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An Act supplemental to an act, entitled, an act to amend the law prohibiting the importation of slaves into this State. 1840 70 (1840.8)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0359 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 399. 1841 AN ACT to amend the charter of the Lexington, Harrodsburg, and Perryville - - Turnpike Company. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com- monwealth of Kentucky, That it shall and may be lawful for the President, Directors, and Company, of the Lexington, Harrodsburg, and Perryville Turnpike road company, when- ever they have four miles of continuous road completed, and unconnected with any portion of the road upon which a gate is now erected, to erect a gate upon the same, and charge a toll, pro rata, to be scaled by the rates of toll allowed in the charter incorporating the said company. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the County Court of Jessamine county, to grant to the said Turnpike road company the power of establishing a ferry over the Kentucky river, where the said road crosses the same, until the Bridge Company incorporated to erect a Bridge over the said river, at the same point, shall have com- pleted the same, according to the provisions of the charter incorporating the same. Approved, February 18, 1841. CHAPTER 400. AN ACT supplemental to an act, entitled, an act to amend t he law prohibiting the importation of slaves into this State. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com- Further time monwealth of Kentucky, That if any emigrant to this State, allowed totake since the passage of an act, entitled, an act to amend the law oaatb. prohibiting the importation of slaves into this State, who may have failed to comply with the requisitions of said act, shall, within six months from the passage of this act, appear before some Justice of the Peace in the county where said emigrant may reside, and take the oath required by the first section of said act, and, in addition thereto, shall take the following oath or affirmation, to-wit: I, - , do solemnly swear (or af- firm,) that I emigrated to Kentucky with the view of becom- ing a citizen thereof, in good faith, and that I was wholly ig- norant of any law of the State of Kentucky requiring emi- grants to take an oath respecting the slaves brought with them into this State ; and the omission, on my part, to take the oath required by that act, and within the time prescribed, was wholly the result of being ignorant of its existence : So help me God. And shall, moreover, within thirty days thereafter, cause said oaths or affirmations to be recorded in the County Court Clerk's office ; then, and in that event, the said emigrant shall not be deemed to have incurred the penalties of said act of 1833.

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