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An Act to amend an act, entitled an act, to regulate the town of Darien in the county of M'Intosh. 1815 69 (1815)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0088 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF GEORGIA.

§ 3. .nd be itfurthelr enacted, That the powers con.
fided to this incorporation, shall not exceed the limits q'
the land belonging to the public, and that the name of
Jacksonville is here intended to perpetuate the name and
1pemory of the hero of .Newv- Orleans.
BENJ. WHITA(KER,
Speaker of the house of Rtepresentative6.
WILLIAM RABUN,
President of the Senate.
Assented to, 14th December, 18t1.
D. B. McITEILL, Governor.
AN ACT
To amend an act, entitled an act, to vegulate the town of
Darien in the county ol'.MIntosh, paussed the ad De-
cembev, 1808.
4 1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the
stqte of Georgia, 8f it isenactedby the authorityo9 the same,
That the election of Commissioners for the town of Dari-
en, shall he held and conducted by two Justices of the
Peace, or of the Inferior court, or one Justiceas aforesaid,
and one or more freeholders, which said election shall b.
held at the time and manner pointed out by the above re-
cited act ; and the said superintenders shall certify the
ive persons having the highest number of-votes, which five
persons shall be the Commissioners of the town of Dariea
as aforesaid, until their successors shall have been elected
at the time prescribed by the above recited act.
§ 2. And be itfurther enacted, That all male slaves,
whose usual place of residence is in the town of Darien, as
well as all free male persons of colour, shall not be liable
to work on the roads of said county, but shall be subject
to work on the streets and commons of the said town of
Darien, in auch nner as the Commissioners, or a major.
ity of them shall direct; and all persons owning slaves in
said town, liable to work as aforesaid, shall pay two dol.
lars per day for each hand he, she or they shall fail to fur-
nish, after they shall, have been notified by order of said
Commissioners, to be recovered by warrant from tiader

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