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An Act empowering Justices of the Peace with three freeholders, in their several districts, to bind out to service male free Negroes, and persons of color, minors above the age of eight years, to artisans and farmers. 1808 40 (1808.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0052 and id is 1 raw text is: 40o         LAWS OF GEORGIA.
cluding the main zhannel, a free paffage fdr fui,
boats or rafts. Any perfon or perfons who flalL
flop, caufe to be flopp..d, or keep flopped any part,
of the! faid Broad river, which is declared by this
at to be a free paffage for filfh, boats, or rafts, fhall
forfeit the fum of fifty dollars for every day fuch
artificial obflruaion, now in meaning of this a&,
hall remain unremoved, to be recovered in any
Court of record having cognizance thereof ; one
noiety thereof to any perfom or perflons who fhall
inform, profecute and convia the offender; the
other moiety to the ufe of the fund for opening and
improving the navigation of the faid river : p'ovided
that no penalty impofed by this na fhall take place
prior to the twenty-fifth clay of February next, any
law to the contrary notwithflanding.
Benjamin Whitaker,
Speaker of tie Houfe of Reprefentatives.
Henry Mitchell,
Prefident of the Senate.
Executive Department, Georgia.
Assented to, 22d December, 1808.
Jared Irwin, Governor.
AN ACT
Empowering Justices of the Peace
with three frecholders, in their se-
veral distridfs, to bind out to ser-
vice male free Negroes, and per-
sons of color, minors above the
age of eight years, to artifans and
farmers.
WHEREAS the permitting of free negroes and

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