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GA-1837 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
• An Act to punish White persons for
Gambling with Negroes, [pp. 120-121]
• An Act for the relief of Isaac Chubb,
Nicholas Chubb, Amend Chubb, Wiliiam,
Henry and Ann Chubb, free persons of
color, [p. 226]
• An Act to make penal the hiring of slaves
their time without a written or verbal
authority from the owner or persons having
the right to control such slaves, [p. 247]
• An Act to amend an act passed 26th
December 1835, entitled an act more
effectually to protect free persons of color,
and to point out the mode of trying the right
of freedom, [pp. 248-250] .
• An Act to amend an act entitled an act to
establish a tribunal for the trial of Slaves
within this State, passed 16th December
1811; and also to amend an act entitled an
act for the trial and punishment of Slaves
and free persons of color, passed 19th
December 1816; and also, to amend an act
entitled an act to amend an act passed on the
16th of December 1811; and also, an act
passed on the 19th of December 1816, in
relation to Slaves and free persons of color
• the first act passed on 22d of December
1829. [pp. 250-251]
• Resolutions of the House of Representa-
tives of the State of Georgia, Dec. 25th,
1837. [pp. 282-287]
Descriptors: Abduction of slaves and free
negroes; Census; Courts; Free persons of color;
Gambling; Hiring of slaves; Maine; Morgan
County, GA; Negroes; Persons of color;
Savannah, GA; Trials; Atticus (slave); Chubb,
Amend (free person of color); Chubb, Ann (free
person of color); Chubb, Henry (free person of
color); Chubb, Isaac (free person of color);
Chubb, Nicholas (free person of color); Chubb,
William (free person of color); Kelleran, Edward;
Philbrook, Daniel; Sagurs, Henry; Sagurs, James
GA-1838
Contains:
• To define and affix the punishment of a
Crime or Misdemeanor committed by a
slave, by the counsel, persuasion or procure-
ment, or other means, of free white persons,
[p. 91]
82 State Slavery Statutes
• An Act to amend an act entitled an act to
punish white persons for Gambling with
Negroes, passed on the 25th December
1837. [p. 107]
• An Act to prescribe the mode of making
gifts of Slaves, [p. 107-108]
• An Act to amend an act to establish an
Infirmary for the relief and protection of
aged and afflicted negroes in the State of
Georgia, passed the 24th day of December
1832. [p. 114]
• An Act to alter and amend the several acts
heretofore passed for the incorporation and
regulation of the Town of Warrenton, in the
county of Warren, and to extend the
corporate limits of said Town, and to point
out the duties of the said Commissioners,
and for the appointment and regulation of
Patrols, and for the preservation of public
property, shade trees, and so forth; and for
the prevention of encamping; and for the
prevention and removal of nuisances;
constituting Commissioners of said town
Commissioners of Public Streets; citizens
residing within said Town to elect to work
upon roads or pay moneys; for the
suppression of fights, affrays, riots, and
disturbances of the public peace; Marshal to
arrest affrays, &c.; fines and penalties to be
paid into the Town Treasury; for the
regulation of the residence of Slaves, and for
taxing Shows and Exhibitions; exempting
Commissioners from road duty; requiring
Commissioners to make report at the end of
each year, etc. [pp. 116-121]
• An Act to amend the ninth section of the
thirteenth division of the Penal Code of this
State, [pp. 166-167]
• An Act to incorporate the Augusta and
Waynesboro Rail Road. [pp. 174, 179-180]
• An Act to incorporate a Rail Road
Company, to be called the "Talbotton Rail
Road Company," for the purpose of
constructing a Rail Road communication
from the city of Macon to Talbotton, in
Talbot county, and thence to Columbus, or
such other point on the Chattahoochee river
as said Company may designate; also a
Company for the construction of a Rail
Road communication between the Flint and
Ocmulgee Rivers, on or near the dividing
line of Houston and Dooly counties, [p. 181,
185-186, 190]