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An Act to exempt from road duty, on certain conditions, all male slaves on the Island of St. Catharine. 1831 224 (1831)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0227 and id is 1 raw text is: oifilledgovillo, to hire sui slave to any other person with the intent that said slave shall he allowed to live upon a lot separate and apart from his owner or manager ; and that any owner or nmnager oflending against this act,. shall be deened guilty of a inisdeincnnor andl([ subject to indictment for the same, and upon conviction shall be filned in a suni not less than fifty nor more than ole hundreddollars. Sec. 2. And be it furlher enacted, rhat any one or more freeholders or the marshal of the town of Milledgeville, may, whenever they know of any slave or slaves living separate and apart from their owner or inanger in the town aforc- said, take said slave or slaves, to the keeper of the common jail of the county of Baldwin, who shall receive them and safely keep theni, until their owners or mianagers shall have paid all jail fees, and given hond and security to abide the jud(g- ment.of the Court, on any indictment, which may be insti- tuted under this act, and which jail fees shall he the same as in all other cases, for the imprisoninent of slaves: Pro- vided, that the jailer shall not be authorised to receive any sliave or slaves from said freeholder or freeholders, or town marshal, until one freeholder or fitelolders, or the town nars)ial aforesaid, shall file an aflidavit that said slave or slaves has been apprehended under the provisions of this act, or for its due enforcement. Soc. 3. And be itfurlher enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, he and the same are here- by repealed. ASBURY 11ULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. Asseated to, Dec. 27, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. AN ACT to exempt from road duty, on certain conditions, all male slaves oil the Island of St. Catharine. Whereas all male slaves on the Island of St. Catharine aroiequired to-perform road duty, on the main; and where- 224 SLAVES.

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