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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0261 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 185
CHAP. 736:-AN ACT to subject to County Levy, all Slaves that 1835
may each year hereafter be hired or otherwite introduced into the
County ,of Greenup.
Whereas, it is represented to this General Assem- Recital.
bly, that there are annually hired and brought into
the county of Greenup, between three and four hun-
dred slaves, by the owners of iron works, and who by
the special road law of Greenup, are not compelled
to work the roads and highways of said county, al-
though said iron masters have more teams running in
said county than all the other citizens beside, nor are
the slaves so hired and brought into the county of
Greenup, subject to a county levy, although the pres-
ence of so many hired slaves greatly increases the
necessity of patrollers: for remedy whereof,
SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Allslavesre-
siding in the
the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That hereafter all cu. ofGreenup,
slaves that shall reside in the county of Greenup, on on 10th Jan.
the tenth day of January in each year, or that may in each yoar,
be hired by any person before that day in said year, to be subject to
shall be charged with the county levy in said county,
and those who may hereafter hire such slave or slaves,
shall pay the county levy for the same, in the county
of Greenup; and that the commissioners of the reve- Commissioner
nue, in taking in their lists, shall administer an oath of tax may ad-
inquiring at what time the slave or slaves brought minister oath
to the hirers of
from other counties, were hired, and if they have been slaves therein.
so hired by the person who may have them in his, her
or their employ, before the tenth of January in each
year, to charge them against such person or persons,
as subject to the county levy, agreeably to the intent
and meaning of this act.
SEc. 2. Be it fitrther enacted, That all such slaves The owners of
such slaves ex-
shall be exempt from county levy where their owners eupt from the
reside. county levy.
[Approved February 20, 1835.]
CHAP. 737.-AN ACT for the benefit of the Heirs of James Monks,
deceased.
Whereas, it is represented to the General Assembly
of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that James
Monks, late of Hancock county, hath departed this
life intestate, indebted in a larger amount than the
value of his whole personal and mixed estate: there-
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