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GAI 845 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
• An Act to incorporate the town of
Cumming, in the county of Forsyth, 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 tress, etc., 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 for affrays, riots,
fights, 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, for the appointment
of a Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax
Returns for said town, and requiring
Commissioners to make a report at the end
of each year, and for taxing itinerant traders
in goods, wares, merchandise, jewelry, etc.
[pp. 125-130]
• An Act to amend an act passed in eighteen
hundred and forty-one, to give to all persons
employed on steamboats and other water
crafts on the Chattahoochee, Altamaha and
Ocmulgee rivers, a lien on said steam boats
or water craft, for his, her, or their wages,
and for wood and provisions furnished, and
to point out and facilitate the mode of the
collection of the same, so far as to extend the
provisions of the same, and to include Flint
river therein, [pp. 152-153]
• An Act for the relief of Asa E. Thompson,
administrator of the estate of James
Thompson, late of the county of Houston,
deceased, from all liability incurred by the
said James in his life time, as security of
Columbus Thompson, a minor, [pp. 173-
174]
• Resolutions in relation to a proposition of
Massachusetts to change the Constitution of
the United Sutes. December 29th, 1845.
[pp. 206-207]
• Report from the Committee on the State of
the Republic, [pp. 209-211]
86 State Slavery Statutes
Descriptors: Boats and ships; Cobb County, GA;
Columbus, GA; Constitutional amendments;
Cumming, GA; Forsyth County, GA; Free
Negroes; Free persons of color; Hiring of slaves;
Houston County, GA; Incorporation of cities
and towns; Louisiana; Marietta, GA; Masons
and mechanics; Massachusetts; Murder; Mus-
cogee County, GA; Negroes; Patrols; Sales of
slaves; Slaveholding states; South Carolina;
Taxation; Thomaston, GA; Town charters;
Whipping; Thompson, Asa E.; Thompson,
Columbus; Thompson, James
GA-1847
Contains:
• An Act to amend an act entitled an act to
raise a Revenue for the city of Columbus,
amendatory of 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 on
the 10th day of December 1841, and also to
make provisions for the Poor residing in said
city. [p. 29]
• An Act to alter and amend the several acts
incorporating the city of Macon. [pp. 36-43]
• An Act to change the name of Cross Plains
of Murray county to that of the city of
Dalton, to extend the limits, and to point out
the mode of electing their Mayor and
Council, [pp. 47, 49-50]
• An Act to amend an act entitled an act to
incorporate the town of Marthasville, in the
county of DeKalb, passed on the twenty-
third day of December, eighteen hundred
and forty-three; and also to enlarge the
boundary of said town, and to incorporate
the same under the name of the city of
Atlanta; and to change the name of the town
of Rome to that of the city of Rome; to
provide for the election of a Mayor and City
Councilmen and other officers of said cities,
and to confer upon them specified powers;
and for other purposes herein mentioned,
[pp. 50-57]
• An Act to alter and amend the several acts
now in force in this State regulating the