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An Act to amend the 5th section of article 7, chapter 93, Revised Statutes. 1855 vol. I 73 (1855)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0739 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 423. 1856. AN ACX to amend the 5th section of article 7, chapter 93, Revised Statutes. Bo it enacted bly the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That free negroes or slaves who may be guilty of the lic. stat. s39 crime of burglary, shall be subject to all the pains and a) punishments inflicted by the fifth section of article 7, chapter 93, title, slaves, runaways, free negroes, and emancipation. Approved March 8, 1856. CIHAPTER 425. AN ACT to provide for any deficlency In Treasury that may occur during the year 1856. WHEREAS, It is probable that before the revenue of 1856 is collected and paid into the Treasury, there will not be a sufficiency of funds in the revenue department to pay all the appropriations made by the present Legis- lature. For remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth qf Kentucky: That it may be lawful for the Commissioners of the Saking fund Sinking Fund to loan the revenue department such sums y the State as may he needed at six per cent. per annum; and should the funds of the Sinking Fund be invested, then it may be lawfihi for the Auditor to allow to Sheriffs at the rate of six per cent. per annuin for any money they may ad- vance upon the revenue, the interest to be allowed from the time it is advanced until the regular time of pay- ment. Approved March 8, 1856, CHAPTER 427. AN ACT t, ,stablish a uniform weight of coal. Be it enacted by th General Assenl.ibly of the Commonwealth of Kentuckp: § 1. That hereafter the legal standard weight of bitu- Weight of OOal uinous stone coal shall be eighty pounds per bushel, and of cannel coal seventy pounds per bushel; and that in all sales and purchases of coal, the quantity shall be es- timated at the above rate. (a) The section above referred to is us follows: § 5. If a free negro or slave be guilty of arson, robbery, or of voluntary manslaughter, or of homicide, perpetrated in the commi'ssion, or the at- tempt to commit, any felon), upon conviction thereof, he shall suffer death ; or, if the offender be a slave, he inay be punished by a number of stripes not exceeding two hundred, to be inflicted at different times, not more than fifty at a time ; and if he be a free negro, he may be confined in tile peniten- tiary for a period not less than two nor more than ten years.,

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