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An Act to prohibit colored mechanics and masons, being slaves or free persons of color being mechanics or masons, from making contracts for the erection of buildings, or for the repair of buildings, and declaring the white person or persons directly or indirectly contracting with or employing them as well as the master employer, manager or agent for said slave, or guardian of said free person of color, authorizing or permitting the same, guilty of a misdemeanor, and prescribing punishment for violating this act. 1845 49 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0335 and id is 1 raw text is: SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS.0F COLOR-STATE BONDS. 49 AN ACT to prohibit colored mechanics and masons, being slaves-or free persons of color being mechanics or masons, from making contracts for the erection of buildings, or for the repairs of buildings, and declaring the white person or per- sons directly or indirectly contracting with or employing them, as well as the master employer, manager or agent for said slave, or guardian of said free person of color, authori- zing or permitting the same, guilty of a misdemeanor, and prescribing punislnent for violating this act. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of R.presentatives of the General Assembly met, That from and after the first day of February next, each and every white per- son who shall thereafter contract or bargain with any slave mechanic or mason, or free person of color, being a mechanic or mason, for the erection of any building, or for the repair of any building, whether the same be done directly or indirectly with said slave mechanic or mason, or free person of color, be- ing a mechanic or mason, shall be liable to be indicted for a misdemeanor, and on conviction, to be fined at the dis- cretion of the Court,not exceeding two hundred dollars-which fine, when collected, shall be paid over to the Inferior Court of the county in which the case was tried, for the uses of the county. SEc. 2. And be it further cmacted, That the master of said slave mechanic or mason, or the employer, manager or agent for, or guardian of said free person of color, being a me- chanic or mason, who shall knowoingly authorize or permit, di- rcctly or indirectly, in contravention of the spirit and intention of this act, such slave mechanic or mason, or such free person of color, being a mechanic or mason, to make such contracts as are contemplated in the first section of this act, shall be liable to indictment for a misdemeanor, and on convicticn, shall be pun- ished by a fine at the discretion of the Court, not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be applied, when collected, to county purpo- ses, as provided in the first section of this act. Sac. 3. And he it further enacted, That the Judges of the Superior Courts do give this act in charge to the Graud Juries. Approved, Decemnber 27th, 1845. AN ACT to commute the Bonds of this State issued in re- demptni' of the bills and liabilities of the Central Bank of Georgia. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the 8Sate of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the 7

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