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GAI 831 Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes
• An Act to alter and amend the several acts
passed to prevent obstructions to the free
passage of Fish in the Oakmulgee river, and
its branches, passed in the years eighteen
hundred and twenty-one, eighteen hundred
and twenty-four, and eighteen hundred and
twenty-nine; also for the better regulations
of fishing with seines in the said river and its
branches, [pp. 213-216]
• An Act to prevent itinerant or unauthorised
persons from locating themselves on or near
the river Savannah, under the pretence of
fishing, and to prevent obstructions to the
passage of fish up the said river, and farther
to prohibit trading with slaves, and to extend
the powers of civil officers, and patrols, [pp.
217-219]
• An Act to authorise the Inferior Court of
Hancock county, to improve the public
roads of said county, [pp. 219-220]
• An Act to regulate slaves in the town of
Milledgeville, and to punish their owners or
managers, in certain cases, [pp. 223-224]
• An Act to exempt from road duty, on
certain conditions, all male slaves on the
Island of St. Catharine, [pp. 224-225]
• An Act to be entitled an act to manumit and
set free from slavery Sophia, a person of
colour, the property of Eli Fenn, and to give
her a name. [pp. 225-226]
• An Act to regulate slaves in the county of
Burke, and Jefferson and Scriven, and to
punish their owners or managers, in certain
cases, [pp. 226-227]
• An Act to alter and amend an act to impose
an additional tax on Pedlers and other
Itinerant Traders, passed ninth December,
eighteen hundred and twenty-four, and to
punish such traders for illegal trading with
slaves, [pp. 229-230]
• An Act to alter and amend an act to
incorporate the town of Monroe, in the
county of Walton, and to extend the
corporate limits of said town. [pp. 238-242]
• An Act to amend the several acts which
have been passed, in relation to the powers
and privileges of the corporation of the town
of Athens, [pp. 242-243]
• Resolutions of the Senate of the State of
Georgia, December 1, 1831. [pp. 257-258]
78 State Slavery Statutes
Descriptors: Appropriations; Athens, GA; Elec-
tions; Fish and fishing; Free persons of color;
Free white males; Highways and roads; Hiring of
slaves; Imprisonment; Incorporation of cities and
towns; Manumission; Milledgeville, GA;
Monroe, GA; Negroes; Patrols; Public works;
Trading with slaves; Walton County, GA;
Whipping; Fenn, Eli; Fenn, Sophia (person of
color)
GA-1832
Contains:
• An Act to amend the Patrol Laws of this
State so far as respects the county of Liberty
• and to repeal an act passed twenty-third
day of December eighteen hundred and
thirty-one, establishing a corps of vigilance
in Mclntosh county, [p. 171]
• An Act to repeal so much of an act, entitled
an act to regulate slaves and free persons of
colour in the towns of Clinton and Macon,
as relates to the town of Macon. [p. 172]
• An Act to authorise the Sheriff of Jefferson
county to sell a runaway slave, to apply the
proceeds of said sale • and to authorise the
sale of all runaway slaves after they have
been confined and advertised twelve
months; and to prescribe the time and place
of advertising runaway slaves, [pp. 172-173]
• An Act to regulate slaves and free persons
of colour in the counties of Richmond and
Hancock, [pp. 174-176]
• An Act to establish an Infirmary for the
relief and protection of aged and afflicted
negroes, in the State of Georgia, [pp.
177-179]
• An Act to authorise the Justices of the
Inferior court of Burke country, to levy a tax
on persons liable to road duty in said county,
in order to repair and keep in repair, their
public roads, [p. 181]
• An Act to impose levy and collect a tax for
the political year eighteen hundred and
thirty-three; on property real and personal,
and to inflict penalties for refusing or
neglecting to comply with the provision
thereof, [pp. 182-183]
• Report of the Inspectors and Principal
Keeper of the Penitentiary. Inspectors
Report, 4th Quarter, 1831. [pp. 301,
305-306]