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An Act to amend an act, entitled, an act to amend an act, entitled, an act to reduce into one the several acts respecting slaves, free negroes, mulattos and Indians. 1842 19 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0390 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 19 CHAPTER 91. 1843 AN ACT to amend an act. entitled, an act to amend an act, entitled, an act to reduce into one the several acts respecting slaves, free negroes, mulattos and Indians, approved, January 25, 1842. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the provisions of an act, entitled, an act, entitled, an act to amend an act, to reduce into one the several acts respecting slaves, free negroes, mulattos and Indians, approved, January 25th, 1842, shall not be so construed as to embrace any case where a slave or slaves were emancipated by last will and testament, or other instrument in writing, prior to the passage of said act. Approved, February 7, 1843. CHAPTER 94. AN ACT concerning the Simpson Circuit Court. Be it enacted by the General Issembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That at the November terms of the Simpson Circuit Court, hereafter, said court shall continue in session twelve juridical days, if the business of the court shall re- quire it. Approved, February 7, 1843. CHAPTER 103. AN ACT more effectually to protect the rightsof married women, abandoned by their husbands. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That from and after the passage of this act, any married woman, whose husband has abandoned her, or who shall hereafter abandon her and live separate and apart from her, shall have, hold and enjoy, for her own use any property, real, personal or mixed, which she may acquire by gift, will, descent or devise, or which she may acquire by her own labor or otherwise; and the same shall not be liable to the debts of the husband, nor be subject to his control or disposition, in any manner whatever; and the wife, so abandoned, shall be authorized to prosecute or defend any suit or suits, in her own name, that may be necessary to secure the rights and previle- ges hereby intended to be secured to her, as though she were a single woman. Approved, February 7, 1843.

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