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An Act to amend the 42d chapter of the Revised Statutes. 1857 vol. I 28 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0765 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1858. other things now required by law to be done in such cases; and the said sale shall be subject to all and singu- lar the conditi)ns and restrictions now provided by law. § 4. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of April next. Approved February 6, 1858. CHAPTER 237. AN ACT to amend the 42d chapter of the Revised Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Rev. Stt. 367. § 1. That any free white person, who shall play with Penalty on any negro, or mulatto, any game of cards, or with dice, white person or at any other game whatever, whereby money, or other playing games vlesalb ot ie with negroes or thing of value shall be bet, won, or lost, shall be fined mulattoes. not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, and disqualified from holding any office; and whosoever shall Conviction di's- be convicted of playing cards with negroes or mulattoes qualifies person shall be disqualified to serve on juries for ten years after from serin on Juriens. such cohviction. § 2. That any free white person, who shall play at any Penalty for game of cards, or with dice, or at any other game what- gaming with ne- groesor slaves. ever, with any free negro or slave, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars. § 3. That any free negro, who shall play at any game Free negro of cards, or with dice, or at any other game whatev'er, a misdemeanor, with any white person, free negro, or slave, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars.* § 4. That whenever any person is indicted under the General athird section of this act, proof that such person is gene- tion tfficleotto rally considered and believed by the community in which prove freedom, he lives to be a free- man, and that he goes at large, and acts as such, will, unless rebutted by other competent testimony, be sufficient to authorize a conviction. § 5. That all laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved February 6, 1858. *By an act passed March 8, 1856, Session Acts 1855-6, page 75, a differ- ent penalty is fixed.

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