vits of at least two school trustees of the districts thus reported. No report from any school district shall be received and reported by any school commissioner unless verified as aforesaid; and any school trustee or trustees who shall knowingly and willfully misreport under oath any fact or facts now or hereafter required of them by law to be reported, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall, on conviction thereof on indictment in the circuit court, be punished by confinement in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than six years. § 8. The several judges of this Commonwealth shall, at each court held by them, give the sixth and seventh sections of this chapter in charge to the grand jury. § 9. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1860. 1860. Judges to give 6 and 7 sections of this act in charge to grand juries. CHAPTER 1075. AN ACT to furnish the County Court Clerk of Boyle county with necessary books. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to furnish the county court clerk of Boyle county with such books as said clerk is entitled to by law, as his books were destroyed by fire. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1860. CHAPTER 1089.. AN ACT to amend section 11, chapter 7, of the Revised Statutes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the taker up of any boat, water-craft, or vessel on the Ohio river, shall, in addition to the cost of entering the certificate of appraisement, be entitled to the following compensation: For each steamboat, ship, brig, schooner, or sloop, thirty-five dollars. For each horse-boat, twelve dollars. For each flat-boat, if full or more than half loaded, twenty dollars; if half full, or less, fifteen dollars; if unloaded, ten dollars. For each barge or keel-boat, if loaded in whole or part, fifteen dollars; if unloaded, ten dollars. For each wood-flat, three dollars. For each ferry-flat, three dollars. For each skiff, canoe, or perogue, one dollar. For each raft of logs, timber, or plank, one dollar 1860. and fifty cents for each platform thereof. The taker up shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for taking care of the thing taken up, and shall have a lien thereon for his entire compensation, and may hold possession thereof until paid. Approved March 2, 1860. CHAPTER 1093. AN ACT in relation to Forfeited Lands. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That chapter 59, section 1st, of the Revised Statutes, Stanton's be, and the same is hereby, amended, by repealing that part of said section, beginning at the word "unless," to the end of said section. R.'S., p. 106. tion of lands § 2. That all laws now in force in this Commonwealth Laws author- authorizing the redemption of lands that were forfeited for izing redemp the non-payment of taxes, or other cause, prior to the 1st forfeited prior day of January, 1834, are hereby repealed; that all grants subsequently made by the State, of any such forfeited lands, shall vest the fee-simple title in the grantees, their heirs or assigns. to 1834 repeal ed. § 3. That all lands forfeited as stated in the preceding Forfeited section, and not heretofore granted by the State, shall be entry as vacant subject to entry in the same manner as now provided by law in regard to vacant and unappropriated lands. lands subject to lands. actual occupant. § 4. That any person having possession of any such land, Preference to forfeited as aforesaid, claiming the same to a well defined or marked boundary, shall have the exclusive right, for twelve months after the passage of this act, to pre-empt the land so held, not exceeding five hundred acres. possession to authorize the exclusive right to pre-empt, shall be by actual residence on the land by the claimant, or his or her tenant. the right to The § 5. Any person holding any such forfeited lands by deed Claimant by of conveyance made bona fide, and who have regularly deed, the listed and paid taxes on the same, but who have not such pre-empt the title and possession as will, under existing laws, vest them with title by reason of the forfeiture of the land, shall have the exclusive right, at any time within twelve months after the passage of this act, to pre-empt the land so held. land for 12 months. Grant to operate a re lease of taxes. § 6. That in all cases where there are taxes due the State, on lands forfeited prior to the 1st day of January, 1834, and such lands have been granted by the State subsequently to such forfeiture, such grant shall operate as a release of all the taxes due upon that so granted, up to the date of such grant. And all grants that may be hereafter made of any such lands, shall in like manner operate as a release of the taxes due at the date of such grant. The release of taxes, as herein provided, shall inure to the benefit of the grantees, their heirs or assigns: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the State from proceeding to sell for taxes any lands not heretofore granted, and that shall not be entered and surveyed within twelve months from the passage of this act; after that time, the State may proceed to sell for taxes, in conformity with existing laws, any forfeited lands not granted, or entered and surveyed as herein provided. § 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Provided, however, That the provisions of this act shall in nowise apply to or affect an act passed at the present session of the General Assembly, for the benefit of the heirs of John Moylan, deceased. Approved March 2, 1860. 1860. Proviso. CHAPTER 1116. AN ACT to amend chapter 107, Revised Statutes, title Witnesses. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That chapter 107 of the Revised Statutes, title Witnesses, be so amended as to append thereto— "§ 14. Any witness who is summoned to attend court out of the county of his residence, shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of the failure of the party summoning him to pay or tender his traveling expenses, unless the witness, at the time of being summoned, demands the same, which fact shall be returned by the officer serving the subpœna." § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved March 2, 1860. 2 Stanton's Revised Statutes, p. 473. Witness not exempt by rea son of expenses not being tenddemand them. ered, unless he CHAPTER 1122. AN ACT regarding the jurisdiction of County Courts to open roads in certain cases. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That whenever the route of a proposed new road commences in one county, and runs partly through another county, and finally terminates in that county in which it commenced, then, and in all such cases, the county court, or circuit court, of that county in which said road begins and terminates, shall have the right to appoint viewers to view the entire route in both counties; and shall have 1860. jurisdiction to open and establish the same, as now provided by law in cases where the road is wholly within the through part of another limits of one county. run county. § 2. This act to be in force from its passage. Approved March 2, 1860. CHAPTER 1128. AN ACT to repeal the law prohibiting the importation of slaves into this State. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That article second of chapter XCIII, of the Revised Stanton's Statutes, except the first section of said article, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. R. S., pp. 363, 364, 365, Approved March 2, 1860. CHAPTER 1131. AN ACT for the benefit of chartered Cemeteries. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That the chartered cemeteries of this Commonwealth are hereby exempted from taxation for State revenue. Approved March 2, 1860. Penalty for selling spirit uous or vinous liquors to mi nors. CHAPTER 1133. AN ACT to regulate the sale of Spirituous Liquors. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter no person shall sell to any white person, under the age of twenty-one years, any spirituous or vinous liquors, or the mixture of either, unless by the written consent or request of the father of such minor, if living, or of the mother or guardian of such minor, if the father be dead; and any person so offending shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offense, recoverable in any court having jurisdiction of the amount, by warrant or indictment. § 2. That it shall be the duty of the judges of this ComJudges to give monwealth to give this act in charge to the grand jury, at this act in each of their several courts. charge to grand juries. § 3. This act to take effect from the first of June next. Approved March 2, 1860. CHAPTER 1136. AN ACT to amend section 611 of the Civil Code. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That where the party plaintiff or defendant may be in the county, but mentally incapable of taking an oath, or physically unable to attend before the court or officer for the purpose of making an affidavit, the agent or attorney of the party may make an affidavit for any of the purposes mentioned in said section; in which case the affidavit shall state the inability of the party, and that affiant is agent or attorney. § 2. This act to take effect from the time of its passage. Approved March 2, 1860. CHAPTER 1138. AN ACT to reduce the price of the unsold lands lying in Jackson county, belonging to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That hereafter all vacant and unappropriated lands belonging to this Commonwealth, lying in the boundary of Jackson county, shall be open to entry at the price of two dollars and fifty cents for one hundred acres, and ratably in that proportion for a greater or less amount of acres. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved March 2, 1860 CHAPTER 1142. AN ACT changing the March and September terms of the Lewis Quarterly Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the March and September terms of the Lewis quarterly courts shall be held on the fourth Mondays in March and September of each year, instead of on the second Monday of said months, as now required by law. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after the 12th day of March, 1860. Approved March 2, 1860. |