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An Act to regulate the trial of slaves and free persons of color within the limits of the city of Savannah. 1847 202 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0350 and id is 1 raw text is: JUDICIARY-SLAVES. the plaintiff or party seeking to have the actioi of said ofli- cer.or officers. SEc. 2. And be it further enacted, That the third section of the act of which this is amendatory, shall be so amended is hereafter to read and be as follows: SECTION 3. And be It furither enacted, That when a Sheriff shall levy on proper- ty by virtue of any execution directed and required by the second section of this act, (as licreinbefbre amended,) said property shall be sold in the county in which the levy may be made, and that whenever any decree, order, ca. sa., at- tachment for contempt, or final process, directed as requir- ed by the second section of this act, (as now amended,) shall be placed in the hands of any SherifF, and under and by virtue of said process, it shall become the duty, under the laws of this State, of said Sheriff to imprison any defien- dant or other delinquent, it shall be lawful for said Sheriff to arrest. the delinquent wherever found, and it shall be his duty to imprison him or her either in the county where the. arrest was made, or in the county where the arresting Sher- iff may reside, at the option of' the plaintiff or other person so requiring the services of said Sherifl' SEc. 3. And be itfirther enacted, That when anyjudgment has been or shall be rendered, in any of the Courts of this State, upon any note or other evidence of debt, given for the purchase of land, where titles have not been made, but bond tir titles given, it shall and may be lawful for the obligor in said bond to make and file, and have recorded in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court of the county, a good and sufli- cient deed of conveyance to the defendant for said land; and thereupon the same may be levied on an4 sold under said judgment as in other cases: Provided, That the said judgment shall take lien upon the land prior to any other judgment or incumbrance against the defendant. CHARLES J. JENKINS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ANDREW J. MILLER, President of the Senate. Approved, December 29, 1847. GEORGE W. TOWNS, Governor. AN ACT to regulate the trial of slaves and free persons of color within the limits of the city of Savannah. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives of the State oJ Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That f'rom and after the passage of this act, whenever a prosecu- 4)02

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