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An Act to repeal all laws prohibiting the free introduction of slaves into this State. 1842 165 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0322 and id is 1 raw text is: AN ACT to repeal an act, passed the twenty-ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-cight, to compen- sate the Slierifrs of Camden, Lumpkin, and Liberty coun- ties, so far as the county of Liberty is concerned. SEcroN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives of the State of Geoi;ria, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authoritY of the same, That the above recited act, so fhe as the county of Liberty is concern- ed, is hereby repealed. Sic. 2. And he it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the siom is hereby repealcd. WILLIAM B. WOFFORD, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT A1\. ECHOLS, President of the Senate. Assented to, December, 3d, 1S2. CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor. SLAVES. AN ACT to repeal all laws prohibiting the free introduction of slaves into this State. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives ( the State oj Georgia, in Gencral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted bU the atuthoritU of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, that all laws and parts of laws prohibiting the free introduction of slaves into this State, either for trallic or emigration be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that persons introducing slaves into this State, 1e as free to do so as if no law on the subject hIad ever I)eeI passed. SEc. 2. And be it furt/Cr ected by the authority lorcsaid, That all IafwS and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed.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 27th, 1S'12. CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor. SLAVES. 165

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