person dam a felony, and upon conviction shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years. § 3. If any injury shall result to the person or property of any persons or persons, by reason of any unlawful acts denounced in the preceding section of this act, the person or persons engaged or participating, or any one of them, or any one aiding or abetting such unlawful act, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be confined in the State penitentiary not less than one nor more than fifteen years, unless death should result, in which case the penalty for such offense shall be as now prescribed by law. It shall be no mitigation of the offense for any one, upon his trial for a violation of the provisions of this section, that he may have acted through heat or passion, or that he may have acted without malice, and the judge trying the case shall so instruct the jury in writing. The persons composing such mob or riotous assemblages shall be individually and collectively liable in damages, actual and punitive, to the owner or owners of property so damaged or destroyed, to be recovered by suit at law in any court having jurisdiction of the amount in controversy. § 4. Any officers or person having the custody of the persum-son or persons charged with a public offense shall have the power and it shall be his duty to summon to his aid as many of the able-bodied male citizens of his county, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, as may be necessary for the protection of any such person or persons in his custody, and every such person who shall fail or rescue. refuse to obey such summons or verbal notice of such officer shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. Any officer having knowledge or reasonable grounds to believe that an effort will be made to rescue, injure or kill any person or persons in his custody charged with a public offense shall ilty of e pen s. operty ul acts person them, hall be nfined e than se the y law. upon ection, r that ng the ersons e indi 1 and naged court e per have is aid unty, ay be rsons ail or such ndred officer at an on or shall immediately provide such means as will be necessa prevent any such unlawful act or acts; and any office may be in charge of any jail in this Commonweal which is incarcerated any such person or persons ch with a public offense, when he has reasonable grou believe that said jail will be attacked by a mob or pe confederated or banded together for the purpose flicting violence upon any inmate of said jail may, discretion, arm said threatened inmates, with a vi their own protection. § 5. For the purpose of more effectually enforcin provisions of this act the Governor is hereby auth to offer a reward for the apprehension and conv of any offender of this law in any sum not exceedin hundred dollars, and he shall be authorized to e detectives, in his discretion, for the ferreting out a prehension and conviction of any such offender, n ceeding two at any one time, provided the cost t shall not exceed three thousand dollars in any one The judge of the county court of any county in whic law is violated shall have power to offer a reward n ceeding two hundred dollars, or supplement the nor's reward, for the arrest and conviction of any I violating this act. The rewards offered by the Gov shall be paid out of the Treasurer of this State; tho fered by the county judge shall be paid by the coun § 6. If any person shall send, circulate, exhibit o up any threatening notice or letter, signed with suc son's own or another's name or anonymously, he upon conviction thereof be fined not less than one hu dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and impri in the county jail not less than three nor more than t months. § 7. In any prosecution under this act it shall be emption for a witness that his testimony may inc ny. shall be used against him in any prosecution except for perjury, and he shall be discharged from all liability for any violation of this act so necessarily disclosed in his testimony. Approved March 17, 1902. land at CHAPTER 26. AN ACT ceding to the Government of the United States jurisdiction over certain lands and appurtenances for the establishment of a national miliary park at Perryville. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the jurisdiction of this Commonwealth is hereby ceded to the United States of America over so much of any lands, not exceeding three thousand acres, as may be jurisdic- selected in Boyle county in this State, near Perryville, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, beautifying and protecting a National Military Park at the battlefield of Perryville. But this cession is upon the express condition that the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall so far retain concurrent jurisdiction with the United States over said lands as that all criminal and civil processes issued under the authority of this State may be executed thereon in like manner as if this act had not been passed. § 2. That nothing in this act contained shall interfere with the jurisdiction of the United States over any matter or subjects set out in the bill now pending in Congress to establish a National Military Park at the site of the battle of Perryville, or with any laws, rules or regulations that Congress may adopt for the preservation and protection of its property and rights on said lands and approaches thereto and the proper maintenance of good order thereon. § 3. That all laws and parts of laws, in conflict with this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Approved March 17, 1902. 4 ept for ity for in his 1902. jurisdicishment wealth ; hereuch of may be yville, ifying lefield condi Far re S over Essued ereon erfere atter ess to battle that ction aches reon. with CHAPTER 27.. AN ACT to provide for the establishment and maintenan Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Common of Kentucky:, § 1. That an institution to be known as the "Ker Confederate Home" is hereby created and incorpo the object of which shall be to care for the infirm a pendent Confederate soldiers of the State of Kentu § 2. The purpose of this act is to provide on the p the State of Kentucky for the organization and ma ance of a Confederate Home for a period of twen years, or so long as shall be needed for the purpos which said home is created. In consideration of th visions and benefits of this act, the Confederates State of Kentucky shall secure and cause to be conve the Commonwealth of Kentucky property sufficient f purposes of said Home; said property to contain no than thirty acres of ground and to have, when turne to the State, buildings and rooms furnished for th and custody of not less than twenty-five persons. deed to said property so conveyed by the Confedera Kentucky, or their friends or sympathizers, shall posited with the Secretary of State. And wheneve property, containing as aforesaid not less than thirty with furnished rooms for the accommodation of no than twenty-five inmates, shall be secured and deed aforesaid, and the Governor of the State shall be inf of said fact and shall examine, or cause to be exar said property, and when he is satisfied that the sam plies with the provisions of this act, then the appr fective. § 3. That the control and management of the Confederate Home herein provided for shall be vested in a board of trustees composed of fifteen members, who shall be appointed by the Governor of Kentucky from among the Confederate soldiers residing in the State of Kentucky, or their sons, and said appointments shall be made within twenty days after the passage of this act. § 4. The said board of trustees are required to elect a president, treasurer, and secretary from among their number, and to fix the amount of bond which the treasurer shall be required to give, which bond shall be approved by the Governor of Kentucky and deposited with the Secretary of State. The Governor, at the time of appointing the board, shall designate five of its members who shall hold their office for four years, five who shall hold their office for three years, and five who shall hold their office for two years; and thereafter, every two years, the Governor shall appoint five members of the said board of trustees. Vacancies occurring before the expiration of the term of any of the trustees shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. The members of said board of trustees shall perform the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this act without compensation for their services. Said board of trustees shall, on the second Monday in January of each and every year, furnish a detailed report of all receipts and expenditures and of all property owned by the corporation, and a financial statement shall be male under oath by the treasurer, through the board of trustees, of the financial transactions of the previous year, which shall contain a detailed statement of the moneys or other things received from every source on account of said home, and an itemized account of its disbursements. Said board of trustees shall have power and authority to make all necessary rules and regulations for the control, man |