directed, to sell, as soon as may be, so many lots in the said town, as will raise a sum sufficient to pay the balance due to the said Campbell and Simon, either from the said Connolly or Alexander M Kee, after deducting what shall be paid them, out of the sales of the lands in the town of Louisville, as aforesaid, and to apply such sum accordingly. The said commissioners are hereby constituted trustees of the said town of Louisville, in the room of those appointed by the act for establishing the said town, and shall have the same power, and authority, to all intents and purposes as the former trustees had.

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CHAP. CIII.

An act to establish a town, on the lands late the property of Benjamin Logan, in the county of Lincoln, and to fix the place of holding courts therein.

I. WHEREAS it is represented to this present geTown of Stan neral assembly, that Benjamin Logan hath given and coln county conveyed to the justices of the county court of Lincoln, Kentucky es- twenty-six acres of land, which have been by the said tablished.

court laid off into lots with convenient streets, and disposed of, reserving as much ground as will be sufficient for the purpose of erecting thereon a courthouse and prison, and that it would be of public advantage were the said lots established a town, and courts for the said county held therein:

II. Be it therefore enacted, That the said twenty-six acres of land, so laid off into lots and streets, shall be, and they are hereby established a town, by the name of Stanford, and that Benjamin Logan, John Logan, William Montgomery, Henry Pauling, Isaac Shelby, Walker Baylor, and Alexander Blane, gentlemen, be trustees of the same, who, or a majority of them, are authorised to make such rules for the regular building therein, as to them shall seem most convenient, and to

settle and determine all disputes about the bounds of the said lots. In case of the death, resignation, removal out of the county, or other legal disability, of any one or more of the said trustees, the remaining trustees shall chuse others in their stead, who shall have the same power and authority as any other in this act particularly appointed. So soon as the owners of lots in the said town shall have built thereon a dwelling house sixteen feet square, with a brick or stone chimney, such owner shall have and enjoy the same privileges as the freeholders and inhabitants of other towns in this state, not incorporated, hold and enjoy. The court of the said county of Lincoln, shall proceed to erect a court house and prison on the laud by them set apart for that purpose in the said town of Stanford, and when the same shall be completed courts for the said county shall thenceforth be held at the said place.

CHAP. CIV.

An act to amend the act, intitled An act for surveying and apportioning the lands granted to the Illinois rement, and establishing a town within the said grant.

1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That Additional James Francis Moore, Alexander Brackenridge, Ro- commission. bert Brackenridge, Richard Taylor, Andrew Heth, ers for sur Richard Terrell, and William Croghan, gentlemen, veying and shall be and they are hereby constituted commission- apportioning lands granted ers, in addition to those appointed by an act, intituled the Illinois re *An act for surveying and apportioning the lands giment. granted to the Illinois regiment, and establishing a town within the said grant.' The said board of commissioners, or any seven of them, shall have power, and are herby authorised to settle and determine all claims to land under the said act heretofore received, as well as all such as shall be exhibited to them before the first day

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of January, one thousand seven hundred and eightyeight, and to approve and allow or reject the same, Register to is as to them shall seem just and right. The register of sue patents the land office shall immediately, after the passing of this act, issue a patent to the said commissioners for the lands contained in the said grant, without demanding a fee for the same. The cominissioners shall demand and receive from every person who shall be allowed a Claimant to portion of the said land before they shall execute a pay fees to commission deed, his respective proportion of the fees payable to the register of the land office for the original grant; and if any person shall fail to make application to the commissioners for a deed, and pay such proportion as aforesaid, within eighteen months after the passing of this act, his right to the lands allowed him shall be forfeited.

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II. Provided always, and it is further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power to extend the time herein fixed, for each claimant to pay his proportion of the original grant to the first day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, and no longer.

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CHAP. CV.

An act to establish a town on the lands of John Lynch, in the County of Campbell.

I. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That Lynchburg, forty-five acres of land, the property of John Lynch, in Campbell and lying contiguous to Lynch's ferry, in the county county, es. of Campbell, are hereby vested in John Clarke, Adam Clement, Charles Lynch, John Callaway, Achilles Douglass, William Martin, Jesse Burton, Joseph Straton, Micajah Moorman, and Charles Brooks, gentlemen, trustees, to be by them, or any six of them, laid off into lots of half an acre each, with convenient streets, and established a town by the name of Lynchburg.The said trustees, or any six of them, shall proceed to

sell the said lots at public auction, for the best price that can be had, the time and place of which sale shall be previously advertised for one month in the Virginia Gazette; the purchasers to hold the said lots respectively, subject to the condition of building on each a dwelling house sixteen feet square at least, with a brick or stone chimney, to be finished fit for habitation within three years from the day of sale; and the said trustees, or any six of them, shall, and they are hereby empowered, to convey the said lots to the purchasers thereof in fee simple, subject to the condition aforesaid, and pay the money arising from the sale thereof to the said John Lynch, or his legal representatives: Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter or affect the right or interest of the said John Lynch in and to the lots on which he hath erected buildings, and one square containing two acres, in such part of the said town as he may choose. The said trustees, or any six of them, shall have power from time to time to settle and determine all disputes concerning the bounds of the lots, and to establish such rules and orders for the regular building of houses thereon, as to them shall seem best and most convenient. And in case of the death, removal out of the county, or other legal disability, of any one or more of the said trustees, it shall be lawful for the surviving or remaining trustees, to elect and choose so many other persons in the room of those dead or disabled as shall make up the number. The trustees so elected, shall be vested with the same power and authority as those particularly named in this act. The punchasers of lots in the said town, so soon as they shall have built upon and saved the same, according to their respective deeds of conveyance, shall then be entitled to, and have and enjoy, all the rights, privileges, and immunities, which the freeholders and inhabitants of other towns, not incorporated, hold and enjoy. If the purchaser of any lot shall fail to build thereon within the time before limited, the said trustees, or a major part of them, may thereupon enter into such lot and sell the same again, and apply the money for the benefit of the inhabitants of the said town.

CHAP. CVI.

An act to establish a Public Ferry, a Town, and an Inspection of Tobacco, on the lands of John Curd, in the county of Mercer.

I. WHEREAS it has been represented to this present general assembly, that it would be of public utility to establish a ware-house for the reception and inspection of tobacco on the lands of John Curd in the county of Mercer;

II. Be it therefore enacted, That an inspection of Inspection of tobacco, on tobacco shall be, and the same is hereby established, lands of John on the land of the said John Curd, lying at the mouth Curd, in Mer- of Dick's river in the county of Mercer, to be called established. and known by the name of Curd's warehouse. There shall be allowed and paid annually to each of the inspectors at the said warehouse, the sum of thirty pounds for their salary.

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III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if the quantity of tobacco inspected at the said warehouse, shall not be sufficient to pay the usual charges and the inspectors salaries, the deficiency shall not be paid by the public.

IV. And be it further enacted, That twenty acres of Town of New land the property of the said John Curd, lying at the confluence of the Kentuckey and Dick's river, in the said county of Mercer, be, and they are hereby vested in tucky, estab. John Jouet, Gabriel Madison, James Hoard, Samuel Pryor, Alexander Robertson, Robert Mosby, James Overton, Harry Innes, Joseph Crocket, and William Lewis, gentlemen, trustees, to be by them, or a majority of them laid out into lots of half an acre each, with convenient streets, and established a town, by the name of New Market. So soon as the said twenty acres of land shall be laid off into lots and streets, the said trustees, or the major part of them, shall proceedi to sell the same at public auction, for the best price that can be had, the time and place of which sale shall be. previously advertised for three months at the courthouse of each of the said counties of Mercer, Lincoln, and Fayette. The purchasers to hold the said lots re