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An Act to compel owners of old or infirm slaves to maintain them. 1815 35 (1815)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0082 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF GEORGIA. hundred shares; theCoinmissioners atWaslhingtou,formore than four'hundred & fifty shares; the Connissioners at Spar- ta, for more than -four hundred and rlifty shares ; the Con- :missioners at Lexington, for more than four hundred and -fifty shares; the Commissioners of Wayneshorough, for more than four hundred aud lifty shares, nor the-Commissi. oners of Athens, for more ther, four hundred and 11fty shares. § 10. Afnd be it further enacted, That a future General Assembly may,, wIenever they think it will be expedient, increase the capital stock to three inillions of dollars, or it such sum as they may think proper, and the state shall, if they think proper, be entitled to subscribe for one half or of such other part as they may think proper ; and in case of the increase of the capital, there shall be books df sub- scription opened at such times and places as a future legis. 14ture may direct, to subscribe for the increased stock- provided nevertheless, that if the whole number of shares apportioned to the above places be not subscribed for, then the comnissioners at Savanniahi ohall give notice to illl up such deficiencies at such place as they -.may think proper. § 11. Ind be itffurther enacted, That the trustees of the University of Georgia shall have until the first day of Jan. uary pne thousand eight hundred aud seventeen, to sub- scribe for one thousand shares out of the six thousand herein reserved for the state. BENJ. WIIITAKER, Speaker of the House of Itepresentatives. WILLIAM IIAlUN, President of the Senate. Assented to, Itth December, 181 £5. 1D. B. MITCHELL, Governor. AN ACT To compel owners of old or infirm slaves to naintain them. 4 . E it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre. sentatives oP the State or Geor;ia in General dissemnbly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall be the

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