Kentucky

The name of one of the United States of America. This state was formerly a part of Virginia, which by an act of its legislature, passed December 18, 1789, consented that the district of Kentucky within the Jurisdiction of the said commonwealth, and according to Its actual boundaries at the time of pass- Ing the act aforesaid, should be formed Into a new state. By the act of congress of February, 1791, 1 Story, Laws 168, congress consented that, after the first day of June, 1792, the district of Kentucky should be formed Into a new state, separate from and Independent of the commonwealth of Virginia. And by the second section It Is enacted, that upon the aforesaid first day of June, 1792, the said new state, by the name and style of the state of Kentucky, shall be received and admitted into this Union, as a new and entire member of the United States of America. The present constitution of thi.s state was adopted September 28, 1891. An ^act was passed in 1914 proposing an amendment allowing the employment of convict labor upon public roads and bridges.