The Statutes of Kansas, Favorable to Sabbath-keeping.
By M. West
BRO. WHITE: I send you an extract of the statutes of this State for the Review, if you think it will be interesting to its readers. Mt. Sterling, Kan., April 12th, 1866. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. That no person whose religious faith and practice it is to keep the seventh day of the week, commonly called Saturday, as a day set apart by divine command, as the Sabbath of rest from labor, and dedicated to the worship of God, shall be subject to perform military duty, or serve as a juryman in a justice's court, on that day, except that such person be subject to perform military duty at any time in case of insurrection, invasion, or time of war. Section 2. That any person who shall knowingly cause or procure any process issued from a justice's court in a civil suit to be served on that day upon any such person, or who shall serve any such process made returnable on that day, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both. Section 3. That any person who shall in like manner procure any such suit, pending in such court, against any person of such religious faith and practice, to be adjourned for trial on that day, shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a like punishment. Approved, February 23, 1864, page 181.