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An Act to change the Laws now in force in this State relating to the arrival within the limits of this State of colored seamen. 1853-1854 106 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0404 and id is 1 raw text is: 106 PUBLTC LAWS.-FREE PERSONS AND COLORED SEAMTEN. Selling Free Negroes-Colored Seamen. If not yeisons, that such free negroes or persons of color are not being raised raised in a InI a becoming and proplr manner; and upon the personl to whom .a roper said negroes or free persons of color are bound giving bond and manner suflicient seenrity to said Court for their good treatment, and not Security re- to move them out of the limits of this State, and to discharge them quired-con- unions. from his or hier service at the age of twenty-one years. 17. SECTION II. And be it further enacted by the ai-thority aforesaid, That if any person or persons to whom such negro or SeltingthemtnegroCs or other firee person of color is bound shall sell or cause to oire 'rh5,()o, sold into slavery buch negro or froe personi of color, he, she or sto years.they s!iall be uilty of a misdiaemianor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sni not exceeding tive thousand dollars, or im- prisoned in the Penitetiary at hard labor for a term of years, not more than six, nor less than two, years, as the Court may direct. 1S. SiErioN III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws that militate against this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.* Approved, February 16, 1854. * REF. NOTE.-By pr-esent lvW, J. P. and three freeldllers eay bind out free nogro males over ight years till twenty-one, if no guardian. To be taken away on bad usage, no bond required. Cobb, 085. (No. 94.) An Act to change the Laws now in ,force in this State relating to the aerival within the limits of this State of colored seamen. W uiiAs, The interests of commerce require an alteration and modification of the laws now of force relating to the arrival of colored seamen within the limits of this State. 19. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and 11use of Re- presentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, nepease and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so law of qar- much and such parts of the laws of' this State as require ships or baving Col. vessels coming into this State by sea, having on board any fi-ee aboard. negro or fi-ce person of color employed as a steward, mariner, or in any other capacity, or as a passenger, to be subject to a quaran- tine of forty days, be and the same are hereby repealed. 20. SECTION i. And be it further enacted, 'I hat it shall be the duty of the master oil owner of every steamboat, steamship or ves- Adr t e t oSOf any description arriving in this State from any port whatever coi gdbsa(except from ports in South Carolina and Florida) imnediately &c., and to upon his arrival at any port in this State to report to the Mayor or ge a pass- other Chief Magistrate or competent authority at the place of ar- ii - (e rival, the name, age, description and capacity of every free person of C.and Fl.,) 0color descended frolm negroes or mulattocs employed on board his anor, c. vessel, and to obtain a passport from such authority to permit snch person of color to land, it being within the discretion of such M1\ayor or other authority to grant or refuse said passport. 21. SrorxoN 111. And be it firther enacted, That in case a free person of color so descended as aforesaid, so arriving as afbresaid, shall be found on shore without such passport, or in contravention

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