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An Act to prevent Boat owners or Patroons from permitting Boat hands, or other negroes, from trafficing [sic] in corn or other produce, or from carrying the same to market on board of the Boats accustomed to navigate the river Savannah, between Augusta and Savannah. 1816 20 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0096 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF GEORGIA4 turn the same over, together with such schedule, to the. Trustees of Eatonton Academy, who shall give a receipt for the same-provided Tievertheless, that tils act of in- corporation. shall be subject to any revision or alteration that any future Legislature of this state may think pro. per to make. § 8. Ind be itfurther enacted by the authority afore- said, That an act passed the fifteenth (lay otDecember, eighteen hundred and nine, to establish an Academy in the town of Eatonton, and county of Putnam, by the name of Union Academy, and to incorporate the same', he and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the same may militate against the provisions of this act. BENJAMIN WfHITAKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives, WILLIAM RABUN, President of the Senate.- Assented to, 4th December, 1810. D. B. MITCHELL, Governos AN ACT To Prevent Boat owners or Patroons from peremittig Boat hands, or other negroes, from trafticing in corn or other produce, orfrom carrlin; the same to market on board of the Boats accustomed to navigate the river Savannah, between Augusta and Savannah. WHEREAS the practice of permitting negroes on board of the boats navigating the river Savannah, to carry corn, cotton or other produce to market, as their own property, has been found, by fatal experience, to be an encourage- ment of theft; .Ind whereas it is right and proper that such encou- ragement should not any longer be held out to this des- criptioii of persons-for remedy whereof, § i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall not

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