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Lieutenant Governor.

Morehead, (Opp.)
Taylor, (Adm.)

NEW CONSTITUTION.-By this resolution, the legislature most respectfully recommended to the people to urge it upon the candidates for the convention in the several districts, and upon the delegates elected to said convention, that, when the new constitution shall have been formed, it shall be submitted back to the people to receive their sanction by a majority of the votes in the state, before it shall become the established constitution.

KENTUCKY.

40,715 39,473

40,073 37,491

The legislature of Kentucky met at Frankfort, on Monday, Novem. ber 3d. J. J. Crittenden was elect ed speaker of the house of representatives without opposition. In the senate, lieutenant governor Morehead took his seat as presiding officer. The message of governor Breathitt was received on the same day.

The internal improvement of the state is pressed therein upon the consideration of the legislature. The improvement of the navigable stream of the state is recommended, especially that of the Green river, which has been surveyed, and can be cleared of its obstructions at a small expense. Forty-five miles of the Maysville and Lexington road have been put under contract; forty of which will be finished and opened for travel during the present year, and the remaining portion by the next. Only eighteen miles will remain to complete the whole.

Great interest is expressed for

the Lexington and Ohio rail-road, and the completion of the Louisville and Portland canal is announced.

Some changes are suggested in the mode of selecting juries, and it is especially recommended that they should receive a reasonable compensation for their services. Improvements in the militia system are pointed out as necessary, and alterations suggested in the laws relative to riots and the licensing of taverns, with a view to the suppres sion, as far as practicable, of the vice of intemperance.

On the subject of the state finan. ces, the governor announces a ba lance against the treasury, on the 10th of October last, of $147,534. The state has an unproductive capital of nearly six hundred thousand dollars, originally derived principally from the sales of Green river lands, and invested in stock of the Bank of Kentucky. That charter having been repealed, the state's proportion of the stock, as distributed and received, has been subscribed as stock in the bank of the commonwealth, where it has also been unproductive, that bank hav. ing also ceased to do business. The governor proposes the charter.

ing of a new bank, based on a sub. stantial capital, in which the state funds shall be re-invested.

LOUISVILLE CANAL.-The Louis, ville and Portland canal is about two miles in length, intended for steam-boats of the largest class, and to overcome a fall of twentyfour feet in the Ohio river, occa sioned by an irregular bed of lime stone rock, through which the canal is cut in its whole length, a part to the depth of 12 feet, averaging about 8 feet. The depth of the canal is 42 feet; it is 50 feet wide at the bottom, and 200 feet wide at the top; the width at the water line varies according to the height of water, which varies from 4 to 40 feet. There are one guard and three lift locks all combined; the line of lock wall is upwards of 900 feet; the guard-lock is 190 feet in the clear in length, 42 feet high, and 50 feet wide; the lift locks are each 185 feet long, clear measure, 50 feet wide and 20 feet high, all based on solid rock.

At extreme low water, full 4 feet can be found in the canal, at which time 10 inches only are on the falls, and 18 inches on the bars, above and below Louisville.

LEGISLATION.-At the session of the forty-first general assembly of this state, in 1832-3, two hundred and forty-five acts and eleven resolutions were passed.

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LUNATIC ASYLUM.-The committee of any person regularly found to be a lunatic, shall have the privilege of having such lunatic kept in the lunatic asylum, upon the terms the state is charged. When it shall appear to the satisfaction of the circuit court, that any idiot or lunatic permitted to go at large, and is dangerous to the people of the neighbourhood, the court is required to order said idiot or lu. natic to the lunatic asylum; if

any such idiot or lunatic have an estate, the proceeds of which are sufficient to maintain him, it is to be appropriated to that pur pose. Where, in the opinion of the physician and trustees of the asylum, any person confined in the asylum ought to perform moderate and necessary labour, it shall be lawful for the trustees and the manager to assign to any such person labour or work to perform; and the said trustees are further authorized to sell or exchange the product of all such labour, or appropri ate it for the use of the asylum, and comfort of the subjects of confinement.

BAIL.-It shall not be lawful to require any person to enter into a recognizance or to give surety to keep the peace, or to be of good behaviour for a longer period than one year, at any one time.

In all applications to bind over to keep the peace, or to be of a good behaviour, the court or justice is to hear testimony on the part of the defendant or defendants, if offer. ed, proving or tending to prove, that the application ought not to be sustained, and the applicant may offer countervailing testimony; and the court or justice shall thereupon decide whether the defendant or defendants shall be so bound over.

BANK.-An act was passed to establish the Bank of Louisville, with a capital stock of $2,000,000; the third section of the act provides, that if the bank shall at any time owe an amount exceeding twice the amount of capital stock actually paid in, exclusive of sums due on deposite, the president and directors shall be liable for any debts of the bank in their private capacities, provided the property of the bank be inadequate to satisfy the excess.

COAL COMPANY.-The Louisville

and Bonharbour Coal Company was incorporated; its capital is $200,000, which may be increased to $500,000. EVIDENCE.-It shall form no objection to the competency of any witness introduced on the part of the commonwealth, on the trial of a prosecution for forgery, that he or she is the person by whom the instrument charged to be forged, purports to have been executed; and the judgment of conviction in the criminal prosecution, shall not destroy the legal validity of the writing charged to have been forged, or be used in any civil controversy relative to the same.

GAMING. The person losing, or his heirs or executors, may at any time within five years, sue for and recover the money or other property so lost; if the loser, &c. docs not sue within six months, then any other person may sue for and reco. ver the same; if any stakeholder be notified by the person making the deposit, not to pay the same over, but to return it to the owner, he is required so to do, otherwise he is liable to an action therefor. Any creditor of the loser, at the time of the unlawful gambling, or before the delivery of the property lost, is authorized to levy his execution and sell such property, in the same manner as if it were still in the possession of or belonging to the debtor, or to file a bill in chancery in the same manner, and have like redress as in the case of a fraudulent conveyance of property by a debtor to defraud his creditors; every person convicted of being a keeper of a faro table, or other table, tables, or instrument, used, and at which money is won or lost, contrary to the laws, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be deprived of the right of suffrage and of holding any office of trust or profit. Persons

permitting any gambling in their houses, &c. are made liable, for every such offence, to a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $500. Town or city marshals are authorized to seize all sums of money. which may be found staked or placed in bank; it shall be no excuse to any witness called on to give evidence, from deposing the whole truth, that he is a party concerned, or was so, in the unlawful game or gaming; but the evidence given by such witness shall not be used against him in any trial or proceeding whatever. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the running of horses in this commonwealth, except as heretofore prohibited by law.

HOTEL COMPANY.-The Louisville Hotel Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of $200,000.

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INSURANGE COMPANY.-An act was passed to incorporate the Franklin Insurance Company; its capital stock is $100,000.

CRIMES AND OFFENCES.—If any person, having charge of any book or paper in relation to the election of any of the officers of the commonwealth, shall change, alter or vary the same, or permit another to do so, with intent and so as to produce a result different from the real fact and truth of said election, he shall, on conviction, undergo a con. finement in the state jail and penitentiary, for a length of time not less than one nor more than three years, at the discretion of the jury.

Every free person and his abetters, who shall maliciously destroy, or attempt to destroy, any of the locks of the Louisville and Portland canal, or the bridge over it, or injure or attempt to injure them, so as to obstruct the use thereof, shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to im

prisonment in the state jail and penitentiary, for a period of time not less than two nor more than four years. If any slave be guilty of such offence, he shall, upon conviction, suffer death by hanging.

MEDICAL INSTITUTION.-An act was passed to establish a medical institution in Louisville, for the promotion of medical science.

RAIL-ROAD COMPANY.-The Bardstown and Louisville Rail-road Company was incorporated; its capital is $350,000.

RIVER.-An act was passed, appropriating the sum of $20,000, for the purpose of removing the obstructions to navigation at the falls of Green river.

SAVINGS INSTITUTION. -The Louisville Savings Institution was incorporated.

SLAVES. Any court of equity is authorized, upon the petition of all the owners of any slaves held by two or more, or if any of the owners be minors, upon the petition of their guardians, and the adult owners, to order a sale of such slaves; and any one or more of several joint tenants or tenants in common of any slaves, may file his or their bill in equity, against the other joint tenants, &c. for partition; and if it shall appear to the court that partition in kind cannot be made, the court is empowered to decree a sale.

Every person who shall import into this state any slaves, or who shall sell or buy, or contract for the sale or purchase for a longer term than one year, of the service of any such slaves, knowing the same to have been so imported, shall forfeit the sum of six hundred dollars for each slave so imported, &c. This provision is not to apply to emigrants

to this state, if such emigrants shall, within sixty days after their arrival, have taken an oath before some justice of the peace, that they intend to become citizens of the state, and have brought no slaves with the intention of selling them, and caused such oath, within thirty days thereafter, to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county court; nor shall the provision apply to travellers making only a transient stay, and who shall have brought slaves with them, for the purpose of necessary attendance, and with the intention of again carry. ing them out of the state; nor shall the provision extend to the importation of slaves by residents who shall derive title to such slaves by will, descent, distribution, or marriage, or gift in consideration of marriage. In every case of conviction, the prosecuting attorney shall be entitled to a fee of twenty per cent. out of the money collected, and the balance shall be paid into the public treasury, and set apart as a fund, to be under the direction of the governor, and such other or others as the legislature may appoint, for colonizing free persons of colour on the coast of Africa. The owners of any slaves who may have hired them to any person out of the state, are authorized to bring them into the state, if such owners be citizens of this state, and have in their possession in this state such slaves at the time of the hire. Prosecutions for the violation of the provisions of this act, are to be commenced within five years from the time of the commission of the offence, and not after.

SOUTH CAROLINA.- -Resolutions were passed, disapproving of the nullifying ordinance of the late convention of South Carolina.

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The state contains 16,613,399 acres taxable land, valued $44,521,110; town lots valued with improvements at $10,492,302; 213,694 horses, rated at $8,547,760; 404,717 cattle, valued at $3,237,736; merchants' and brokers capital and money at interest, amounting to $7,296,122; pleasure carriages, valued at $148,002. The whole amount of taxable property in the state, is $74,243,032. TAXES.

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$531,911

Portsmouth to Cleaveland is 15 cents 8 mills per 1,000. Under the present rates of toll, flour may be transported from Cleaveland to New. York for $1 per barrel, covering all expenses.

During the year ending Dec. 31, 1832. the gross amount collected for tolls and water rents was,

On the Ohio canal,
On the Miami canal,

$82,867 40 40,926 81

Making a gross sum collected on both canals, of $123,794 21 The total amount of payments on contracts, and to superintendents of repairs, for the year ending on the 10th of November 1832, is $5,163,725 24.

The aggregate length of the canals is 400 miles, comprising 184 lift locks, overcoming a total amount of ascent and descent of 1,547 feet; 9 guard locks; 22 aqueducts, 242 culverts, 182 of stone, and 60 of wood; 9 dams for crossing streams, 250,388 and 12 feeder dams. Both canals 379,826 193,202 have a minimum breadth of 40 feet 240,000 at the water line, 26 feet at bottom, 525,00 and 4 feet deep. The locks are of stone, 15 feet broad, 90 feet in length between the gates, admitting boats 78 by 14 feet 10 inches.

CANALS. It is announced in the Chillicothe Gazette, of the 3d Oct. 1832, that the Ohio canal, extending from Lake Erie to Portsmouth, on the Ohio river, is completed, with the exception of a single lock on the Sciota river, intended to be used only when the Ohio river is at its lowest stage of water.

On the Ohio canal, the toll on the staple articles of agricultural produce, in all distances beyond 200 miles, was reduced, in 1833. from 5 to 3 mills per 1,000 lbs. per mile. The toll charged on the staple arti

cles of agricultural produce from

1833.-FRESHET.-The Ohio rose forty-three feet above low water mark at Cincinnati, about the 20th of May, and much damage was done to fences, and the crops on the bottom lands.

LEGISLATION.-The general assembly of Ohio met at Columbus, on Monday, the 3d of December, 1832. The message of governor Mc Arthur was received on the same day.

The aggregate amount paid into

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