Moments in Kentucky
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Digest of Statutes

An act passed the General Assembly and was approved February 23, 1846, “authorizing the Secretary of State to furnish Justices of the Peace with Morehead and Brown's Digest of the Statutes of Kentucky.”

A Digest of the Statute Law of Kentucky, 1822.

Title page from William Littell's Digest of the Statute Law of Kentucky, published in 1822. Though all early digests of Kentucky statutes are rare, it is interesting to note that no original copies of the later (1834) digest by Charles S. Morehead and Mason Brown show up in any online library catalog. Twenty-three libraries (none in Kentucky) show microforms of the Morehead and Brown digest. KHS Collections.

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