CHAPTER 236. AN ACT to amend an act giving to officers, crews, mechanics, and others, a lien on steamboats, approved January 28, 1839. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the provisions of an act, entitled, an act giving to officers, crews, mechanics, and others, a lien on steamboats, approved January 28, 1839, shall be and they are hereby extended to every debt contracted or made within this state, on account of work, supplies, or materials furnished by mechanics, tradesmen, and others, for or on account of, or towards the building, repairing, fitting, or furnishing any wharf-boat, flat-boat, or other water craft. Approved February 10, 1851. 1851. CHAPTER 245. AN ACT in relation to Magistrates' and Constables' Districts in Logan county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the commissioners appointed to divide the county of Logan into magistrates' and constables' districts, to withdraw their report, and alter and change the same as they may deem best for the convenience of the citizens of said county; and should they alter or change any of the districts, first reported by them, it shall be as binding in law as though no such change had been made: Provided, that said commissioners shall have until the 25th of February to return the report to the secretary of state-which report shall be made according to law. Approved February 10, 1851. CHAPTER 251. AN ACT to prevent the close shaving of the heads of convicts in the Penitentiary. Whereas, by the 28th section of an act, entitled, "an act to amend the penal laws of this commonwealth," approved February 10, 1798, all the male convicts confined in the penitentiary of this state, are required to "have their heads and beards close shaven at least once every week:" and whereas, a portion of the requisition of said section of said act is deemed entirely unnecessary, is promotive of no good object, but is calculated to endanger the health of the convicts, and superinduces an exhibition of barbarity inconsistent with the spirit of the present age. Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the 28th section of the above recited act, so far as the same requires the "heads" of the convicts to be "closely shaven at least once every week," be and the 1851. same is hereby repealed; and from and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for the keeper, or any offi cer of the penitentiary, either by himself or by his direction, to have "closely shaven," at any time whatever, the head of any convict in said penitentiary, unless said process of closely shaving the head be directed and prescribed by the attendant physician of said penitentiary, in cases where he may consider the same necessary for the promotion of the health of any such convict. Approved February 10, 1851. CHAPTER 253. AN ACT to allow an additional Magistrates' and Constable's District in Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That there is allowed to the county of Pulaski an additional magistrates' and constable's district, to be known as district No. 10, and bounded as followeth: beginning at Gen. John Griffin's, on line of district No. 1; thence with the road leading from Somerset to Randolph's medical springs, to John Roper's; thence a straight line to the head of Bear creek; thence down the same to Rockcastle river, and down the same to Cumberland river; thence down the same to district No. 8, and with said district No. 8 to district No. 1; thence with the same to the beginning; and the place of voting in said district shall be at the house of George W. Hamilton. Approved February 10, 1851. CHAPTER 262. AN ACT requiring Assessors of Tax to return the names and Post Offices of the Deaf and Dumb children, in the several counties. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That from and after the present year, it shall be the duty of the several assessors of tax within this commonwealth to return on the back of their books, respectively, the names of each of the deaf and dumb children between the ages of seven and twenty one years, inclusive, in their said several counties, together with the name of the post office nearest the place of residence of each mute. Approved February 17, 1851. CHAPTER 263. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled, an act to establish an additional Justices' and Constable's district in Fulton county. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That an act, entitled, an act to establish an ad ditional justices' and constable's district in Fulton county, approved January 21, 1851, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the districts as arranged by the commissioners appointed to district said county shall be and remain the same as though the above recited act had not been passed. Approved February 17, 1851. 1851. CHAPTER 265. AN ACT to change the place of voting in the fifth district for the election of Justices of the Peace and Constable, in Trigg county. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the place of voting in the fifth district, in Trigg county, for the election of justices of the peace and constable, be and the same is hereby changed from the baptist meeting house, near Donaldson creek, to the town of Canton, in said district. § 2. That all elections hereafter to be held for the above named officers shall take place in the town of Canton. Approved February 17, 1851. CHAPTER 279. AN ACT to run and re-mark the boundary lines between the counties of appointed--their duty. §1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That Hezekiah Jenkins, Thomas Glas- Commissioners cock, Thomas Marshall, and Mark Wallingford, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to run and re-mark the boundary line between the counties of Mason and Lewis-commencing at the mouth of Crooked creek, on the Ohio river; thence to the corner of Mason and Lewis, on the north fork of Licking river. Surveyors of to attend. § 2. It shall be the duty of the surveyors of the counties of Mason and Lewis to attend the commissioners, at the Mason and Lew. place and time pointed out by them, to run and re-mark the said line, and they shall make out a report and plat of their survey and send a copy of the same to the secretary of state, to be by him filed in his office as part of the records, and a copy to each of the clerks of each of the counties of Lewis and Mason, who shall record the same in their order book. § 3. The county courts of Mason and Lewis, at their court of claims after the performance of the duties required under this act, shall make a just compensation out of the county treasury to the said commissioners, surveyors, and clerk, for the duties herein enjoined on them. Approved February 17, 1851. Compensation how paid. 1851. T CHAPTER 281. AN ACT to provide for the interment of the remains of the Kentuckians who fell at Raisin. Whereas, it is represented that the governor has caused to be brought to this city the remains of the citizens of Kentucky who fell at Raisin, which remains were recovered and brought to Covington by Col. Brooks, of Monroe, Michigan. Therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the governor be authorized to draw from the treasury, on the warrant of the second auditor, a sum not exceeding eighty dollars, to pay the expenses of the transportation and interment of said remains. Approved February 17, 1851. CHAPTER 282. AN ACT to allow an additional Magistrates' and Constable's district in the county of Barren. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the commissioners appointed to lay off Barren county in magistrates' and constables' districts, shall have the right to withdraw the report heretofore made by them upon that subject. § 2. That said county of Barren shall be laid off into nine districts, and that said commissioners shall so lay off and divide the southern part of said county as to make four districts out of that portion which they heretofore laid off into three districts, making two of the four districts east of the Glasgow and Tompkinsville road, running by Jonathan Quigley's, and two west of that road. §3. That said commissioners shall so change the northern boundary, or line of district No. 1, as to make it run with the road from Myers' mill to Short's mill; and that they shall make such alterations in the lines of the districts Nos. 4 and 5 as the above named change in the line of No. 1, shall make necessary. §4. That said commissioners shall report to the proper authorities, as now required by law, by the tenth day of March next. Approved February 17, 1851. CHAPTER 309 AN ACT to change Magistrates' and Constable's districts No. 4, in Green; No. 1 in Crittenden, and the Lewisburg and Maysville districts in Mason county. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That district No. 4, in the county of Green, for the election of magistrates and a constable, be so altered that it shall include the old improvement of Levi Summers, which is situated eastwardly from the Nashville or Sidebottom's road, and which place is now owned by Edward F. Towles. 1851. Boundary of son changed. § 2. That the boundary of the magistrates' and constable's district, in Mason county, known as the Lewisburg districts in Ma district, be so altered as to include the residence of Walter Calvert; and the Maysville district in said county be so changed as to include the residence of Moses Dimmit and Sinclair Dimmit. §3. That the boundary of the magistrates' and constable's district No. 1, in Crittenden county, be so changed as to include the residence of George Davis. Approved February 25, 1851. One in Crit. tenden changed. CHAPTER 312. AN ACT changing the spring term of the Calloway and Graves Circuit § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the spring term of the Calloway Calloway. circuit court, for the year 1851, shall commence on the first Tuesday following the second Monday in May, and continue eleven juridical days, if the business shall require it. § 2. That the spring term of the Graves circuit court, for Graves. the year 1851, shall sit on the fourth Monday in May, and continue twelve juridical days, if the business require it. This act shall not apply to any terms of said court, except the approaching spring terms. Approved February 25, 1851. CHAPTER 315. AN ACT to establish District No. 7, in the county of Laurel, and for oth er purposes. 7th district in dary. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That so much of the county of Laurel, as is included within the following boundary, shall be and Laurel-its bounthe same is hereby established as the seventh magistrates' and constable's district, viz: beginning at Evans' ferry, on Rockcastle river; thence with the Pulaski road to the point of the ridge between John Woods' and William Taylor's; thence down the point to the Sugar Camp branch; thence down said branch to Woods' creek; thence a straight line to Bull's old place, on the Crab Orchard road, including Nimrod Loving; thence with Bull's branch to the Laurel branch; thence down said branch, excluding McNeill's mill, to the county road; thence a direct course across Hazle patch creek, to the point of the ridge above |