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An Act to amend an act entitled, an Act for ordering and governing slaves within this State (then Province) 1803 22 (1803.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0034 and id is 1 raw text is: (2 son$s to take the 6numeration, within the period*6f sixty days after the adjournment of the Legislature: that the4 the Justices of the Peace, or any three of theni, shall have and exercise like powers respecting the said census. And if the census or enumeration of any county shall pot be so taken and returned, then, and in that case, the General Assembly shall apportion the representation o( such county, according to the best evidence in their power, relative to their population. Smc. 3. And be it trther enacted by the authority aforce .said, 'hat persons appoluted to take the census or enu pneration, shall receivethe sane compensation or remu, neration, as the Tax Return Receiver gets for hils ser, vices. ABRAHAM JACKSON, Speahor of the House of Ref/resetatives. DAVID EMANUEL, President of th4 $enatc, 4ssented to December 10, 130-8. JOHN MILLEDGE, Governor. AN ACT 'o amend an act entitled, An Act for or, * dcring and governing slaves within this State, (then Province) passed on the 10th day of May, 1770, and for establishing a jurisdiction for the trial of oiTences commit- ted by such slaves and other persons therein mentioned, and to prevent the inveigling and carrying away slaves from their masters, owners or employers, and for repealing such clauses of laws as milit'tes agedint the same, SEC. 1. -)E it enacted by the Senate and Hous we of Re, . presentatives of the State of Georgia, in- General A.semblU met, and bU the auhoriti/ of the same, That if any person or persons shall purchase from a slave, any produce whatsoever, such person or persona shall, for every such offence, lQocit ind ray th, SA Q22 thirty dollarp.

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