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An Act for the benefit of those who have imported slaves contrary to the law of 1833. 1848 35 (1848)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0582 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. Said Commissioners shall, also, report a bill of the fees 1849. and wages of the Commissioners, marker, chainmen, and Com'rs to re. witnesses, which wages shall be as follows, to-wit: two port fees and dollars, per day, for each Commissioner; one dollar for charges. each chainman and marker, and fifty cents a day for each altowdtofPay witness. That said Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power to adjourn, from day to day, until said survey is completed. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners Com'rsto take shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, oath. take an oath before some Justice of the Peace of this Commonwealth, faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties imposed upon them by this act. SEC. 5. Be it firther enacted, That that part of the line, Lineheretofore as heretofore run between said counties, to the Big Willow shoal legalized. Shoal, on said Kentucky river, be, and the same is hereby legalized and established as the true line between said counties of Estill and Owsley. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the County Courts of County Courts Estill and Owsley counties shall, respectively, provide, at costs of survey. their next Court of Claims, after said survey, for the pay- ment of the cost of said survey out of their county levy, one half of said cost to be paid by each county. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the affidavits and Authorizes Crawford's and depositions of Orson Crawford and E. W. Bowman, now Bowman's dep. ositious to be us- on file in the archives of the State, in relation to said line, sed as evidence and the Big Bald Rock mentioned in this act, shall be con- before Con'rs. sidered and read as evidence before said Commissioiers, in relation to the establishment of said line, as though the same were given in person before said Commissioners, it appearing that said persons have departed this life since the giving of said depositions and affidavits. SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That if any witness shall, Penalty for knowingly and wilfully, swear or falsely depose to any ma- false swearing. terial fact before said Commissioners, in relation to the es- tablishment of said line, that he or they, so offending, shall be held and deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be liable to all the pains and penalties of the laws of the land against persons guilty of perjury, and shall be proceeded against in the same manner. Approved February 27, 1849. CHAPTER 571. AN ACT for the benefit of those who have imported slaves contrary to the law of 1833. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That any and every person or persons, who Persons who have imported have purchased or imported into this State, any slave or slavesreleased. slaves, contrary to the provisions of an act, approved Feb-

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