Ashley v. Buck

Opinion by

Judge Lindsay:

The act of December 20, 1800 (2 State Law of Kentucky 941), made it lawful for any free person of the description set out in the preamble, who was above the age of eighteen years, to improve, occupy and hold of the vacant lands of the commonwealth four hundred acres. The second section of the act required the person desiring to make the appropriation to apply to the county court of the county in which his settlement was made and obtain a certificate setting out the special location and quantity of the tract of land, and describing it as accurately as practicable.

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