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An Act to protect those engaged in the Turpentine Business and to prevent the setting fire to woods or lands 1847 296 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0352 and id is 1 raw text is: TURPENTINE BUSINESS. Provided, always, That toll shall not be collected on such turnpike roads, unless the same be kept in good condition. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid; That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. CHARLES Ji JENKINS, peaker of the House of Representatives.. ANDREW J. MILLER, President of the Senate. Approved, December 25, 1847. GEORGE W. TOWNS, Governor. AN ACT to protect those engaged in the Turpentine Bu- siness, and to prevent the setting fire to woods or lands, except at certain times and under certain circumstances, so far as the counties of Camden, Glynn, McIntosh, Scriv- en, Jefferson and Washington are concerned. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Rep- resentatives 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, it shall not be lawful for any person to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any woods, lands or marshes, in the counties of Camden, Glynn, McIntosh, Scriven, Jefferson, and Washington, except the same be done between the first day of March and the first day of May in each and every year. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person in the counties aforesaid wishing or having intention to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any woods, lands or marshes, adjoining the land of a person or persons engaged in the Tirpentine Business, shall give three days previous notice to the occupant or occupants of said adjoin- ing land, of his intention, and in all cases shall take effectual care to extinguish or assist in extinguishing said fire to, pre- vent its reaching said land adjoining. SEc. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any white person offend against the provisions of this act, he shall be indicted for a misdemeanor,. and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and imprisoned for a time not longer than three months, at the discretion of the Court. SEc. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case any slave or free colored person shall offbnd against the provisions of this act, he shall, on conviction be- fore a Justice of the Peace, receive thirty-nine lashes. . . 296

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