Court Minutes of November 3, 1795
Copied by Margaret S Hartman from Court
Order Book A
Page 21-At a Court Continued and held for Campbell County on tuesday the 3rd
of November 1795
Present: Gentlemen
Robert Benham
Thomas Kennedy
John Bush
Washington Berry, Nathan Kelly, James Taylor, and Stephen Lyon are appointed Commissioners to let the building of a Stone jail for this County Twenty six by thirty feet from out to out to be erected on the Publick Square the wall to be three feet thick, to be two stories high and each story to be nine feet. The building to be finished at the discretion of the said Commissioners and it is further Ordered that the said Commissioners to collect the money voluntarily subscribed for the purpose of erecting publick buildings and to procede against the delinquents agreeably to Law. And they are further authorized to call on the Sheriff occasionally for the ballance of Three hundred and fifty pounds which cannot be raised from said Subscriptions.
The above Commissioners are authorized to let the building a Stray pen and to give a Certificate of the sum they engage which shall be levied in the County Levy for the benefit of the undertaker.
Henry Brasher, John Hall & James Miller Jnr (?) are recommended as proper persons to be Commissioned as Justices of the peace of this County, and it is ordered to be Certified that Magistrates are much wanting in the neighbourhoods where those Gentlemen reside and that Robert Benham Esqr. is about to leave the County.
Ordered that Court be adjourned till Court in Course. Signed R. Benham