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Patrols. 1850 vol. I 309 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0661 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. CHAPTER XVI. 1851. PATROLS. ARTICLE T. Appointment and duties. § 1. County courts shall, once in each year, divide their respective counties into as many districts as the public peace and good order of society may require, and appoint, in each district, a company of patrols, to consist of one captain, and not exceeding three men, to continue in ser- vice twelve months, unless removed by the county court for neglect of duty or improper conduct. None but discreet and sober men shall be appointed patrols; they shall take an oath, before a justice of the peace, faithfully, impartial- ly, and diligently to perform the duties of patrols. But patrols shall have jurisdiction co-extensive with the whole county. § 2. The county court shall prescribe the number of hours, in each month, the said company shall be on duty, in their bounds. § 3. Patrols shall visit negro quarters, and all suspected places, and places of unlawful assemblies of slaves, with- in their respective precincts. § 4. A slave found at unlawful assemblies, or strolling from one plantation to another, or found in a town or city without a written pass for the time, from his master or over- seer, or person having the control of him; or who shall sell, or offer to sell, any commodity, or have the same in his possession for sale, without the written authority of his master, or person controlling him, specifying the article to be sold, shall be punished by, and at the discretion of, the captain of the patrol, by any number of stripes not exceed- ing ten; or he may be taken, by the patrol, before a justice of the peace, and may, by the order of the justice, be pun- ished by stripes, not exceeding thirty-nine. § 5. Patrols shall each be paid by order of the county court, out of the county levy, a sum not exceeding one dollar for each ten hours they may have been purposely en- gaged in the performance of their duties. At the court of claims for the county, patrols shall present their claims for services, specifying the number of hours each has been en- gaged, and verified by the oath of the patrol, upon which the court shall fix the amount to be paid. ARTICLE II. Special patrol companies. § 1. The county courts, for counties bounded by the Ohio river, if they think proper, may, at any time, appoint for their respective counties a strong and active patrol, to con- sist of sober, discreet citizens, not to exceed thirty in any county, whose duty it shall be to guard and watch the