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An Act to amend the several Laws now in force in relation to free persons of color, and to exonerate and discharge certain free persons of color from all pains, penalties and forfeitures heretofore incurred, and to which they are subject and liable. 1853-1854 105 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0402 and id is 1 raw text is: PUBLIC LAWS.-FRaE PERBONS, &0, Free Colored Persons Exonerated, &c.-Bound Out, &c. (No. 92.) An Act to amiend the several Laws now in force in relation to free persons of color, and to exonerate and discharge certain free per- s!ons of eolor from all pains, penalties and fonfitures heretofore incurred, and to which they are suljeet and liable. 13. SEcTioN I. Be it enactled by the Senate and House of' Re- presentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted b)y the authority of the same, That all Freepersons free persons of color who were residing in this State on the firstoefcolor. day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and have been fscuento since that time to the present, residents of said State, and who have slncee9 in failed to have their names registered in conformity to law,shall be and ('01o. they are hereby declared to be exonerated and discharged from all pains, penalties and forfeitures to which they were thereby sub-u they corn. jected ; Provided, That this Act shall not operate in favor of any )l1by July, free negro of the arto of fourteen, unless he or she shall, on or be- fore the first day of July next, and once a year in each year there- after have his, her or their name registered in compliance with the statutes of this State. 14. SECTION II. Be it further enacted by the authority afore- said, That if any free negro of the age of fourteen years shall here- after neglect to have his or her name registered agreeable to law, he or she shall not be compelled to depart this State, but shall Defauter 14 nevertheless be subject to be arrested, tried, convicted and fined,ecto inub and be compelled to pay the same, agreeable to the provisions o,5tulliei o the second section of an Act, approved December the twentysixth,relster. igitonn hundred and thirty-five, until lie or she shall have caused is or her name to be registered agreeable to the laws of this State. 15. SECTION III. Be it further enacted by the authority afore- said, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.* Approved, February 16th, 1854. * REv. Nove.-By Act of '43, those who had lived here since June, '36, and lourteen years old, had until August, '43, to register; under fourteen years no. subject, but 'hey not to come into the State. Future neglect then sane as present Act. Suptm. CL Decis.-See Note to No. 91. (No. 93.) An Act to authorize the Justices of the Inferiov Courts of this State to bind out any free negro, mulatto, or free p)erson qf color, between the ages of five and twenty-one years. 16. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- presentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from Free negro and after the passage of this Act it shall be the duty of the Infe- children. rinr Courts of the several counties in this State to bind out to somerocrm 5ton21 fit and proper person all free negroes or other free persons of color!'Coby between the ages of five and twenty-one years, upon its appearing to the Court, upon the evidence of two or more respectable per- 105

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