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An Act for the benefit of Burnly D. Smith, of Todd county. 1847 443 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0579 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 554. 1848. AN ACT for the benefit of Thomas Gardner, of Bourbon county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the Bourbon County Court may annu- ally, at any one of its regular terms, set apart any sum, not exceeding fifty dollars, to be placed in the hands of a committee, for the annual support and maintenance of Thomas Gardner, the same to be paid out of the cojnty levy. Approved March 1, 1848. CHAPTER 555. AN ACT for the benefit of Burnly D. Smith, of Todd county. Be it enacted'by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Burnly D. Smith, of Todd county, be and he is hereby authorized to import into this State, without incurring any penalty for the same, a negro woman nam- ed Juidia, aged about forty years, for his own use: Provi- ded, he shall, within thirty days after such importation, file his affidavit in the Todd County Court Clerk's Office, that hc did not import such slave for sale or merchandise. Approved March 1, 1848. CHAPTER 557. AN ACT supplemental to an act to extend the jurisdiction of the Po- lice Judge of the town of Hopkinsville, approved February 18, 1848. SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- wealth of Kentucky, That the powers and jurisdiction of the Such powers Police Judge of Ilopkinsville shall be the same, within said allowed es Po. lice Judge of town and county of Christian, as the powers and jurisdic- Shelbyville. tion conferred on the Police Judge of Shelbyville for said town and county of Shelby, by the provisions of an act, en- titled, an act to incorporate the town of Shelbyville, and for other purposes, approved February 21, 1846: Provided, that Proviso. no process, in any cause in common law or in chancery, which may be issued from the office, or by authority of said Judge, and executed on any defendant or defendants resid- ing beyond the limits of Hopkinsville, shall authorize said cause to be tried by said Police Judge, if the defendant or defendants object thereto: Provided, further, that when such Provided fur- objection be made by any defendant or defendants, then the ther. warrant or process in such cause or causes shall be return- ed, by the officer executing the same, before a Justice of the Peace for the district in which such defendant or defendants reside; and such Justice of the Peace shall have power and authority to try and decide said cause or causes, and to carry into effect his decision and judgment, in the same 443

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