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An Act to prevent free negroes and slaves from keeping eating tables, and living separate and apart from their owners, hirers, or guardians, and to prevent their trafficing [sic] and trading in the town of Crawfordville and the town of Warrenton, in this State, and to prescribe punishment for the same, and for other purposes. 1859 146 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0492 and id is 1 raw text is: 146 LOOAL AND PRIVATE LAWS.-CITIES AND TowNs. Crawfordville. CRAWFORDVILLE. SEc. 1, Slaves and free persons of color SEc. 2, Not allowed to keep any eating not allowed to live on any lot, houses-to buy or sell r.ny but- other than that on which their ter, chickens. &c.,-violation owner, hirer, or guardian, may punished by fine and imprison- reside, in the towns of* Craw. ment-penalty-one lialf fles fordvillo and Warrenton-pen. tobe paid to County Treasurer alty for violation. -proviso. (No. 176.) An act to prevent free negroes and slures from. keeping cating tables, and living scyarate and apart from their owners, hirers, or guar- dians, and to prevent their trajlicing and trading in the town of Craw- fordville and the town of IJ arrenton, in this State, and to prescribe yunishncnt Jb the saie, and Jbr other purposes. 1. SEC. I. The General Assenbly of Georgia do enact as followos; That from and after the passage of this act, if the owner or any upc; person hiring any slave, or the guardian or hircr of any frcc person of tIit oil ile color, shall allow their slaves, or free persons of color, for whoin thvy hoare guardian or hirer, to live on any lot, or in any house, separate '11'tY f and apart from the lot or lots on which said owner, hirer, or guardian, rivrvinoemay themselves reside, in the town of Crawfordville, or in the town toeon. of Warrenton, such person, owner, hirer, or guardian, on convio- tion, in the Su p erior Court of said county, shall be deemed guil- Pniy for ty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than one hundred dol- violation. lars, nor more than two hundred dollars for the first oflence, and for the second offence shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and imprisonmer.t in the common Jail of the county, at the discretion of the Court. 2. SEc. II. Be itfurther enacted, That it shall not be lawful for Not allowed any negro slave or free person of color, within the corporate ona iZsoelimits of the town of Crawfordville, or of the town of Warren- &e. ton, to keep any eating house or public table, or to buy or sell, or 'o buyorsellcause the same to be (lone, or ship or cause the same to be done, a;. ***or in any manner traffic in chickens, butter, eggs, ducks, turkeys, &c., and for any violation of this, or any portion of this section, said slave or slaves, or free person or persons of color, may be ar- rested by warrant, issued by any Justice of the Peace in the coun- ty, and on conviction before said Justices, who shall have full loittown-power to try said negroes or free persons of color, if it be a free mnirshon.person of color, shall and may be fined, for the first offence one nonet. hundred dollars, and for the second offence two hundred dollars, rmny. and on failure to pay, may be sold by the Sheriff, for the shortest time, to pay said sum, at public outcry on next Constable's or SherifPs sale day thereafter, the purchaser paying the fine and cost, and if it be a slave, on conviction, shall be imprisoned until the owner or hirer shall have paid all cost which may have accrued on nifffins tothe trial; and for the better enforcement of this act, one half of y heasurer. of the fine arising from convictions under this act, shall be paid to

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