Littell's Laws Volume 4
The following are some of the personal acts passed by the Kentucky legislature from 1792 to 1801, taken from Littell's Laws of Kentucky, Volume 4.
page 13 An act for the relief of THOMAS ADAMS approved Jan. 25, 1809 He was a justice of the peace, and had solemnized a marriage, not being specially authorised so to do. This act released him from the penalties incurred. page 87 An act for the relief of the heirs of JAMES ARMSTRONG, deceased. approved Jan. 4, 1810 They were entitled by descent to 200 acres of head right land; the surveyor had failed to record the certificate, although he had certified it to the register as recorded. This act permitted it to be recorded. page 325 An act for the benefit of GEORGE ANDERSON and LEWIS SANDERS. approved Jan. 18, 1812 They had purchased an estate which it was supposed had escsheated to the commonwealth. This act released the commonwealth's right, if any existed. page 6 An act to amend an act for the relief of the heirs of JAMES BRISTOE. approved Jan. 3, 1809 In the act of last session, the name of James was by mistake inserted in the place of BENJAMIN,and the number (of the warrant) 765 instead of 766. This act corrects the mistake. page 127 An act making compensation to EDMUND BRADSHAW, the surveyor of Christian County. approved Jan. 23, 1810 He had made out a connection of plats exhibited as evidence on the impeachment of WILLIAM RODGERS. This act gave him a compensation of thirty dollars out of the treasury. page 133 An act for the relief of JOSEPH BROOKS. approved Jan. 25, 1810 This act relieved him from a sale to the commonwealth ,of a tract of land to which he had an equitable title, and which had been sold as the land of a nonresident. He was prevented by unavoidable accident from redeeming it within the legal time. page 137 An act for the benefit of JOSEPH BARNETT, and his associates. approved Jan. 25, 1810 It authorised them to locate a quantity of land, limited to 2000 acres at 20 dollars per 100 acres, contiguous to where they were digging for salt water, at Double Lick, on the Horse Lick fork of Rockcastle, dividing the county of Clay from Madison. page 206 An act for the relief of JOHN BRADSHAW approved Jan. 4, 1811 He had paid tax for three retail stores when he had only two. This act permitted him to draw from the treasury the tax of one. page 206 An act authorising the release, confirmation and sale of part of the public square in the Town of Versailles to JOSEPH and JOHN KINCAID. approved Jan. 4, 1811 page 250 An act for the relief of ANDREW BIGGS. approved Jan 29, 1811 An indictment was exhibited against him in Montgomery county for murder. This act provided a change of venue to Harrison County. page 323 An Act for the relief of CHARLES BLAKELY. approved Jan. 13, 1812 He was an object of charity, owing to his indigence and decripitude; in consideration of which, this act remitted him the state price of his head right land. page 332 An act for the benefit of MARY BURKE and others. approved Jan. 24, 1812 This act authorised Mary Burke to locate and receive a patent, gratis, for 100 acres of land in Nelson County; FRANCIS CUNNINGHAM to locate and pay for 50 acres in Mercer County; and remitted to the heirs of JAMES DILLARD the balance of the state price due on 200 acres of land in Livingston County. page 350 An act authorisisng JOHN BROWN to build a bridge across the Kentucky River. approved Jan. 3, 1812 Be it enacted by the general assembly of the commonwealth of Kentucky, that John Brown, or his assigns, his or their heirs or legal representatives, he, and he or they, are hereby authorised to erect a bridge across the Kentucky river, at Frankfort, from his ferry lot or landing, on the north side, to his ferry lot or landing, on the south side of said river, under the same rules and regulations, and to be entitled to the like penalties and restrictions, as are contained in an act passed by the general assembly on the 21st day of December 1805, entitled "an act authorising JOHN POPE to erect a bridge across the Kentucky River: Provided that the said bridge shall be completed for the safe passage of waggons and carriages, within two years from the first day of November next. page 358 An act to change the Venue for the Trial of JESSE CRAVENS, WILLIAM BROWN, and THOMAS OUTTON. approved Jan 31, 1812 Cravens was prosecuted for forgery in Ohio county: this act authorised a change of venue to Hardin. Brown was prosecuted for perjury in Caldwell county. This act authorised a change of venue to Christian. Outton was indicted for perjury in Fayette. This act authorised a change of venue to Clarke. page 395 An act for the benefit of the Heirs of JOHN BRECKENRIDGE, deceased. approved Feb. 7, 1813 They were mostly infants, and one 'feme covert' owning considerable of lands and subject to a number of contracts of their ancestor, respecting lands. This act authorised the Fayette circuit court to appoint Trustees to manage the business. page 415 An act for the benefit of ANDREW BURKE and others. approved Feb. 8, 1812 They were proprietors of head-right claims: their respective cases, and the relief granted, is interesting only to them. page 134 An act to authorise JOHN CAROTHERS and others to appropriate certain vacant lands. approved Jan. 25, 1810 They were permitted to locate small quantities of land in the counties of Montgomery and Nelson, and to obtain grants therefor, at the price of one dollar per acre. page 148 An act for the relief of PETER CUMMINS and JOHN N. LEE. approved Jan. 27, 1810 This act made compensation to Peter Cummins for the expenses he incurred and the exertions he had made, to apprehend WILLIAM WALKER, JOHN FISHER, and ADAM BARGER, who were charged with the murder of JOHN COFFMAN, a citizen of Indiana, and to John N. Lee for the expenses he had incurred and the exertions he had made in re-taking JOHN CARTER, who stood charged with the murder of JAMES MILLER, and had broke jail. page 228 An act to change the venue in the Trial of JESSE CRAVENS approved Jan. 25, 1811 He was indicted in Ohio county for perjury. This act permitted a change of venue to Hardin. page 330 An act for the benefit of the Estate of WILLIAM CHAPLINE, deceased. approved Jan. 24, 1812 He had been clerk of Warren county and circuit courts, and had died without charging his fees for services performed the year preceeding his death. This act authorised the present clerk to do it, and make out fee-bills for the benefit of the estate. page 381 An act for the benefit of PHILLIPS and SAMUEL CALDWELL. approved Feb. 4, 1812 They had, in 1801, obtained leave to locate 1000 acres of land, for the purpose of making salt; it was found, on trial, not likely to answer that purpose, they were by the original act to have paid one dollar per acre; an intermediate act had reduced the price; this act placed them on the footing of actual settlers, both as to present and subsequent laws. page 381 An act for the relief of JOSEPH CHAFFIN and others. approved Feb. 4, 1812 They were proprietors of Virginia land claims, some of which had not been surveyed until after the time for executing such surveys had expired, and others had not been surveyed at all; this act legalised the surveys made, as far as the commonwealth was interested, and permitted the others to be made. page 410 An act for the benefit of the Heirs of JOSEPH CASTEN, deceased approved Feb. 8, 1812 They were infants and inherited a moiety of a mill. This act directed commissioners to be appointed to ascertain wheather it were better for them to keep it or have it sold, and to sell it, if necessary. ( moiety is half) page 38 An act for the relief of EPHRIAM DICKEN and JAMES KINCAID, assignee, and c. approved Feb. 1, 1809 They were proprietors of head-right claims. This act relieved them from the consequences of some mistakes. page 9 An act to amend the act entitled "an act to amend the act authorising commissioners to sell part of the land of which JOHN ELLIOTT died, seized and possessed. approved Jan. 16, 1809 DANIEL M'GARY and JAMES ELLIOTT, two of the commissioners appointed by a former law, had failed to act, and had removed. this act appointed JAMES M'ELHANY and WILLIAM DONALDSON in their stead. page 98 An act for the relief of THOMAS K. EDGMAN. approved Jan. 8, 1810 The relief was against the legal consequences of an irregular proceeding relative to a tract of head-right land. page 110 An act for the relief of YOUNG EWING approved Jan. 18, 1810 The relief was against the effects of a mistaken payment on a wrong certificate for head-right land. page 170 An act for the relief of JOHN FOWLER and the heirs of GEORGE EWING, deceased. approved Jan. 31, 1810 This act authorised the issuing of some patents, to the enamation of which in the ordinary way,there were some legal obstructions. page 412 An act for the benefit of the Heirs of ACHILLES EASTIN, deceased, and the Heirs of SAMUEL INGRAM, deceased. approved Feb. 8, 1812 This act appointed commissioners to sell 90 acres of land, descended to Eastin's heirs, and authorised the adult heirs of Ingram, together with the mother, her husband and the guardian of the infants, to convey, in behalf of the heirs collectively, a tract of land which Ingram, in his lifetime had contracted to convey. page 253 An act for the relief of JOHN FOWLER approved Jan. 29, 1811 He had an equitable title to some lands lying in Campbell county, patented to JACOB ROBSAMMON, who was dead, and his heirs at law aliens. This act provided means for him to prove these facts in Campbell circuit court, get a commissioner appointed and have a deed made. It relinquished to him the commonwealth's right by escheat. page 257 An act authorising JOSEPH LOVE and others, to locate and survey Lands for Iron-Works. approved Jan. 31, 1811 They had discovered an iron band in Pulaski county, on land belonging to the commonwealth. This act authorised them to locate 2000 acres, including it. The price was 10 dollars per 100 acres, and they had six years to pay it in. page 159 An act for the benefit of JOHN M'GILL and ANDREW GRISAL approved Jan. 30, 1810 This act released them respectively from paying for some head-right land on account of their indigence. page 211 An act for the benefit of JOHN GATEWOOD approved Jan. 10, 1811 He was proprietor of a settlement right, and this act authorised him to locate the land where his house stood, which by mistake had been built off his claim. page 317 An act for the benefit of EDWARD GRAHAM. approved Jan. 1, 1812 He had paid for 200 acres of land, and could obtain only 150 acres. This act directed a patent to issue for that quantity, and the overpayment to be reimbursed. page 220 An act for the relief of DOLLY GEORGE approved Jan. 18, 1811 She was a widow, poor and nearly blind, in consideration of which, the state price of 300 acres of head-right was by this act, remitted to her. page 60 An act for the relief of CHARLES QUIREY and SAMUEL HINCH. approved Feb. 9, 1809 Quirey had been sheriff of Jefferson county and Hinch, his deputy; by the sudden death of WILLIAM SULLIVAN, another deputy, a delinquent list, amounting to about 100 dollars, for the amount for which Hinch was entitled to a credit, had not been brought forward on a settlement. This act allowed a credit therefor. page 70 An act for the relief of JOSEPH HART approved Feb. 11, 1809 As assignee of ABRAHAM BUFORD, he was entitled to 3000 acres of land, the register not thinking that under the circumstances of the case, he was authorised to receive the plats and certificates of survey. This act authorised him so to do. page 201 An act for the relief of HANS HARPER approved Dec. 19, 1810 He had paid money by mistake, on a wrong head-right claim. This act appropriated it to the right one. page 220 An act for the benetif of RICHARDSON HERNDON approved Jan. 18, 1811 This act authorised him to locate any quantity of land, not exceeding 1000 acres, contiguous to his own land on Cumberland river, where he had found a salt spring; 20 dollars per 100 acres, was the price, and four years were given to pay it in. page 233 An act for the benefit of FANNY HAY. approved Jan. 25, 1811 She was a person of unsound mind, and inherited an undivided interest in some land claims of her ancestor. This act directed the circuit court of Madison to appoint a trustee, and to manage her estate that she might in whole or in part be supported out of it. page 330 An act for the relief of CALEB HALL and WILLIAM IRVAN approved Jan. 24, 1812 He had been clerk of Warren county and circuit courts, and had died without charging his fees for services performed the year preceeding his death. This act authorised the present clerk to do it, and make out fee-bills for the benefit of the estate. page 336 An act for the relief of JOHN HOLDERS Heirs and others. approved Jan. 27, 1812 The persons relieved by this act were the heirs of the security of an insolvent sheriff of Clarke, and the securities of an insolvent sheriff of Bourbon. The relief given was a remission of the damages and interest, and on acceptance, on the part of the state, of the principal debt. page 405 An act for the benefit of the Heirs of JOHN HARROW. approved Feb. 8, 1812 They were infants and inherited mills from their ancestor, which they were not able to keep in repair. This act appointed commissioners to sell them. page 13 An act allowing JOHN JAMES and others further time to return certain plats and certificates. approved Jan 25, 1809 page 13 An act for the relief of SILAS M' BEE, JOHN JACKSON, and JOHN MOREN approved Jan 24, 1809 They were proprietors of head-right lands. This act rrelieved them from some embarrassments they had got into by erroneous and irregular proceedings. page 6 An act to amend an act entitled "an act for the benefit of DANIEL KESSLER". approved Dec. 27, 1808 By an act of the last session, he had been permitted to obtain a land warrant for a quantity of land on Russel's Creek, not exceeding 100 acres. It was found, on making a survey, that there was only 49 and a half acres of vacant land in the place. This act allowed him to obtain a warrant for that quantity, instead of the warrant which the former act permitted him to obtain. page 174 An act for the relief of CHARLES KELSOE. approved Jan. 30, 1810 He had been sheriff of Harrison county. This act authorised him to return his delinquent list, which he had failed to do. page 394 An act for the benefit of JESSE KNIGHTEN. approved Feb. 7, 1812 He was an object of charity, owing to his indigence, old age and infirmity.This act gave him 98 acres of land in Muhlenburg County. page 59 An act for the relief of JOHN LOGAN's Heirs. approved Feb. 9, 1809 There was a judgment and execution against them, at the suit of the commonwealth. This act permitted the property to be sold on a credit of twelve months. page 87 An act for the relief of WILLIAM LACEY approved Jan. 4, 1810 He had, through mistake, paid for two head-right claims instead of one. This act permitted him to have a credit for what had been improperly paid, in payment for other lands. page 171 An act for the relief of the Heirs and Representatives of MATTHEW LODGE, deceased approved Jan 31, 1810 This act authorised substituting an attested copy of a certificate for two hundred acres of land in place of the original, which had been lost. page 192 An act for the relief of AMOS LONEY and THOMAS SCOTT. approved Jan. 31, 1810 Amos Loney had a survey executed for1400 of land, which was recorded in the proper office, but the original was not signed by the surveyor, or any of his deputies, and the surveyor had died. This act authorised an attested copy from the surveyors record to be returned to the registers office in lieu of an original. It directed the auditor to issue a warrant for a small sum in favor of THOMAS SCOTT; on what consideration, it is not said. page 257 An act authorising JOSEPH LOVE and others to locate and survey Lands for Iron-Works. approved Jan. 31, 1811 They had discovered an iron bank in Pulaski county, on land belonging to the commonwealth. This act authorised them to locate 2000 acres, including it. The price was 10 dollars per 100 acres, and they had 6 years to pay it in. page 16 An act for the benefit of JOHNSTON SARGENT and RICHARD MORTON. approved Jan. 30, 1810 This act regulates some mistaken proceedings relative to their head-right claims. page 248 An act for the benefit of JOHN K. MANGHAM. approved Jan. 29, 1811 This act authorised him to locate and carry into grant, a tract of land not exceeding 100 acres, adjoining the tract he lived on. page 319 An act for the relief of SHEMI WATSON and JAMES M' COUN. approved Jan. 6, 1812 This act remitted to them respectively what remained due on their head-right claims. page 323 An act for the relief of DAVID MEEK. approved Jan. 13, 1812 This act remitted to him the installments then due and to become due on his head-right land, he being poor, and being a cripple, and having been so from his infancy. page 330 An act for the benefit of WILLIAM and LAPSLEY M' BRIDE. approved Jan. 24, 1812 Their ancestor had been appointed commissioner by the county court of Kentucky, under an act of 1779, to open a road from Holstein to the Crab Orchard, and had been killed in the battle of Blue Licks, having never received any compensation. This act authorised the issuing of four warrants for the quantity, collectively, of 2800 acres of land to his sons. page 374 An act for the relief of ANDREW M' CASTLIN. approved Feb. 4, 1812 He owned a small tract of land in Wayne county, on which he was digging for salt water. This act permitted him to locate as much unappropriated land as he cound within two miles of the place; price 20 dollars per 100 acres, time of payment, four years. page 30 An act authorising ARCHIBALD NORTHCUT to build a Dam across Green River. approved Feb. 1, 1809 Whereas it is represented to this general assembly, that it would be a great benefit to a number of the citizens of Casey county, to permit a grist-mill to be erected on Green river, near the court house of said county. This is a long act, mentions no other names, and authorised Archibald Northcut to build the dam and says he must meet certain specifications of building plans. page 58 An act to amend the act entitled " an act authorising JOHN POPE to erect a bridge across the Kentucky River". approved Feb. 9, 1809 page 317 An act for the benefit of ANDREW PARKS. APPROVED JAN. 1, 1812 In consideration of his being old, indigent, and infirm, and of his having spent the youth and vigor of his life in the military service of his country, this act remitted to him the state price for 200 acres of third rate land. page 323 An act for the relief of THOMAS RANDOLPH and ROBERT PORTER. approved Jan. 18, 1812 Randolph had lost his head-right land, by a prior claim, after having paid the state price, but could obtain no warrant, owing to there having been no credit given him in the auditors or treasurers office; this act authorised a warrant to issue in his favor. Porter had been sheriff of Madison county, and having failed to return his delinquent list in time, had paid the amount thereof, into the treasury; this act permitted him to receive it again. page 325 An act for the benefit of JOHN POAGUE (index says PRAGUE) approved Jan. 22, 1812 This act authorised him to locate any quantity of land not exceeding 1000 acres, including his improvement on the south side of Cumberland river; 20 dollars per 100 acres was the price, and six years the time of payment. He had discovered salt water on the tract, and his right was to depend on his working it to the extent the quantity and quality of the water would justify. page 325 An act for the relief of WILLIAM PEARL and WILLIAM SMITH. approved Jan. 22, 1812 They had discovered salt water on a tract of land which they owned in Knox county, and were desirous of appropriating more land contiguous thereto. This act authorised them to locate any quantity not exceeding 1000 acres, price 20 dollars per 100 acres, time of payment four years. The same conditions imposed as in the preceeding act. page 194 An act for the relief of JOSEPH REED approved Dec. 17, 1810 A grant for head-right land had been issued on a wrong certificate. This act directed the register to correct the patent. page 336 An act for the relief of ISAAC RAYFIELD approved Jan. 28, 1812 He was indigent and a cripple, he had settled on 50 acres of land, and had paid part of the state price, this act released him from the balance. page 412 An act for the benefit of the heirs of JOHN ROBINSON, deceased. approved Feb. 8, 1812 This act authorised the emanation of a patent to them for 400 acres of land on which their father had settled and died. page 105 An act authorising SAMUEL SHORT to enter and survey 300 acres of land, on which he now resides. approved Jan. 15, 1810 The land lay in Hopkins county, he had settled on it under a certificate granted to ROBERT HOOKER; Hooker afterwards relinquished his right and thereby destroyed Short's claim. page 195 An act for the benefit of MATTHEW SINGLETON. approved Dec. 17, 1810 He was indigent and insane, in consideration of which, this act released him from the balance of the state price on 245 acres of land. page 241 An act for the relief of THOMAS SALSBURY of Muhlenburg County. approved Jan. 26, 1811 He had two certificates covering the same tract of land; on one of them he had obtained a patent, and the other had been sold and he re-purchased it. This act provided against any future sale of it. page 259 An act for the relief of REUBEN STEIVIS. approved Jan. 31, 1811 This act authorised him to be paid out of the treasury for two drums furnished the 8th Regiment, in the year 1793. page 317 An act for the relief of WILLIAM STIGGALL. approved Jan. 1, 1812 He was the proprietor of a removed certificate, but had not laid it on the land where he had settled and made valuable improvements, until the legal time for so doing had expired. This act authorised him still to do it. page 325 An act for the benefit of WILLIAM F. SIMRALL's heirs. approved Jan. 18, 1812 They were infants, and held by inheirtance, an undivided moiety of a tract of land, and an unfinished paper-mill on Beargrass. This act appointed commissioners to sell it for the benefit of the estate. page 134 An act for the relief of JOHN P. THOMAS. approved Jan. 25, 1810 This relief was against a mistake to his prejudice of about 60 dollars, made by the committee appointed to settle with him. page 163 An act for the relief of FRANCIS TRIPLETT. approved Jan. 30, 1810 He was under a prosecution in Montgomery, for shooting DANIEL CONNOR with an intent to kill. This act authorised a change of venue to Bourbon; Triplett never availed himself of it, and died before a trial was had anywhere. page 212 An act for the relief of EDMUND TALBOT. approved Jan. 15, 1811 This act directed some words to be inserted in his patent which had been omitted. page 336 An act for the benefit of THOMAS TOWNSEND. approved Jan. 28, 1812 He had settled on some vacant land in Madison county. This act authorised him to locate 150 acres, by boundaries given in the act, price 20 dollars per 100 acres, time of payment one year. page 394 An act for the relief of DANIEL TRAHUE. approved Feb. 7, 1812 He was sheriff of Adair, and had, as such, in the year 1808, paid into the treasury 20 dollars more than was demandable of him, owing to a mistake in the commissioners books. This act provided for a re-payment. page 12 An act for the relief of JOHN UPTON's Heirs. approved Jan. 25, 1809 They were infants, and their head-right land had been sold to the state for the payment of the first installment. This act permitted their claim to be re-instated. page 51 An act for the relief of RICHARD WILMOTT. approved Feb. 8, 1809 He had paid the state price and obtained a patent for land belonging to another man. This is said to have been owing to a mistake in assigning to him a wrong certificate. This act authorised the patent to be returned and a patent to issue on the proper certificate. page 51 An act for the benefit of ELIZABETH WORTHINGTON, and the heirs of EDWARD WORTHINGTON, deceased. approved Feb. 9, 1809 A settlement and pre-emption, obtained by PATRICK SHOAN, had escheated to the commonwealth; from a chain of presumptive evidence, that the persons named in the title had an equitable interest therein, the commonwealth's right was relinquished to them. page 163 An act for the benefit of the Administratrix of ALLEN M. WAKEFIELD, deceased. approved Jan. 30, 1810 She had taken out administration when the court had no right to sit; the term had been altered, but the justices were not informed of the alteration. This act confirmed the administratiion. page 276 An act for the relief of JOHN WILKINSON and the sheriff of Campbell County. approved Jan. 31, 1811 Wilkinson had been sheriff of Madison county; the relief granted both, related to revenue matters, and is interesting to them only. page 282 An act for the benefit of JOHN WEAGLE. approved Jan. 31, 1811 He was a tanner, and this act authorised him to locate 200 acres of land in Madison County, for the sake of bark, price 20 dollars per 100 acres, time of payment two years. page 282 An act authorising a sale of the Real Estate of JOHN W. WALKER, deceased. approved Jan 31, 1811 The sale was to be made for the benefit of his creditors and the support of his infant children, under a decree of the Madison circuit court, on the petition of his executors. page 340 An act for the relief of GEORGE WILHELMS, JAMES BLUE, jun. and RICHARD MORRIS. approved Jan. 28, 1812 They were proprietors of head-right claims. This act relieved them from the effects of some errors and irregularities. page 193 An act for establishing the Lebanon Academy in the County of Christian. approved Dec. 17, 1810 Be it enacted by the general assembly, that FINES EWING, EPHRIAM M' CLEAN, SAMUEL MOORE, YOUNG EWING, DANIEL BENHAM, ROBERT COLEMAN and DAVID BARTY, gentlemen, shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, to be known by the name of the trustees of the Lebanon Academy. This act is very long and mentions no other names.