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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0250 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY.
CitaP.480.-AN ACT to prevent the burnig of woods in certain 1,834.
counties.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Kenhtcky, That if any free person Penalty on a
free white per.
or persons shall hereafter intentionally set on fire any son for setting
part of the woods within the counties of Perry, Clay, fire, intetition-
Whitley, Bullitt, Floyd, Pike, Morgan or Knox, where- ally, to ,h _
by the leaves and shrubbery shall become burned, he tai. cee
or they so offending shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall forfeit and pay the sum of forty
dollars, to be recovered by presentment of the grand nwecovered
jury; and all fines and forfeitures recovered under the a plied.
provisions of this act, shall be applied to the lessen-
ing of the county levy, and be accounted for as other
lines are.
SEc. 2. B3 it further enacted, That iT a slave or
slaves shall offend against the provisions of this act, Penalty on a
he cr they shall be punished by any number of stripes slae for ta
iot exceeding thirty-nine, to he inflicted by the order
or judgment of an) justice of the peace, in the coun-
ty in which the offence shall have been committed.
[Approved February 22, 1834.]
CaIAP. 481.--AN ACT authorising the appointment of clerks in va-
cation,
Snc. 1. Be it enacted by the General .lssembly of thc
Commonwealth of Kentucky, That when any vacancy W ......
shall hereafter occur in the office of clrk of any of of clerk of any
the circuit courts of this Commonwealth, by death, circuit court be-
resignation or otherwise, duing the vacation of said conies vacant
C, ~ by death, the
court, it shall be the duty of the judge, who presides judge of the
in said court, within twenty dals after such vacancy courtathorised
may occur, to open court at the Court-house of the to hold a court
for the appoint-
county in which the vacancy may be, and then and oert ofa clerk
there, appoint a clerk pro ten, who shall hold his of- pro tern, to hold
ice until the end of the next succeeding termi of said the otire until
court, unless removed, as now provided ibr by law in the end of the
sueceedingterm
case of other circuit court clerks; and at the said first when, a peroia-
term, the court may, at its discretion, either confirm the Dent appoint-
ment is toW
said pro tern appointment, or appoint some other qual muade.t
iftied person to fill said office as now required by law.
SFc. 9. Be it firther enacted. That when any per- The clerk pro
son shall be appointed clerk pro tern, in pursuance of rein, toexecute
the provisions of the foregoing section, it shall be the an ocil bond
aand take an
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