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Resolution in regard to General Fisk. 1865 81 (1865.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0870 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. 81 No. 10. 1866. PE.OLUTION extending the session of the General Assembly. Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the present session of the General Assembly be ex- tended beyond sixty days. Approved January 26, 1866. No. 11. RESOLUTION postponing the election of Keeper of the Penitentiary. Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth f Kentucky : That the election for Keeper of the Kentucky Penitentiary be postponed until Friday, the 2d day of February, at 12 o'clock. Approved January 27, 1866. No. 12. RESOLUTION in regard to General Fisk. WHEREAS, It is represented in the public journals that Ma- jor General Clinton B. Fisk, the head of the Freed men's Bureau in Kentucky, did, on the 18thi instant, deliver an address in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he made, amongst oth- ers, these statements: Only the day befbre yesterday, in Lexington, thirteen discharged colored soldiers stood in the streets, in full sight of Henr'y Clay's monument, with their bodies lacerated, their backs bleeding from the cruet lash, their heads cut to the scalp, and one or two of them with their eyes put out! and what for, do you suppose? Simply for going to their former masters and asking for their wives and children ! I appealed to the civil authorities in their behalf, but was told that there was no law in Kentucky to help them. I heard there of a slave to be sold on a certain day. I made an arrangement with the master commissioner to buy him myself, as the last slave to be sold in Kentucky; and whereas, it is believed that those statements have no fbundation in fact, and are calculated to place the people of Kentucky in a false light before the country; therefore, Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That a committee of two from the House and one from the Senate be appointed, whose duty it shall be to proceed imme- diately to the city of' Lexington, and ascertain the truth or falsity of the statements alleged to have been made by said Fisk; and that said committee notify General Fisk by mail of their appointment, in order that lie may appear before the committee if he so desire, and communicate to them the name- of the person by whom the truth of' the statement made by him can be established, and the name of the civil officen by whom the opinion mentioned by him was given, and report to this General Assembly. Approved Januaj. 30, 1866. PUB. L.-6

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