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An Act more effectually to provide for the government and protection of the Cherokee Indians, residing within the limits of Georgia, and to prescribe the bounds of their occupant claims; and also, to authorize grants to issue for lots drawn in the late land and gold lotteries in certain cases, and to provide for the appointment of an agent to carry certain parts thereof into execution; and to fix the salary of such agent, and to punish those persons who may deter Indians from enrolling for emigration. 1833 114 (1833)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0247 and id is 1 raw text is: INDIANS. INDIANS. AN ACT more clectually to provide for the government and protection of the Cherokee Indians, residing within the limits of Georgia, and to prescribe the bounds of their occupant claims; and also, to authorize grants to issue for lots drawn in the late land and gold lotteries in certain cases, and to provide for the appointment of an agent to carry certain parts thereof into execution; and to fix the salary of such agent, and to punish those persons who may deter Indians from enrolling for emigration. Be it enacted by the Senatc and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General .Isseinbly met, and it is hereby enact- ed by the authority of the same, That in all cases where a white man is the head of an Indian family, such Indian family shall retain the rights of such property claimed under the rights of such Indian family, the white man obtaining no rights but that of the Indian use and occupation. SEC. 2. dnd be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every white man who may have an Indian family, and who may be desirous of retaining his privileges which he may possess as the head of an Indian family, may at any time before the first day of March next, notify the clerk of the superior court of the county in which he may reside, in writing, of his intention to retain his privileges as the head of such Indian family; which notification shall be recorded in a book to be kept for that pur- pose and no other, and upon the doing of which, he shall be entitled to all the privileges which are granted to such white men in the prcceding section of this act. SEc. 3. Ind be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any Indian or descendant of an Indian, or white man the head of an Indian family, claiming the privileges of an Indian, shall employ any white man or slave belonging to a white man, or person of colour other than the descendant of an Indian, as a 114

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