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 recover 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 mo. ney is won or lost, contrary to the laws, shall be guilty of a high mis. demeanor, 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 autho. rized 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 proceed. ing whatever. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the running of horses in this com. monwealth, except as heretofore prohibited by law. HOTEL COMPANY.-The Louis. ville Hotel Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of $200,000. 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 com. monwealth, shall change, alter or vary the same, or permit another to do so, with intent and so as to pro. duce a result different from the real fact and truth of said election, he shall, un 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 in. jure 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. 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 carrying 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. at 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. 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 articles of agricultural produce from Portsmouth to Cleaveland is 15 cents 8 mills per 1,000. Under the present rates of toll, flour may be transported from Cleaveland to NewYork 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, $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, and 12 feeder dams. Both canals have a minimum breadth of 40 feet at the water line, 26 feet at bottom, 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. 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 as. sembly 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 inte the treasury for canal and state purposes during 1832, added to the balance remaining at the last report, is $271,292. The total amount of disbursements during the same period for the same purposes is $240,527 55; leaving a balance in the treasury of $20,784 94. The estimated amount of taxes levied for the same purposes during that time was $250,000. The amount of foreign canal debt is $4,400,000, and the interest payable annually to foreign stockholders is $260,000. The amount borrowed from the School fund in aid of the canal funds, is $134,847; and the interest on that sum about $25,000. The whole canal debt of the state is therefore $4,834,847; and the whole amount of interest (payable on the 1st of January, 1833) $285,000. The sales of land granted to the state by congress for canal purposes, amounted, during the past year, to $58,103 78. The tolls received on the Miami canal were 34,956 86 76,403 93 On the Ohio canal three acts of a general nature were passed. PRISON BOUNDS.-The limits of the prison bounds of the several counties in the state, are hereafter to be coextensive with the limits of the counties respectively. DIVORCES. SO much of the third section of the act concerning divorce and alimony, passed Jan. 7, 1824, as authorizes the supreme court to decree a divorce from bed and board only, instead of a dissolution of the marriage contract, is repealed. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.-In all actions instituted before a justice of the peace founded upon any instrument in writing, for the payment of a sum of money certain, if the whole amount of money therein promised is due, it shall be the duty of the plaintiff, to file the bond, &c. with such justice; and if upon the trial, judgment shall be entered thereon in favour of the plaintiff, such bond, &c. shall be retained by the justice, who shall endorse thereon the sum for which he shall have entered judgment, and shall subscribe his name thereto; and upon payment or tender of the amount of such judgment, together with the costs. accruing thereon, or securing the payment of the same by putting in bail for the stay of execution, it shall not be lawful for the plaintiff to institute any other suit upon said bond, &c. for the recovery of any further sum, the payment of which is secured by the same bond, &c. But when an appeal shall be taken from the judgment of such justice, he is required to deliver any bond, &c. produced before him on trial, to the clerk of the court of common pleas to which such cause shall have been appealed; nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the right which any creditor may now have to demand from any justice of the peace any joint and several obligation, for the purpose of prosecuting any party to said obligation, other than the party against whose judgment may have been rendered. PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.-There shall be elected in each organized county of the state, biennially, one prosecuting attorney, who shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor shall be qualified. He is required to prosecute for and in behalf of the state all complaints, suits and controversies in which the state shall be a party, within the county. No person shall be eligible to this office, who is not an attorney and counsellor at law, duly licensed to practise in this state. No such prosecuting attorney shall be a member of the general assembly; and no county treasurer, county recorder, county auditor, or postmaster, shall be eligible to the office. TAVERNS.-When any person shall make application in writing for a license to keep a tavern without retailing ardent spirits, the court, if they are satisfied that a tavern is needed, and that such applicant is a suitable person to keep a tavern, and is provided with suitable accommodations for that purpose, may grant a license to him, which shall continue for the term of one year; the court granting the license are to fix the price thereof, which shall not be less than $2, nor more than $20, per annum. ESCHEATED LANDS.-Where any person or persons die, having right or title to any real estate, and the same shall escheat to the state, the court of common pleas for the county shall appoint some person to take charge thereof, and lease or rent the same to the best advantage, and collect the rents and pay them over to the treasurer of state; and the person so appointed is required to give bonds, &c. DEEDS, &C.-So much of the first section of the act to provide for the proof, acknowledgment, &c. of deeds, &c., as requires the person taking such acknowledgment, to certify that he is satisfied from personal knowledge, or from the testimony of some witness, that the person or persons making such acknowledgment is or are the person or persons they represent themselves to be, is repealed; and all deeds, mortgages, &c. by which any lands, &c. have heretofore been conveyed or encum. bered in law, and the acknowledg ment whereof does not contain the certificate mentioned in this act, shall nevertheless be as good and valid, both in law and equity, as if the same had been therein contained. Where any deed, &c. for the conveyance of land, shall have here. tofore been executed, and the officer taking the acknowledgment shall not have affixed his seal to the acknowledgment, such acknowledg ment shall nevertheless be valid. DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM.-The trustees of this asylum are required to admit into the asylum three indi. gent pupils, to be selected from each judicial circuit in this state: the term of tuition of the pupils supported by the state, may be extended by the trustees, if they shall deem it expedient, to four years. SCHOOLS.-An act was passed for the regulation of common schools, the apportionment of the school money, &c. MILLS, &c.-No person possess. ed of the right to any water privi. lege, shall be required to erect a bridge over any mill-race or water |