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Slaves, Runaways, Free Negroes, and Emancipation. 1850 vol. I 291 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0660 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. have been rendered, the amount agreed upon shall be paid 1851. to the agents or additional counsel out of the public treasury, upon the warrant of the auditor. When the money is col- lected, if the fee is conditional, it shall be paid out of the same. Neither the attorney general, nor any attorney of the commonwealth, nor counsel employed by the auditor, shall receive the money due and owing to the common- wealth from any public debtor, sheriff, or other officer. § 15. Upon a judgment, in the name or for the use of the commonwealth, a capias pro fine, or any other final process, may issue, from time to time, until the judgment be satisfied. § 16. Upon the return of no property found on an exe- cution, or on a capias that the person is not taken, or, if taken, that the debt is not paid, a proceeding in chancery, in the name of the commonwealth, may be instituted, and the ehoses in action, or other equitable estate of the de- fendant, collected and subjected to the payment of the amount of the judgment, and costs of suit. CHAPTER XV. SLAVES, RUNAWAYS, FREE NEGROES, AND EMANCIPATION. ARTICLE I. Who shall be deemed slaves. §1. No persons shall be slaves in this state, except such as are now slaves by the laws of this commonwealth, or some other state or territo4 of the United States, or such free negroes as may hereafter be sold into slavery under the laws of this state, and the future descendants of such female slaves. § 2. Every person who has one-fourth, or other larger part of negro blood, shall be deemed a mulatto, and the word negro, when used in any statute, shall be construed to mean mulatto as well as negro. § 3. Slaves, after this chapter takes effect, shall be deem- Beldtobeper. ed and held to be personal estate. They shall be distribu- Sonal estate. ted in kind, without sale, when practicable. § 4. Slaves shall not be sold by the personal representa- Whentheymay tive, unless, for the want of other assets, it be necessary be sold. to pay the debts of the decedent. Nor shall slaves, specifi- cally devised, be sold by the personal representative or a creditor, but by a decree of court, which may be obtained in a summary way, on petition, after ten days' notice, in writing, to the devisee. Suits may be maintained by the personal representative, for the recovery of slaves, or in- juries to slaves devised. § 5. Slaves may be taken and sold for debt, when there is not a sufficiency of other personal estate within the juris- diction of the officer.

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