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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0400 and id is 1 raw text is: PUBLTO LAWS.--SLAvEB, PATROLS, &O.
Regulating Patrol Duties-Sale of Slaves, &P.
4. Sita. IV. Be it further enacted, It shall be the duty of the
Captains to report all delinquen.cies to the Commissioners within capts. to re-
twenty days aftnr they may occur, and all cases of disobedience, 0 nor<tan-
insubordination, or default, shall be considered and determined bytscomr..
thei in the same inanner as Road Commissioners now considerneheraction.
and determine cases of deailt as to overseers and persons subject
to work on roads; and all lines imposed shall be collected in theFrinspaidto
same way as the law now prescribes for the collection of lines i In- OlInaryV or
II C in'ro. of
posed on defaulting overseers and persons liable to work on roads;roor School.
and all fines inlposed and collected by this Act shall he paid to the
Ordinary, or Commissioner of the poor school fund of' the county
and become part of said ful.
5. SEC. V. Be it fi_-ther enacted, That if any person or persons
whatsoever, shall, by force, or otherwise, oppose any Patrol coin-
paniy, or inenber of any company, whilst engaged in the discharge
of their legitimate duties, or shiall prevent or endeavor to proventOpposing
a search and examination being imlade of negro houses, or any atrol tine
other place where it may be supposed or suspected that any negroso
liable to be punished may be concealed ; or shall annoy or menaceOnly citizen
any company, or member of any company whilst in the perform- of tho Dist.
ance of Patrol duty, he or they may be indicted in the Siperiorute fine.
Court for a nisdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined by said Court in a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars. And
that this law shall be enforced only on application of the citizens
of the different Patrol Districts as hereinbefore arrangned.
6. SEc. VI. [-] And be it further enacte(l, That tie provisions
of the Act passed the 18th of' November, 1705, regulating Patrols certain
in this State, and all other Acts subsequent to that time in relation Counties ex-
to Patrols, are continued in full force, except so far as they con- t
flict with this Act; Provided, That the provisions of this Act
shall not extend to the counties of Bulloch, Hall, Carroll, Dade,
Raban, and Hart-and that all laws and parts of laws imili-
tating against this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.*
Approved, February 20, 1854.
*ReF. NOTE-By the former Law Justices of the Peace appointed Patrols. Cobb, 1003.
It was once done by Militia Captains. 11. 060. For details of old Law, too long for a
note, see Cobb, 971. Act of 1770. 954. &e.
The old Laws seemed not to provide for resistance of Patrols by white persons. lb.
Supm. Ct. De.-A ticket or permit given to a slave must speci y the tune for absence
and the plae, &c. 8 Gen. 157.
Black. African color, is prima facie evidence of slavery. Ib.
The 44th section of the Act of 1770, Cobb 981 and note which allowed n Patrol, when
sued for killing a slave, to give that Act in evidence under the general issue, was re-
pealed by see. IX. of the Judiciary. Pri. Di. 421. 0 Geo. R. 207.
(No. 90.)
An Act to regulate the sale and division of Slaves, in certain cases
therein named.
7. SEoON I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and
it is hereby enacted by the aui'hority of the same, That the child-
ren, not exceeding five years of age, of any woman slave, and such
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