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An Act concerning free negroes, mulattoes, and emancipation. 1859 vol. I 128 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0794 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1860. obedience to the orders of said court: Provided, That said tax shall not exceed fifteen cents on each one hundred dol- lars' worth of taxable property, in any one year. § 3. Any person injured by a breach of said bond may maintain an action therefor in the proper court having jurisdiction thereof. § 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 3, 1860. CHAPTER 1304. AN ACT concerning free negroes, mulattoes, and emancipation. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter no slave shall be deemed to be eman- be slave can cipated by the laws of this State, until the person emanci- until bond is pating such slave, or some person for him, as principal, given to remove such slave be- with good and sufficient resident security, before the county yon,1 the limits court of the county of his residence, shall give a covenant of the State. to the Commonwealth, covenanting that such person shall remove such slave (naming him or her, and giving the age, color, height, and weight) beyond the limits of this State within ninety days after the approval of such covenant by said county court; nor until such slave shall subscribe a Nor until ,slave subscribe written statement, to be indorsed on such covenant, that he a writtenstate- or she does then forever abandon his or her residence in, ment that b does forever and will, within the time named, remove from this State, abandon his or horregidencein which subscription shall be attested by the clerk of such this State. court; upon the breach of such covenant, it shall be the Proceedings duty of the attorney for the Commonwealth of the dis- on breach of trict, and the attorney for'such county, or either of them, to covenant. institute suit upon the same for the recovery of such dam- Proviso. ages as may be found to be due : Provided, That the amount of damages shall not be less than the value of such slave at the time of his or her emancipation, which damages Compensa- shall be paid into the county treasury, after deducting ion torAptor- therefrom twenty per cent. as a compensation for the attor- neys for prose- cuting. hey or attorneys by whom the suit is prosecuted, and also Compensa ten dollars to be paid to the person or persons who may to informer. n paid p n have given information of the breach of the covenant. § 2. That hereafter, should any free negro or mulatto :Free negro or noti mulatto corn- come into this State with the intention of remaining there- lg into the in. he or she shall be deemed guilty of felony, and, upon felony. conviction thereof, shall be confined in the penitentiary for a period of not less than six years. § 3. That hereafter any free negro or mulatto, not a res- ident of Kentucky, who shall come to this State for any purpose or upon any pretense whatever, unless in obedi-

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