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An Act for the Relief of Emigrants. 1847 1 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0547 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. PASSED AT DECEMBER SESSION, 1847. WM. OWSLEY, GOVERNOR; ARCHIBALD DIXON, LIEUT. GOVERNOR AND SPEAKER OF THE SENATE; J. F. BUCKNER, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; WM. D. REED, SECRETARY OF STATE. GENERAL LAWS. CHAPTER 1. AN ACT for the Relief of Emigrants. 1848. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That if any emigrant to this State, since the passage of an act, entitled, an act to amend the law pro- hibiting the importation of slaves into this State, approved February 2, 1833, who may have failed to comply with the requisitions of said act, shall, within six months from the passage of this act, go before some Justice of the Peace, in the county where such emigrant may reside, and take the oath required by the first section of said act; and in addi- tion thereto, shall take the following oath or affirmation, to- wit: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I emigrated to Kentucky with the view of becoming a citizen thereof, in good faith, and that I was wholly ignorant of any law of the State of Kentucky requiring emigrants 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 case, the said emigrant shall not be deemed to have incurred the penalties of the said act of 1833. J. F. BUCKNER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ARCH'D PIXON, Lt. Governor and Speaker of the Senate. Approved January 1, 1848. WM. OWSLEY, By the Governor, WM. D. REED, &crctary of State.

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