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An Act to amend the vagrant laws. 1865 66 (1865.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0868 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. 1866. dictment in the circuit court of the county in which such of- fense shall be committed, and shall be, on conviction, fined not Penalty, less than one hundred or more than three hundred dollars, and imprisoned not less than one month, or more than six months, in the jail of the county. § 7. That the attorney for the Commonwealth of the dis- Commonw'ths trict shall be entitled to thirty per cent. of any fine so impos- attorney's fee. ed, and it shall be the duty of' the judges of this Common- wealth to give this act in charge to the grand juries. § 8. That the same mode for collecting of claims arising i Stanton, from the different sections of this act, shall be as that of chap- page 474 ter 108. sections 3, 4, and 5, Revised Statutes. § 9. This act to take effect from its passage, and be in force two years only. Approved February 17, 166. CHAPTER 818. AN ACT to amend the vagrant laws. Be it enacted by the General Assemb.' of the Commonwealth of Kentucky : § 1. That if any able-bodied person be found loitering or L'Who are rambling about, not having the means to maintain himself by vagrants, some visible property, or who does not betake himself to labor or some honest calling to obtain a livelihood, or who, not pos- sessing such means, has quit his habitation, leaving a wife or child without suitable means of subsistence, or who is idle or dissolute in habits without visible means of support, he shall Vagrancya be taken and adjudged to be a vagrant and guilty of a high misdemeanor. misdemeanor. § 2. That all such persons may be apprehended by the war- Vagrants to rant of a quarterly court judge, city judge, police judge, or be arreted, justice of the peace, issued upon his own knowledge, or upon information upon oath, and directed to any sheriff, marshal, constable, or other officer authorized by law to execute process, who shall return the same forthwith, together with the pris- oner, to a judge of the quarterly court, city or police court, Tried. and summon such witnesses as either party may require. The judge to whom the return shall be made shall cause a jury to be empanneled to try the question of guilt or innocence of the Bound tolabor prisoner; and if found guilty, to fix by their verdict the time for one year. he shall be held or bound to lahbor, not exceeding twelve ., months, if the convict be over twenty-one years of age. If a minor, under twenty-one years of age, the jury shall return in their verdict his age. § 3. That the convicts over twenty-one years of age shall, 2blaed in by order of the court, be sent to houses of correction in coun- t,.errae- ties and cities having such houses, there to be held to labor; 'U ,, .,and in counties and cities having no such. house, the county a8i1a court shall appoint a superintendent, requiring him to give 4,bv, ol . bond and security for the faithful discharge of his duties, who -e4 40 e to slball, upon the order of the court in which the conviction is

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