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An Act to amend the Penal Laws of this Commonwealth. 1814 437 (1814)

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This act shall commence and be ia force, from and
after the first day of May next.
CHAP. CCLXIX.
.1JV' ACT to amend the Prenal Laws of this Cont-
mo1tvealth.
ArrRovnn, February 8, t815.
SEa. 1. Be it enacted by the General Alssembly of
the Commonwealth of Aentucky$ That any person, rw hllt.
and his, her or their aiders or abettors, who shall t.
be convicted of wilfully and maliciously stopping
the passage of salt water conducted through pipes
from any well to any eistern or furnace where salt
is making within this con monwealth, shall undergo
a confinement in the jail and penitentiary house, fWi
a period of not more than three years) nor less thant
one year.
Sac. 2.. Be it furher enacted, That any person,
hWs, her or their aiders or abettors, convicted of wil-  I 1m0 f*
fully and maliciously destroying or filling up any iing up wt
well or pump of salt water in use, so as to stop thu
use and benefit of said well or pump, shall undergo
a confinement in the jail and penitentiary house, for
a period of not more tlan three years nor less than
one year.
Se. 3. Bcit further enacted, The any slave or fW6 orelm
person of Polor, convicted before any justice of the t
peace, of eitherof the offences stated in the two first
sections of this act, shall receive on his or her bare
back., thirty-nine lashes.
CHAP. CCLXX.
,V'V' A/CT supplemental to the act to regulate the Pen.
itcutiary,
ArrRovuD, February 8, I815.
WHEREAS the office of tile agent in the 'eni.
tentiary has been abolished, and no provision mada
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