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An Act for regulating and governing free persons of color coming into this State, or residing therein. 1810 117 (1810)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0063 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF GEORGIA. to the directions of this act be, and the same is here' by repealed. BENJAMIN WHITAKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JARED IRWIN, President of the Senate. Executive Department, Georgia, Assented to, 13th December, 1810. AVID B. MITCHELL, Governor. U AN ACT For regulating and governing free per, soils of color coming into this State, or residing therein. S1. .E it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- resentatives of the State of Georqgia in General As- ;embly met, and it is hereby enacted by the auithority of the same, That from and after the first day of March next, all free persons of color (native Indians ex- cepted) who shall arrive in this state, rshall within tendays after his or her arrival therein, except in a county in which there is a sea-port town, where two Aays shall be allowed and no more, register his or her name with the Clerk of the Superior court of 'tle couity in which he or she shall have arrived, in a book to be kept by the Clerk for that purpose, ~and shall at the same time declare to the said Clerk his or her occupation or calling, the. place of his or iter *residence and birth, the place from whence he or she shall last have come, the object for which he or she shall. have come into this state, and the 'tiaite of the person or persons in whose employ- *tt or Arvice he or she. may be engaged at -the 117

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