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Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes GA-1849
punishment of white persons for gambling
with negroes and free persons of color, and
also to regulate the evidence on the trial for
said offence, and for other purposes therein
mentioned, [pp. 105-106]
• An Act to regulate the trial of slaves and
free persons of color within the limits of the
city of Savannah, [pp. 202-203]
• An Act to compel persons owning or
holding plantations or negroes in any county
in this State, and not residing therein, to give
in and pay tax for the same in said county,
[pp. 286-287]
• An Act to protect those engaged in the
"Turpentine Business," and to prevent the
setting fire to woods or lands, except at
certain times and under certain circum-
stances, so far as the counties of Camden,
Glynn, Mclntosh, Scriven, Jefferson and
Washington are concerned, [pp. 296-297]
Descriptors: Atlanta, GA; Columbus, GA;
Courts; Cross Plains, GA; Dalton, GA; DeKalb
County, GA; Elections; Forests; Free persons of
color; Free white males; Gambling; Hiring of
slaves; Incorporation of cities and towns; Macon,
GA; Murray County, GA; Negroes; Patrols;
Savannah, GA; Taxation; Trials; Whipping
GA-1849
Contains:
• An Act to alter and amend an act approved
December the 22d, 1832, which requires the
Jailors of the several counties of this State to
advertise and publish all runaway slaves in
one of the papers of Milledgeville. [pp.
43-44]
• An Act to amend an act incorporating the
city of Dalton in Murray county, approved
29th December 1847. [pp. 86, 89-90]
• An Act to alter and amend the first
paragraph of the seventh section of the first
article of the Constitution of this State, [p.
121]
• An Act to authorize and require the
Governor of the State of Georgia to call a
Convention of the people of this State, and
to appropriate money for the same. [pp.
122-123]
- An Act to amend the several acts now in
force regulating the fees of Magistrates and
Constables in the State of Georgia, so far as
relates to the county of Chatham, and to
provide for the mode of collecting the same,
[pp. 180-182]
- An Act to compensate Petit Jurors in the
county of Hancock, [p. 290]
- An Act to make it a penal offence for any
conductor, fireman, engineer, or other
officer or agent on or managing or
conducting any Railroad in this State to
allow any slave to travel on the same, except
under certain circumstances, [pp. 338-339]
- An Act for the relief of all offenders against
the late laws of this State prohibiting the
introduction of slaves into the same for the
purpose of sale, and prohibiting the sale,
offer to sell, or the purchase of slaves within
a certain period after their introduction into
this State, [p. 341]
- An Act for the relief of Robert Obarr, John
F. Brown, Edward A. Brown, Christopher
Dodd, Robert L. Jones, John L. Terrell and
William Hedden, all of Cass county, [pp.
353-354]
- An Act to regulate and give the control of
the fisheries on the Great Ogechee river
below Hill's bridge on the Darien road,
Bryan county, and on the Savannah river
from Abercorn creek to the mouth of said
river, to the proprietors of the banks and
islands, of said rivers; also to prevent illicit
trading with slaves, and disseminating
incendiary publications, [pp. 357-359]
- An Act to provide for the trial by the
Superior Courts of this State of any slave or
slaves or free person of color charged with
any capital offence against the laws of this
State, [pp. 372-373]
- An Act to compel all persons taking up
runaway slaves to deliver them to the Jailor
of the county where taken up, and to
prohibit said persons from detaining in their
custody such runaway slave or slaves for a
longer time than four days; and other
purposes therein mentioned, [pp. 373-374]
- An Act to amend an act passed December
29th, 1838, to define and affix the
punishment of a crime or misdemeanor
committed by a slave by the counsel,
persuasion or procurement or other means
of free white persons, [p. 374]
State Slavery Statutes 87