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Dec. 10-Between 1,000 and 1,200 bales of cotton produced in Hickman co., this year.
Dec. 14-The bill legalizing negro suf- frage in the District of Columbia passes the U. S. house of representatives by 118 to 46-all the Ky. members voting against it.
Dec. 15-President.Johnson grants par- dons to Gen. Abraham Buford and Gen. Humphrey Marshall. He had previously pardoned Gen. Geo. B. Hodge and others.
Dec. 24-Al. McRoberts, a negro, des- perate and of bad character, resists and shoots a constable while arresting him, at Danville, and is himself shot. At 11 P. M., a mob takes him from the jail, and hangs him in the old graveyard.
Dec. 27-Thos. Shelton, now 91 years old, re-elected a justice of the peace of Huntington township, Brown co., Ohio. His residence is in Aberdeen, opposite Maysville, Ky .; he has held the office 53 years in succession, and has married 3,100 couples, most of them "runaways" from Kentucky.
Dec. 31-0. B. Duke killed, at Mount- sterling, by Wm. Barnes, whose life the former had threatened. Dec. 3 - Duke had been taken to Louisville for killing a lieutenant in the regular army, (his 6th victim ), and remanded to the civil author- ities for trial.
1867, Jan. 1 - During the year 1866, there were in Louisville 116 fires, with an aggregate loss of $408,055, of which $290,- 230 were covered by insurance.
Jan. 2-Judge Jos. Doniphan grants an injunction restraining the city council of Covington from transferring to Vincent Shinkle the $100,000 of stock held by the city in the Cincinnati and Covington bridge.
Jan. 2-Northern Bank of Ky. declares
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a semi-annual dividend of 12 per cent., Bank of Ky. 3, Farmers' Bank 5, and People's Bank and Bank of Louisville each 4 per cent.
Jan. 4- Documents accompanying the governor's message show the total amount of money received by the Military Author- ities of Ky. from Jan. 1, 1861, to Jan. 1, 1866 $4,095,314 Amount disbursed during same
time .. .$3,331,077
Amount refunded to
banks (loans) ...... 661,941
Balances due by quar-
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ers . 81,051-4,074,069
Amount on hand. $21,245
Outstanding claims against Military Department .. $100,491
Balance due banks for loans ... $2,601,585 Balance due Ky. by U. S. gov- ernment. .$2,438,347 Jan. 7-A special report by the auditor shows 187,870 "qualified voters" in the state.
Jan. 10-Geo. and Alfred Underwood, two notorious and desperate characters in eastern Ky., are pursued into West Vir- ginia, and arrested for horse-stealing, &c.
Jan. 10-The senate by 24 to 9, and the house by 67 to 27, passed a resolution- which Gov. Bramlette approved-rejecting the following amendment to the Constitu- tion of the United States :
ARTICLE XIV.
SEC. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or en- force any law which shall abridge the privileges or immuuities of citizens of the United States ; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
SEC. 2. Representatives shall be appor- tioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, exeluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for president and vice president of the United States, representa- tives in congress, the executive and judi- cial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of
the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.
SEC. 3. No person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or elector of president and vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legis- lature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability.
SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in sup- pressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of
Jan. 8-The final report to the legisla- ture of the Southern Bank of Ky., in wind- ing up, shows that the state has received . upon her $600,000 of stock, $600,000 in gold and silver (which sold for $973,080 in legal tender notes), and two installments in currency of $120,000 and $18,750-in all : insurrection or rebellion against the United $1,111,830 ; all this, in addition to hand- States, or any claim for the loss or eman- cipation of any slave ; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void. some annual dividends during the life of the bank, from .1850 to Jan. 1864-about 1312 years.
SEC 5. The congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Jan. 12-Geo. D. Blakey, as one of the commissioners for affixing the valuation of enlisted slaves of Ky. loyal owners, denies, as "malignantly and slanderously false," the charge recently made by a Ky. member of congress, Samuel McKee, that "the compensation for eight out of ten enlisted slaves in Ky. would go into the pockets of rebels;" and adds that "he will pay all such, if the M. C. will examine the report of awards now on file in the war department at Washington city, and show that one or more awards are made to one or more rebels."
Jan. 14-An auditor's report shows, as paid out since Feb. 17, 1866, for red foxes $5,412, for grey foxes $2,516, for wildcats $38812, for wolves $2012 ; total for "scalps" $8,337.
Jan. 16-Judge Richard Hawes, of the Bourbon county court, on habeas corpus, releases from apprenticeship and remands to their mother two minor colored chil- dren-declaring these and all other con- tracts of apprenticeship by the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in Ky. null and roid. The provisions of the law estab- lishing said Bureau are not applicable to Ky., but to those states only which have been in rebellion and where the ordinary process of law was suspended by armed force. Kentucky has not been in rebellion ;
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but throughout the war was a loyal state ; One, two, or three ballotings were had,
and as such fully represented in the U. S. congress ; and only during the temporary occupancy of the state by the Confederate forces in the fall of 1862, was the ordinary process of the law suspended.
Jan. 20-An Indianapolis, Indiana, firm challenges all Ky. to beat "33 hogs, all raised by one man, average weight 456 pounds and highest weight 641 pounds." A Boyle county farmer responds with "21 head, age under 19 months, average weight 463 pounds." Bourbon county responds liberally thus :
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Jan. 23-Town of East Maysville an- nexed, by act of the legislature, to the city of Maysville.
Jan. 24-The legislature on Feb. 17, 1860, directed the governor to procure four gold medals-one each for Jas. Artus, Dr. Wm. T. Taliaferro, Jno. Tucker, and Jno. Norris, all in 1813 residents of Mason co., but Norris now a resident of Boone co., and Dr. Taliaferro of Cincinnati, Ohio- "as survivors of the Ky. volunteers who- at the request of Commodore Perry-with such ready alacrity and heroism, repaired on board his fleet and assisted in achiev- ing the glorious victory of Sept. 10, 1813, over the British fleet on Lake Erie." [The medals were promptly procured, but, in the excitement of the intervening times, overlooked, and are only now delivered.] March 9-A similar gold medal was di- rected to be made for Ezra Younglove, another surviving soldier who fought in the battle of Lake Erie-not known to the legislature to be living, when the medals were first ordered.
Jan. 26-The city of Louisville, by a popular vote of 1,101 for and 698 against, subscribes $1,000,000 to complete the Leb- anon Extension railroad to Knoxville. Jan. 26-The legislature passes an act to establish the county of Henrietta, out of that portion of Trigg county which lies between the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers and in addition a very small patch of Marshall county, 1 mile each on its northern and western, and less than 112 miles each on its southern and eastern boundaries-purposely to include East and West Aurora, on the Tennessee river, one of which shall be the county-seat. But its establishment is dependent upon the approval of the voters in Trigg county at the next August election. [The majority voted against the new county, and it was not established.]
Jan. 27-Death, at Frankfort, of ex- Judge Mason Brown, aged 67.
Jan. 31-A ten per cent. conventional interest bill passed the house by 50 to 36, but was lost in the senate by 16 to 18. Jan. 30-Garret Davis re-elected U. S. senator for six years from Mareh 4, 1867.
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Feb. 5- A man named Trowbridge, charged with stealing, taken by a mob .from the jail in Danville, Boyle co., and hung. Feb. 5-Legislature establishes a court of common pleas in the 1st, 3d, and 14th judicial districts
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companies for mining and manufacturing, boring for petroleum and salt water, trans- porting coal, &e., shall be incorporated ... . Establishes a criminal court in the counties of Kenton, Campbell, Pendleton, Harrison, and Bracken . .... .. 8-Estab-
lishes the Jefferson court of common pleas . Appropriates $21,000 to the Western Lunatic asylum ..... .. 11-Requires county
...... 20,21-Salaries courts to provide fire-proof vaults or safes to preserve the public records .. lishes the county of Robertson (named after ex-chief justice Geo. Robertson) out of parts of the counties of Mason, Bracken, Harrison, and Nicholas, with the county seat at Mt. Olivet ......... 18-Provides for an election of members of the 40th con- gress on May 4, 1867, instead of at the next August election. .... .. Estab-
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of the quartermaster general and adju- tant general of the state each raised to $2,400, and $6,000 appropriated for clerks to assist the latter in preparing the 2d volume of his " Report of Ky. Officers and
....... 28-County of .Josh Bell es- Soldiers during the late War." .. Governor's salary increased to $4,000 per annum .. tablished (named after ex-congressman Joshua F. Bell), in the extreme south- eastern part of the state, (which includes Cumberland Gap,) and out of parts of
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Harlan and Knox counties-with county- seat at Pineville, on the Cumberland river. Importation and sale of Texas cattle between March 1 and Nov. 1 in each year, prohibited.
Feb. 10-Butterfield, Stacy & Co., of Cincinnati, purchase of Wm. L. Sudduth 11,000 acres of land, on the Licking river, in Bath co .- valuable for eoal, iron and timber ; they will initiate a heavy lumber- ing business.
Feb. 10-A burr oak tree, cut on the farm of Meredith Anderson, near Oxford, Scott co., measured 70 feet in length and 7 feet in diameter ; the top made .18 and the body 25 eords of wood, which sold on the ground for $5 per cord, or $215 in all.
Feb. 13-In the senate, a proposition to remove the seat of government from Frank- fort to Lexington was voted down-as, also, to Danville, Bowlinggreen, and Lou- ville, respectively ; and then the resolu- tion was laid upon the table. March 1- The house by 42 to 37 passed a bill submit- ting to a vote of the people, next August, the question of removing the seat of gov- ernment to Louisville-a defeat thereof to be regarded as instructions to make appropriations to rebuild or enlarge the capitol and public buildings at Frankfort. Next day, the speake. ( Harrison Taylor) decided that the bill had not received the Constitutional majority [at least 51 votes], and therefore had not passed.
Feb. 13- In the house of representa- tives was presented, by Henry D. Mc- Henry, a petition which set forth that the "following named persons, being duly eleeted by the Synod of Ky., constitute the Board of Trustees of the Centre Col- lege of Ky., viz .: Rev. Dr. Edward P. Humphrey, Rev. Robert F. Caldwell, Gen. Jerry T. Boyle, Thos. Barbee, Wm. Ernst, Glass Marshall, Geo. Frank Lee, Judge T. T. Alexander, Rev. Robert L. Breck, L. L. Warren, Rev. Ezekiel Forman-(11)- Judge Wm. B. Kinkead, Rev. Miles Saun- ders, Rev. Thos. A. Bracken, Rev. Jas. V. Logan, Dr. J. M. Meyer, J. G. Phillips, and Isaac C. Vanmeter. That the Board of Trustees - Glass Marshall chairman, and Rev. Jas. V. Logan secretary-met in Louisville Feb. 11th, 1867, in aceord- ance with the instruction of the Synod of Ky. - petition the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Ky., (as desired and recommended by the Synod, in session the same day, with Rev. Rutherford Douglass as Moderator, Rev. Robert Morrison as temporary clerk, and Rev. Thomas A. Bracken as stated elerk pro tem.,) for such change of the charter of the college as will better secure the interests of the Synod of Ky. in said college, and as is in substance set forth in the following proposed bill; viz .:
and whereas that one of said bodies of clergy and elders of which Rev. Rutherford Douglass is Moderator, and which claims to be a majority of the Presbyterian clergy and elders, and to represent a large major- ity of the Presbyterian churches and peo- ple of Ky., and to be, in fact and in right, the true Synod of Ky., has authorized the Board of Trustees of said college to peti- tion this General Assembly, and certain persons elaiming to be said board have made petition for a change or modification of the charter in order to promote the pros- perity of the college, and render more se- cure to the true Synod its control ; now,
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General As- sembly of the Commonwealth of Ky., That if it shall be decided and settled by the civil courts that the body of elergy and elders of which said Douglass is Modera- tor, and which has approved the petition of said persons claiming to be the Board of Trustees of the Centre College of Ky., is now the true Synod of Ky., and author- ized under the charter to appoint Trustees, and to make or approve such petition, then the clause in the charter which de- scribes the Synod of Ky. as "in connec- tion with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," is hereby repealed, and said Synod and its successors shall continue to exercise exclusively the power of elect- ing Trustees of the Centre College of Ky., and all other rights over or concerning the college granted in the charter, whether in connection with said General Assembly or not.
Joshua F. Bell, Feb. 18, presented an earnest remonstrance from "the Board of Trustees of Centre College, by John M. Harlan, their counsel," "against any such legislation as that asked for above, or any other legislation in regard to said college." They claim that there are 19 Trustees, of whom " the right of 12 to act as Trustees is unquestioned by any one, they having been elected by the Synod of Ky. before any di- vision therein," viz .: the 11 first named above, and Jas. Barbour [whose name does not appear in the list of Trustees in the offi- cial printed "Minutes of the Synod of Ky. for Oct. 1865," either as one re-elected then (when his term expired), or as one holding over.] "As to the 7 remaining Trustees, there is a dispute between the two rival synods-each body having, in 1866, elected 7 to act in conjunction with the old Trustees. Those now in charge of Centre College rec- ognize the following new Trustees : Rev. John L. MeKce, Rev. Dr. Win. C. Mat- thews, Rev. Aaron A. Hogue, Rev. Sidney S. McRoberts, Rev. Richard Valentine, Gco. W. Welsh, and D. J. Curry." They file scorn statements of each one whom they claim to be Trustecs (except Glass Mar- shall, Geo. F. Lec, Rev. Robert L. Breck, and Rev. Ezekiel Forman); and the vari- ous legislative acts, amended acts, com- pacts or agreements, &e., incorporating and controlling the eollege ; and a strong
WHEREAS, There now exist in Ky. two distinct bodies of Presbyterian elergy and elders, cach claiming to be the Synod of Ky., and to have the right to elect Trus- tees of the Centre College of Ky., and other rights over and concerning said college; | condensed argument of their case, pre-
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pared by two able lawyers-all which the house ordered to be printed, and which is accordingly laid before the members as "Legislative Document No. 15."
The house committee on the judiciary, Feb. 18, reported the above bill to amend the charter of Center College, which had its first reading. Feb. 20, by 54 to 28, it was ordered to, and had, its second read- ing. A resolution to consider it in Com- mittee of the Whole, on Feb. 28, and hear the argument of counsel on the floor of the house, was laid on the table, by 53 to 24 ; the third reading was dispensed with, and the bill engrossed. Feb. 21, and again, Feb. 28, the merits of the bill were dis- cussed ; the vote was taken, and the bill rejected, by yeas 37, nays 44. March 2, a motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
Feb. 14-On motion of Joshua F. Bell, the house of representatives, by yeas 87, nays 1, resolved, " that this assembly and the people of Ky. are unalterably opposed to negro suffrage, whether unlimited or special, general or qualified ; and they do most earnestly protest against the passage of any law by congress which has for its object the extension of such suffrage in any state or territory."
Feb. 14, 17-Great freshets in the North Fork of Licking, in Benson creek in Frank- lin co., and in other small streams ; much damage.
Feb. 17-The "regulators," at 1 A. M., break open the jail at Danville, and take out Ed. Carrier, to hang him, but finding him not the man they want, return him to the jail unharmed. After other outrages, they seck Thos. Carrier, at his home near Parksville, Boyle co., and hang him.
Feb. 18-Brevet Maj. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Ky., formally notifies his agent at Paris, Henry C. Hastings, that "the decision of Judge Hawes, denying the legal existence of the Bureau in this state, is not regarded of any importance or bind- ing effect on the agent in Bourbon co. Had the proceedings before Judge Hawes resulted in taking the negro child away from Dudley Cummings, Gen. Davis would have used the U. S. troops to enforce his decision."
Feb. 20-Hemp crop of 1866 turning out very fine and yield heavy, in some cases 1,500 pounds of lint to the acre ; price $10 per 112 pounds.
Feb. 21 -Gov. Bramlette, by special message, calls the attention of the legisla- ture to the outrages and murders commit- ted by lawless bands of men in Marion, Boyle, and adjoining counties, who set themselves up as "Regulators" and exe- cute "Lynch law ;" and suggests that provision be made for their arrest and punishment.
Feb. 22-Democratic state convention at Frankfurt. The first ballot for nomince for governor stood : John L. Helm 448, Richard II. Stanton 218, Geo. W. Crad- dock 120, Win. F. Bullock 35, Col. Wm. C. P. Breckinridge 13.
Feb. 26-(Radical) Union state conven- tion at Frankfort. For nominee for gov- ernor, Col. Sidney M. Barnes 405, Col. R. Tarvin Baker 185.
Feb. 28-In accordance with the spirit of the governor's message and recom- mendation, the senate by a very large majority, and the house by 67 to 9, pass the following extraordinary amnesty bill, entitled "An act to quiet all disturbances growing out of the late rebellion :"
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky :
SEC. 1. That no officer, soldier, or sailor of the United States, or of the so-called Confederate States, and no person acting in conjunction or co-operating with any one of them, or with the authorities of either government, shall be held respon- sible, criminally or civilly, in the courts of this state, for any act done during the late rebellion by compulsion of, and under color of, military authority.
SEC. 2. That, for the purposes of this act, the rebellion shall be deemed to have commenced on the 1st day of May, A. D. 1861, and to have terminated on the 1st day of October, 1865.
SEC. 3. That nothing in this act shall preclude the maintaining an action for the recovery of money or property illegally or wrongfully taken, though taken under color of military authority, where the money or property is in the hands of the person who took the same, or of one claim- ing under him, or has been disposed of for his own personal benefit. But no recov- ery shall be had beyond the money or property so taken, or its value.
SEC. 4. That it is not intended by this act to declare that the rebellion was justi- fiable or proper, or that all acts done under color of the military authorities of the United States were right, but that for the purpose of giving tranquillity to the state, a general amnesty is given so far, that re- dress for wrongs done under color of au- thority of one or the other government shall not be given by the municipal courts of this state.
Feb. 28-$150,000 appropriated for ad- ditional buildings at the Eastern Lunatic Asylum.
Feb. 28-The senate, by 28 to 3, passed a bill forbidding a man or a woman to marry his or her cousin ; not reached in the house.
Feb. 28- Dr. John M. Johnson, for- merly a Ky. state senator from Paducah, but now residing in Georgia, petitions the legislature for an appropriation for the pur- pose of re-interring, in cemetery grounds at Atlanta, Georgia, already donated for the purpose, the Ky. Confederate dead who fell at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Dalton, Atlanta, Decatur, Jonesboro, and in East and Middle Tennessee ; about 300 are already identified, and 200 unidenti- fed; it will require about $20 each, or $10,000; Maj. Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, mil- itary commandant, and the city of Atlanta, have consented in writing. March i-The
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judiciary committee reported a resolution making the appropriation ; but, by 18 to 8, it was laid on the table.
March 1-Several cases (of persons charged with crime or other violations of state laws) which were removed to the U. S. district court, dismissed recently, or verdict of not guilty-because no witnesses present or no prosecution.
March 1-Col. Robert M. Kelly, U. S. revenue collector for the 17th district of Ky. (which includes Bourbon and other counties) reports 539,98614 gallons of whisky made in that district, between Feb. 1, 1866, and Feb. 25, 1867, and the tax of $2 per gallon thereon $1,079,972.
March 1- In the senate, a bill appro- priating $200,000 to enlarge the present Capitol, and provide apartments for public officers, was defeated by yeas 18, nays 17. Next day, it was reconsidered, and again defeated, yeas 18, nays 18. [The Consti- tution requires at least 21 votes in favor of any bill appropriating money.]
March 2- Taxation for sinking fund purposes reduced, by act of the legislature, five cents on the $100 .. Monuments ordered over the graves, in the Frankfort cemetery, of the late governors John J. Crittenden, Robert P. Letcher, and Wm. Owsley-to cost not over $1,500 each ....... 6-Governor authorized to borrow $350,000 from sinking fund commissioners or banks, if necessary to meet appropriations made at this session ..... .School law amended ; forbids a common school commissioner from being a teacher in any common school .. 7-Representation in the senate and house of representatives apportioned for the whole state; gives to the city of Louis- ville, by wards, 8 representatives and 2 senators, and to the city of Covington 2 representatives ......... 235 copies ordered to be purchased of Adj. Gen. Daniel W. Lindsey's Report for 1861-66, known as the "History of Kentucky Soldiers during the late War;" at same price as state printing and binding costs, with 10 per cent. added ... 8-Income on U. S. bonds to be taxed 5 per cent. on gross amount ......... 9-$109,027 appropriated to build additions to the penitentiary .. Additional capitation-tax of $2 on each colored male over 18 years levied, to be applied (together with all other taxes paid by colored people ) exclusively to the sup- port of colored paupers and education of colored children, in the county where paid. Turnpike road companies author- ized to charge stone quarries toll for the distance used, whether passing through a toll-gate or not .. . Law of 1865, raising rates of fare and freight on the Ky. Cen- tral, Louisville and Lexington, and Louis- ville and Nashville railroads, repealed.
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