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An Act to amend section 5, article 7, chapter 93, of the Revised Statutes. 1861-1863 247 (1862.8)

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CHAPTER 616.                          *1862.
AN ACT to amend section 4, article 3, chapter 17, of the Revised
Statutes, requiring county court clerks to put their official seal, &c., to
soldiers' claims free of charge.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky :
§ 1. That it shall be the duty of the county court clerks
of this State to certify and affix their official seal, free of
charge, to the declarations, and all necessary papers, of
soldiers, widows, heirs, and administrators, in making ap-
plications for bounty money, arrears of pay, extra pay,
and pensions, or half-pay, under the act of Congress, ap-
proved July 22d, 1861, and any subsequent acts upon that
subject.
§ 2. That this act shall be in force from its passage.
Approved August 22, 1862.
CHAPTER 617.
AN ACT to amend section 5, article 7, chapter 93, of the Revised
Statutes.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky:
§ 1. If any free negro or slave shall be guilty of the
crime of unlawfully and feloniously breaking open or forci-
bly entering a store house or any other building not con-
nected with a dwelling house; or shall willfully and un-
lawfully burn a stack or rick or shock of hay, wheat, rye,
oats, barley, straw or hemp, or any other grass, grain or
commodity, he shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer and be
subject to all the pains and penalties inflicted by the fifth
section, of the seventh article, of chapter ninety-three, of
the Revised Statutes, title,  slaves, runaways, free negroes,
and emancipation.
§ 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its pas-
sage.
Approved August 22, 1862.
CHAPTER 618.
AN ACT appropriating money to a State secret service fund.
The effective administration of the government of the
State, in both its civil and military dephrtments, in the
present disturbed condition of the country, necessarily de-
mands the expenditure of money to meet the various press-
ing exigencies which may arise, and for which it is impos-
sible the Legislature can specifically provide, or from the

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