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An Act supplemental to an act to amend an act concerning free negroes, mulattoes, and emancipation. 1861 4 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0806 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1861. CHAPTER ai. AN ACT supplemental to an act to amend am net concerning free negroes, nullattoe, and emancipation, pasied January 231, l6bl. Bc it enacted bl tMe Gcneral Asscinbly of the Commonwcalth of Kentuicky: That said act shall take effect from and after its pas- sage. Approved February 5, 1861. CHAPTER 38. AN ACT regulating the election of State officers in the county of Webster. Be it cnacted by the General Asscmnld of Mw Conanotmi,calf of Ken tuck,: § 1. That the voters of the county of Webster shall, in all general elections, vote at the several precincts as now Mannerof vot- established, in the following manner: At all elections for ing at ieneral eloction. Governor, and all State officero, the polls shall be compared tauner of rot- and certified according to law; and in voting for Senators ing at electionM for Senators % and county Representatives the vote shall be taken and Ittiictunt'vcs the polls compared as follows: In the first district, at Peters- burg, the vote shall )e cast with the county of Henderson, and the polls shall be compared at H~enderson, at the time prescribed by law; the Slaughtcrsville and Vanderburg precincts thn vote shall be cast with the county of Hopkins, and the vote compared at Madisonville, according to law; at Claysville the vote shall be cast -with the county of Union; and at the elections held in said county at the pre- cincts 6f Providence and Dixon, the clerks of said election shall keep two poll-books, and all voters that live where it was formerly the county of Hopkins their votes shall be recorded in one of said books, which shall be counted with the vote of the county of Hopkins; and the votes of those persons that formerly belonged to the county of Union shall be recorded in the other book, and the same shall be counted as part of the vote of Union; and the judges of the election shall transmit the vote thus cast to the county seats of Hopkins and Union within the time prescribed by law for the comparison of the polls, by such safe hand as shall be by them selected, having first calculated and cer- tified the same; and the persons carrying said poll-books to Madisonville and Morganfield shall receive the same compensation as sheriffs for like services, which shall be paid 1)y the old counties of Hopkins, Henderson,, and Union. 2. This act shall he in force from its passage. A pprov(d February 5, 1861

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