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An Act to preserve the evidence of claims for slave property. 1865 64 (1865.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0867 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1866. ing in all respects as if the original proceedings had been in every particular according to the requirements of the law. § 3. This act shall take effect from its passage, and continue in force three years thereafter. Approved February 17, 1866. CHAPTER 787. AN ACT amending the law providing for special judges to hold county courts Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky : § 1. That in all matters or controversies coming before the County judge pr'esiding judge of any county, sitting as a county court, wheni intcrested, spe- it is made to appear by the affidavit of any person directly or cial judgetobe selected. indirectly interested in the determination of such controversy, that the presiding judge is interested, or cannot, with justice to all concerned, properly preside, it shall be the duty of such judge to yield the bench to a special judge, to be selected in the mode prescribed by the first section of an act, entitled I Stanton, An act to provide for the holding of county and quarterly page 340. courts when the judge is absent, or cannot properly preside, approved March 9, 1854. § 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved February 17, 1866. CHAPTER 804. AN ACT to preserve the evidence of claims for slave property. WHEREAS, The people of Kentucky have by proclamations, Preamble. military orders, and the 13th amendment to the Federal Con- stitution, been deprived of their slave property without com- pensation ; wherefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky : § 1. That it shall be lawful for all possons having been so Proof of value deprived of' their slaves, to go before the county court judge of of slaves to be their county, and make proof by two disinterested credible wit- made in county court. nesses of the number of slaves taken, the time they were taken, and how taken; also the names, age, and value of the slaves, fixing the value on the first day of January, 1863, except such as have been born since, whose value shall be fixed at the Tobetransmit- time the owners were deprived of them ; which proof shall be ted to Govern- subscribed and sworn to by the witnesses, and certified by the or and filed. judge to the clerk of the county court, who shall file and safely keep the same in his office, and he shall make an abstract of all such files, giving the names of the owners and witnesses, and the names, ages, and value of each slave, and certify and transmit the same to the Governor, who shall cause the same to be filed and securely kept in the office of the Secretary of Aate.

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