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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0226 and id is 1 raw text is: is hereby enacted by the'authority of the same, That from and
after the passage of this act, the superintendents of the pub-
lic hands of this State, shall liavc the entire po*mr of ap-
pointing all overseers provided flor by said act, which over-
seers shall he subject only to their contract, [control] and b'y
said supcrintoiidcnts, subject at apy tine to be removed from
service: which overseers shall be paid as formerly, agreeable.
to the time they may have been in actual service.
And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws
militating against this act te, and the same is hereby repealed.
A[ BURY HULL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the'Senate.
Assented to, Dec. 26. 1831.
WILSON LUMPKIN, -Governor.
SLAVES.
AN ACT to 'regulate slaves in the town of Milledgeville,
and to p1uishtheir owners or managers, in certain cases.
Whereas much evil exists in the town of Milledgeville, in
consequence of the owners and managers of slaves permit-..
ting them to hire their time, and to live separate and apart,
from owners and managers;
Be it enacted by the Senate and Jlouse of 'Representatives
of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly net, and it is
herchy enactedby the anthority of the same, That from and after
the first day oi' January next, it,shall not be lawful for any
owner or manager of any slave in the town of Milledgeville,
to permit such.slave to hire his or her time, or to live upon
a lot separate and apart from his or her owner or manager;
nor shall it be lawful for any owner or manager in the town
SLAVES.
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