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An Act for the benefit of the owners of slaves. 1853 vol. I 163 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0711 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1683 thereof shall be considered as having entered on the duties 1854. of their offices, until the asylum shall be opened for the reception of patients. 39. To A. C. Conery, per bill rendered, five dollars and A. C. Conery. fifty cents. 40. To the two servants who have waited on the senate Servants. and house of representatives during the present session, ten dollars each, to be received by the doorkeeper of the senate and paid to them. Approved MIarch 9, 1854. CHAPTER 871. AN ACT for the benefit of the owners of slaves. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth Penalty on owners of ferry of Kentucky, That the owners of ferry-boats, skiffs, and all boats, skiffs,&c, descriptions of water crafts lying upon the Kentucky shore Ohio river of the Ohio river, between the Virginia line on said river, keep craft fas- Stenea with chain to the Tennessee line, including the entire line of this and lock. Sec. state running with the Ohio river, be and they are hereby 5it Feris,. required to keep such boats, skiffs, and water crafts fas- Rev, Stat. 361. tened with a substaintial chain and lock to some perma- nent fastening on the Kentucky shore of the Ohio river, in the absence of the owner or agent; and for a failure on the part of said owners to comply with this provision, for the space of two hours, at Any one time, they shall forfeit and pay to the commonwealth of Kentucky ten dollars for each and every such offense--the one-half of said fine to the informer, the residue to the commonwealth; and it is made the duty of' sheriffs, constables, and all patrols, to see that this law is fathfully executed; said fines to be assessed by any court of competent jurisdiction. This act to take ef- fect from the first of July, 1854. Approved March 9, 1854. CHAPTER 878. AN ACT to protect graves and grave-yards. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common- Penalty for des- wealth of Kentucky, That if any person shall violate the ecrating graves. grave of a white person by willfully destroying, removing, or injuring the head or foot stones of, the tomb over, or the inclosure protecting such grave, or by digging into or plowing over the same, he shall be fined at the discretion of a jury not exceeding one hundred dollars. § 2. That the relations of a person buried in a family deceased may or ancient private grave-yard, situate within the land of a havein ressand egress to grave. person who is not a relative of the deceased, shall have yards to make the right of such ingress or egress to and from such grave- reaiia of rave.

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