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An Act to prohibit Slaves from selling certain commodities therein mentioned. 1816 11 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0094 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF GEORGIA. I AN ACT o prohibit Slaves from selling ertain commodities therein mentioned. § 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and Ifouse of Repre.. sentatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assemz. bly met. and it ishereby enacted by the anthority of the same, That from and after the first (lay of Januuary next, if any person or persons shall buy or ieceive from any slave or slaves, any Money, Cotton, Tobacco, Wheat, Rye, Oats or Corn, vithout a ticket authorising such slave or slaves, to dispose of such money, specially spe- cifying ti sum so intended to be laid out, the quantity of Cotton, Tobacco, Wheat, Rye, Oats 0t ('orn,which such slave or slaves may intend to dispose of, from his, herfor their owner or overseer or overseers, as the case may be, such person or p-ersons so oflending, shall forfeit and pay to the informer on conviction thereof. before any one or more Juctices of the Peace, of the district where such crime was committed, or of the county where- in such district may be, the sum of fifteen dollais, and to one of the presiding Justices of the Peace, upon such trial the further sum of fifteen dollars, to be recovered by execution and sale in the usual and summary way of Justices Courts together with alllegal cost for county pur- poses, or for the use of the poor of the county where such offence may have been committed, under the direction of the Inferior Court of each county, where such ofrence was committed; provided nevertheless, that where either party may feel themselves agrieved, they or either of them, shall be entitled to. anappeal to a Jury of said dis- trict, which trial, and after proceeding, shall be thld and conducted in the same way and manner as other appeal cases are conducted before Justices of the Peace. § 2. .nd be itfurther enacted, That if any person, or persons, shall purchase any of the aforesaid ar- ticles, from any slave, or slaves, with or without a law- ful ticket, after sun-set, and before sun-rise, or on the '8abaih day, he, she or they, shall be held, deemed and

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