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An Act to alter and amend the Road Laws for the county of Glynn. 1822 97 (1822)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0148 and id is 1 raw text is: Boads, Bridges, and -Ferries. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appro- priated to carry the above recited section into eftect. ALLEN DANIEL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 1MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate,. Assented to December 23, 18Z92. JOHN CLARK, Governor. AN ACT To alter and amend the Road Laws for the county of Glynn, ptsdel the twenty.lifth December, eighteen hundred,and twenty-one. B3 it eaacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 thi act, that John Harris and William Pills be added to the Board of Commissioners for said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afbresaid, That all male slaves subject to road duty in the county Wynn shall work on the public road in said county under the direction of said board, and be apportioned as they or a majority of them may think proper for the improvenient of said roads. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforegaid, That in case of the owner or owners, manager or manag'ers refusing to send their slaves so subject, at the time and pla.e so appointed for working said roads, shall pay for each and every slave the sum of seventy-five cents per day for such neglect or refusal : except the inhabitants of the islands of St. Simons und Jekyl, whose owners or managers shall pay for each slave so subject, the sum of fifty cents per day. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corniissioners aforesaid shall cause the slaves to be returned at least five days before the day of working said roads, and shall not work more than six days in the year,and that said cominissioners,and a ma- jority of them be authorised to employ one tit and proper person as an overseer for each and every twenty hands while working oin said roads, and shall have full iuwver to contract for the building and re- pairing bridges and all other duties necessary to have performed upon saiW roads, in timIe f vacation, mAt to be paid ou, of any monies ta' longing to said evads.

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