In "an act for the benefit of the Kentucky Historical Society" on January 21, 1841, the General Assembly enacted that "it shall be lawful for the Secretary of State to deliver to the Kentucky Historical Society one copy of the Journals of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the General Assembly, for safe keeping, on behalf of the State, to be used by said society, and to be accessible to the examination of any citizen of this Commonwealth."
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: passed at Called Session, August, 1840, and at December Session, 1840. Frankfort, Ky: 1841. This is a copy of the Act from one of the volumes held at the Kentucky Historical Society in the Special Collections Research Room. Kentucky Historical Society Collections.
