benefit of Justinian Cartwright, for his services, as will be sufficient to pay the necessary expences in perpetuating testimony, and establishing the said donation to the Montgomery Academy. CHAP. CCLVI. AN ACT Supplementary to an act authorising a Lottery for im-. proving the navigation of the Kentucky River. APPROVED, Jan. 26, 1811. BE it enacted by the general assembly of the Com monwealth of Kentucky, That the managers, or Time and a majority of them, appointed by an act of the present place of the session of the general assembly, authorising a lottery of the mana first meeting for improving the navigation of the Kentucky river, gers to carry into effect the said lottery, shall hold their first meeting in Lexington, on the second Monday in April next, at the Kentucky Hotel; and shall then make provision for their future meetings, and any farther regulations necessary to carry the said recited act into complete effect. CHAP. CCLVII. AN ACT For the better regulation of the town of Lexington. SECT. 1. B E it enacted by the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Kentucky, That the seven trustees who shall be elected for the Additional town of Lexington, on the first Saturday in January, 1811, agreeably to an act relative to said town, passed on the 19th day of December, in the year 1796, shall continue in office during the ensu ing year; and that an election shall be held on the trustees to be first Saturday in March next, at the court-house in elected, and said town, for the purpose of electing four additional trustees, to continue in office for the same period. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall and may tled to vote be lawful for all persons residing within the bounds of the town of Lexington, who are, or may hereafter be entitled to vote for representatives to the legislature of this state, to meet at the court-house in said when Persons enti for trustees when electi No. of trus tees ons to be held town, on the first Saturday in the month of January, in the year one thousand, eight hundred and twelve, and on the same day in every succeeding year, for the purpose of electing eleven trustees; which election shall be conducted by one of the late trusSuperintend tees, to be appointed by the board for that purpose. Ten days previous notice thereof, shall be adverNotice of electised in all the public news-papers in said town, by order of the board; and the return of the persons so Return of elected, shall be made to the clerk of the said board, which he shall record in their books. ants of elec tions tions. trustees elec ted SEC. 3. No person shall be capable of being elecResidence of ted, or of acting as a trustee, who is not an inhabitant trustees of said town, or the limits thereof. Vacancies in Sec. 4. Vacancies occasioned by death, disqualithe board how fication, resignation or otherwise, shall be supplied Gilled by elections, to be made in manner herein before directed, on a day to be appointed by the remaining trustees, and return thereof made in the manner before directed. May levy a poll tax Sec. 5. The said trustees shall be, and are hereby authorised to assess upon each free male inhabi. tant, above the age of twenty-one years, within the bounds of the town aforesaid, a poll tax, not exceeding one dollar per annum; and also upon every male slave, above the age of eighteen years, a like tax, not exceeding one dollar per annum. They are also further authorised, to levy upon the property, erty ad valo real and personal, within the bounds aforesaid (exton cept male slaves above the age of eighteen years, May also levy a tax on prop laws who shall pay no other than the poll tax,) such sum as they may judge necessary for the benefit of the said town, not exceeding twenty-five cents for every hundred dollars of the assessed value of such property; to make provision for the collection of, and accounting for all taxes, which they are hereby, or may be hereafter empowered to levy, in such manner as they may deem proper, by distress or otherwise. And in addition to the powers already granted to may enact by the said trustees, they shall have power to enact all such bye-laws, ordinances and regulations, as they may deem necessary for the good government and police of said town: Provided, the same be not con- Proviso trary to the laws and constitution of this state: And provided also, that every such bye-law, ordinance or regulation, and also the apportionment of taxation, shall have been approved of by a majority of the whole board elected as aforesaid: And provi- Provise ded further, that no bye-law, ordinance or regulation, shall take effect until the same shall have been approved at two stated meetings of said board, and published three weeks at least, in some one or more news-papers in the said town SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That in the expendi- disposition of ture of the money hereby authorised to be raised, the tax the trustees aforesaid, may make such dispositions and appropriations, as they may deem most conducive to the interest and well being of said town. to the fire Co. may be made Directors of the fire Com pany to pub SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the trustees of appropriation said town, are further authorised to make any appropriation out of the funds raised as aforesaid, as they may deem expedient and necessary, to the directors of the UNION FIRE COMPANY. And said directors are hereby required to publish in some newspaper in Lexington, at least every six months, a report of the situation of the fire utensils, &c. and also the manner in which any monies granted them by the trustees, have been appropriated. SEC. 8. For the transaction of ordinary business, No. to consti a majority of the trustees shall be sufficient to form a quorum. All acts or parts of acts, coming within the purview of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. lish semi-an nual reports tute a quorum CHAP. CCLVIII. - AN ACT Anthorising the copying, repairing and making out certain books and records in the Register's office, and making provision for the payment thereof. APPROVED, Jan. 28, 1811. WHEREAS, it appears from the report of the committee appointed to examine the register's office, that in many instances copying and re-binding are necessary, and that some important alphabets have been commenced by the register, and it being reasonable that a compensation should be made therefor: Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be the duty of the register of the land office, and he is hereby directed, to have the said copying done, to procare the aforeaid binding, and complete the aforesaid alphabets on the plan commenced. And the auditor of public accounts, is hereby directed, upon the book binder's producing to him a certificate from the register, that the same is completed, to issue his warrant for the amount thus certified, which is not to exceed the customary price of binding; and the register is hereby directed to procure the binding to be done on the best terms in his power. SEG. 2. Be it further enacted, That upon the completion of any of the aforesaid re-copying, or each or either of the alphabets stated in the aforesaid report, the auditor is hereby directed, upon application by the register, to ascertain the number of words, by general calculation, in such re-copying, and to issue his warrant therefor, at the rate of one and an half cents for every twenty words: and to ascertain the number of names alphabeted, and for each name and the description annexed, to issue his warrant at the rate of one an half cents therefor, CHAP. CCLIX. - AN ACT Farther to regulate the payment of the debt due this the APPROVED, JANUARY 28, 1811. Sec. 1. Be menwealth of Kentucky, That E it enacted by the general assembly of the sales of lands directed to be made by the register of the land office, under the act of assembly, approved the 18th day of January, 1810, entitled an act to extend the time for, and farther to regulate the debt due the commonwealth for the sale of vacant lands,' shall be, and the same are hereby suspended suspended until the first Monday in June, 1812; and the auditor and register shall respectively proceed to perform made after 1 the duties required under the before recited act, on given period. the said first Monday in June, 1812. Sales of lands Sale to be able a Sec. 2. That the instalments which by the existing When next law, would become due on the first Monday in June istalment pay next, shall be payable on the first Monday in June, 1812; and each instalment shall be payable annually, on or before the first Monday in June in each year thereafter until the whole is paid. land sales the state may said be redeemed Wheh lands stricken off to Sec. 3. That where any tract of head right shall have been stricken off to the state at the heretofore made, the owner or owners of the claim, shall have the privilege of redeeming the same, on or before the first Monday in June, 1812, 'y paying into the treasury the instalment and interest for which the said claim was sold, together with an interest at the rate of twenty-five per centum per annum, from the day of sale the day of redemption, and costs of sale. Terms Interest re mitted on pay Sec. 4. That every person indebted to this state. for any land acquired under any law of this commonwealth, as well where the land has been sold to ing at a cer the state, as where no sale has been made, who shall tain time |