48. To H. S. Bussey, Jailer of Lawrence county, for reward paid for re-taking a felon who had broke jail, twenty five dollars.

49. To Geo. W. Gwin, for candles furnished the Capitol, one dollar and twenty cents.

50. To Robert A. Gray, Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, two dollars per day during the session of the General Assembly.

To W. A. Stivers, balance due him for the services of his band of music on the occasion of the reception of General Taylor at the Capitol, last winter, ten dollars.

To John C. Herndon, Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, three dollars per day from 14th February to the end of the session, being extra pay to him for the time he has performed the duties of principal Clerk.

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53. To R. D. Harlan, one hundred dollars, for extra services as Librarian during the session of the Convention. 54. That the salary of the Second Auditor shall be two thousand dollars per annum, from and after the 30th of tor's salary inMarch, 1850, to be paid quarterly as heretofore.

That from and after the first day of April, 1850, the salary of the Treasurer of this State be increased to fifteen hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly. Approved March 7, 1850.

Second Audicreased to $2000

Treasurer's salary increased to $1,500

CHAPTER 510.

AN ACT to provide for running and re-marking a part of the Graves and
Hickman county line.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky, That Isaac Bugg and Hercules Hayes, of
Hickman county, and William Snow and Bartlet Suit, of
Graves county, be and they are hereby appointed Commis-
sioners to run and re-mark a part of the county line between
Graves and Hickman counties; who, or any two of them,
one from each county, shall, on the first Monday in April
next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, together with the
Surveyor of Graves county, meet at the South West corner
of section six, township three, range one West, and pro-
ceed to run North one and a half miles, and plainly mark
said line, so that the same can be pursued with certainty;
and shall, also, on said line plainly and appropriately mark
the two half mile corners, one South and the other North
of the township corner on said line.
Approved March 7, 1850.

AN ACT to amend the laws on the subject of pedling.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the seventh section of an act, entitled, "an act to amend the laws upon the subject of pedlers," approved February 7, 1845, be so amended as to authorize and direct the Clerk of the Jefferson County Court, on application being made by any one to peddle goods, (including clocks,) in said county, outside of the limits of the city of Louisville, to grant the same, by charging as required in said seventh section, on the number of voters in said county outside of said city limits.

Approved March 7, 1850.

J. Dupuy may convey title, &c.

sell land

In case of death

CHAPTER 514.

AN ACT for the benefit of Common School District, No. 6, in Hancock county.

WHEREAS, Edmund Cotton, John D. Cotton, and James Standeford, did, on the 30th day of June, 1829, donate and make over in trust for educational purposes to Tho. Wroe, Otho Williams, James Standeford, John D. Cotton, and James Dupuy, of Hancock county, three acres of land in said county; and whereas, the school house erected on said land was destroyed by fire some years since, from which time said land has been of no use for the purposes designed, and probably will not be, unless the same be sold, as the county has been laid off into Common School Districts, and a house, in the District in which said land lies, has been built, or is in progress of erection; and whereas, all the Trustees to whom said land was conveyed (except James Dupuy,) have either departed this life or long since left the Commonwealth, and the said Dupuy being old and infirm, and desirous that said land should be sold and the proceeds applied as contemplated in said deed of donation, which is recorded in the Clerk's office of the Hancock County Court. Therefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That James Dupuy be authorized to sell and convey said land, and a deed made and acknowledged by said Dupuy shall effectually pass the title to said land to the purchaser, and the money arising from the sale of said land shall be paid over to the Trustees of Common School District, No. 6, in said county, and shall be used in the purchase of the ground on which the school house in said District stands, or in finishing said school house.

SEC. 2. That in the event James Dupuy should depart of Dupuy, Court this life before selling and conveying said land, it shall and Commissioner. may be lawful for the Hancock County Court to appoint some suitable person to make said sale and conveyance,

may appoint

for the purpose herein intended, and a deed made by direction of said Court shall be as good and binding as if done by said James Dupuy.

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Approved March 7, 1850.

CHAPTER 516.

AN ACT supplemental to an act to build an Arsenal for the safe keeping of the public arms.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That so much of an act of the present session as requires the Arsenal for the safe keeping of the public arms to be built "one half mile from the Capitol," be and is hereby repealed; and the said Commissioners, named in said act, are hereby authorized to select, at their discretion, the most suitable place within the town of Frankfort, or in its vicinity, as to them may seem most eligible, for the location of said Arsenal, and to proceed to the erection of the same as in other respects directed in said act: Provided, that if built within the limits of the town, to be built upon the public grounds.

Approved March 7, 1850.

CHAPTER 518.

AN ACT to amend the penal laws.

Penalty for at. tempting to burn

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That if any person shall wilfully, property. &c. unlawfully and maliciously attempt to burn any dwellinghouse, tobacco-house, warehouse, store-house, or any house or place where wheat, Indian corn, or other grain or provender, shall be kept, or any other house or houses whatever, or any stacks, ricks or bulks of hay, fodder, flax, hemp, tan-bark, cord-wood, wheat or other grain, or shall aid, abet, assist, counsel, hire or command any person to commit any of said offences, and shall be duly convicted thereof, such person or persons shall undergo a confinement in the jail and penitentiary house for a period not less than three months nor more than six years, to be fixed by the jury trying the offender or offenders.

Penalty for at

son.

SEC. 2. If any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously attempt to poison or administer poison to any oth- tempting to poi er person, such person, his or her aiders, abettors or counsellors, if free, and being thereof duly convicted, shall undergo a confinement in the jail and penitentiary of this State for a period not less than six months nor more than five years, to be fixed by the jury trying said offender; and, if a slave or slaves be convicted of the offences described

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in the first and second sections of this act, be sentenced to
receive on his, her or their bare backs any number of lash-
es not to exceed thirty and nine.

Approved March 7, 1850.

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district No. 11, in Jessamine.

CHAPTER 534.

AN ACT for the benefit of School District No. 11, in Jessamine county,
and for other purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the School Commissioners of Allowance to Jessamine county, be and they are hereby authorized to draw upon the Common School Fund for the sum of twenty one dollars seventy two cents, for the benefit of School District No. 11, for 62 children taught in said district in the year 1848: Provided, that the same has not been heretofore paid.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of an act, entitled, an act for the benefit of Common Schools in the Districts in counties of Whitley, Laurel, and Rockcastle, which allows

Whitley, Laurel, and Rockcastle regulated.

Commissioners of Common Schools in said counties to lay
off districts in said counties, so as not to include less than
twenty children of the ages as now prescribed by law, shall
not be so construed as to allow said Commissioners to di-
vide and lay off anew a district or districts, out of any dis-
trict or districts, after a school has been made up or com-
menced in said district or districts, until the same shall
have expired or been abandoned.

Approved March 7, 1850.

CHAPTER 535.

AN ACT limiting the time of bringing suits against heirs and devisees.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Com-
monwealth of Kentucky, That all suits brought against heirs
or devisees, in which they are sued separately or jointly
with the executor or administrator of the ancestor or testa-
tor, for the debt or liability of the ancestor or testator, shall
be brought within seven years after the death of any such
ancestor or testator, and not thereafter: Provided, however,
that any such suit may be brought at any time before there
has been a division and distribution of the estate of the
ancestor or testator, amongst his heirs or devisees.

SEC. 2. That all scire facias sued out against the heir or
devisee, either separately or jointly with the administrator
or executor of the ancestor or testator, to revive any judg-
ment or decree against the ancestor or testator, shall be
sued out within seven years after the death of any such an-
cestor or testator, and not thereafter: Provided, that any
such scire facias may be sued out at any time before a di-

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Three years

Provision in relation to ap

vision and distribution of the ancestor's estate and effects
amongst his heirs or devisees: Provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as to prohibit any
suit from being brought, or scire facias sued out, until the allowed.
expiration of three years from the passage of this act:
And, provided also, that if any of the said actions or suits,
brought within the time limited by this act, judgment be
given for the plaintiff, and the same be reversed afterwards
by appeal or writ of error, or a verdict passed for the plain-
tiff, and upon matter lodged in arrest of judgment, the
judgment be given against the plaintiff, that he take noth-
ing by his plaint, writ, or bill; that in all such cases the
party plaintiff, his heirs, executors, or administrators, as
the case may require, may commence a new action or suit,
from time to time, within one year after such judgment re-
versed, or such judgment given against the plaintiff, and
not after.

peals and writs of error.

Approved March 7, 1850.

AN ACT

CHAPTER 538.

to prevent unlawful fishing in parts of the South Fork of Lick-
ing river, in Harrison county.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to haul a seine or drag of any description, or stretch a set-net in that part of the South Fork of Licking river, lying between Keith's mill and the mouth of Townsend Creek, where it enters into said South Fork of Licking river, without first obtaining the consent of the owner or owners of the lands adjoining, or including the bed of the stream where such fishing is proposed to be done; and any person guilty of a violation of this act, shall be liable to a fine of three dollars for each and every offence, to be paid by himself, if a free man; if an infant, then by his parent or guardian; and if a slave, then by his master; which may be recovered by warrant before any Justice of the Peace for Harrison county; which fines shall be collected as other fines are, and paid over to the Harrison County Treasurer; which fines shall go in aid of the county levy.

SEC. 2. That the provisions of this act shall not apply to persons living on, or owning land adjoining the river between the points named in the first section.

Approved March 7, 1850.

CHAPTER 544.

AN ACT to amend the law establishing toll gates on the Louisville and
Elizabethtown Turnpike Road.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly, that the original act incorporating a Company to construct