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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0225 and id is 1 raw text is: ROADS, RIVERS, &c.
219
teen, entitled an act, to alter. and amend an.act, to prohibit
slaves from selling certain commodities thcrein' mentioned.
ASBURY HULL,
Speaker of the House of Roprcsentatives.
- THOMAS STOCKS
President of.the Senate.
Assented to, Dec. 26, 1831.
WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.
AN ACT to authorise the Inferior Court of Hancock coun-
ty, to improve the public roads of said county.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives of the State of Georgia in General Assemldy met, and'
it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the In-
ferior Court of th-e county of Hancock, be, and is hereby tu-
thorised to purchase oir hire negroes, horses, cattle, tools, im-
plements, and the same to employ at their discretion, in the
improvement of the roads a'dd bridges of said county, and
on such p arts thereof, as said Couirt may deem proper, and
to make any andti all contracts necessary to the improvement
of the roads and bridges of said county; and all contracts
heretofore made by the said Court in relation to the improve-
ment of said roads, are hereby confirmed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Inferior
Court is hereby empowered to appoint three persons in each
Captain's district, which pcrsois,shall have power tolay out
and superintend the improvement of all roads that the Infe-
rior Court may order to be improved in said district by the
labour of labourers owned by the said county, and the Infe-
rior Court shall pay all demands [damnages] thnt may accrue
on account of any alteration that may be made in said roads,
by the persons soappointed by the said Court, tobc assesse'd in
the manner pointed out by the road laws now in force in this
State.
Sec. 3. And be it furither enacted, That the Inferior Court
of said county may appropriate so much of the county funds](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsga0225&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)