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persons of color from all pains, penalties,
and forfeitures heretofore incurred and to
which they are subject and liable, [pp- 59-60]
• An Act to incorporate the town of Cassville,
in the county of Cass, and to repeal all other
acts and parts of acts appertaining to the
incorporation of the same; to make certain
the corporate limits of the same; to point out
the duties of the commissioners to be
appointed for the government of said town;
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; to
regulate the working of public streets; for the
suppression of fights, affrays, riots, and
disturbances of the public peace; for the
appointment of a Marshal; Marshal to arrest
affrays, and so forth; fines and penalties to
be paid into the town treasury; for the
appointment of a Treasurer; for the regula-
tion of the residence of slaves; and for taxing
shows and exhibitions; and for the taxing
itinerant traders, and to prevent their
stopping in said town for the purpose of
disposing of their goods, wares and mer-
chandise, unless paying a tax therefor;
requiring commissioners to make a report at
the end of each year. [pp. 94-99]
• An Act to amend the road and patrol laws
of this State, so far as relates to the county
of Effingham. [pp. 162-165]
• An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to
repeal all laws prohibiting the free introduc-
tion of Slaves into this State, assented to
December 27th, 1842. [p. 167]
• An Act to refund to James Merion, a free
person of color, of the county of Jefferson,
the amount of taxes illegally paid by him for
the year 1843. [p. 171]
i• Resolutions relative to proposed amend-
ment of Constitution. Approved December
25th, 1843. [p. 186]
Descriptors: Arrest; Cass County, GA; Cassville,
GA; Census; Constitutional amendments;
Courts; Effingham County, GA; Free Negroes;
Free persons of color; Highways and roads;
Importation of slaves; Incorporation of cities and
towns; Jefferson County, GA; Negroes; Patrols;
Persons of color; Slaveholding states; State
constitutions; State legislatures; Taxation; Whip-
ping; Gorden, Thomas H.; Merion, James (free
person of color)
GA-1845
GA-1845
Contains:
• An Act to prohibit colored mechanics and
masons, being slaves • or free persons of
color being mechanics or masons, from
making contracts for the erection of
buildings, or for the repair of buildings, and
declaring the white person or persons
directly or indirectly contracting with or
employing them as well as the master
employer, manager or agent for said slave,
or guardian of said free person of color,
authorizing or permitting the same, guilty of
a misdemeanor, and prescribing punishment
for violating this act. [p. 49]
• An Act to amend the Charter of the city of
Columbus, and to amend an act entitled an
act to amend the several acts of the
Legislature of this State incorporating the
city of Columbus.in the county of Mus-
cogee, and to lay off said city into Wards,
and to point out the manner of electing the
Mayor and Aldermen thereof, passed in the
year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, [pp.
67-69]
• An Act to raise a revenue for the City of
Columbus, amendatory of an act entitled an
act to impose a special tax on the persons
and property of the citizens of the city of
Columbus, residing and being in the same,
annually, hereafter, and to provide for the
collection thereof; and to punish those who
may refuse or attempt to defeat the
provisions thereof • assented to the tenth
day of December, eighteen hundred and
forty-one; and also, to make provisions for
the poor residing in said city. [pp. 69-72]
• An Act to alter and amend an act entitled
an act to incorporate the town of Thomas-
ton, and to make permanent the seat of
Justice in the county of Upson, passed on
the eleventh day of June, eighteen hundred
and twenty-five, and further to define the
duties and powers of the Commissioners of
said town. [pp. 108-111]
• An Act to alter and amend the several acts
heretofore passed for the incorporation and
government of the town of Marietta, in the
county of Cobb. [pp. 113-115]
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