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An Act for the benefit of the negroes and mulattoes in this Commonwealth. 1865 51 (1865.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0863 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER 636. 1866. AN ACT for the benefit of the negroes and mulattoes in this Commonwealth. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That all the taxes hereafter collected from negroes and How taxes on negroes appro- mulattoes in this Commonwealth, shall be set apart and con- prited. stitute a separate fund for their use and benefit, one half, if necessary, to go to the support of their paupers, and the re- mainder to the education of their children. § 2. In addition to the tax already levied by the laws of this Poll tax on Commonwealth, a tax of two dollars shall be levied on every negroes of $2. male negro and mulatto over the age of eighteen years, to be assessed and collected as other taxes, and, when paid into the Treasury, shall go into the fund aforesaid. § 3. The commissioner of taxes in each county shall keep a Hlow their separate book, or a separate column in his book, for the enlist- property listed. ment of the taxable property of negroes and mulattoes, and in which the names of all the male negroes and mulattoes over the age of eighteen shall be recorded. § 4. The trustees of each school district in this Common- Sehools may be kept for wealth may cause a separate school to be taught in their dis- them. trict for the education of the negro and mulatto children in said district, to be conducted and reported as other schools are, upon which they shall receive their proportion of the fund set apart in this act for that purpose. § 5. The county court of each county may certify to the Negro pan- Auditor of Public Accounts the number of negro and mulatto pers-how sup- paupers kept in each county, and upon such certificate draw their proportion of the fund set apart in this act for that pur- pose. Said reports shall be made by said courts at their an- nual court of claims. 6. Chapter 88 of the Revised Statutes, and amendments 2 Stanton, p. thereto, shall regulate the mode and manner of distributing 318. the school fund realized under this act; but no part of said fund shall ever be drawn or appropriated otherwise than pur- suant to this act in aid of common schools for negroes and mulattoes. § 7. The Auditor shall apportion each year the revenue Revenuefrom negro popula- from the fund realized under this act for the benefit of said tion-how ap- paupers among the several counties of the State according to portioned. the number of said paupers in each county, as shown by the reports of the several county courts. § 8. Nothing in this act shall be construed as interfering with the rights of the county courts in levying county taxes. § 9. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved February 16, 1866.

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