CHAP. CCXXXV. AN ACT For the more effectual preventing of crimes, conspiracies and insurrections of slaves, free negroes and mulattoes, and for their better government. APPROVED, JAN. 25, 1811. E it enacted by the General Assembly what deem SECT. 1. Be the Commonwealth of Kentucky, ed felony That if any negroes or other slaves shall, at any time hereafter, conspire to rebel or make insurrection, every such conspiring shall be adjudged and deemed felony, and the slave or slaves duly convicted thereof, shall suffer death. Death for SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That where any poison slave or slaves, shall hereafter be convicted of administering to any person or persons, any poison or medicine, with the evil intent that death may thereupon ensue, such slave or slaves shall suffer death. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That any slave or manslaughter slaves, free negro or mulatto, hereafter duly convicted of voluntary manslaughter, shall suffer death. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That any slave or alaves, hereafter duly convicted of an attempt to commit a rape, on the body of any white woman, such slave or slaves, so convicted, shall suffer death. Rapo Src. 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be law- Trustees of ful for any trustee of a town, to issue his warrant, towns issue to cause any slave, free negro or mulatto, misbeha- warrant ving within the limits of the town, to be apprehended and brought before him, or some other trustee of said town, who shall have power to punish such slave or slaves, free negro or mulatto, as is now vested by law in a justice of the peace. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That if any negro, Punishment or other slaves shall, at any time hereafter, consult with stripes or advise the murder of any person or persons what Repealing slause ever, every such consulting or advising, shall be pu nished by any number of stripes not exceeding one hundred, in the discretion of a jury, to be impanelled by order of any justice or justices of the peace, before whom such slave or slaves may be brought for trial. SEC. 7. All laws, sections and parts of laws, coming within the provisions or purview of this act, are hereby repealed: Provided however, that nothing in this section contained, shall be construed to prevent any justice of the peace from exercising the powers given to a trustee. CHAP. CCXXXVI. AN ACT For the relief of certain citizens of Bardstown, APPROVED, JAN. 25, 1811. WHEREAS, it is represented to the present general assembly, that a few of the citizens of Bardstown, labor under great inconvenience, by being compelled to go a considerable distance from town to muster, and have petitioned for relief: and whereas a law passed last session, prohibiting altera tions of lines of regiments under certain restrictions Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the governor be, and he is hereby requested, as soon as may be, to alter the lines between the second and twenty-seventh regiments, so as to place them in the same situation they were, before the alteration made in 1809, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. CHAP. CCXXXVII. AN ACT To erect Election precincts in the counties of Christian, Hardin, Casey, Greenup and Lewis. APPROVED, Jan. 25th, 1811. Christian Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That all that part of Christian county within the following bounds, to wit :--Beginning on the Tennessee state line, two miles west of colonel boundary Henry Clarke; thence a straight line to major John Roberts', leaving him out of said boundary; thence a straight line to include John Gray's, on a fork of Little river; thence a straight line to include Samuel Hodges, senr. thence a straight line to Isaac Stroud's, leaving him out of said bounds; thence a straight line to the mouth of Buck creek; thence down Pond river to the Muhlenburg line; thence with said line to the Logan county line; thence with said line to the Tennessee state line; thence with the said line to the beginning, shall be an election precinct; and the place of holding elections for the said precinct, shall be at the house of David Kishner. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all that part of Christian the county of Christian, lying in the following bounds -Beginning on the Tennessee state line, at Samuel Kelkott's; thence a straight line to Micajah Fort's; thence to William Harges', jun. thence to John Adams'; thence to Richard Brownfield's; thence to Joseph Harbourg's, on the Livingston road to Centreville; thence with said road, to the Caldwell county line; thence with said line to the Tennessee state line; thence with said line including the said Kelkotts, Harges, Adams, Brownfield and Harbourg, in the precinct, shall be an election precinct; and the place of holding elections for said precinct, shall be at the house of Ferdinand Wardlington. boundary Lewis Boundary Hardin boundary Casey boundary Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all that part of Lewis county within the following bounds, to witBeginning at the north fork of Licking, on the Fleming line; thence running with the highest ridge. of the mountains dividing Cabin creek from the Salt-lick waters, to the Ohio river, and including that side of said county, on the Cabin creek side of the mountains, shall be an election precinct; and the elections therein, shall be held at the house of Okey Hendrickson. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all that part of Hardin county included in the following bounds, to wit-Beginning at the mouth of Mill-creek; thence up the same, to the mouth of Gilmore's spring branch; thence a straight line, to the mouth of the Brushey fork of Otter creek; thence a straight line, to John M'Dowell's, leaving said M'Dowell in the precinct; thence a straight line, to the county line between Hardin and Breckenridge counties, so as to include John and Benjamin Stith in said precinct ; thence with the said line, to the Ohio; thence up the same, to the mouth of Salt river; thence up Salt river to the beginning, shall be an election precinct, and known by the name of the West Precinct; and the place of holding the election for said precinct, shall be at Benjamin Shacketts. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all that part of Casey county, included in the following bounds to wit: Beginning on the Casey and Washington line, where the same crosses the dividing ridge between the waters of the big South and North Rolling forks of Salt river; thence running with the said dividing ridge between the said waters of the big and little South Roll ng forks, to the dividing ridge between the waters of the Rolling and Hanging forks; thence running due east to the line between Casey and Lincoln counties; thence with the said line, to the line of Mercer county; thence with the same to the line of Washington county; thence with the same to the beginning, shall be an election precinct, to be known by the name of the Rolling-Fork precinct; and the election therein shall be held at the house of Robert Denton, within the said precinct. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all that part of Greenup. the county of Greenup, included in the following bounds, to wit: Beginning on the Fleming line which boundary runs up the ridge between Tygert's creek and Killikanick, about fifteen miles from the Ohio; thence a direct line to the mouth of the Buffaloe fork of Tygert's creek; thence to the Black ripple on little San. dy, near captain James How's farm; thence with the dividing ridge between the waters of Cave creek and Wilson's creek, to the road leading to the mouth of Big Sandy; thence a direct line to the mouth of Shadrack's creek, on Big Sandy; thence up the same and with the county line to the beginning-shall be an election precinct and the place of holding elections in said precinct, shall be at the house where Robert H. Grayson now lives. Duty of she and judges riffs, clerks Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That the principal, or sworn deputies of Christian, Hardin, Casey, Greenup, and Lewis counties, shall superintend the elections hereafter to be held in said precincts; and the county courts of said counties of Christian Hardin, Casey, Greenup and Lewis, shall appoint clerks and judges to attend elections in the said precincts, in like manner as the law directs in similar cases: and on failure of the courts aforesaid, to make such appointment, the sheriffs shall fill auch vacancies. The said judges, clerks and sheriffs, shall be allow- Allowance të ed the same allowance for their services, to be paid judges, sher ifis, &c. in like manner, as is directed by law in similar ca ses. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the sheriffs at- when & where tending elections at the court house and precincts sheriffs to aforesaid, shall meet at the court-house on the Fri- meet day after each election, and shall then and there com pare the polls of the candidates, and give certificates as the law directs, to the persons elected. I |