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Accounts to cause to be made out a copy of the commissioners' book for any county in this State, and forward the same to the clerk of the county court of said county, upon cause copy to satisfactory proof being presented to him that the original clerk in certain book on file in the clerk's office of the county has been cases. destroyed or carried off by persons claiming to act under the authority of the so-called "Confederate States of America," the "Provisional Government of Kentucky," or any person or persons acting without legal authority. The person making out said copy shall be entitled to the Pay. same pay that is now allowed clerks for similar services. § 3. This act to be in force from the date of its approval. Approved March 8, 1862.

CHAPTER 480.

AN ACT for the benefit of soldiers in the armies of the State of Kentucky and the United States.

WHEREAS, It appears to the satisfaction of the present General Assembly, that in many of the courts of this Commonwealth, bonds and recognizances for penal and criminal charges have been entered into by citizens who have since volunteered as soldiers in the Federal armies of the United States, who cannot therefore appear in court to answer those charges; wherefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That it shall be good cause for continuance in all cases of prosecutions for crimes and misdemeanors, pending in the courts of this Commonwealth, where the person or persons, charged by indictment, or otherwise, in such proceedings, have, since the commencement of the same, volunteered and entered the military service either of the State of Kentucky or of the United States, and who shall, at the calling of the prosecution, be in the army either of the State or United States, and absent from the county where the prosecution is pending.

§2. That in all such prosecutions where the person charged has, since the commencement of the same, entered, and at the calling of the cause is engaged, as aforesaid, in the service of the State or of the United States, and has given a bail bond or recognizance for his appearance, no forfeiture of such bond or recognizance, nor judgment thereon, shall be ordered or entered until the second term after such person shall have been discharged from such service, or shall be shown, by competent proof, to have abandoned such service: Provided, That where the surety or sureties in such bail bond or recognizance live in the same

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county where the prosecution is pending, and are not in the service aforesaid, or where the surety or sureties aforesaid are actually in such county at the calling of the cause, they shall, by writing, or in open court, accept the provisions of this act.

§ 3. Where another person or persons are charged in the same proceedings mentioned in the first and second sections of this act, he or they shall not be entitled to the benefits of this act.

§ 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1862.

CHAPTER 500.

AN ACT changing the time of holding the Trimble circuit court.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That the fall term of the Trimble circuit court shall be held on the first Monday in October of each year, instead of the time now fixed by law.

Approved March 11, 1862.

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CHAPTER 507.

AN ACT prescribing additional duties for assessors of tax.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That it shall be the duty of the several assessors in the take in number year 1863, at the same time that they take in the lists of of sheep killed taxable property, to take a list of the number and value of sheep killed by dogs in their respective counties, from the first day of January, 1862, up to the taking of any such list, and report the same with their respective commissioners' book.

Approved March 11, 1862.

CHAPTER 509.

AN ACT to amend chapter 15 of the Revised Statutes, entitled "Citizens,
Expatriation, and Aliens "

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That any citizen of this State who shall enter into the service of the so-called Confederate States, in either a civil or military capacity, or into the service of the so-called

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Provisional Government of Kentucky, in either a civil or military capacity, or having heretofore entered such service of either the Confederate States or Provisional Government, zen shall be shall continue in such service after this act takes effect, or shall take up or continue in arms against the military forces himself. of the United States or State of Kentucky, or shall give voluntary aid and assistance to those in arms against said forces, shall be deemed to have expatriated himself, and shall no longer be a citizen of Kentucky, nor shall he again be a citizen, except by permission of the Legislatnre, by a general or special statute.

§2. That whenever a person attempts, or is called on to, exercise any of the constitutional or legal rights and privileges belonging only to citizens of Kentucky, he may be required to negative on oath the expatriation provided in the first section of this act; and upon his failure or refusal to do so, shall not be permitted to exercise any such right or privilege.

§3. This act to be of force in thirty days from and after its passage.

Passed and became a law, the objections of the Governor to the contrary notwithstanding, March 11, 1862.

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CHAPTER 510.

AN ACT to repeal in part an act, entitled "An act regulating the time of holding quarterly and other courts inferior in jurisdiction to the circuit courts," approved February 28, 1862.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. That an act, entitled "An act regulating the time. of holding quarterly and other courts inferior in jurisdiction to the circuits," approved February 28, 1862, so far as the same applies to the counties of Kenton, Jefferson, Bracken, and Bourbon, is hereby repealed, and all the courts mentioned in said act shall be held in said counties precisely as if said act had not been passed.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 13, 1862.

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CHAPTER 512.

AN ACT providing an office for the Commissioners of Internal Improvement, and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, It is represented to the present General Assembly that the books, papers, &c., belonging to the Board of Internal Improvement, are placed in three different rooms,

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and in order that said books, papers, &c., may be kept together, and convenient of access and reference; therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§1. That the Commissioners of Internal Improvement be authorized and empowered to use and occupy one of the rooms in the building occupied by the Auditor of Public Accounts, as an office for the safe-keeping of books, papers, &c., belonging to said Commissioners; and the Auditor is hereby directed to furnish one of said rooms for that purpose.

§ 2. Said Commissioners are hereby authorized to draw Books and sta from the Auditor such stationery as may be required by them, as well as record books, &c., not to exceed twenty dollars in value; and they are authorized to obtain from Statutes, acts, the State library a copy of Stanton's Revised Statutes and Code of Practice, together with such other public acts and journals as the Board of Internal Improvement was heretofore entitled to.

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§3. This act to be in force from its passage.

Approved March 14, 1862.

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CHAPTER 520.

AN ACT to amend section 13, chapter 32, article 12, Revised Statutes, concerning elections.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That section 13, of chapter 32, of article 12, Re15. R. S.. page vised Statutes, concerning elections, be so amended as to make it the duty of each and all the officers of elections, tion to cause at and during any election in this State required to be held by law, to cause, by proper process, the immediate arrest of offenders against the law as contained in the section to which this is an amendment; and power to that end is hereby given to such officers, and upon their neglect or failure to do so, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, upon presentment, shall be subject to fine and imprisonment, one or both, in the discretion of a jury, not exceeding a fine of two hundred dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding two months. § 2. This act to take effect from its passage.

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Approved March 14, 1862.

CHAPTER 525.

AN ACT to regulate the amount of public printing and binding. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be printed by the Public Printer only one thousand copies of the Governor's annual message, only one thousand copies of the Auditor's report, only six thousand copies of the report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, only two hundred and fifty copies of the Treasurer's report, only three hundred copies of the report of the Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, only two hundred and fifty copies of the reports of the Superintendents of the Lunatic Asylums, only four hundred copies of the report of the Superintendent of the Institution for the Education of Feeble-Minded Children, only five hundred copies of the private acts of the General Assembly, and only three hundred copies of the reports of the heads of institutions not herein specifically named, and only so many of any special message of the Governor as shall be specially ordered by the respective Houses of the General Assembly.

§2. When any report of a committee, bill, or other document is ordered to be printed, without designating the number of copies to be printed, there shall be only one hundred and fifty of said report, bill, or document printed. §3. That all acts of local incorporations, and not of a public nature, are private acts in the contemplation of this

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§ 4. That the private and public acts of the General Assembly be printed separately, and when practicable, deemed private they be both embraced in one volume; and when not in separate volumes, and when they can be embraced in one volume, only five hundred of the copies shall embrace the private acts.

5. The reports of the Auditor, and one hundred copies of the Governor's message, the public and private acts, and the journals of each House, shall be bound, and all others shall be only stitched, unless they be specially ordered to be bound.

§ 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 14, 1862.

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