SEC. 2. The bureau of immigration shall each year collect and compile for publication in an annual report to the legislature, and also in such other forms as they may judge best and necessary to aid the object of the bureau, all statistics and facts relating to the character and resources of this State, the amount of money received and expended by them, and all such other information as shall be of general interest to the State and calculated to subserve the designs of this act.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the faculty of the State Agricultural College, of the State Normal School, and of the State University, when organized, to carefully preserve a daily meteorological record which, with all such other information relative to climate, soils, minerals, and all other scientific facts bearing upon the resources of the State that such faculties may be able to gather, shall be forwarded for publication to the office of the bureau at the capital.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the county assessors of the several organized counties in the State to prepare annually a report of the amount of lands in their several counties, what proportion may be vacant, what under cultivation, and all such other information as they may possess, tending to increase a knowledge of the various counties of the State, and forward the same to this bureau.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the state geologist to prepare an abstract of such investigations he may have made as to the soil, minerals, coal, salt springs, and other information which came within the legitimate duty of this office to gather, at such times as the bureau of immigration may require.

SEC. 6. That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of agents to be sent to Europe, and other expenses incidental to the operations of this bureau; and the governor is hereby empowered to direct the auditor to draw his warrants upon the treasurer for such amounts as the bureau shall deem proper, not exceeding the above amount, such vouchers to be marked Immigration fund," and the state treasurer shall pay each at sight.

SEC. 7. The aforenamed commissioners shall enter upon their duties on the 1st day of April, A. D. 1864, and remain in office for one year, and shall take the required oath of state officers, and shall each give bonds in the amount of two thousand dollars, to be approved by the governor, conditioned to faithfully perform the duties required by their appointment and this act.

SEC. 8. The bureau of immigration shall, as much as possible, encourage and try to effect the organization of a state immigration society, which shall cooperate with this bureau in aid of immigration. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 26, 1864.

THOMAS CARNEY, Governor.

KENTUCKY.

DIGEST OF IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

Act of 1892 (an act concerning citizens, expatriation, aliens).The act of 1892 was passed to define the property rights of aliens and to prescribe the process by which citizens may secure expatriation. Act of 1906 (an act creating a state board of agriculture, forestry, and immigration; specifying the duties and appropriating money). The act of 1906 created a state board of agriculture, forestry, and immigration, consisting of nine members. The governor shall appoint the members of the board, the director of the Kentucky Experiment Station, and a commissioner of agriculture, forestry, and immigration. The commissioner shall see that a farmers' and industrial institute is held annually in each county. The board shall act as an immigration committee. It shall collect and publish information showing the class of immigrants entering the State and causes of emigration from the State.

IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS.

ACT OF 1892.

[Kentucky State Laws, 1892, ch. 36, p. 54.]

AN ACT Concerning citizens, expatriation, aliens.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and who reside in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, shall be deemed citizens thereof.

SEC. 2. Whensoever any citizen of this State, by deed in writing, in the presence of, and subscribed by, two witnesses and acknowledged or proved in the county court of the county in which he resides, or by open declaration made in such court and entered of record, shall declare that he relinquishes the character of a citizen of this State, and shall depart out of the same with the intention, in good faith, to remain absent therefrom, such person shall, from the time of his departure, be considered as having exercised his right of expatriation, so far as regards this State, and shall not thenceforth be deemed a citizen thereof. When any citizen of this State shall reside elsewhere, and, in good faith, become a citizen of some other State of this Union, or the citizen or subject of a foreign State or sovereign, he shall not, while the citizen of another State, or the citizen or subject of a foreign State or sovereign, be deemed a citizen of this State. No act of any citizen under this section shall have any effect if done while the United States shall be at war with a foreign power.

SEC. 3. An alien not being an enemy shall, after he has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States according to the forms required by law, be enabled to recover, inherit, hold, and pass by descent, devise, or otherwise, any interest in real or personal property in the same manner as if he were a citizen of this Commonwealth.

SEC. 4. Any alien who shall have purchased, or contracted to purchase, any real estate, or who shall hold or have title thereto, and who shall become a citizen of the United States before the same is escheated by a proper procedure, which may be done at any time after the expiration of eight years from the time the title is acquired, and any purchaser, lessee, heir, or devisee, from him, if a citizen of the United States who shall before the property is escheated become the owner thereof by purchase or inheritance, shall take and hold the same free and released from any right or claim of the Commonwealth by reason of such person's having been an alien.

SEC. 5. Any woman whose husband is or shall be a citizen of the United States, and any person whose father or mother at the time of his birth was or shall be a citizen thereof, although born out of the United States, may take and hold real or personal estate by devise, purchase, descent, or distribution.

SEC. 6. An alien, the subject or citizen of a friendly State, may take and hold any personal property except chattels real; and any such alien, if he reside within this State, may take and hold any lands for the purpose of residence, or of occupation by him or his servants, or for the purpose of any business, trade, or manufacture, for a term not exceeding twenty-one years. An alien so taking and holding shall have like rights, remedies, and exemptions touching such property as if he were a citizen of the United States.

SEC. 7. If real estate within this Commonwealth shall pass to a nonresident alien by descent or devise, the same may for the period of eight years next after the final settlement of the estate of the decedent from whom it was acquired be held and alienated by such nonresident alien. If the heir or devisee aforesaid. be a minor, the real estate aforesaid may be held for his benefit by a guardian or curator, and may be sold by proper proceeding had in conformity with the laws regulating sales of infant's real estate if commenced within the period first above specified.

SEC. 8. If a nonresident alien hath obtained possession of real estate acquired by descent or devise, and shall die before the expiration of the period limiting his right of enjoyment or sale, the right thus acquired shall pass by descent or devise; if to an alien to be held for or disposed of within the period aforenamed; but if to a citizen of the United States then such person shall take the title as fully as if the ancester had himself been a citizen.

Approved, April 29, 1892.

ACT OF 1906.

[Kentucky, Acts 1906, ch. 90, p. 367.]

AN ACT Creating a state board of agriculture, forestry, and immigration, specifying the duties thereof, and appropriating money therefor.

Be it enacted by the general assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

SECTION 1. That sections 37 and 38 of chapter 4 of the Kentucky Statutes, being a part of an act of April 2, 1894, be, and the same is hereby, repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

SEC. 2. That there be, and is hereby, created a state board of agriculture, forestry, and immigration, to consist of nine members, namely, the commissioner of agriculture, labor, and statistics, ex officio chairman; the director of the Kentucky Experiment Station, at Lexington, Ky., an ex officio member, and one intelligent citizen from each of the appellate court districts in the State, to be selected and hold office as hereinafter provided; said members from the appellate districts to be experienced and practical farmers.

SEC. 3. Upon the passage of this act, the governor shall appoint, first, the director of the experiment station to serve until the 1st of January, 1908, and shall reappoint him every four years thereafter: Provided, That should the director of the experiment station resign or be removed from his office of director of said station, this fact shall terminate his membership on the said board, and the governor shall appoint his successor as director of the experiment station as his successor on said board; and, second, seven members, one from each appellate court district, two of whom shall serve until the 1st day of March, 1907; two of whom shall serve until the 1st day of March, 1908; and two of whom shall serve until the 1st day of March, 1909; and one of whom shall serve until the 1st day of March, 1910; or until their successors are elected and qualified, as provided hereinafter.

SEC. 10. Said board shall act as an immigration committee, and shall collect information as to wages paid for labor in the different sections of the State, and the kind of labor needed, and shall cause the same to be printed and distributed. It shall also ascertain the class of immigrants coming to this State, and shall collect statistics showing as nearly as possible the number of persons and their destination emigrating from the State, and the causes leading thereto. For the purposes specified in this section they may expend as much as two thousand dollars annually of the amount appropriated in this act, but it is not obligatory upon them to expend any portion of the appropriation unless, in their judgment, it is necessary to do so in the furtherance of the welfare of the State.

SEC. 11. The commissioner of agriculture, labor, and statistics may appoint a clerk and stenographers of the board, subject to the approval of said board. The clerk shall be an able, well-qualified man for the place, and shall give his entire time to the services of the State. He may act as an assistant commissioner or as an instructor at the county institutes, but shall receive no additional pay therefor, except his actual expenses, or perform other duties as

signed him by the commissioner. The commissioner shall collect each year a report of the work done by the state and county institutes, or such part of the work as he may deem valuable information for the citizens. Twenty-five thousand copies of his institute report shall be published annually in book form, and shall be distributed free as nearly as possible in proportion to the agricultural population of the several counties, and the board is hereby authorized to have same printed. The board may expend as much as three thousand dollars per annum for salaries of clerks and stenographers, which sum, or any part thereof, shall be paid out of the appropriation made for the use of this board.

SEC. 12. The members of this board shall receive five dollars per day and actual traveling expenses while attending meetings of the board, but the total number of days the board may be in session shall not exceed thirty per year.

SEC. 13. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of twenty thousand dollars per annum, in addition to the amount already appropriated for the benefit of the bureau of agriculture, labor, and statistics, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the use of the said bureau of agriculture, labor, and statistics. The clerk of the board shall certify to all expenditures of the board to the chairman, who, in turn, shall certify them to the governor for his approval, and upon his approval he shall authorize the auditor of public accounts to draw his warrant upon the treasurer for the amount.

SEC. 14. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.

Approved, March 21, 1906.