Text of Act Creating Adair County in Kentucky Approved 11-Dec-1801; Effective 01-Apr-1802 CHAPTER CCCXLVIII: An ACT for the division of Green County Approved December 11, 1801 BE it enacted by the general assembly, That from and after the first day of April next, all that part of the county of Green, included within the following bounds, to wit: beginning on Green river, ten miles on a straight line above Greencourt-house; thence a line so as to strike a point one quarter of a mile due north from Maj. Daniel Trabue's house; thence a line to strike the Barren county line, so as to leave James Mitchell one quarter of a mile in the county of Green; thence with the Barren line to Cumberland county line; thence with said line to Wayne county line, and with said line to Pulaski county line; thence with said line to Lincoln county line; thence with the same to the ridge dividing the waters of the Rolling fork from Casey's creek; thence to the head of the ridge between Casey's creek and Robinson's creek; thence with said ridge to Green river; thence with the same to the beginning, shall be one distinct county, and called and known by the name of: Adair. After said division shall take place, the courts for the said county of Adair, shall be held on the second Tuesday in each month; and the courts of quarter sessions shall be held in the months of February, May, August, and October; and the county courts in every other month in which the quarter session courts are not herein directed to be held, in such manner as is provided by law in respect to other counties within this commonwealth. The justices to be named in the commission of the peace for the said county of Adair, shall meet at the house of James Walker, Sr., in the county aforesaid, on the first court day after the said division shall take place; and having taken the oaths prescribed by law, and a sheriff being duly qualified, the court shall proceed to appoint a clerk, and fix on a place for the seat of justice for said county, and proceed to erect the public buildings at such place: Provided, that the place for erecting the public buildings shall not be fixed, or a clerk appointed, (except pro tempore), unless a majority of the justices in appointment in said county, concur; but shall be postponed until such majority can be had; provided, also, that the justices in fixing on a place for erecting the public buildings, shall take into view the boundary and local situation of the county, and fix on such a place as appears will be most convenient to the citizens of said county in general. And it shall be lawful for the sheriff of Green county to make distress for any public dues or officers' fees unpaid by the inhabitants of the county of Adair at the time such division shall take place, and shall be accountable for the same in like manner as if this act had not been passed. The said county of Green shall have jurisdiction in all actions and suits depending therein at the time of such division, and shall try and determine the same, issue process, and award execution thereon. And the said county of Adair, in all elections for governor, lieutenant-governor, members of congress, senator or representative to serve in the general assembly of this state, shall be considered as part of the county of Green, until they are entitled to a separate representation: Provided however, that it shall be lawful for the voters in the said county of ldair, to vote at the court-house of said county; and an election shall be held in like manner as is by law directed to be held in other counties; and the sheriff of the said county of Adair shall attend at the court-house of Green on the sixth day after the commencement of the election, to compare polls with the sheriff of Green, in like manner as is directed by law in similar cases. SOURCE: Littell's "Statute Law of Kentucky", Vol. II, 1810, pages 429-431. ****************************************************************************** CHAPTER 17. An ACT to amend an act to add a part of Adair county to the county of Casey, approved January 29, 1844. Approved January 11, 1845. WHEREAS, It is represented to the General Assembly, that a mistake was made in the act approved January 29, 1844, entitled, an act to add a part of Adair county to Casey county, in calling to run the line from Matthew Worthington's northwest, to Thomas Bland's: for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That said line shall run from Matthew Worthington's to Thomas Christison's, so as to leave Joseph Worthington in :ldair county, and leave said Matthew Worthington and Thomas Christison in Casey county, thence from said Christison's, northwest, to the Green county line. SOURCE: "Acts of the Kentucky General Assembly", 1845, pg. 11. ***************************************************************************** CHAPTER 570. An ACT to authorize the remarking of the boundary line between Adair and Casey counties. Approved March 10, 1870. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: SECTION 1. That the surveyors of the counties of Adair and Casey be, and they are hereby, authorized to run and remark the line between the two said counties; and the court of claims of each of said counties shall make provision for their payment for said services. SECTION 2. That this act shall take effect from its passage. SOURCE: "Acts of the Kentucky General Assembly", 1870, pages 38-39. http://www. sos. state.ky.us/Land/kycountyformation/countysearch . . . . . . on, 4/25/2003