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An Act to prohibit slaves going as passengers on mail Stages, and other coaches. 1837 155 (1837)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0311 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. tracted with, plead and be impleaded, in all courts; and to 1s3. make all proper by-laws for the good government of the cor- poration. and the management of its prudential concerns; and Powers of to regulate the time of electing offiows, and the direction of corportion. affairs; and the mode and manner of:fransferring stock, and of -making contracts of insurance; and all other matters and things relative to the business and interests of the corporation; also, to have and use a common seal. SEc. 2. That the management of the business and pruden- First Presi- tial concerns of this corporation shall be confided to a Presi- dent & Direc- dent and six Directors, and Samuel McClarty shall be the first tors. President, and Rowland Hughes, Joseph Allen, Richard M. Wathen, John McClarty, John A. Brown, and James Cox, shall be the first Directors; and said President and Directors shall keep a record of their proceedings, and proceed, as com- missioners, to open books at such time and place as a majority of them shall determine, for the subscription of the stock; and as soon as the whole sum of one hundred thousand dollars When to go shall be subscribed, and ten dollars a share paid, a meeting of into operation. the stockholders shall be called by the President and Directors, in the town of Hardinsburg, ten days notice given, when the by-laws of the corporation shall be passed and the corporation gointo full and active operation. S-c. 3. That the Hardinsburg Fire and Marine Insurance To have all Company shall have all the power and authority, and be sub- the powers of the Louisville jected to all the penalties and restrictions, and entitled to all Marine Insur. the benefits and advantages that the Louisville Marine and ance Comply. Fire Insurance Company are invested with by their charter, and the amendments thereto, to the same extent as though included verbatim in this charter. Approved February 8, 1838. CHAP. 748--AN ACT to prohibit slaves going as passengers on mail Stages, and other coaches. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be unlawful for the owner and pro- prietors of any mail stage, or other coach, or railroad cars, to suffer or permit any slave or slaves to goas passengers therein, without a written request of their owners, or in the com- pany of their owners, under the penalty of one hundred dol- lars for each slave taken contrary hereto; and, also, being liable to the owners for the full value of all slaves which may thereby escape from their owners, with such additional costs and damages as the owners may incur in attempting to re- cover such slaves. Approved February 8, 1838. 156

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