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An Act for the protection of the bridges in the towns of Cloverport and Stephensport, in Breckinridge county. 1843 156 (1843)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0424 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1844 CHAPTER 170. AN ACT adding certain lots to the town of Cadiz. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common. wealth of Kentucky, That fractional lots number one and num- ber twenty two, in Poston's addition, and one half of the street bordering on said fractional lots, which was stricken from the town of Cadiz, in the county of Trigg, by a special act of the Legislature, be, and the same are hereby added to said town. Approved, February 13, 1844. CHAPTER 172. AN ACT establishing a Warehouse and Tobacco Inspection in the City of Covington, and at M'Afee's landing, in Mercer county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That there is hereby established a public Ware- house and Tobacco Inspection in the City of Covington, and also, at M'Afee's landing, in Mercer county, subject to the laws now in force regulating Warehouses and Tobacco In- spections. Approved, February 13, 1844. CHAPTER 173. AN ACT for the protection of the bridges in the towns of Cloverport and Stephensport, in Breckinridge county. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com. Noone to tra- monwealth of Kentucky, That the Trustees of the towns of aVet wfasteron thanid Cloverport and Stephensport, in the county of Breckinridge, bridges, shall cause to be painted and placed up at the fronts or en. trance, upon each of the bridges in said towns, a sign, with plain inscription, directing that all persons shall travel slow on said bridges; and if any person shall, after such signs are so placed up at said bridges, travel on the same at a greater Penalty, or different rate than a walk, with any horse or carriage of any kind, such person shall be liable to a penaltyof not less than one nor more than five dollars, to be recovered in the name of the Trustees of the town in which such bridge is situated, by war- rant before any Justice of the Peace of said county, and which fine shall be applied to keeping such bridge in repair. SEC. 2. That if any person who shall violate this act shall bea slave, or a white person apprenticed in the employment Masterofslave of another, who is unable to pay the penalty imposed by this &c. liable to pay the penal- act, the said penalty may be recovered of the owner of such ty. slave, or the master of such white person apprenticed, in the manner directed in the first section. SEC. 3. That if any person shall, hereafter, stop a wagon or Wagons, &c. other carriage on either of said bridges, for a greater time not to stop on the bridges, than twenty minutes, unless detained by some accident, it

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