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An Act to provide for taking the Census of this state, as required by the Constitution. 1809 23 (1809)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0058 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF GEORGIAs ivy bc concerned therein, or accesary thereto, eil ther as second or principal in the promotion of a duel, and being thereof duly convicted, shall not. thercafter be capable of holding any office of honorl. trust or profit within this state. BENJAMIN WHITAKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives HENRY MITCHELL, President of the Senate Executive Department, Gcorgia, Assented to, 12th December, 1809, DAVID B. MIrCuELL, Governor. AN ACT f'o provide for takino' the Ccnsus of tild state, as required by the Constitution. S1 BE it enacted by' the Senate and House of Reprei entatives in General Assembly met, and by the autho(. rity ofthe same, rhat it shall be the duty of the Jus-i tices of the Infierior court, or any three of them hi each county respectively, within sixty days aftei the adjournment of this Legislature, to appoint one or more persons in each county, that is to say, one person in each Battalion that may be in the respec- tive counties, whose duty it shall be to take a fullt and accurate Census or enumeration of all free white persons and people of' colour residing therein, dis- tingui shing in separate columns, the free white per. sons from the persons of colour and return the same to the clerks of the Superior Courts of the several counties, certfifiCd under their hands on or before the first day of October next, the persons so appointed being first severally sworn bef'ore the said Justiccs or either of them, duly and faithfully to perform the trut reposed in them ; and it shall be the duty of the said clerks to transmit all such returns under seal tw

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