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An Act to protect sheep in Jessamine county. 1859 vol. I 431 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0799 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. to exercise the powers conferred upon them by said act; 1860. and whereas, the owners of lots in said grounds have peti- tioned for the repeal of said act, and the transfer of said grounds to the control and management of said city; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky : That the said act be, and it is hereby, repealed, and all the powers by said act conferred on the Henderson ceme- tery company, are hereby conferred on the mayor and council of the city of Henderson, and the said mayor and council are hereby invested with all the rights and authority in said act conferred on the trustees of the said cemetery company: Provided, That the said property shall be held for the same purposes as it was held by the said company, and that the rights of private persons heretofore acquired to lots in the said grounds shall in nowise be impaired. Approved February 15, 1860. CHAPTER 244. AN ACT to protect sheep in Jessamine county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That there be, and is hereby, levied a tax of one dollar per year on each and every dog of every description, over six months old, that may be in the county of Jessa- mine, on the 10th day of January, in each successive year hereafter, to be paid annually by the owner or owners of such dog or dogs: Provided, That every bona Jide house- keeper in said county shall be allowed to own and keep two dogs free of such tax. § 2. No slave or minor shall be allowed to own or keep a dog or dogs unless they be annually listed, and tax paid thereon as hereby required, by the owner of such slave, or the fattier, guardian, or representative of such minor, who are hereby required to list and pay said tax on such dog or dogs, under the same penalty and responsibility for a failure to do so,-as is now declared by law against bona fide tax-payers for failure or refusal to list and pay their county levies. § 3. For the purpose of executing this act, the assessor of said county shall in each year hereafter, at the time of assessing the taxable property of the county, ascertain,, list, and report, with his annual report of taxable property, every dog or dogs so held or owned by every citizen or resident of said county; and to enable him to do so, he is hereby vested with all the powers that he now has by law

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