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An Act the better to secure and protect the citizens of Georgia in the possession of their Slaves. 1841 125 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0312 and id is 1 raw text is: the duty of the judge or justice or justices of said court to appoint, pro tempore, a special officor to carry out and oflbc- tuate the order of said court, which said officer, so appoint- ed, shall be allowed the usual fees of sheriffs for like ser- vice. SEC. 6. And be itfurther enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this law be, and the same are hereby repealed. WILLIAM B. WOFFORD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT M. ECHOLS, President of the Senate. Assented to, December 11th, 1841. CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor. AN ACT the better to secure and protect the citizens of Georgia in the possession of their Slaves. VIEREAS much injury has resulted to the people of Gco.- gia in consequence of the abduction and unauthorized transportation of their slaves, by vessels sailing to ports without the limits of Georgia; and whereas it is the duty of the General Assembly to guard against such injury in the most peaceable and constitutional manner; for remedy whereof- SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprc- sentatives (f the State of Georgia, in Gencral Assezbl met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of' January, eighteen hun- dred and forty-two, it shall be the duty of all persons own- ing, chartering or acting as agents of any vessel or vessels trading or sailing from any of the ports within the limits of Georgia to any other port or ports not within the limits of Georgia, to give bond and security to the justices of the Inferior Court of the counties in which such ports may be, as often as and whenever such vessel or vessels may depart from said ports, for the faithful observance, on the part of the captains, supercargoes and crews of such vessel or vessels, of the right of property claimed and exercised by the citizens of Georgia over their slaves, and to insure and indemnify said citizens from any and all losses incurred in li5 JUDICIARY.

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