Moments in Kentucky
Legislative History

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Taxation of Negroes & Mulattoes

An act passed by the General Assembly and approved February 16, 1866, provided that “all taxes collected from negroes and mulattoes in the Commonwealth, shall be set apart and constitute a separate fund for their use and benefit, one half, if necessary, to go to the support of their paupers, and the remainder to the education of their children.”

Postcard of “Colored City & High School, Frankfort,” ca. 1900.

Postcard of “Colored City & High School, Frankfort,” ca. 1900. KHS Collections.

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