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An Act to amend the twenty-ninth section of an act entitled An Act for Ordering and Governing Slaves within this Province, and for establishing a jurisdiction for the trial of offences committed by such slaves and other persons therein mentioned, and to prevent the inveigling and carrying away slaves from their masters, owners or employers. 1835 264 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0274 and id is 1 raw text is: SLAVES AND eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same is here- by repealed. JOSEPH DAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT M. ECHOLS, President of the Senate. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1835. WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor. SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF CO- LOUR. AN ACT to amend the twenty-ninth section of an act entitled An Act for Ordering and Governing Slaves within this Province, and for establishing a jurisdiction for the trial of offences committed by such slaves and other persons therein mentioned, and to prevent the in- veigling and carrying away slaves from their masters, owners or employers, passed 10th May 1770. Whereas the twenty-ninth section of said act does not make it penal with free persons of colour to harbour, con- ceal or entertain any slave, who may be a runaway, but merely inflicts a fine on such free persons of colour: for remedy thereof- SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- presentatives 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 passage of this act, all free persons of colour within this State who shall harbour, conceal or 264

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