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Boats and Navigation. 1850 vol. I 351 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0666 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. of this section, shall, for every such offense, be fined from 1851. fifty to five hundred dollars. All contracts made in violation of this section shall be void, and all money paid by way of interest, discount, or for difference of exchange, in violation thereof, may be re- covered back by the party paying, or his creditor. § 8. Nothing in the last section shall preclude any cor- poration from receiving notes, bonds, or bills, in payment of pre-existing liabilities, or as collateral security for any debt, or preclude any corporation, chartered by this state, from purchasing exchange for remittance in the regular course of its proper business, or from selling it when so received. CHAPTER XXXI. BOATS AND NAVIGATIONT. § 1. Except the captain, all the officers and hands, and xv,omayhave owners of hands employed on board a steamboat, or any alien on boats. ship, brig, schooner, or sloop, shall have a lien on the boat. or vessel, her engine, tackle, furnishing, and apparel, for their wages, whether contracted for or earned in or out of the state, with a preference or priority therefor over any other debt due from the owner of the boat or vessel, and over all other liens thereon. Mechanics, tradesmen, and others shall also have a like lien for work, supplies, materials, stores and provisions, done or furnished on or towards the building, repairing, fit- ting, furnishing, or equipping the boat or vessel in this state, with a preference or priority therefor over any other debt of the owner, except to the officers and hands, and over all other liens thereafter created. When so done or furnished out of the state, there shall be a like lien there- for, which shall have precedence next after that given when done or furnished in this state ; but if done or furnished out of the state subsequent to that done or furnished in this state, the liens shall be joint and equal. § 2. A steamboat, or other vessel in the last section named, and owner, shall also be liable to indemnify the party injured, for any damage unlawfully done by her to any other boat, vessel, or river craft, or to any other prop- erty, through the willful or negligent conduct of her officers or crew, and for any other damage willfully or negligently committed by her officers or crew, whilst acting for her as such. § 3. A steamboat, or any other boat or vessel, shall also A boat liable be liable to indemnify the owner of any slave, for any for conveying a slave out of the damage he may sustain by reason of the conveying or at- state. tempting to convey the slave thereon out of the state, or from one part of the state to another, without the consent,

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