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county of Jefferson to collect and make distress for any public dues or officers fees, which shall remain unpaid by the inhabitants thereof at the time the said division shall take place, and shall be accountable for the same in like manner as if this act had not been made; and that the court of the said county of Jefferson shall have jurisdiction of all actions and suits in law or equity, which shall be depending before them at the time of the said division, and shall try and determine the same, and issue process and award execution thereon.

III. And be it further enacted, That the value of the court-house and other publie buildings in the said county of Jefferson, shall, on or before the first day of January next, be ascertained and fixed by William Pope, George Slaughter, Philip Barbour, William Oldham, Isaac Cox, Andrew Hinds, and Benjamin Pope, or any four of them, who shall make return, so soon after as may be, of such valuation to each of the courts of the said counties of Jefferson and Nelson; and the court of the said county of Jefferson shall, within twelve months after such return made, levy on the tithables in their county, and pay to the court of the said county of Nelson, the proportion of such valuation, according to the number of tithables in that part of the said county of Jefferson at the time the expence of the said buildings was levied by the court of the said county of Jefferson.

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IV. And be it further enacted, That the principal surveyor to be chosen for the said county of Nelson, shall, and he is hereby directed, to take from the surveyor's books of Jefferson county, all such locations as may fall within the county of Nelson upon the said division taking place, that plats of survey may be returned to his office

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CHAP. XXIV,

An act punishing certain offences injurious to the tranquility of this Commonwealth.

L. WHEREAS it is the desire of the good people of this commonwealth, in all cases to manifest their reverence for the law of nations, to cultivate amity and peace as far as may depend on them, between the United States and foreign powers, and to support the dignity and energy of the foederal constitution:

[Chap. XLIII in original.]

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II. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That if any citizen or inhabitant of this commonwealth, shall this state, go beyond the limits of the United States, within the committing acknowledged jurisdiction of any civilized nation in of its limits, anity with the United States, shall within the same how appre commit any crime, for which, in the judgment of the hended and United States, in congress assembled, the law of nations, or any treaty between the United States and a foreign nation, required him to be surrendered to the offended nation, and shall thereafter flee within the limits of this commonwealth, and the sovereign of the offended nation shall exhibit to the United States, in congress assembled, due and satisfactory evidence of the crime, with a demand of the offender to be tried and punished where the same was committed; and the United States, in congress assembled, shall thereupon notify such demand to the executive of this state, and call for the surrender of such offender, the governor, with the advice of the council of state, is hereby authorized to cause him to be apprehended, conveyed and delivered to such person or persons, as the United States, in congress assembled, shall prescribe.

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III. And be it further enacted, That if any citizen of Crimes com this commonwealth, shall go out of the same into the mitted within territory of any christian nation or Indian tribe, in territory of amity with the United States, and shall there commit any christian murder, house-burning, robbery, theft, trespass, or dian tribe, in other crime, which, if committed within this common- amity with U. States, wealth, would be punishable by the laws thereof, it how punishshall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace, on proof of such offence by the oath of one or more credi ble witness or witnesses, to issue his warrant, directed

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to all sheriffs, under-sheriffs, and constables, within this commonwealth, commanding them and each of them, within their respective counties and precincts, to apprehend such offender or offenders, and him, her, or them, to bring before such justice, or any other justice of the peace in the same county, or in the excounty where such offender may be apprehended; and such offender or offenders shall be subject to the same punishment, and shall be dealt with in the same manner, as if the offence, with which he, she, or they stand charged, had been committed within the body of some county of this commonwealth; and such offenders may be tried by a jury of bystanders, qualified by law to serve on juries in capital cases: Provided also, That it shall and may be lawful for the magistrate committing such offender (if the circumstances of the case shall render it absolutely necessary) to appoint the time for holding a court for the examination of such offenders at a more distant period than the law allows with regard to other criminals, provided the same be held within thirty days after the commitment of the pri

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IV. And be it further enacted, That where sufficient proof shall not appear to the court before whom such offender shall be examined, to convict him or her of the charge, it shall and may be lawful for such court (if the circumstances of the case shall, in the opinion of the court, require it) to bind such offender to his or her good behaviour, in such sum and for such time as the said court shall judge reasonable.

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V. And be it further enacted, That the governor shall, as soon as conveniently may after the passing of this act, transmit so many copies thereof as he shall think proper to the governors of the colonies of such nations, as may (most probably be injured by the disorderly citizens of this state, to evince the friendly disposition of this commonwealth.

VI. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be given in charge to every grand jury to be empannelled in the general court for the district of Kentucky; and if such grand jury shall present any person, for having violated this act (which they are hereby authorized to do), the court before whom such presentment shall be made, are hereby authorized and empowered (if the circumstances of the case, in the opinion of such court,

shall require) to bind the person or persons so presented, to his, her, or their good behaviour, in such sum and for such time as the court in their discretion shall judge reasonable, notwithstanding he or she may have been acquitted by a petit jury.

CHAP. XXV.

An act for the appointment of trustees for the town of York.

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I. WHEREAS it hath been represented to the general assembly, that the inhabitants of the town of York experience much inconvenience for the want of trustees or directors, occasioned in several instances by the pointed. death of some of the former members, and in other instances by the non-residence, or legal disabilities of others: For remedy whereof,

M. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That Thomas Nelson, jun. David Jameson, Hugh Nelson, William Cary, William Reynolds, Corbin Griffin, Matthew Pope, and Robert Nicholson, jun. gentlemen, be, and they are hereby constituted and appointed trustees and directors of the town aforesaid, and are authorized and empowered to meet at such time and place as a majority of the said trustees may direct, for the purpose of carrying into effect the duties of their appointment; and in case of the death, legal disability, or removal out of the county, or into distant parts, of one or more of the said trustees, the surviving trustees, or a majority of them, may from time to time, proceed to elect by ballot some other person or persons to sup→ ply any such vacancies that may happen; and such trustee or trustees so nominated and elected, shall be vested with as fall and compleat authority to exercise the said office, as if he or they had been particularly nominated by this act.

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[Chap LXV in original.]

Preamble.

CHAP. XXVI.

An act to amend and explain an act in tituled An act for repealing in part the act for establishing the town of Louisville.

I. WHEREAS, by an act passed in May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty, intituled, "An act for establishing the town of Louisville at the falls of the Ohio, and one other town in the county of Rockingham," the escheated lands of a certain John Connolly were vested in trustees, for the purpose of establishing a town, to be known by the name of Louisville; and according to the directions of the said act, parcels of the said land were laid off into lots, and sold by the said trustees, upon the conditions prescribed by the said act: And whereas, in October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, it appearing to the general assembly that John Campbell and the said John Connolly were seized as tenants in common of four thousand acres of land, lying at the falls of the river Ohio, and that the said John Campbell and John Connolly did execute to each other, a deed of partition of the said land, but that the partition lines had never been run; and it appearing moreover that the said John Connolly being indebted to the said John Campbell and a certain Joseph Simon, did mortgage his part of the said land to the said John Campbell and Joseph Simon, and that the land had not been redeemed from the said mortgage; an act passed, intituled, "An act for repealing, in part an act for establishing the town of Louisville," by which act, the aet "For establishing the town of Louisville" is repealed, so far as it affects the title of the said John Campbell and Joseph Simon, to the land, aforesaid; and it is moreover enacted by the said aet, that the surveyor of Jefferson shall run the lines of partition between the said John Campbell and John Connolly. And where-as doubts have arisen upon the construction of the last mentioned act, in the minds of the purchasers of lots in the town of Louisville, with regard to their titles, and the trustees of the said town of Louisville know not how

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