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An Act to compel free persons of colour to work on roads and highways. 1825 23 (1825)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0156 and id is 1 raw text is: KENTUCKY. quiriug the county court or Washington county, to 1825. hold its terms on the second Monday in each monthp shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. each month SzC. 2. That the county court of said county, repealed. shall hold its terms on the fourth Monday in each To be held month. This act shall commence and be in force hereafter on from and after the first day of January, one thou- the 4th Mog. sand eight hundred and twenty-six. day. Approved, December 9, 1825. NasP 18.-An act to compel free persons of coloult to work on roads ond highwa eys. Sac. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of, the Commonyvealth of ICentueky, That the surveyors o'he 0ree and overseers of the public roads within this state, cause fre pez- shall have power and are hereby directed, to cause sons of colour free persons of colour to • be notified to work on to work on roads and highways, in their respective precincts public roads. or bounds, as they are ,tow authorized by law, in thecase of white persons. Sec. 2. That in case they, or any of them shall, And may pro, or may refuse to comply with the requisitions of ceed against this act, they may he proceeded against, and shall them for fail- be subiect to the same fiues and penalties that white r, to do so. p ersons are now by law. Sac.. . That nothing in this act shall be so con- Persons over strued, as to compel persons over fifty years of age, So years otage to labor on roads, nor to be compelled to serve as not compelled uverseers or surveyors of roads and high-ways. to work on roads. Provided also, That any master or mistress, over- seer, parent or guardian, having under their con- Proviso, trol, any number of persons subject to labor on roads, shall be liable and accountable for their de- linquency, of any or all they may have so under their command, according to the laws now in Pre. Approved, December. 1825. Caut. 19.-Am aet aothor ing the sale of c.ain ground in the town of Rusuellvits Be it enaete by the e , e •Co- Be ........e , ,e G hat it shall and may be monweat of w- i the town of Russellville, lawful for kty inwfu or-Tngiy, to sell and convey the public ,qit . L i~ng in that part of said town, called and , n by the name of Polly Latham's addition to

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