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GA-1853 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
61• An Act to allow widows of such persons
as may die intestate in this State, in taking
their proportionate part of the negro
property, to choose and select the same,
provided the same can be done without
exceeding in amount their distribution
shares, [p. 71]
74• An Act to add an additional Section to
the thirteenth Division of the Penal Code,
[p. 84]
75• An Act more effectually to prevent
trading with slaves and furnishing them with
intoxicating liquors, and to prohibit Indians
in Talbot county from selling or furnishing
liquor to slaves, [pp. 84-85]
77• An Act to add an additional Section to
the thirteenth Division of the Penal Code of
the State of Georgia, and to provide for the
punishment of free white persons, for aiding
or assisting negroes or free persons of color,
lawfully committed or detained in any jail,
to escape therefrom, [p. 86]
85• An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act
to authorize the incorporation of Joint Stock
Companies for the construction of Macada-
mized, Graded or Plank Roads; passed on
the 23d day of February, 1850. [p. 96]
89• An Act to amend the Patrol Laws of this
State, [pp. 101-103]
90• An Act to regulate the sale and division
of Slaves, in certain cases therein named,
[pp. 103-104]
91• An Act for the benefit of Free Persons of
Color, subject to Taxation, [p. 104]
92• An Act to amend the several Laws now
in force in relation to free persons of color,
and to exonerate and discharge certain free
persons of color from all pains, penalties and
forfeitures heretofore incurred, and to which
they are subject and liable, [p. 105]
93• An Act to authorize the Justices of the
Inferior Courts of this State to bind out any
free negro, mulatto, or free person of color,
between the ages of five and twenty-one
years, [pp. 105-106]
94• An Act to change the Laws now in force
in this State relating to the arrival within the
limits of this State of colored seamen, [pp.
106-107]
90 State Slavery Statutes
176• An Act to amend An Act to make
permanent the site of the Public Buildings
for the County of Marion, in the Town of
Buena Vista, and to incorporate the said
Town, approved, January 26th, 1850; to
repeal certain provisions therein contained,
and to extend the corporate limits of said
Town; to provide for the election of a Board
of Commissioners, to point out the duties of
the same, for the preservation of Public
Property, shade trees, etc.; for the preven-
tion of encamping, for the prevention and
removal of nuisances, to regulate the
working of the Public Streets, for the
promotion of the public peace, for the
appointment of a Marshal, and to point out
his duties; for the appointment of Treasurer,
for the regulation of the residence of Free
Persons of Color, to authorize the Commis-
sioners to levy a Tax on all taxable property,
Ten Pin Alleys, Billiard Tables, etc., and to
levy a Poll Tax, and to provide for the
appointment of Tax Receiver and Collector,
and to require the Commissioners to make
annual reports; and for taxing Transient
Traders in Goods, Wares, and Merchandize,
and all Shows, Exhibitions, &c. [pp.
213-217]
177• An Act to amend an Act incorporating
the Town of Calhoun, in Gordon County,
approved, January 12th, 1852, and to extend
the corporate limits of the City of Augusta,
[pp. 217, 219-220]
178• An Act to incorporate the Town of
Campbellton, in the County of Campbell,
and to appoint Commissioners of the same,
and to make permanent the Public Build-
ings; also, to appoint Trustees for Clayton
Academy, in the County of Rabun; and to
appoint Trustees for Vallanow Academy, in
the County of Walker, and to incorporate
the same; to incorporate the Village of
Thomson, and confer certain powers upon
the Commissioners thereof; and for other
purposes therein mentioned, [pp. 220-223]
185• An Act to incorporate the Town of
Dalton in the County of Whitfield, under
the name and style of the City of Dalton,
and to provide for the election of a Mayor
and City Councilmen, and such other
officers as may be required, and confer upon
them specified powers, and for other