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An Act further to protect the rights of married women. 1845 42 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0455 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1846. CHAPTER 354.- AN ACT to limit the elections in Calloway and 'Marshall counties to one day. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That, from and after the passage of this act, no election to be holden in the counties of Calloway and Mar- shall shall be continued more than one day, except at the re- quest of one of the candidates, agreeable to the provisions of the constitution: and the Sheriffs and other officers, presiding at said elections, shall open the polls at nine o'clock in the morning, and keep them open until seven o'clock in the even- ing. Approved February 23, 1846. CHAPTER 357. AN-ACT for the benefit of the several County Courts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That further time, until the first day of April, eighteen hundred and forty seven, be allowed the several County Courts to procure weights and measures, as required by law. Approved February 23, 1846. CHAPTER 368, AN ACT further to protect the rights of married women. Be it enacted by the General A.ssembly of the Commonwealth Slaves or mar- of Kentucky, That the slave or slaves of a married woman ried women shall, hereafter, within this Commonwealth, be held and taken not liable for the husband's to be real estate, in so far that no slave or slaves, or the in- debts of any crease thereof, which any such married woman may have at kind; nor shall the time of her marriage, or whikA may come, descend, or be his life estate in them, the devised or given to her during her coverture,shall be liable to wife living, be the debts of her husband, or be attached, levied on, or sold, levied on, for his debts or liabilities of any sort or kind, whether such debts or liabilities accrued before or after marriage ; nor shall the life estate of the husband, his wife living, be levied on, ex- ecuted, or sold, for any such debts or liabilities: Provided, Proviso. however, That the slave or slaves of any married woman, owned at the time of her marriage, or which may be acquired by her in any of the modes aforesaid, shall, in no case, be ex- empt from the payment of her debts and liabilities, created or arising before marriage, but that such slave or slaves shall, notwithstanding, remain liable to such debts or liabilities, by the appropriate remedy at law, or in chancery: And, provi- Further provi- ded,further, That the slave or slaves owned by any married so. woman prior to the marriage, or acquired by her in any of the modes aforesaid, after the marriage,'shall be liable for all

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