Livingston, shall hereafter commence on the first Mondays of March, June and September, in each year, and may continue six juridical days at each term, if the business of the court shall require it. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the circuit courts for the county of Caldwell, shall hereafter commence on the second Mondays of March, June and September, in each year, and may continue six juridical days at each term, if the business of the court shall require it. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the circuit courts for the county of McCracken, shall hereafter commence on the third Mondays of March, June and September, in each year, and may continue six juridical days at each term, if the business of the court shall require it. SEC. 1. Be it further enacted, That the circuit courts for the county of Calloway, shall hereafter commence on the fourth Mondays of March, June and September, in each year, and may continue six juridical days at each term, if the business of the court shall require it. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the circuit courts for the county of Graves, shall hereafter commence on the first Mondays of April, July and October, in each year, and may contin ue six juridical days at each term, if the business of the court shall require it, SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the circuit courts for the county of Hickman, shall hereafter commence on the second Mondays of April, July and October, in each year, and may continue twelve juridical days at each term, if the business of the court shall require it. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That this act shall not take effect until the first day of June next. Approved, February 3, 1837. 1837. In Livingston. Caldwell. McCracken, Calloway. Graves. Hickman. CHAP. 219.--AN ACT to appropriate the Fines and Forfeitures hereafter assessed and collected in the Town of Paducah, to the improvement of said Town. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That all fines and forfeitures, accruing for offences hereafter committed in the town of Paducah, and which here. tofore were appropriated to the lessening of the county levy, shall hereafter be paid to the Trustees of said town, to be applied to the improvement thereof; and they shall have power, by writ or motion, on ten days' notice, in the name of said Trustees, prosecute in the circuit court, or before a Justice of the Peace, to enforce against the Sheriff and other collecting officers, the payment of moneys respectively due from them to said Trustees for such fines and forfeitures. Approved, February 3, 1837. 1837. CHAP. 220.-AN ACT to repeal the first five sections of the act entitled, an act to extend the powers of the Trustees of the Town of Winchester, and for other purposes, approved March 1, 1836. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the first, second, third, fourth and fifth sections of the act, entitled, an act to extend the powers of the Trustees of the town of Winchester, and for other purposes, approved March 1st, 1836, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved, February 3, 1837. Land south CHAP. 221.--AN ACT for the benefit of Clinton County. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That all the vacant and unappropriated Walker's land lying South, and opposite to Clinton county, in the terriline appropria- tory which lies between Walker's line, and the line in latitude of ted. Proviso. thirty six degrees and thirty minutes North, in the State of Tennessee, be, and the same is hereby appropriated to Clinton county, to the improvement of the roads in said county: Provided however, That this act shall not prevent those who may now hold Treasury warrants, from locating, surveying and patenting the same. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Register of the land Register to office, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to issue issue warrants. land warrants in the name of the Clinton county court, at any time, for such amount as the said court may require, without the State price therefor being paid, to be located South, and opposite said county, between Walker's line and latitude thirty six degrees and thirty minutes North, in the State of Ten agent to sell or nessee. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the county court of ClinCounty court ton county may appoint an agent to locate or sell and assign to appoint an said warrants, or any part of the same, who shall enter into locate the war- bond with security, in said county court, in such sum as said court may think proper, for the faithful discharge of his duty; and when such sale shall be made, and the money arising therefrom collected, the county court shall apply the same to the improvements of their roads in said county. rants. without fee. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That when any survey shall Surveys to be have been made on any of the warrants aforesaid, and certifi registered, and cates of such surveys shall be returned to the Register's office, patents issued the said Register of the land office is hereby directed to regis ter the same and issue patents therefor without fee or charge. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That so much of the act pasRepealing sed in 1836, appropriating the lands described in the first section of this act, to Cumberland county, (Clinton then forming a part of said county,) be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved, February 3, 1837. clause. CHAP. 222.--AN ACT to change the name of Francis Marion Thompson. WHEREAS, It is represented to the present General Assem-bly, That James Martin, a citizen of Livingston county, is desirous of having the name changed of an illegitimate son, now residing in his family, so that said son can inherit his estate, as though he had been born in lawful wedlock. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the Common-. wealth of Kentucky, That the name of Francis Marion Thompson, a boy about six years of age, now residing in the family of James Martin, of Livingston county, and recognized by said Martin as an illegitimate son, shall hereafter be known and called by the name of Francis Marion Martin, and by that name shall have a right to inherit the estate of the said James Martin, and enjoy all the rights of a son, in as full and ample a manner as though the said Francis had been born in lawful. wedlock. Approved, February 3, 1837. 1837. CHAP. 223. AN ACT declaring Drake's creek, in Warren County, a navigable stream. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Drake's creek, in Warren county, shall be considered, and is hereby declared a navigable stream from its junction with Big Barren river to James Skaggs' mill thereon, and up the Trammel's Fork thereof to Carpenter's mill on the same, and shall be kept open and free for the passage of boats up and down the same; and if any person or persons whatsoever shall put a dam or other obstruction in said creek, calculated to impede the navigation thereof, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay the sum of three dollars for every twenty four hours such dam or other obstruction shall be permitted to remain in said creek; which sum may be recovered before any Justice of the Peace, or circuit court in said county, having proper jurisdiction of the sum so forfeited; one half thereof to go to the prosecutor, with cost, the other half to go to the lessening the county levy. This law to be and continue in force from the first day of August next. Approved, February 3, 1837. CHAP. 224.-AN ACT for the benefit of Robert A. Patterson. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and required to issue his warrant to the Treasurer of this Commonwealth for the sum of twenty dollars, for the benefit of Robert A. Patterson, Esq. for extra services rendered 1837. by said Patterson, as Commonwealth's attorney; said sum to be paid out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated by law. Approved, February 6, 1837. CHAP. 225.-AN ACT for the benefit of ElizabethTM Broady, of Barren county, WHEREAS, It is represented to the General Assembly, that Elizabeth Broady is in a very helpless condition, deprived of her reason, and without the means of common maintenance of life-Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That so soon as it shall appear by inquisition, returned to the circuit court of Barren county, that said Eliza beth is a lunatic, and the said court shall appoint for her a committee, when said committee shall present a copy of the record of said court, of the fact said Elizabeth was found to be a lunatic, together with his appointment as committee, to the Auditor of Public Accounts, he shall issue his warrant upon the Treasurer, who shall pay over to the committee the sum of fifty dollars, annually, during the lunacy of said Elizabeth, for her maintenance, and that she be allowed to remain with her relations. Approved, February 6, 1837. CHAP. 226,-AN ACT for the benefit of Cornelius Grider and the heirs of Robert SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Receiver of Public Moneys, for the land district west of Tennessee river, is hereby directed and required to permit Cornelius Grider, of the county of Hickman, to enter in his office, the north east fractional quarter section seven, township one, range six west, upon said Grider filing with him, in his office, the plat and certificate of survey of said fraction, made out for him, by the county surveyor of Hickman county, on the nineteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty two; and said receiver shall give said Grider a certificate of said entry, as in other cases. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the receiver aforesaid, is hereby directed and required to permit the heirs of Robert E. Ramey to enter, in his office, the north west fractional quarter of section seven, township one, range six west, upon their filing with him, in his office, a plat and certificate of survey, made of said fractional quarter section of land, by the county surveyor of Hickman county; and said receiver shall give them a certificate of said entry, as in other cases. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That when said certificates are filed with the Register of the land office, he is hereby directed and required to issue patents for the same, as in other cases. Approved, February 6, 1837.. 1837. CHAP. 227. AN ACT to establish the town of Callaway. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the town of Callaway, upon the bank of the Tennessee river shall be, and the same is hereby established upon the plan formed and laid down by Isaac Wells, Barnett Wells and W. J. Nugent, proprietors thereof, and the said plan is hereby ratified and confirmed, and that the said town shall hereafter be known and called Callaway. Established. Trustees ap SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That John Caise, Isaac Wells, B. Wells, J. M'Clure and L. Wells, are hereby constituted pointed--duties and appointed Trustees for said town, who shall continue in office from and after the passage of this act, until the first Monday in March next; and it shall be the duty of the Trustees aforesaid, to have the plan of said town recorded in the Clerk's office of the county court of Callaway as soon as practicable. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the free male inhabitants of said town, of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to meet on the first Monday in March next, be elected. and every year thereafter, at such place as may be designated by said Trustees, and choose by vote, viva voce, five fit persons as Trustees, to serve for one year thereafter and until their successors are duly elected. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That said Trustees shall appoint a town Clerk, who shall continue in office until the election succeeding his appointment, and in like manner each new Board of Trustees shall appoint a Clerk to serve for the same. time, whose duty it shall be to keep a fair record of the proceedings of the Trustees. Trustees to In ure, case failelection be held SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That if the citizens of said town shall, at any time hereafter, fail to have an election on the day appointed in this act, that then and in that case, the Clerk or any Trustee may, by giving ten days notice, have an afterwards. election held for Trustees, which shall be as legal as though it had taken place on the day herein appointed. Trustees may SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the Trustees of said town hereby appointed, and their successors in office, a majority of pass by-laws. them concurring therein, shall have full power to pass such bylaws for the government of said town, and the citizens thereof, as to them shall seem expedient and right: Provided however, They be not contrary to the laws and constitution of this State. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the said Trustees, a majority of them concurring, shall have power to levy and have collect tax. May levy & |