing of linkston near where the road from Bourbon to Bath court-house crosses said stream; and shall determine on a plan on which a bridge shall be built across said stream; and also determine on the spot where said bridge shall be built, as near the present ford as the most eligible spot can be found. Said commissioners, subject to Their powers and the control of both of said courts, shall also receive proposals from undertakers, and contract jointly with some undertaker to build said bridge; taking from said undertaker or undertakers, bond with good security, for the building and maintaining said bridge a reasonable length of time, not exceeding seven years.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Commmissioners shall jointly report to cach court,

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said bond, and their proceedings from time to time, as may be necessary. They shall also have power to superintend said building; to see the work is done in a workman-like manner, and to reject insufficient and defective materials, attempted to be used in said building, until the building is completed.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said county courts of Bourbon and Bath, shall pay the price of building said bridge out of any depositum in the hands of their sheriffs, or any levy laid or collected, or shall levy the same on their counties, at any court when they are authorised to lay their county levy, as the exigencies of their respective counties may require. Which sum shall be levied, collected and paid as their usual county levy: and in levying or paying said sum, a majority of all the justices of each court shall be present and compose the court, as in other cases; and the county court of Bourbon shall pay two thirds of the sum required to build said bridge, and the county court of Bath, the balance. Each court shall have power to remove their commissioners and appoint others, or supply any vacancy which may occur in the number of commis sioners.

CHAP. CCXVII.

AN ACT to reduce the number of publications of the
Register's sales of Non-Residents' Lands for taxes.

APPROVED, January 31, 1815.

WHEREAS experience has proven that frequent publication of the register's sales of non-residents' lands, has of late had a tendency, owing to the increased circulation of the public news-papers, to croud the public mails, without any real utility to the state or to non-residents-therefore,

SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That hereafter the sales of non-residents' lands for taxes, by the register of the land office, shall be advertised once

month for two months (the first of which publications shall be three months before the day of sale) instead of twice a month for three months, as is now required by law.

When warrant

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That upon the completion of the printing, and first publication of said to issue. sales, by the public printer or printers, the auditor is required upon the said printer or printers' producing the register's certificate, specifying the number of tracts of land so advertised for sale for taxes as aforesaid, to issue his warrant upon the public treasury for the amount of such printing, at the rate now allowed by a former resolution of the legislature, passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and niue, according to the practice heretofore pursued by the auditor.

CHAP. CCXVIII.

AN ACT to authorize the Trustees of Henderson
Academy to appoint additional Trustees.

APPROVED, January 31, 1815.

SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the trustees of Henderson Academy shall be, and they are hereby authorized, to appoint such additional number of trustees to the said academy, not exceeding seven, as in their opinion shall be conducive to the interest of the said institution; which appointments of said trustees, shall be concurred in by a majority of all the present trustees; and the names of the persons so appointed, shall be entered on the record of said institution and the said additional trustees, when so appointed, and their successors, shall, in common with the present trustees and their successors, possess the same powers and authorities over and concerning said institution, in every respect, as possessed by the present trustees of said institutionProvided, nevertheless, That five trustees may constitute a board to transact the ordinary business. of the institution.

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Their powers.

CHAP. CCXIX.

AN ACT for the benefit of John Nelson.

APPROVED, January 31, 1815.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That John Nelson is hereby authorised and empowered, to remove at his own cost and charges, all tobacco now deposited in the ware-house at Louisville, at which the inspection was discontinued by a law passed February the 8th, eighteen hundred and twelve, to the ware-house at Shippingport; and the inspectors at said inspection, shall receive the same and receipt therefor; and on the said Nelson's obtaining their receipts for the said tobacco, he shall thereafter be exonerated from all the pains, penalties and provisions imposed by law, for the safe-keeping and delivery of the same. Provided, however, That said Nelson shall be liable for all injury sustained by said tobacco before said receipts are obtained, as he is now liable by law, and no farther.

Keeper to be appointed.

His duty.

Toll rates.

CHAP. CCXX.

AN ACT to reduce into one the several acts concern-
ing the Turnpike and Wilderness Road.

APPROVED, February 2, 1815.

WHEREAS it is represented to the present general assembly, that the several laws and parts of laws now in force, concerning the turnpike and wilderness road, are defective, and require amendment; for remedy whereof,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the turnpike gate in Knox county, shall continue where it now stands: And the governor shall appoint a keeper annually, whose duty it shall be to charge, and receive from each and every person passing through the same, the following tolls: For each waggon, one dollar,

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