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Bibliography of State Slavery Statutes GA-1837
Moses (slave); Nancy (slave); Patsey (slave);
Patsy (slave); Peter (slave); Polly (slave); Quaco
(slave); Randolph (slave); Revanna (slave); Sally
(slave), Sam (slave); Simpson, Nathaniel; Solo-
mon (negro); Stone, Francis M.; Susan (slave);
Vicey (slave); Waters, Enoch
GA-1835
Contains:
• An Act to alter and amend a part of the first
section of the third article of the Constitu-
tion of the State, [pp. 49-51]
• An Act to enable the corporation of the city
of Savannah to obtain and collect the Jail
Fees of prisoners committed to the jail of
Chatham county, to authorize the erection
of a Tread-mill therein, and in the jail of
Darien, and to subject offenders and negroes
to work thereon, and to enable jailors of
other jails to collect their jail fees. [pp.
63-64]
• An Act more effectually to protect free
persons of colour, and to point out the mode
of trying the right of freedom, [pp. 101-103]
• An Act to compensate Magistrates and
Constables for services required of them,
which are unprovided for by law, and have
no property to seize upon for the payment of
costs, [pp. 143-144]
• An Act to amend the twenty-ninth section
of an act entitled An Act for Ordering and
Governing Slaves within this Province, and
for establishing a jurisdiction for the trial of
offences committed by such slaves and other
persons therein mentioned, and to prevent
the inveigling and carrying away slaves from
their masters, owners or employers, passed
10th May 1770. [pp. 264-265]
• An Act to amend the several laws now in
force in relation to Slaves and Free Persons
of Colour, [pp. 265-268]
• An Act to be entitled An Act to prohibit the
employment of Slaves and Free Persons of
Colour from compounding or dispensing of
medicines in Druggists and Apothecaries'
stores, and to compel Druggists and
Apothecaries to keep arsenic and other
dangerous poisons under lock and key, etc.
[pp. 268-269]
• Resolutions which originated in the Senate
of the State of Georgia, [pp. 297-300]
Descriptors: Abolitionists and abolition societies;
Arrest; Chatham County, GA; Courts; Darien,
GA; Drugs and medicine; Fees; Free persons of
color; Harboring of slaves; Importation of slaves;
Imprisonment; Negroes; Persons of color;
Runaways; Sales of slaves; Savannah, GA;
Searches and seizures; State constitutions; Trials
GA-1836
Contains:
• An Act to appropriate money for the
support of Government, for the political
year, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
and to fix the salary of the Governor, after
the present term expires, [pp. 23, 27, 33]
• An Act, amendatory of the several acts,
incorporating the Town of Milledgeville, so
far as to declare the same to be a city; to
enlarge the powers, and more particularly,
the jurisdiction of said incorporation, [pp.
90, 93, 96]
• An Act to alter and amend the Road laws
of this State, so far as relates to the county
of Elbert, and to levy an extra tax for the
same. [pp. 245-246]
• An Act repealing a portion of the laws
respecting the introduction of Slaves in this
State, [p. 254]
• Resolution of the House of Representatives
of the State of Georgia, 22d Dec. 1836. [pp.
27-29]
Descriptors: Appropriations; Capital punish-
ment; Elbert County, GA; Free persons of color;
Highways and roads; Importation of slaves;
Incorporation of cities and towns; Jones County,
GA; Milledgeville, GA; Patrols; Rape; Taxation;
Charles (negro man); Dumas, John; Dumas,
Matilda; Harrison, Charlotte; Harry (negro man)
GA-1837
Contains:
• An Act to provide for taking the Census of
the State of Georgia, in pursuance of the
requirements of the twenty-fifth section of
the first article of the Constitution of the
State of Georgia, [pp. 44-46]
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