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An Act to prescribe and regulate the relation of Husband and Wife between persons of color. 1865-1866 240 (1865.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0562 and id is 1 raw text is: 240 PUBLIC LAWS-PRnONS OF CoLoR. Persons of Color-Regulations relative to husband and wife, parent and child, etc. 4. SEC. II. That in all cases hereafter pending or about tobe insti- makear-tuted, wherein a free person of color is a party plaintiff, or defen- ('.tthdant, it shall be competent for such free person of color to make and file any affidavit, now by law, allowed a citizen to advance the remedy, or aid the defence,and when so made and filed, in conformity with law, such action shall be had thereon, as though the said affi- davit had been made and filed by any other litigant. Approved 15th December, 1865. (No. 252.) An Act to prescribe and regulate the relation of Husband and Wife be- tween persons of color. 5. SEc. I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That persons of color, now living together as husband and wife, are Relation of hereby declared to sustain that legal relation to each other, unless buband and wife. a man shall have two or more reputed wives, or a woman two or ftwo or more reputed husbands. In such event, the man, immediately af- =?recputedter the passage of this Act by the General Assembly, shall select r. one of his reputed wives, with her consent; or the woman one of her reputed husbands, with his consent; and the ceremony of mar- riage between these two shall be performed. If such man, thus living with more than one woman, or such woman living with more Failn to than one man, shall fail or refuse, to comply with the provisions 'nvi oo of this section, he or she shall be prosecuted for the offence of for- this .ct. Dication, or fornication or adultery, or, fornication and adultery, and punished accordingly. Approved 9th March, 1866.. (No. 253.) An Act to prescribe and regulate the relation of Parent and Child among persons ofcolor, in this State, and for other purposes. G. SEC. I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, Parent to That among persons of color, the parent shall be required tu main- maintain.. chuden. tain his, or her children, whether legitimate or illegitimate. ob aionsor 7. SEC. II. That children shall be subjected to the same obliga- chil ren. tons, in relation to th ir parents, as those which exist in relation to white persons. Declared le. 8. SEC. III. That every colored child heretofore born, is declar- iimate. ed to be the legitimate child of his mother, and also, of his colored father, if acknowledged by such father. SEC. IV. Repeals COnflicting laws. Approved 9th March, 1866.

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