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Sept. 30-Geo. W. Julian of Indiana, "Free Democratic " (abolition) candidate for vice-president (on the same ticket with John P. Hale for president), and Cassius M. Clay, make speeches at Maysville, and in Lewis and Bracken counties.
Oct .- Clark county votes a subscription of $200,000 to the Lexington and Big Sandy railroad ; and Cumberland and Casey counties vote in favor of a tax to build a railroad from Danville to MeMinnville, Tenn.
Oct. 26-Public mecting in Louisville in regard to the death of Daniel Webster, at Marshfield, Mass., on yesterday, 25th ; Rufus Choate, of Boston, invited to come to Louisville, and deliver a eulogy upon Mr. Webster.
Nov. 1-Vote of Ky. for president and vice-president : Winfield Scott and Wm. A. Graham (whigs) 57,068, Franklin Pierce and Wm. R. King (democrats) 53,806, John P. Hale and Geo. W. Julian (free- soil or anti-slavery) 265; maj. for Scott over Pierce 3,252.
Valuation of real and personal property in Kentucky, as ascertained by the U. S. census marshals on June 1, 1850, $291,- 387,554-an average of $391 to each free person.
Nov. 2-Chas. Anderson (a native of Ky.) delivers an eloquent and glowing ad- dress upon the life and public services of Henry Clay, before the Clay Monumental Association of Ohio, at Cincinnati.
Dec. 21-David Meriwether (democrat) appointed by Gov. Powell as U. S. senator in the place of Henry Clay, and who served until the close of the session-claims the seat still, notwithstanding Archibald Dixon (whig) was duly elected, by the legislature, to succeed Mr. Clay from the date of his resignation, Sept. 6. The senate, by 27 (19 whigs and 8 democrats) to 16 (all dem- ocrats), admits Mr. Dixon to his seat.
Dec. 30-Ohio river at flood height, only 10 feet below the great flood of 1832.
1853, Jan. 3-Semi-annual dividends of Ky. banks : Bank of Ky. 5, Northern Bank 5, Farmers' Bank 5, Bank of Louisville 41/2 and 21% extra, Mechanics' Bank 5 per cent.
Taxable property of Ky. in 1852 $333,- 181,512, an increase in one year of over $16,000,000 ; amount of revenue raised on this, $594,926.
Jan. 12-Sales in Philadelphia of Bank of Ky. stock at 109, Northern Bank of Ky. at 11112, and Farmers' Bank at 103. - Feb. 14, the first named sold at 11012, and Northern Bank stock at 114.
Jan. 16-Samuel I. M. Major, Jr., be- comes editor and one of the proprietors of the Frankfort Yeoman.
Jan. 27-Cotswold sheep, with fleece weighing from 15 to 18 pounds, imported into Bourbon county.
March-Several lots of jacks and jennets, of very large size and superior quality, im- ported direct from Spain-by Anthony Killgore & Co. or the Mason County Im- porting Association, and by Dr. J. C. Will- son, of Fleming county; the jacks were 1412 to 1512 hands, and the jennets from 14 to 15 hands high. The first-named party also imports from Canada, whither he had been brought from Scotland, the stallion Clyde, a beautiful dapple grey, 17 hands high ; he had taken 25 premiums, at as many exhibitions. An importing company organized at Lexington.
March 23-Population of Covington, per assessor's census, 12,154-an increase since 1845 of 8,587. Value of taxable property $5,359,650.
March 25-Steamers Thos. Swann, of the Louisville and Wheeling line, and Alle- gheny, of the Cincinnati and Pittsburgh line, in racing, make the trip from Cincin- nati to Maysville, 61 miles by U. S. survey measurement, in 5 hours 15 minutes.
Wire suspension bridge over the Licking river, at Falmouth, completed ; span 323 feet, width 16 feet, total length 432 feet, height of towers 30 feet.
Lithographie stone found near Hawes- ville and near Frankfort, the latter equal to the finest German.
April 4-Mason county, by 105 majority, subscribes $100,000 to the Maysville and Big Sandy railroad. Paducah votes $200,- 000 to a branch from that place to the Mobile and Ohio railroad.
Nov. 15-Public dinner by prominent citizens in New York city to John J. Crit- tenden and to Henry T. Duncan of Lex- $75,000 Louisville eity school bonds sold childs, at 9812. ington-the latter on a mission to raise the to Angust Belmont, agent of the Roths- means of erecting a monument over the remains of Henry Clay.
April 18-Death, at his residence in Ala- bama, of Win. R. King, vice president of the U. S. David R. Atchison, of Mo. (a native of Ky.) as president of the U. S. senate, becomes acting. vice president.
May 8-U. S. military asylum located at the Harrodsburg Springs, which are purchased for that purpose from Dr. C. Graham at $100,000.
May 12-Louisville city council agrees to submit to a vote of the people & propo-
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sition to endorse the bonds of the Louis- ville and Frankfort railroad company for $500,000, to enable it to construct a branch railroad from Frankfort to Harrodsburg ; and also agrees to subscribe $300,000 to- wards the extension of said road beyond Harrodsburg towards Knoxville, Tenn.
The will of the late Gen. James Taylor, of Newport, Ky., recorded in 26 counties in Ohio, because he owned real estate in them all. It covers 1212 pages royal Svo., closely written, and relates to property valued at $4,000,000.
May 18-Steamboat Eclipse reaches Lou- isville from New Orleans, 1440 miles, in 4 days 9 hours and 31 minutes, running against a rise in the Mississippi. Her time, compared with that of the J. M. White, May 8, 1844, (until now the fastest, to Cairo and St. Louis) was, in days, hours and minutes :
Eclipse. J. M. White.
D. H. M.
D. H. M.
To Baton Rouge 0 9 27
Natchez, 277 miles 0 19 46 0 20 40
Vicksburg, 401 " 1 4 11 1 5 55
J. M. White 48 hour
sign 1 22 38 Memphis, 818 miles ... 2 9 55 J. M. White 3 day sign 2 22 21
2 0 0
2 12 8
3 0 0
3 6 44
Cairo, 1,077 miles .. 3 4 4 Paducah, 1,124 miles .. 3 7 20 Evansville, 1,161 miles 3 18 34 Creek above Hawes- ville. 4 0 0 Louisville, 1,444 miles 4 9 31
The J. M. White's time to St. Louis was 3 days 23 hours 9 minutes. The Eclipse, in May, 1852, made the run from New Orleans to Louisville in 4 days 18 hours.
May 22-Steamboat A. L. Shotwell reaches Louisville from New Orleans in 4 days 10 hours 20 minutes-just 51 minutes longer time than the Eclipse, four days previous. The Shotwell's time to Natchez was 3 minutes more than that of the Eclipse, but to Cairo was 24 minutes less.
Passengers by the Eclipse to Louisville who took the Wheeling packet Alvin Adams, reached Maysville in 5 days 7 hours 15 minutes from New Orleans-the quickest trip yet made, notwithstanding the Adams delayed at Louisville 112 hours, and lost at Madison 114 and at Cincinnati 312 hours.
May 23-Chas. Ellet, civil engineer, pub- lishes his plan for improving the naviga- tion of the Ohio river, by a system of reservoirs. Only three or four dams-no higher than those on the Schuylkill navi- gation-placed across the Allegheny, Mo- nongahela, and Kanawha rivers, above navigation, would be sufficient to equalize the depth of water of at least FIVE FEET. " He hazards the opinion that less than $1,250,000 will suffice: 1, To supply the Ohio with a depth sufficient for boats of five feet draught ; 2, To carry an open and permanent river navigation up the Alle- gheny to Franklin ; 3, To provide a slack- water navigation during three-fourths of
the year from Franklin to the line of the Erie railroad in New York ; 4, To improve the navigation of the Monongahela into Virginia ; 5, To extend that of the Ka- nawha river for 70 or 80 miles above Point Pleasant ; 6, Thus supplying water of un- rivalled capacity and permanence on nu- merous lines of steamboat navigation, and curbing most essentially the destructive power of floods." He gives the levels of the Ohio above tidewater, at the following places :
Ohio river at Condesport, Pa ... 1,649 ft.
Olean Point, N. Y 1,403 -
Warren, Pa. 1,187
Franklin, Pa .. 960
Pittsburgh, Pa 699
Wheeling, Va 620
Marietta, Ohio 571
Mouth of Kanawha river, Va. 522
Portsmouth, Ohio 474
Cincinnati, Ohio 432
New Albany, Ind.
353
Mouth of Wabash river, Ind. 297
Mouth of the Ohio 275
From Cairo to Pittsburgh the average inclination of the Ohio is 5 1-5 inches, but from Pittsburgh to Olean Point, the incli- nation is 2 feet 10 inches.
May 26-The Presbyterian General As- sembly (old school), in session at Phila- delphia, unanimously resolves to establish a first class theological seminary in the West, sclects Danville as the location, and elects professors.
June 29 -Thermometer at Louisville ranged from 98° to 103º, in the shade.
July-50 head of Durham cattle, 32 sheep, one celebrated Cleveland Bay horse, and a Neapolitan sow with a litter of pigs, imported by R. Aitcheson Alexander and by a company of farmers in Bourbon, Fay- ette and Clark counties. The cattle were selected from Lord Feversham's and other noted herds in England.
July 25-Railroad convention at Rich- mond, attended by delegations from North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Ohio, to promote the construction of a road from Lexington to Cumberland Gap.
July 27-Lexington lighted with gas.
Aug. 1-Five whigs, Ben. Edwards Grey, Presley Ewing, Clement S. Hill, William Preston, and Leander M. Cox, and five democrats, Linn Boyd, Jas. S. Chrisman (by 35 votes over Thos. E. Bramlette), John M. Elliott, John C. Breckinridge (by 526 votes over ex-Gov. Robert P. Letcher), and Richard H. Stanton, elected to con- gress ; 22 whigs and 16 democrats to the state senate, and 55 whigs and 45 demo- crats to the house of representatives. The prohibitory liquor law succeeded in Boyle county by 162, and in Gerrard by 99 ma- jority. In Muhlenburg, the temperance ticket for all county officers elected.
Aug. 1-Thos. D. Brown, clerk of the Hardin circuit court, shot, not fatally, in a personal difficulty, by his brother-in-law, Bryan R. Young, ex-member of congress.
Aug. 8-525 visitors at the Lower Blue Lick Springs.
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Aug. 13-Thermometer 100° to 102º, in the shade.
A silk factory in operation at Newport.
Aug. 25-Remarkably fine fruit season : Peaches grown weighing 9 to 934 ounces. 912 to 10 inches in circumference, and sell- ing for $10 per bushel ; imperial gage- plums measuring 5 to 612 inches, and weighing 2 to 212 ounces; egg-plums weighing 33 of an ounce; yellow gage- plums, 7 to a pound, one weighing 21/3 ounces ; apples 1512 to 1614 inches in cir- cumference, weighing 25}2, 26 and 31 ounces; two watermelons, 42 and 65 pounds.
A Ky. mule, 19% hands or 6 feet 6 inches high, weight 2,200 pounds, sym- metrical and docile, on exhibition in Charleston, S. C.
Aug. 19-Public sale at Brutus J. Clay's farm, near Paris, of the English stock im- ported by the Northern Ky. Importing Co. 10 bulls sold for $1,000, $1,425, $1,500, $1,800, $2,000, $2,575, $3,005, $4,525, $4,850, and $6,001; 13 cows and heifers for $535 to $1,500, and 2 cows at $3,025 and $3,050 ; a Cleveland Bay horse, Young Lord, for $2,800 ; Cotswold bucks at $710; $1,010, and ewes at $105 to $270; South- down bucks at $340, $400, and $755, and ewes at $180 to $350; Leicester buck and ewes at $50 to $52 each. Total cost of the bulls to day of sale $4,835; they sold for $28,681 ; the cows and heifers cost $5,924, and sold for $20,230; the horse cost $889, sold for $2,800; the 17 sheep sold for $5,263. A few days after, Jas. S. Matson sold his imported bull, John O'Gaunt, for $4,000.
Aug. 30-A comet in the west, visible to the naked eye about an hour after sun- get; its nucleus of the brightness of a star of the third magnitude ; discovered June 10, and steadily increasing in brightness.
Logan county, by 809 majority, sub- scribes $300,000 to the Louisville and Memphis railroad.
Ang. 28-Slight earthquake at Hickman.
Sept. 5-The contributions from Ken- tucky to the World's Fair at New York attract great attention ; in hemp and to- bacco outstripping all the United States, as well as Russia, Austria and Cuba. A bale of hemp from J. J. Hunter, of Lexing- ton, is remarkably fine in fibre and silk- like in texture; a hogshead of tobacco from Tabb, Taylor & French, of Dover, stands bare, and some leaves are shown 312 feet long and 2 feet wide, which excel all others in appearance and quality ; and the " Henry Clay quilt" made by Miss Ellen Anderson, of Louisville, is exquis- itely beautiful and one of the most inter- esting and elegant objects on exhibition. Col. Wm. Shepard Rand is the official com- missioner for Ky.
Sept. 15-Shelby county, by 301 majority, subscribes $500,000 to aid the Louisville and Frankfort R. R. Co. in constructing a railroad from Hobbs' station, through Shel- byville and Harrodsburg, towards Knox- ville.
Sept. 9-Stephen F. J. Trabue sub- scribes $1,000 to the Clay monument at Lexington.
Sept. 20-Ashland, the home of Henry Clay, in order to close up his estate, sold at publie auction ; his son, James B. Clay, bought it, 337 acres, at $140 per acre.
Sept. 22-A mammoth ox. over 19 hands high and weighing over 5,000 pounds, ex- hibited on the Lexington Fair grounds.
Oet. 6-Opening of the Maysville and Lexington railroad, at the Maysville end.
Oct. 9-Great hail storm in Fayette and Woodford counties ; hail, in many places, 12 to 13 inches deep ; corn crops cut down, fodder stripped off, and ears shelled of the grain ; $100,000 estimated damage.
Oet. 22-Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, D.D., LL.D., resigns the office of superin- tendent of publie instruction. Rev. John D. Matthews, D.D., appointed his suc- cessor.
Oct. 27-63 people of color, most of them emancipated for the purpose, leave Louisville as emigrants to Liberia on the west coast of Africa.
Nov. 2-Wm. H. G. Butler, principal of the Louisville High School, killed by Matt. F. Ward, in the school room, in presence of the scholars.
Nov. 15-Great falling off, this year, in the manufacture of Bourbon whiskey.
Nov. 18-Judgment in the Jefferson cir- euit court, Louisville, for $5,000 in favor of Mrs. Waring os. the Nautilus Insurance Co. of N. Y., for a policy upon the life of Rev. Thos. Waring, of the Methodist E. Church South-who disappeared mysteri- ously in Dee., 1848, believed to have been murdered near Elizabethtown. The Co. had refused payment, alleging their belief that he had absconded and was not dead. The jury in the case was not out 10 min- utes, so convinecd were they of his death, notwithstanding the depositions of two persons who swore to having seen him since the date of his disappearance.
Several Canada papers commence an- nouncing, as news, the arrivais of runaway slaves from Kentucky and other slave states.
Nov. 19-The ceremony of "breaking ground " upon the Lexington and Big Sandy railroad, at Catlettsburg; large crowd and handsome speeches.
Nov. 28-First inundated two-wire tele- graph cable ever laid, just laid across the Ohio river at Maysville. A cable, of a dif- ferent style, across the Ohio and Tennessee rivers at Paducah.
Nov. 26-Pulaski county votes, by 600 majority, $200,000 toward a railroad from Hobbs' Depot, near Louisville, to Knox- ville.
Dec .- Jocl T. Hart, the Ky. sculptor at Florence, Italy, has just finished three marble busts of distinguished Kentuckians, John J. Crittenden, Chas. A. Wickliffe, and Henry Clay. He is also at work on a full length statue of Mr. Clay, for the Indies of Richmond, Va.
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New "Capital Hotel " at Frankfort opened.
Dec. 5-Linn Boyd, of Ky., elected speaker of the house of representatives of congress, receiving 143 votes ; he had pre- viously been nominated by a caucus of the democratic members. David R. Atchison, of Mo. (a native of Ky.) is speaker of the senate.
James Guthrie, U. S. secretary of the treasury, in his annual report says that, under the operation of an act of the Ky. legislature, the 10,000 shares of stock in the Louisville and Portland canal have been bought up and reduced to 3,712-of which 2,902 belong to the U. S., and 810 to individuals. In one year longer, these 810 shares will be absorbed, and the U. S. be the sole stockholder. Hereafter, only sufficient tolls to pay expenses and repairs are to be charged.
Dec. 10-Nearly $1,000,000 have been invested by Kentuckians, during the last 18 months, in real estate in and around Chicago. .
Dec. 12-An association formed and charter obtained in Ohio to build a railroad from Dayton, by way of Blanchester, to Maysville, Ky. ; will probably pass through the towns of Waynesville in Warren county, Blanchester, in Clinton county, and Fay- etteville, New Hope, Georgetown and Rip- ley in Brown county.
Dec. 18-Shock of earthquake at Hick- man, severe enough to throw down several stove pipes.
Dec. 25-Regular trains running from Lexington to Paris, over the Maysville and Lexington railroad.
Covington recognized as the metropolis of a Roman Catholic diocese, and a Cathe- dral church now building.
Wire suspension bridge between Cov- ington and Newport completed, at a cost of $80,000.
Dec. 28-Covington lighted with gas.
Dec. 31-Legislature meets. John B. Thompson having resigned the office of lieutenant governor, Henry G. Bibb is, on the 9th ballot, Jan. 2, elected speaker of the senate. Chas. G. Wintersmith elected speaker of the house, on the 4th ballot, Dec. 31.
1854, Jan. 2-In Maysville, the vote for license was 145, against it 159-maj. 14. In Lexington, Jan. 7, the temperance candidates for mayor and council defeated, except 2 councilmen.
Jan. 10-John J. Crittenden elected U. S. senator for 6 years from March 4, 1855, when the term of Archibald Dixon will expire; Crittenden (whig) 78, Lazarus W. Powell (democrat) 59.
The sheriff of Powell county, J. A. Daw- son, pays to the state auditor the revenue of that county, without reporting a single delinquent.
Jan. 14-The Detroit Free Democrat publishes in its market reports the arrivals of fugitive slaves-20 from different parts of Ky. in ten days-at that place. Canada papers also report them.
Jan. 16-Fall of the suspension bridge at Covington.
Jan. 17-Madame Sontag gives her first concert in Louisville.
Jan. 22-Violent wind storm along the Ohio river ; 15 coal boatmen perished, 110 coal boats and over 1,000,000 bushels coal lost.
Jan. 24-S. W. Robinson, of Greene county, on a banter, rides on horseback, without change of horse, from Munfords- ville to Louisville, 77 miles, over a very bad road, in 812 hours ; weight carried, 200 pounds.
Jan. 21-The citizens of Covington by vote authorize the city council to endorse the bonds of the Louisville and Covington railroad to amount of $500,000.
At the New York crystal palace exhibi- tion of the industry of all nations, the highest premiums were awarded for the fol- lowing articles from Ky. : 1. Silver medal to the Newport silk manufacturing com- pany, for perfection and general excellence of silk from cocoon of Ky. growth ; bronze medals 2. To Miss Ellen Anderson, of Louisville, for patchwork quilt "Henry , Clay ;" 3. To John J. Hunter, of Lexing- ton, for Ky. dressed hemp ; 4. To Robert Usher, of Louisville, for beef, hams and spiced meats ; 5. To Hayes, Craig & Co., of Louisville, for hats and caps. No second premiums were awarded ; the competition extensive and severe. Jan. 20, the Ky. legislature passes a vote of thanks to Col. Win. S. Rand for his fidelity and energy as Ky. commissioner at the exhibition.
Jan. 30-Great excitement and indigna- tion at Newport, because of Judge Alvin Duvall's decision, denying the right claimed by the Newport and Cincinnati packet company to run their steamboat, Commodore, as a ferry boat between those cities, under a U. S. coasting license, and in violation of the ferry right of James Taylor and others ; an injunction granted to restrain same.
Feb. 6-Great fire at Richmond; 18 houses, a whole square, burned.
Feb. 9-Preamble and resolutions, of- fered by D. Howard Smith, in reference to the public services and death of Henry Clay, draw forth some of the finest bursts of eloquence ever heard in the legislative halls. They direct the halls to be clad in mourning for the residue of the session, besides other demonstrations of mourning.
Feb. 11-The eight per cent. conven- tionalinterest bill, which passed the senate by 17 to 16, defeated in the house by yeas 40, nays 52.
Feb. 11-Legislature appropriates $25,- 000 towards re-building the Ky. institution for the education of the blind ....... .18- And $7,500 for additional buildings at the deaf and dumb asylum ......... 23-Cedes to the U. S. jurisdiction over the Harrodsburg springs for a military asylum ... . Directs a sword to be presented to Henry E. Read, of Larue county, late ensign in Col. An- drews' regiment of voltigeurs, for gallant services in bearing the flag of his country
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through all the battles in the valley of Mexico, until he fell covered with wounds under the walls of Chapultepec.
Feb. 12-Three earthquake shocks, at 6 P. M., at midnight, and at 5 next A. M., at Manchester, and for 25 miles around.
Feb. 16-Public dinner at the new Capi- tal Hotel, Frankfort, to ex-Gov. John J. Crittenden, by the Whig members of the legislature and the Whig citizens of Frank- fort.
54 shares Northern Bank of Ky. stock sold, at Lexington, at $116.50 per share.
200 persons join two Methodist churches in Covington, 87 a Methodist chapel in Harrison county, and 37 the Presbyterian church in Maysville. Much religious in- terest in other parts of the state, and in all denominations.
Feb. 22-Gov. Jos. A. Wright, of Indi- ana-by invitation of Gov. Powell-is met at Louisville by a committee of the legis- lature, and visits Frankfort; enthusiastic and handsome reception.
Feb. 28-Shock of earthquake, felt at Paris, Lexington, Richmond, Barbours- ville, and other points.
Feb. 21-Gov. Powell vetoes the bill ap- portioning the state into 10 congressional districts ; the senate again passes it by 21 to 12, and the house by 53 to 46, and it becomes a law " the governor's objections to the contrary notwithstanding."
Feb. 28-Gov. Powell vetoes the bill incorporating the Planters and Manu- facturers' Bank at Louisville - capital $2,600,000, with privilege to extend it to $3,600,000-with branches at Eddyville, Hawesville, Glasgow, Elizabethtown, Shel- byville, Cynthiana, Winchester, Barbours- ville, and Catlettsburg ; and also the bill changing the Deposit Bank of Covington into the Savings' Bank of Ky., capital $800,000, with branches at Springfield and Burksville. The house refused to pass either bill, over the governor's veto. the former by yeas 43, nays 45, and the latter by yeas 40, nays 47; but the senate passed the latter bill, over the veto, by yeas 20, nays 15.
Besides these, the house had passed, by 47 to 45, a bill to establish the Milton Bank of Ky., capital $800,000, with branches at Lancaster, Stanford, and Pres- tonsburg ; it was defeated in the senate by a tie vote. Other bank bills were pending, or ready to be reported for action : Falls City Bank of Ky. at Louisville, $600,000 capital, and one branch; Northeastern Bank of Ky. at Maysville, $1,000,000 cap- ital ; a bank at Paducah, $300,000 capital. [It would have been wise if Ky. had sooner checked the tendency to increase banks and banking privileges, with the resulting inflation of currency. Illinois and Indiana have recently largely in- creased their banking capital, under the free banking system.]
Feb. 28-Alex. Mcclintock, of Nicholas county, left standing in the rick, for one year longer than usual, part of his hemp crop-which proves very bright, 200 pounds
to the acre heavier than that not ricked- over, and commands a price higher than Russia hemp.
March 1-Legislature appropriates $10,- 000 to aid in the erection of a monument over the grave of Henry Clay ......... 6-Act imposing fine of $100 for betting on elec- tions, and also forfeits to the state the money or property won ......... Geological and mineralogical survey of the state or- dered, and $10,000 appropriated to pay the expense .. .7-Vote to be taken in Au- gust, 1855, upon the propriety and ex- pediency of increasing the common school tax three cents upon cach $100 of taxable property. ...... 9-Code of practice in crim- inal cases established .. .. $17,500 appro- priated to rebuild that part of Eastern lunatic asylum destroyed by fire ......... Sal- aries of the court of appeals judges raised to $2,000, and of the circuit court judges to $1,800 ......... $2,000 each appropriated to the commissioners who prepared the re- vised statutes, $500 additional to Chas. A. Wickliffe for superintending the publica- tion, full pay to the public printer for printing them, and $300 to Wm. L. Cal- lender for arranging the index and side notes .... ... $1,000 each [additional to $1,000 two years ago] appropriated to Madison C. Johnson, James Harlan, and John W. Stevenson (in place of Preston S. Loughborough, resigned) for preparing and completing a code of practice in civil and criminal proceedings ... $1,250 per annum appropriated for the support of Cumberland hospital, $20,000 for the sup- port of the lunatic asylum at Lexington and $15,000 for arrearages due same, $15,- 550 for the support of the second Ky. luna- tic asylum, and $14,017 for completing the buildings of same. . Price of vacant lands belonging to the state-in the coun- ties of Greenup, Lawrence, Carter, Pike, Knox, Laurel, Whitley, Rockcastle, Perry, Letcher, Owsley, Breathitt, Clay, Harlan, Morgan and Pulaski-reduced to 232 cents per acre ... ..... 10-The revenue to be paid into the Treasury hereafter in December, instead of in January .. .. Any person carrying concealed deadly weapons shall be fined from $50 to $100, and on any subsequent conviction from $100 to $500. The carrying of such weapons made legal, 1. Where the person has reasonable grounds to believe himself, or some of his family or his property, in danger from violence or crime ; 2. Where officers of the law earry weapons for their protection ; or 3. Where persons are required by business or occupation to travel in the night.
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