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An Act to provide for the trial by the Superior Courts of this State of any slave or slaves or free person of color charged with any capital offence against the laws of this State. 1849-1850 372 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0363 and id is 1 raw text is: said, That hin Excellency the Governor be and he is here* by authorized to exercise a sound discretion in determining to what classes of bonds the funds hereby set apart and ap- propriated shall be annually applied. SECTION 3. And be itfinther nactCd by hw authority ofore- said, That any surplus which may be in the Treasury over and above the appropriations made by the General Assem- bly for that year, be and the same is hereby appropriated to the purpose, and under regulations set forth in the pre- ceding sections. SECTION 4. And be itfurther enatcted by the authority afore- said, That his Excellency the Governor cause all bonds re- deemed by this act to be cancelled and filed away, to be ex- hibited to the General Assembly or Financial Committee next in session thereafter. Approved, February 11, 1S60. AN ACT to provide for the trial by the Superior Courts of this State of any slave or slaves or frce person of color charged with any capital offence against the laws of this State. SrCTIoN 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives of the State o/ Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the nassage of this act, whenever it shall ap- pear, ather Investigaton, to the Justices of the Peace before whom any slave or free persons of color shall be put upon trial, for any offnce against the laws of' this State, that the said slave or free person of color has committed a capital offence, such slave or free person of color shall be imme- diately committed to the jail of the county wherein such of- fence was committed, if sufliciently secure, and il'otherwise to the nearest secure county jail, and the Justices before whom such examination shall have taken place, shall re- duce their opinion to writing, and transmit the same, to- gether with the report in writingof the evidence taken before them on such examination, and all other papers appertaining to said charge to the Attorney or Solicitor General, being the prosecuting officer in the Superior Court of said county, on the first (lay of the next terma of said Couit. SECTION 2. And be it fitrther enacted by the authority afore- said, That upon receiving the papers in any such case as provided in the prcceeding section, it shall be the duty of such Attorney or Solicitor General to fraune and send before the Grand Jury a bill of indictment against the person or persons so charged, as in cases of free white persons; and it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury in any county 372 IStAVES.

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