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CHAPTER 72.

AN ACT to amend the revenue laws, by increasing the tax on nine and ten pin alleys.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That, from and after the passage of this act, the tax upon nine and ten pin alleys shall be fifteen dollars upon each and every alley that is now, or may hereafter be, erected; and each track on which a game is played to be deemed an alley.

Approved December 16, 1850.

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CHAPTER 75.

AN ACT to increase the terms of the Campbell County Court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That, hereafter, a term of the county court of Campbell county shall be holden on the fourth Monday in each and every month in the year, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved December 16, 1850.

CHAPTER 105.

AN ACT to regulate the division of Hancock county into Magistrates' and Constables' districts.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the commissioners heretofore appointed by an act of the present general assembly, entitled, "an act appointing commissioners to divide the counties of this state into districts, for the election of justices of the peace and constables," to district the county of Hancock, be and they are hereby directed to divide said county into not less than three nor more than five districts.

Approved December 21, 1850.

CHAPTER 109.

AN ACT making provision for running and marking the lines of Cumberlaud and Adair counties.

§ 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be duty of John M. Baker, surveyor of Cumberland county, and John D. Mourning, deputy surveyor of Adair county, to run and mark the line between the counties of Adair and Cumberland, beginning at a point where the counties of Barren, Cumberland, and Adair join, and running to the intersection of the Russell county line.

§2. That said surveyor and deputy surveyor, in running and marking said line, shall be governed by the several

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acts of the general assembly establishing the boundaries
of said counties, and shall run and mark said lines in strict
accordance therewith.

§3. That said surveyor and deputy surveyor shall em-
ploy two competent chain carriers and a marker; and, be-
fore entering upon the duties prescribed in this act, said
surveyors, chain carriers, and marker shall, before some
justice of the peace of one of said counties, take an oath to
run and mark said line faithfully, fairly, impartially, and
according to the provisions of this act. They shall com-
mence running said line on the first day of April next, if
possible; and if not on that day, then on some day to be
appointed and agreed on by them; and when said line is
run and marked, according to the provisions of this act, it
shail be the dividing line between the counties of Adair
and Cumberland.

§ 4. Said surveyor and deputy surveyor shall make out two fair plats of their survey, with proper references, and a report to accompany the same, one of which shall be deposited in the clerk's office of the Cumberland county court, and the other in the clerk's office of the Adair county court.

§ 5. That said surveyor and deputy surveyor shall have an allowance made by their respective county courts for their services; and the chain carriers and marker shall be entitled each to one dollar per day for the time they are employed in the work-one half to be levied by the Cumberland county court, and the other half by the Adair county court.

Approved December 21, 1850.

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CHAPTER 111.

AN ACT to require the Attorney General to perform certain duties in re-
gard to the Òwingsville and Big Sandy Turnpike Road Company.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky, That the attorney general shall institute, in
the general court of this commonwealth, in the year 1851,
a proceeding to enquire into the fact, whether the Owings-
ville and Big Sandy turnpike road company have, by fail-
ing to keep said road in proper repair, or from any other
cause, forfeited the rights and privileges given to it by the
original charter, or by any or all the acts of the general as-
sembly amendatory of said charter; and for any violation
of said charter, to cause the franchises of said company to
be forfeited and seized to the use of the commonwealth.

Approved December 21, 1850.

CHAPTER 118.

AN ACT to appoint Oscar Pepper in the place of Charles Cotton, to lay off Woodford county into Magistrates' and Constables' districts, and for other purposes.

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§ 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Oscar Pepper be, and he is hereby appointed a commissioner, in the place of Charles Cot- county of Wood ton, to lay off the county of Woodford into magistrates' and constables' districts.

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In Whitley

§ 2. That Squire Gatliff be, and he is hereby appointed a commissioner, in the place of Thos. R. Harman, to lay county. off Whitley county into magistrates' and constables' districts.

Approved December 21, 1850.

CHAPTER 124.

AN ACT to appoint M. T. Hall one of the Commissioners to lay off Warren county into Magistrates' and Constables' districts.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That M. T. Hall be appointed a commissioner to lay off the county of Warren into magistrates' and constables' districts, in the place of L. L. Cooke, who refuses to act.

Approved December 18, 1850.

CHAPTER 130.*

AN ACT allowing an additional district in Jefferson county for the election
of Justices of the Peace and Constables, and for other purposes.
§ 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common-
wealth of Kentucky, That the act, entitled, "an act appoint-
ing commissioners to divide the counties of this state into
districts, for the election of justices of the peace and con-
stables, approved December 12, 1850," be and the same is
hereby so amended as that there shall be ten districts in the
county of Jefferson, instead of nine; and the commission-
ers designated by the act, to which this is an amendment,
shall lay off the same into ten districts, in accordance to the
provisions of the aforesaid act.

ferson to lay of ten districts.

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Trimble coun

into 5 districts.

§ 2. That the commissioners appointed to lay off Trimble county into districts for the election of justices of the intercon peace and constables, be and they are hereby directed to lay off said county into five instead of four districts, and that Palmyra shall be a place of voting in one of said districts.

§ 3. That the commissioners appointed to lay off Clay county into districts for the election of justices of the peace and constables, be and they are hereby directed to lay off said county into eight districts, if they think it expedient so

Clay county may be laid off

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to do, and that T. J. McWhorter be and he is hereby ap-
pointed an additional commissioner.

Approved January 16, 1851.

Wayne county

to be laid of a to six districts.

Pulaski county

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to nine districts

CHAPTER 132.

AN ACT allowing an additional district in Wayne and Pulaski counties,
for the election of Magistrates and Constables, and for other purposes.
§1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common-
wealth of Kentucky, That the commissioners heretofore ap-
pointed to divide Wayne county into districts, for the elec-
tion of magistrates and constables, be required to divide
said county into six districts instead of five.

§ 2. That the commissioners heretofore appointed to di-
vide Pulaski county into districts, for the election of magis-
trates and constables, be required to divide said county in-
to nine districts instead of eight.

§ 3. That Sandford Duncan, jr., and William Carter be Commissioners appointed commissioners to divide Caldwell county into in Caldwell co. districts, for the election of magistrates and constables, in place of Francis W. Urey and Coleman Brown, heretofore appointed

4. That James Alder be appointed an additional comChristian coun- missioner to lay off the county of Christian into magistrates' and constables' districts.

ty.

§ 5. That James Drury be appointed a commissioner to Breckinridge divide Breckinridge county into districts, for the election of magistrates and constables, in place of John Drury, heretofore appointed.

county.

Approved January 16, 1851.

CHAPTER 133.

AN ACT to reduce the number of districts in Mercer county, for the elec-
tion of Justices of the Peace and Constables.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky, That the number of districts, for the election
of justices of the peace and constables in the county of
Mercer, be and the same is hereby reduced to six instead
of eight, as now provided by law.

Approved January 21, 1851.

CHAPTER 139.

AN ACT to amend an act, approved November 18, 1850, to settle the di-
viding line of Estill and Owsley counties.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky, That, instead of the three commissioners ap-
pointed by an act of the general assembly, approved No-

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vember 18, 1850, to adjust and settle the boundary line between the counties of Estill and Owsley, Curtis F. Burnam, of the county of Madison, be and he is hereby appointed sole commissioner, to be governed by all the provisions of said act, and the act to which it was an amendment.

Approved January 21, 1851.

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CHAPTER 140.

AN ACT to establish an additional Justices' and Constable's District in
Fulton county.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That an additional district, for the election of justices of the peace and constables be laid off, by the commissioners heretofore appointed, in the county of Fulton, to be bounded by what is denominated the Madrid bend. Approved January 21, 1851.

CHAPTER 147.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, an act for the benefit of the soldiers of the late war with England, &c.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the provisions of an act, entitled, an act for the benefit of the soldiers of the late war with England, &c., approved November 23, 1850, be and they are hereby extended to the widows, heirs, and devisees of the persons in said recited act mentioned: Provided, that upon the presentation to the clerk for authentication of any papers to be used in the prosecution of the claims mentioned in said recited act, he may require the claimant or agent employed in its prosecution, to swear that such papers are to be so used; and the clerk is hereby authorized to administer the oath to such persons for that purpose. Approved January 21, 1851.

CHAPTER 164.

AN ACT in relation to Magistrates' and Constables' Districts in Henry and Laurel counties.

§1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the act, entitled, "an act appointing commissioners to divide the counties of this state into districts, for the election of justices of the peace and constables," approved December 12, 1850, be and the same is hereby so amended, as that John James, James Hisle, and Elijah Thrailkill be added to the list of commissioners for the county of Henry; which commissioners, together with

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com'rs for Henry county.

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